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.
On Thursday, 23 August 1945, Soviet–Japanese War 1945. Joseph Stalin orders the detention of Japanese prisoners of war in the Soviet Union.
On Thursday, 23 August 1990, East Germany and West Germany announce they will unite on October 3.
On Wednesday, 23 August 2000, John Anthony Kaiser, a Roman Catholic priest, is murdered in Morendat, Kenya.
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