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.
| 9 February 1846 | Wilhelm Maybach born, German automobile designer (d. 1929) |
| 9 February 1871 | The United States Commission on Fish and Fisheries is founded. |
| 9 February 1871 | Howard Taylor Ricketts born, American pathologist (d. 1910) |
| Saturday, 9 February 1946 | Seán Neeson born, Northern Irish politician |
| Thursday, 9 February 1961 | Alison Megarrity born, politician |
| Thursday, 9 February 1961 | In Congo, President Joseph Kasa-Vubu names Joseph Iléo as the new Prime Minister. |
| Thursday, 9 February 1961 | The Beatles perform for the first time at The Cavern Club. |
| Thursday, 9 February 1961 | John Kruk born, American baseball player and commentator |
| Thursday, 9 February 1961 | Jussi Lampi born, Finnish musician and actor |
| Thursday, 9 February 1961 | Carlos Luz died, Brazilian politician died, 19th President of Brazil (b. 1894) |
| Tuesday, 9 February 1971 | The 6.5–6.7 Mw Sylmar earthquake hits the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing 64 and injuring 2,000. |
| Tuesday, 9 February 1971 | Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to become voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame from the Negro League. |
| Tuesday, 9 February 1971 | Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned Moon landing. |
| Tuesday, 9 February 1971 | Sharon Case born, American model and actress |
| Monday, 9 February 1981 | Polish Prime Minister Józef Pińkowski resigns and is replaced by General Wojciech Jaruzelski. |
| Monday, 9 February 1981 | Tom Hiddleston born, British actor |
| Monday, 9 February 1981 | Jimmy “The Rev” Sullivan born, American drummer (Avenged Sevenfold) (d. 2009) |
| Monday, 9 February 1981 | Bill Haley died, American rock musician, member of Bill Haley & The Comets (b. 1925) |
| Monday, 9 February 1981 | Jack Z. Anderson died, U.S. Representative from California (b. 1904) |
| Saturday, 9 February 1991 | Singing Revolution: Voters in Lithuania support independence. |
| Friday, 9 February 1996 | The element copernicium is created by fusing a 208Pb nucleus with a 70Zn nucleus, forming 278Cn. Given the placeholder name “ununbium”, the element is not named until 2010. |
| Friday, 9 February 1996 | An IRA ceasefire ends with the Docklands bombing in London’s Canary Wharf District, killing two people and causing over £85,000,000 worth of damage. |
| Friday, 9 February 1996 | Jimmy Bennett born, American actor |
| Friday, 9 February 1996 | Kelli Berglund born, American actress |
| Friday, 9 February 1996 | Albert Jean Amateau died, Turkish rabbi died, businessman died, lawyer and social activist (b. 1889) |
| Friday, 9 February 1996 | Adolf Galland died, German general (b. 1912) |
| Friday, 9 February 2001 | The submarine USS Greeneville accidentally strikes and sinks the Japanese fishing vessel Ehime-Maru near Hawaii. |
| Friday, 9 February 2001 | Herbert A. Simon died, American economist died, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916) |
| Friday, 9 February 2001 | Reginald Marsh died, British actor (b. 1926) |
| Tuesday, 9 February 2016 | Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull confirms that the Federal Government is looking at privatising elements of Medicare as part of its innovations agenda. |
| Tuesday, 9 February 2016 | Nearly $43 billion is wiped off the value of the Australian sharemarket with shares falling by nearly 3 per cent to the lowest level in two and a half years over fears about the global economy. |
| Tuesday, 9 February 2016 | Bob Halverson died, politician, Speaker of the House of Representatives (1996–1998) |
| Tuesday, 9 February 2016 | Alethea McGrath died, actress |
| Tuesday, 9 February 2016 | Sushil Koirala died, 37th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1939) |
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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.