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 19 March 1870, The Ohio Legislature passes the Cannon Act, thereby establishing the Ohio Agriculture and Mechanical College, later Ohio State University.
On Friday, 19 March 1920, The United States Congress refuses to ratify the Treaty of Versailles.
On Monday, 19 March 1945, WWII: Adolf Hitler orders that all industries, military installations, machine shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany be destroyed.
On Monday, 19 March 1945, Off the coast of Japan, bombers hit the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, killing about 800 of her crewmen and crippling the ship.
On Wednesday, 19 March 1980, The MV Mi Amigo, the ship housing pirate radio station Radio Caroline, sinks off the English coast (the station returns aboard a new ship in 1983).
On Monday, 19 March 1990, Wild storms hit Sydney.
On Monday, 19 March 1990, The Royal Commission into Black Deaths in Custody is to focus on police in a new inquiry.
On Monday, 19 March 1990, Cyclone Ivor batters the Queensland coast.
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