I've always associated the Spring equinox and the 21st March as the first day of spring. The 21st March however also turns out to be an important date historically:
1413 - Henry V becomes King of England
1556 - Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake
1857 - 100,000 people die in an earthquake in Tokyo
1871 - Otto von Bismarck is appointed chancellor of the German Empire and to celebrate (I jest)Henry Stanley begins his trek into the dark African continent to find David Livingstone.
1933 - Construction of Germany's first concentration camp at Dachau is completed.
1935 - Persia formally changes its name to Iran - which means 'Land of the Aryans'
1960 - Sharpeville Massacre - we've been here before.
1980 - Jimmy Carter announces that the USA will boycott the 1980 Olympics in Moscow as a protest against the Soviet Unions invasion of Afghanistan. Twenty eight years later the leaders of the free world sit on their hands as the Olympics in Beijing prepare to go ahead.
2 comments:
Yes, I posted a comment on Cranmers blog reminding him! :-)
(No I'm not kidding!)
Laughed at your 1980 comment (not in amusement!)...nobody knows what's really happening now...well, we do but we haven't got confirmation as all journalists etc have been kicked out...looks nasty...if the official death tolls are in the hundreds (and they are) I dread to think what the real total is.
I think China has become so big and powerful in economic terms that people in the west don't know what to say or think. Every client I speak to who is connected in one way or another with the earths resources keeps telling me that China is buying this and that (copper, aluminium, iron ore) it all seems to be going one way. The only plus side seems to be that the components that are shipping out to the west are not very good quality because they don't actually have proper quality control and as for their banking system!
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