2024 March’s On.
Here is what is coming up in the Lenten Month of March
Friday March 1, 2024
Day 60: Intercessory Prayer — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 60: God Sends His Only Son — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
- 1692 – Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials.
- 1867 – Nebraska is admitted as the 37th U.S. state.
- 1872 – Yellowstone National Park is established as the world’s first national park.
- 1893 – Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
- 1974 – Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
- 1998 – Titanic became the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide
- 2005: In Roper v. Simmons, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that the execution of juveniles found guilty of murder is unconstitutional.
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Saturday March 2, 2024
Day 61: Complaining in the Desert — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 61: The Name of Jesus — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1882 – Queen Victoria narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Roderick Maclean in Windsor.
- 1978 – The late iconic actor Charlie Chaplin‘s coffin is stolen from his grave in Switzerland.
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Rick Rice@BoldlyCatholic (March 2,2023) Walter Farley’s The Black Stallion was the first book I remember reading as a kid and I then devoured every Farley book I could get my hands on. That book fueled my love for reading which later in life, through a number of books, fueled my faith.
Sunday March 3, 2024
[USA: Saint Katharine Drexel, Virgin]
THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT
Let us continue!
Day 62: Spies Sent to Canaan — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 62: The Christ — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
- 1845 – Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
- 891 – Shoshone National Forest is established as the first national forest in the US and world
- 1931 – The United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
- 1938 – Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
- 1939 – In Bombay, Mohandas Gandhi begins a hunger strike in protest at the autocratic rule in British India.
- 1991 – An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
- 2017 – The Nintendo Switch releases worldwide.
Monday March 4, 2024
Saint Casimir
Day 63: Israel’s Rebellion — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 63: The Only Son of God — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
1965- My Late Friend Pattie Goodale’s Birthday
Tuesday March 5, 2024
Day 64: Consequences of Sin — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 64: The Lord — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1770 – Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, are fatally shot by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence) five years later.
- 1887-Margaret Sullivan begins to teach Helen Keller.
- 1953 – Joseph Stalin, the longest serving leader of the Soviet Union, dies at his Volynskoe dacha in Moscow after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage four days earlier.
- 2021 – Pope Francis begins a historical visit to Iraq amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
Wednesday March 6, 2024
Day 65: Revolt Against Moses — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 65: Why the Word Became Flesh — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
- 1475 – Michelangelo, painter of the Sistine Chapel and sculptor of the David statue (and inspiration for Ninja Turtles (d. 1564) is born.
- 1619– Cyrano de Bergerac, French author and playwright (d. 1655) is born.
- 1888 – Louisa May Alcott, Author of Little Women (b. 1832) dies.
- 1906– Lou Costello, The second part of the comedy team Abbott and Costello (d. 1959) is born.
- 1944 – Mary Wilson, founding member of The Supremes (d. 2021) is born. My oldest sister has the same name.
- 1973– Pearl S. Buck, author of ‘The Good Earth’ and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892) dies.
- 1982– Ayn Rand, author of Atlas Shrugged (b. 1905) dies.
- 2004– Hercules, American wrestler (b. 1957) dies.
News of the World
- 1836– Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo: After a thirteen-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured.
- 1857– The Supreme Court of the United States rules 7–2 in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case that the Constitution does not confer citizenship on black people.
- 1943– Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want in The Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the Four Freedoms
- 1975– For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.
Thursday March 7, 2024
[Saints Perpetua and Felicity, Martyrs]
My Sister Patty’s Birthday
Day 66: Forbidden Forms of Worship — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 66: True God and True Man — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the “telephone“.
- 1965 – Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.
Friday March 8, 2024
[Saint John of God, Religious)
Day 67: God’s Justice and Refuge — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 67: The Humanity and Divinity of Christ — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
- 1775 – An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes “African Slavery in America”, the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.
- 1859 – Kenneth Grahame, author of The Wind in the WIllows (d. 1932) is born.
- 1921-Alan Hale Jr. AKA. the Skipper from Gilligan’s Island is born. (1921-1990)
- 2014 – In one of aviation’s greatest mysteries, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, carrying a total of 239 people, disappears en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.[35] The fate of the flight remains unknown.
- 2023- A Texas woman raised an alligator as a pet for 20 years. Now it’s been seized
- 2024 – Angel Studios Cabrini and Kung Fu Panda are released in theaters.
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Saturday March 9, 2024
Saint Frances of Rome, Religious
Day 68: The Waters of Meribah — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 68: The Mystery of the Incarnation — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
- 1841 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the United States v. The Amistad case that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally.
- 1842 –The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.
- 1959 – The Barbie doll makes its debut.
- 1985-First Adopt-a-Highway sign goes upt the American International Toy Fair in New York.
- 1996 –Legendary comedian George Burns, (b. 1896) dies at 100.
