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.
| February 1846 | Australia’s first swimming championships are held at Robinson’s Domain Baths. |
| 1 February 1896 | Puccini’s opera La bohème premieres in Turin, Italy. |
| Tuesday, 1 February 1921 | Peter Sallis born, English actor (Last of the Summer Wine; Wallace and Gromit) (d. 2017) |
| Tuesday, 1 February 1921 | Patricia Robins born, British writer born, WAAF officer (d. 2016). |
| Friday, 1 February 1946 | Trygve Lie of Norway is selected as the first United Nations Secretary-General. |
| Friday, 1 February 1946 | The Kingdom of Hungary becomes a republic, heavily influenced by the Soviet Union. |
| Friday, 1 February 1946 | Elisabeth Sladen born, English actress (d. 2011) |
| Wednesday, 1 February 1961 | The United States tests its first Minuteman I intercontinental ballistic missile. |
| Wednesday, 1 February 1961 | Volker Fried born, German field hockey player |
| Monday, 1 February 1971 | Rebecca Creskoff born, American actress |
| Monday, 1 February 1971 | Michael C. Hall born, American actor |
| Monday, 1 February 1971 | Hynden Walch born, American voice actress |
| Monday, 1 February 1971 | Robert Gordon died, American actor (b. 1895) |
| Monday, 1 February 1971 | Raoul Hausmann died, Austrian Dadaist artist (b. 1886) |
| Sunday, 1 February 1981 | Trevor Chappell bowls underarm in the final delivery of the game against New Zealand at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). The delivery leads to the banning of underarm deliveries in cricket. |
| Sunday, 1 February 1981 | John Gemberling born, American actor and comedian |
| Sunday, 1 February 1981 | Wanda Hendrix died, American actress (b. 1928) |
| Sunday, 1 February 1981 | Ernst Pepping died, German composer (b. 1901) |
| Sunday, 1 February 1981 | Geirr Tveitt died, Norwegian composer (b. 1908) |
| Friday, 1 February 1991 | Blake Austin born, rugby league player |
| Friday, 1 February 1991 | A USAir Boeing 737-300, USAir Flight 1493 collides with a SkyWest Airlines Fairchild Metroliner, 5569 at Los Angeles International Airport, killing 34. |
| Friday, 1 February 1991 | The 6.4 mb Hindu Kush earthquake affected northeast Afghanistan with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong), causing extreme damage, leaving 848 dead and 200 injured. |
| Friday, 1 February 1991 | Jasmine Tookes born, American model |
| Friday, 1 February 1991 | Carol Dempster died, American actress (b. 1901) |
| Thursday, 1 February 1996 | Dionne Bromfield born, English singer-songwriter and television personality |
| Thursday, 1 February 1996 | Gianluigi Quinzi born, Italian tennis player |
| Thursday, 1 February 2001 | The Network Ten undergoes a major revamp in its production and circle logo on air graphics as part of a new network re-launch, with the launch of its motto Seriously Ten, which are both current used to the 2012 revamp. |
| Monday, 1 February 2016 | [during February] A campaign of school bomb threats is carried out at several schools throughout Australia. |
| Monday, 1 February 2016 | Paul Pholeros died, architect |
| Monday, 1 February 2016 | Óscar Humberto Mejía Victores died, 27th President of Guatemala (b. 1930) |
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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.