The passage of history is often marked by milestones whose significance lies less in the events they commemorate then it does in the underlying trends that they confirm and validate.
The chapel was chosen out of the four to commemorate the then-newly canonised saints because it was the most thematically similar, in that the martyrs gave up their lives for the faith, emulating Jesus' sacrifice to save mankind.
That this was the fact I answered with rather than the hundredth anniversary of the firing upon Fort Sumter, then being commemorated in newspapers and magazines indicates to me that she was right about my political ambitions: Presidents were more important than events.
This haunted-ballroom ballet is a sacred item, partly because it seemed to prophesy, and then commemorate, the fate of its original star, Tanaquil Le Clercq, whom Balanchine married the year after he made the piece.
Why, then, commemorate this date?
Palestinians have commemorated it every year since then, mostly peacefully, in honor of the people who died and the land that is still lost.
In these Western churches, Epiphany originally commemorated the baptism of Jesus and then the marriage feast at Cana.
He played for Tottenham between 1909 and 1911 and then moved to Northampton, where he is now commemorated with a memorial at Sixfields Stadium.
Of course, the awkward question then arises as to which Bowie should be commemorated – the glam rock one, the thin white Duke, the pierrot, or the one with bandages around his head.
A march on Sunday commemorated the 35th anniversary of General Pinochet's coup against Salvador Allende, then president.
