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.
| Monday, 28 March 1921 | Dirk Bogarde born, English actor (d. 1999) |
| Thursday, 28 March 1946 | Alejandro Toledo born, former President of Peru |
| Tuesday, 28 March 1961 | Byron Scott born, American basketball player and coach |
| Sunday, 28 March 1971 | The Ed Sullivan Show airs its final episode. |
| Saturday, 28 March 1981 | Australia is represented by fifteen long-distance runners (nine men, six women) at the ninth IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Madrid, Spain. Robert de Castella is Australia’s best finisher, claiming the sixth spot (35:20.0) in the race over 12 kilometres. |
| Saturday, 28 March 1981 | Gareth David-Lloyd born, Welsh actor |
| Saturday, 28 March 1981 | Lindsay Frimodt born, American model |
| Saturday, 28 March 1981 | Dan Petronijevic born, Canadian actor |
| Saturday, 28 March 1981 | Julia Stiles born, American actress |
| Thursday, 28 March 1991 | Amy Bruckner born, American actress and singer |
| Thursday, 28 March 1991 | Derek Carr born, American quarterback |
| Thursday, 28 March 1991 | Hoya born, South Korean singer and actor |
| Thursday, 28 March 1996 | Peter Dombrovskis died, 51 died, photographer |
| Thursday, 28 March 1996 | Xie Siyi born, Chinese diver |
| Wednesday, 28 March 2001 | Mujeeb Ur Rahman born, Afghan cricketer[importance?] |
| Monday, 28 March 2011 | Esben Storm died, 60, actor died, producer and director |
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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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