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.
| 11 May 1846 | The University at Buffalo is founded by future United States Vice President and President, Millard Fillmore. |
| 11 May 1846 | Jane Irwin Harrison died, de facto First Lady of the United States (b. 1804) |
| 11 May 1871 | The first trial in the Tichborne case begins, in the London Court of Common Pleas. |
| 11 May 1871 | John Herschel died, English astronomer (b. 1792) |
| Wednesday, 11 May 1921 | Hildegard Hamm-Brücher born, German politician (d. 2016) |
| Saturday, 11 May 1946 | Robert Jarvik born, American physicist and artificial heart inventor |
| Saturday, 11 May 1946 | Pedro Henríquez Ureña died, Dominican essayist died, philosopher died, humanist and philologist (b. 1884) |
| Thursday, 11 May 1961 | Paul Begala born, American political commentator |
| Thursday, 11 May 1961 | Lar Park Lincoln born, American actress |
| Tuesday, 11 May 1971 | Seán Lemass died, 4th Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1899) |
| Monday, 11 May 1981 | Lauren Jackson born, basketball player |
| Monday, 11 May 1981 | Jamaican singer Bob Marley dies aged 36 from cancer. |
| Monday, 11 May 1981 | Lauren Jackson born, Australian basketball player |
| Monday, 11 May 1981 | Daisuke Matsui born, Japanese football player |
| Monday, 11 May 1981 | Dusán Mukics born, Slovene journalist and reporter in Hungary |
| Monday, 11 May 1981 | Terry Pheto born, South African actress |
| Monday, 11 May 1981 | Austin O’Brien born, American actor and photographer |
| Monday, 11 May 1981 | Odd Hassel died, Norwegian chemist died, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897) |
| Monday, 11 May 1981 | Bob Marley died, Jamaican rock musician and guitarist (b. 1945) |
| Saturday, 11 May 1991 | Kevin Andrews wins the Menzies by-election, 1991 for the federal seat of Menzies following the retirement of Liberal Deputy Leader Neil Brown. |
| Saturday, 11 May 1996 | Nnamdi Azikiwe died, 1st President of Nigeria (b. 1904) |
| Saturday, 11 May 1996 | After takeoff from Miami, a fire started by improperly handled oxygen canisters in the cargo hold of Atlanta-bound ValuJet Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 people on board. |
| Saturday, 11 May 1996 | Adrián Cubas born, Argentinian footballer |
| Saturday, 11 May 1996 | Rob Hall died, New Zealand mountaineer (b. 1961) |
| Friday, 11 May 2001 | Douglas Adams died, English author (b. 1952) |
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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.