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.
| 4 March 1846 | Franklin J. Drake born, American admiral (d. 1929) |
| 4 March 1871 | Boris Galerkin born, Russian mathematician (d. 1945) |
| Friday, 4 March 1921 | Walter Campbell born, Governor of Queensland (died 2004) |
| Friday, 4 March 1921 | Warren G. Harding is sworn in, as the 29th President of the United States. |
| Friday, 4 March 1921 | Halim El-Dabh born, Egyptian-born U.S. composer born, performer born, ethnomusicologist and educator (d. 2017) |
| Friday, 4 March 1921 | Joan Greenwood born, British actress (d. 1987) |
| Monday, 4 March 1946 | C. G. E. Mannerheim resigns as president of Finland. |
| Monday, 4 March 1946 | Michael Ashcroft born, English entrepreneur |
| Monday, 4 March 1946 | Haile Gerima born, Ethiopian filmmaker |
| Monday, 4 March 1946 | Harvey Goldsmith born, British impresario |
| Monday, 4 March 1946 | Bror von Blixen-Finecke died, Danish big-game hunter (b. 1886) |
| Monday, 4 March 1946 | Martyrs of Albania died, Catholics (executed) |
| Monday, 4 March 1946 | Mark Çuni died, seminarian (b. 1919) |
| Monday, 4 March 1946 | Daniel Dajani died, Jesuit priest (b. 1906) |
| Monday, 4 March 1946 | Giovanni Fausti died, Italian Jesuit priest (b. 1899) |
| Monday, 4 March 1946 | Gjelosh Lulashi (b. 1925) |
| Monday, 4 March 1946 | Qerim Sadiku (b. 1919) |
| Monday, 4 March 1946 | Kolë Shllaku died, friar (b. 1906) |
| Saturday, 4 March 1961 | Bart Bassett born, politician |
| Saturday, 4 March 1961 | Ray Mancini born, American boxer |
| Saturday, 4 March 1961 | Steven Weber born, American actor |
| Saturday, 4 March 1961 | Roger Wessels born, South African golfer |
| Thursday, 4 March 1971 | The southern part of Quebec, and especially Montreal, receive 16½” (42 cm) of snow in what becomes known as the Century’s Snowstorm (la tempête du siècle). |
| Thursday, 4 March 1971 | Iain Baird born, Canadian soccer player |
| Thursday, 4 March 1971 | Shavar Ross born, American actor and filmmaker |
| Wednesday, 4 March 1981 | Torin Thatcher died, American actor (b. 1905) |
| Monday, 4 March 1991 | Aoi Nakamura born, Japanese actor |
| Monday, 4 March 1991 | Diandra Newlin born, American actress born, singer born, and fashion model |
| Monday, 4 March 1996 | Prime Minister John Howard outlines his reform agenda, declaring he has been given an emphatic and unambiguous mandate for the partial sale of Telstra and industrial relations changes. |
| Monday, 4 March 1996 | Timo Baumgartl born, German footballer |
| Monday, 4 March 1996 | Antonio Sanabria born, Paraguayan footballer |
| Monday, 4 March 1996 | Minnie Pearl died, American comedian (b. 1912) |
| Sunday, 4 March 2001 | Glenn Hughes died, American vocalist (b. 1950) |
| Sunday, 4 March 2001 | Jean René Bazaine died, French painter (b. 1904) |
| Friday, 4 March 2011 | Krishna Prasad Bhattarai died, 30th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1924) |
| Friday, 4 March 2011 | Simon van der Meer died, Dutch Nobel physicist (b. 1925) |
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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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