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.
| 7 February 1896 | William Hayden English died, American politician (b. 1822) |
| Monday, 7 February 1921 | Jesse Freitas Sr. born, American football player |
| Monday, 7 February 1921 | John J. Gardner died, American politician (b. 1845) |
| Thursday, 7 February 1946 | Pete Postlethwaite born, English character actor (d. 2011) |
| Tuesday, 7 February 1961 | William Duncan died, American actor (b. 1879) |
| Sunday, 7 February 1971 | Switzerland gives women voting rights in state elections, but not in all canton-specific ones. |
| Sunday, 7 February 1971 | Władysław Gomułka is expelled from the Central Council of the Polish Communist Party. |
| Saturday, 7 February 1981 | Hermann Esser died, German journalist and editor of the Nazi newspaper Völkischer Beobachter (b. 1900) |
| Thursday, 7 February 1991 | Haiti’s first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in. |
| Thursday, 7 February 1991 | The Provisional Irish Republican Army launches a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street during a cabinet meeting. |
| Thursday, 7 February 1991 | Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabian border and enter Kuwait, thus starting the ground phase of the war. |
| Thursday, 7 February 1991 | Amos Yarkoni died, Israeli soldier (b. 1920) |
| Wednesday, 7 February 1996 | René Préval succeeds Jean-Bertrand Aristide as President of Haiti in the first peaceful handover of power since the nation achieved independence 192 years earlier, in 1804. |
| Wednesday, 7 February 1996 | Mai Hagiwara born, Japanese singer |
| Wednesday, 7 February 1996 | Aaron Ekblad born, Canadian ice hockey player |
| Wednesday, 7 February 1996 | Pierre Gasly born, French racing driver |
| Wednesday, 7 February 1996 | Boris Tchaikovsky died, Russian composer (b. 1925) |
| Wednesday, 7 February 2001 | King Moody died, American actor (b. 1929) |
| Monday, 7 February 2011 | Cricket: Shane Watson wins the Allan Border Medal for the second year in a row. |
| Monday, 7 February 2011 | Frank Roberts died, 65, boxer died, first Indigenous Olympian |
| Sunday, 7 February 2016 | North Korea launches Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4 into space, condemned as a long-range ballistic missile test. |
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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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