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, 19 April 1921 | Roberto Tucci born, Italian cardinal born, theologian (d. 2015) |
| Friday, 19 April 1946 | Tim Curry born, British actor born, singer and composer |
| Monday, 19 April 1971 | The government of Bangladesh flees to India. |
| Monday, 19 April 1971 | Sierra Leone becomes a republic. |
| Monday, 19 April 1971 | The Soviet Union launches Salyut 1. |
| Monday, 19 April 1971 | Followers of Charles Manson, the Manson Family, are sentenced to the gas chamber (the sentence for all California Death Row inmates is later commuted to life imprisonment). |
| Monday, 19 April 1971 | Scott McCord born, Canadian voice actor |
| Monday, 19 April 1971 | Wendy Powell born, American voice actress |
| Monday, 19 April 1971 | Earl Thomson died, Canadian athlete (b. 1895) |
| Sunday, 19 April 1981 | Saskia de Brauw born, Dutch model and artist |
| Sunday, 19 April 1981 | Hayden Christensen born, Canadian-American actor |
| Sunday, 19 April 1981 | Troy Polamalu born, American football player |
| Sunday, 19 April 1981 | Catalina Sandino Moreno born, Colombian actress |
| Friday, 19 April 1991 | George Carey is enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury, the spiritual leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion. |
| Friday, 19 April 1991 | Kelly Olynyk born, Canadian basketball player |
| Friday, 19 April 1991 | Stanley Hawes died, British-born Australian film producer died, director and administrator (b. 1905) |
| Tuesday, 19 April 2011 | Floodwaters inundate around 100 houses in the western Queensland town of Roma. |
| Tuesday, 19 April 2011 | Grete Waitz died, Norwegian athlete (b. 1953) |
| Tuesday, 19 April 2011 | Elisabeth Sladen died, English actress (b. 1946) |
| Tuesday, 19 April 2016 | Walter Kohn died, Austrian-born American Nobel physicist (b. 1923) |
| Tuesday, 19 April 2016 | Ronit Elkabetz died, Israeli actress and film director (b. 1964) |
| Tuesday, 19 April 2016 | Patricio Aylwin died, 32nd President of Chile (b. 1918) |
| Tuesday, 19 April 2016 | Charlotte Wood wins the 2016 Stella Prize for her novel The Natural Way of Things. |
| Tuesday, 19 April 2016 | Prince Alexander born, Duke of Södermanland |
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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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