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.
| 13 March 1896 | Field Eugene Kindley born, American World War I fighter pilot (d. 1920) |
| Sunday, 13 March 1921 | Occupation of Mongolia: The Russian White Army captures Mongolia from China; Roman von Ungern-Sternberg declares himself ruler. |
| Sunday, 13 March 1921 | Al Jaffee born, American cartoonist (MAD Magazine) |
| Sunday, 13 March 1921 | Cyril Poole born, English cricketer (d. 1996) |
| Wednesday, 13 March 1946 | Yonatan Netanyahu born, American-born Israeli Army officer born, killed in Operation Entebbe (d. 1976) |
| Monday, 13 March 1961 | Black and white £5 notes cease to be legal tender in the UK. |
| Monday, 13 March 1961 | A dam bursts in Kiev, USSR, killing 145. |
| Monday, 13 March 1961 | United States delegate to the United Nations Security Council Adlai Stevenson votes against Portuguese policies in Africa. |
| Monday, 13 March 1961 | United States President John F. Kennedy proposes a long-term “Alliance for Progress” between the United States and Latin America. |
| Monday, 13 March 1961 | Cyprus joins the Commonwealth of Nations, becoming the first small country in the Commonwealth. |
| Monday, 13 March 1961 | Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, takes in its first students. |
| Monday, 13 March 1961 | A second B-52 crashes near Yuba City, California after cabin pressure is lost and the fuel runs out. Two nuclear weapons are found unexploded. |
| Wednesday, 13 March 1991 | The United States Department of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska. |
| Wednesday, 13 March 1991 | The Acid Rain Treaty of 1991 is signed between the American and Canadian governments. |
| Wednesday, 13 March 1991 | Luan Santana born, Brazilian singer-songwriter |
| Wednesday, 13 March 1991 | Tristan Thompson born, Canadian basketball player |
| Wednesday, 13 March 1991 | Sigurd Aalefjær died, Norwegian engineer and civil servant (b. 1917) |
| Wednesday, 13 March 1996 | Dunblane massacre: Unemployed former shopkeeper Thomas Hamilton walks into the Dunblane Primary School in Scotland and opens fire, killing sixteen infant school pupils and one teacher before committing suicide. |
| Wednesday, 13 March 1996 | Krzysztof Kieślowski died, Polish film director (b. 1941) |
| Sunday, 13 March 2011 | Basketball: Bulleen Boomers defeat Canberra Capitals 103–78 to win the 2010–11 Women’s National Basketball League championship. |
| Sunday, 13 March 2011 | Soccer: Brisbane Roar FC defeat Central Coast Mariners FC 4–2 on penalties (2–2 after extra time) to win the 2010–11 A-League Championship. Brisbane win the Premiership/Championship double. |
| Sunday, 13 March 2011 | Owsley Stanley died, 76, counter-cultural figure |
| Sunday, 13 March 2016 | Hilary Putnam died, American philosopher died, mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1926) |
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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.