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.
| Thursday, 24 February 1921 | Abe Vigoda born, American actor (d. 2016) |
| Sunday, 24 February 1946 | Bob Pearce born, politician |
| Sunday, 24 February 1946 | Juan Perón is elected president of Argentina. |
| Wednesday, 24 February 1971 | Pedro de la Rosa born, Spanish Formula One driver |
| Wednesday, 24 February 1971 | Gillian Flynn born, American author born, comic book writer born, and screenwriter |
| Tuesday, 24 February 1981 | Lleyton Hewitt born, tennis player |
| Tuesday, 24 February 1981 | A powerful, M 6.7 magnitude earthquake hits Athens, killing 22 people, injuring 400 people and destroying several buildings and 4,000 houses, mostly in Corinth and the nearby towns of Loutraki, Kiato and Xylokastro. |
| Tuesday, 24 February 1981 | Lleyton Hewitt born, Australian tennis player |
| Sunday, 24 February 1991 | Emily DiDonato born, American model |
| Sunday, 24 February 1991 | O’Shea Jackson Jr. born, American rapper and actor |
| Sunday, 24 February 1991 | John Charles Daly died, South African-American journalist and game show host (b. 1914) |
| Sunday, 24 February 1991 | George Gobel died, American comedian (b. 1919) |
| Sunday, 24 February 1991 | Héctor Rial died, Argentinian footballer (b. 1928) |
| Sunday, 24 February 1991 | Jean Rogers died, American actress (b. 1916) |
| Saturday, 24 February 1996 | A state election is held in Tasmania. The Liberal Party government of Ray Groom is re-elected; however, Groom’s promise to only govern in a majority saw him resign. A swing of 12% against the Liberal Party saw them reduced to 16 seats. with Labor gaining 14 and the Greens 4, with Bruce Goodluck as an Independent. |
| Saturday, 24 February 1996 | Cuban fighter jets shoot down two American aircraft belonging to the Cuban exile group Brothers to the Rescue. Cuban officials assert that they invaded Cuban airspace. |
| Saturday, 24 February 1996 | Cristian Imparato born, Italian singer |
| Saturday, 24 February 2001 | Ramona Marquez born, British actress |
| Saturday, 24 February 2001 | Claude Shannon died, American mathematician (b. 1916) |
| Thursday, 24 February 2011 | Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced that the Federal Government proposed to introduce a carbon pricing scheme by 1 July 2012. Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott claims that Gillard broke a promise made during the 2010 Federal election campaign not to introduce a carbon tax. |
| Thursday, 24 February 2011 | AFACT loses its appeal to the Federal Court of Australia affirming that iiNet was not liable for the illegal downloading and peer-to-peer file sharing of films and television programs by its users. |
| Wednesday, 24 February 2016 | The Federal Government announces an inquiry into the laws and frameworks to safeguard elderly Australians from abuse. |
| Wednesday, 24 February 2016 | Peter Kenilorea died, 1st Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands (b. 1943) |
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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.