Anniversaries and commemorations come and go daily. Most of us, even the best historians, miss most occasions. If we think of history as events then we are faced with a continually showering in the grains of sand. Nevertheless, we do pick out certain patterns in the remembrance of historical dates. The blog here reminds us of some dates where the local, state, national, and global perspectives entwine.
What Time is It? It is flow of a sandstorm that will on each day compress somewhere into a structure – sandstone, selected and only remembered in the longue durée.
| 20 March 1896 | Wop May, born, Canadian World War I pilot (d. 1952) |
| Sunday, 20 March 1921 | Upper Silesia votes for re-annexation to Germany. |
| Sunday, 20 March 1921 | Alfréd Rényi born, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1970) |
| Wednesday, 20 March 1946 | Ethel Richardson died, writer (born 1870) |
| Friday, 20 March 1981 | Gerry Bertier died, American college football player (b. 1953) |
| Wednesday, 20 March 1991 | Ethan Lowe born, rugby league player |
| Tuesday, 20 March 2001 | Ilie Verdeț died, 51st Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1925) |
| Sunday, 20 March 2011 | Bob Christo died, 72, Bollywood actor |
| Sunday, 20 March 2016 | Motorsport: Nico Rosberg wins the 2016 Australian Grand Prix from teammate Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel. |
| Sunday, 20 March 2016 | Anker Jørgensen died, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1922) |
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Neville Buch
Professional Historian at Professional Historians Association (Queensland) Inc.
Neville Buch (Pronounced Book) Ph.D. is a certified member of the Professional Historians Association (Queensland). Since 2010 he has operated a sole trade business in history consultancy. He was a Q ANZAC 100 Fellow 2014-2015 at the State Library of Queensland. Dr Buch was the PHA (Qld) e-Bulletin, the monthly state association’s electronic publication, and was a member of its Management Committee. He is the Managing Director of the Brisbane Southside History Network.
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