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.
| 26 March 1871 | The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris. |
| Tuesday, 26 March 1946 | Johnny Crawford born, American child actor and musician |
| Tuesday, 26 March 1946 | Ezequiel Fernández died, acting President of Panama (b. 1886) |
| Sunday, 26 March 1961 | Richard Torbay born, politician |
| Sunday, 26 March 1961 | Carlos Duarte Costa died, Brazilian Roman Catholic archbishop and saint died, founder of the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church (b. 1888) |
| Friday, 26 March 1971 | Rennae Stubbs born, tennis player |
| Friday, 26 March 1971 | East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) independence is declared by Ziaur Rahman for Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and transmitted using East Pakistan Rifles (now Border Guards Bangladesh) radio. |
| Friday, 26 March 1971 | Nihat Erim (a former CHP member) forms the new government of Turkey (33rd government, composed mostly of technocrats). |
| Friday, 26 March 1971 | Behzad Ghorbani born, Iranian scientist |
| Tuesday, 26 March 1991 | In Mali, military officers led by Amadou Toumani Touré arrest President Moussa Traoré and suspend the constitution. |
| Tuesday, 26 March 1991 | Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay sign the Treaty of Asunción, establishing the South Common Market (Mercosur is its acronym in Spanish). |
| Tuesday, 26 March 1991 | In Daegu, South Korea, the remains of five boys are found eleven years after their disappearance (Frog Boys; Korean: 개구리소년 실종사건). |
| Tuesday, 26 March 1991 | Jack Watts born, Australian rules footballer |
| Tuesday, 26 March 1996 | The International Monetary Fund approves a $10.2 billion loan to Russia for economic reform. |
| Tuesday, 26 March 1996 | Kathryn Bernardo born, Filipina actress |
| Tuesday, 26 March 1996 | Edmund Muskie died, American politician (b. 1914) |
| Tuesday, 26 March 1996 | David Packard died, American engineer (b. 1912) |
| Saturday, 26 March 2011 | A state election is held in New South Wales. Kristina Keneally’s Labor government is defeated by Barry O’Farrell’s Liberal-National Coalition. |
| Saturday, 26 March 2011 | Paul Baran died, Polish-American computer engineer (b. 1926) |
| Saturday, 26 March 2011 | Geraldine Ferraro died, American politician (b. 1935) |
| Saturday, 26 March 2011 | Diana Wynne Jones died, British writer (b. 1934) |
| Saturday, 26 March 2016 | Raúl Cárdenas died, Mexican footballer and coach (b. 1928) |
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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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