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.
| Tuesday, 11 January 1921 | Gory Guerrero born, American wrestler, father of Eddie Guerrero (d. 1990) |
| Tuesday, 11 January 1921 | Judith Leiber born, Hungarian-American fashion designer, businesswoman (d. 2018) |
| Friday, 11 January 1946 | Enver Hoxha declares the People’s Republic of Albania, with himself as prime minister. |
| Friday, 11 January 1946 | Porfirio Barba-Jacob’s ashes go back to Colombia. |
| Friday, 11 January 1946 | Naomi Judd born, American country singer |
| Friday, 11 January 1946 | John Piper born, American theologian |
| Friday, 11 January 1946 | Ha Yu born, Hong Kong actor |
| Wednesday, 11 January 1961 | Jasper Fforde born, British fantasy novelist |
| Wednesday, 11 January 1961 | Karl Habsburg-Lothringen born, Austrian politician and noble |
| Monday, 11 January 1971 | Mary J. Blige born, American singer |
| Sunday, 11 January 1981 | Jamelia born, British singer |
| Sunday, 11 January 1981 | Tom Meighan born, British singer and songwriter |
| Sunday, 11 January 1981 | Beulah Bondi died, American actress (b. 1889) |
| Friday, 11 January 1991 | Hyolyn born, South Korean singer and actress |
| Friday, 11 January 1991 | Carl David Anderson died, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905) |
| Friday, 11 January 1991 | Charles Mozley died, British artist (b. 1914) |
| Thursday, 11 January 1996 | Ryutaro Hashimoto, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, becomes Prime Minister of Japan. |
| Thursday, 11 January 1996 | Leroy Sané born, German footballer |
| Thursday, 11 January 1996 | Harold Walter Bailey died, English scholar (b. 1899) |
| Thursday, 11 January 1996 | Eric Hebborn died, British art forger (b. 1934) |
| Monday, 11 January 2016 | Brian Johnson died, rugby league player and coach |
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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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