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.
30 January 1871 | Wilfred Lucas born, Canadian-born actor (d. 1940) |
Monday, 30 January 1961 | President John F. Kennedy delivers his first State of the Union Address. |
Monday, 30 January 1961 | Dexter Scott King born, son of Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Monday, 30 January 1961 | Dorothy Thompson died, American journalist (b. 1893) |
Saturday, 30 January 1971 | Lizzie Grubman born, American publicist |
Saturday, 30 January 1971 | Dalisay Lazaga died, Filipino Canossian sister and teacher (b. 1940) |
Friday, 30 January 1981 | Sir Harry Gibbs is announced as the next Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia in the wake of Sir Garfield Barwick’s resignation. |
Friday, 30 January 1981 | Dimitar Berbatov born, Bulgarian footballer |
Friday, 30 January 1981 | Chieko Higuchi born, Japanese voice actress |
Friday, 30 January 1981 | John Gordon died, Irish Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1912) |
Wednesday, 30 January 1991 | John Bardeen died, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908) |
Wednesday, 30 January 1991 | Clifton C. Edom died, American photojournalism educator (b. 1907) |
Wednesday, 30 January 1991 | John McIntire died, American actor (b. 1907) |
Tuesday, 30 January 2001 | Queensland Premier Peter Beattie demands that Prime Minister John Howard halt the Federal Parliamentary inquiry investigating electoral rorts. |
Tuesday, 30 January 2001 | Michel Marcel Navratil died, last French citizen and male survivor of the Titanic disaster (b. 1908) |
Sunday, 30 January 2011 | Tropical Cyclone Anthony makes landfall near Bowen in Queensland’s north, bringing wind gusts of up to 155 kilometres per hour (96 mph). |
Sunday, 30 January 2011 | Tennis: Novak Djokovic wins the men’s singles title at the 2011 Australian Open, defeating Andy Murray. |
Sunday, 30 January 2011 | John Barry died, English composer (b. 1933) |
Saturday, 30 January 2016 | Tennis: Angelique Kerber wins the 2016 Australian Open 2016. Women’s Singles, defeating defending champion Serena Williams 6-4, 3–6, 6–4. |
Saturday, 30 January 2016 | Frank Finlay died, British actor (b. 1926) |
Saturday, 30 January 2016 | Francisco Flores Pérez died, President of El Salvador (b. 1959) |
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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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