- 2023-Chaim Topol, the Israeli actor known for Tevye of ‘Fiddler on the Roof,’ has died
Peter T Chattaway@ptchat (March 9, 2023) RIP Topol (1935-2023), the star of my favorite musical of all time (1971’s Fiddler on the Roof), the first James Bond movie I ever saw (1981’s For Your Eyes Only), and 1979’s The New Media Bible: Book of Genesis (he played Abraham).
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Pope Francis@Pontifex (Mar 9, 2023) Almsgiving, practised far from the spotlight, gives peace and hope to the heart. It reveals to us the beauty of giving, which then becomes receiving, and thus enables us to discover a precious secret: our hearts find more joy in giving than in receiving (Acts 20:35). #Lent
Sunday March 10, 2024
FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT
Day 69: The Bronze Serpent — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 69: Born of the Virgin Mary — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
- 1876 – The first successful test of a telephone is made by Alexander Graham Bell.
- 1922 – Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation.
- 1977 -Astronomers discover the rings of Uranus.
- 2006 – The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.
- 2023- Iran and Saudi Arabia agree to resume relations after years of tension
OSCARS 2024
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- American Fiction – Ben LeClair, Nikos Karamigios, Cord Jefferson, and Jermaine Johnson, producers
- Anatomy of a Fall – Marie-Ange Luciani and David Thion, producers
- Barbie – David Heyman, Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley, and Robbie Brenner, producers
- The Holdovers – Mark Johnson, producer
- Killers of the Flower Moon – Dan Friedkin, Bradley Thomas, Martin Scorsese, and Daniel Lupi, producers
- Maestro – Bradley Cooper, Steven Spielberg, Fred Berner, Amy Durning, and Kristie Macosko Krieger, producers
- Oppenheimer – Emma Thomas, Charles Roven, and Christopher Nolan, producers
- Past Lives – David Hinojosa, Christine Vachon, and Pamela Koffler, producers
- Poor Things – Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos, and Emma Stone, producers
- The Zone of Interest – James Wilson, producer
Monday March 11, 2024
Day 70: The Offense of Balaam — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 70: The Immaculate Conception — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
- 1861 – American Civil War: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted.
- 1977 – The 1977 Hanafi Siege: Around 150 hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims are set free after ambassadors from three Islamic nations join negotiations.
- 2023-Pope Francis: Gender ideology is one of the most dangerous ideological colonizations today | Catholic News Agency
Tuesday March 12, 2024
Day 71: The Source of the Law — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 71: Mary’s Virginity — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
- 1622, Pope Gregory XV formally recognized the holiness of Sts. Teresa of Avila, Ignatius of Loyola, Isidore of Madrid (also known as Isidore the Farmer), Francis Xavier and Philip Neri.
- 1912 – The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
Wednesday March 13, 2024
Day 72: The Plains of Moab — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 72: Mary’s Motherhood — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeHere’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1852-Uncle Sam makes his debut in the New York Lantern weekly magazine.
- 1781-242nd anniversary of the discovery of the solar system’s seventh blue-green ice giant planet Uranus by 42 year old William Herschel.
- 1826 – Pope Leo XII publishes the apostolic constitution Quo Graviora in which he renewed the prohibition on Catholics joining freemasonry.
- 1969 – Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
- 1997 – The Missionaries of Charity choose Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as their leader.
- 2020 – President Donald Trump declares the COVID-19 pandemic to be a national emergency in the United States.
- 2020-Breonna Taylor is killed by police in botched raid
- 2023-Vatican Library@vaticanlibrary (March 13, 2023) We celebrate 10th Anniversary of Pope Francis’ Election: on this day in 2013 Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected Successor of St. Peter.
The first decade of a landmark papacy – Where Peter Is
Pope Francis So Far | Franciscan Media
Pope Francis at ten years – Catholic World Report“New? Absolutely. Wonderful? Definitely. An unexpected gift from God?Well, look at it this way: the Almighty managed to guide the conclave to elect a South American bishop who’s not into liberation theology, a Jesuit who’s orthodox, and an Italian (on his father’s side) who speaks Spanish, all in the same man.If that’s not a big papal gift from God, I’m not sure what is.”– Micah MurphyThursday March 14, 2024
Day 73: Inheritance of Land — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 73: Christ’s Life Is Mystery — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeHere’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
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1879-Albert Einstein born.
- 1885 – The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public performance at the Savoy Theatre in London.
- 1931 – Alam Ara, India’s first talking film, is released.
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1950-The FBI debuts “10 Most Wanted Fugitives” list
- 1958-First Gold Record awarded to Perry Como for “Catch a Falling Star”
- 1964 – Jack Ruby is convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
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1967-JFK’s body moved to permanent gravesite.
- 1995- Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American to ride into space aboard a Russian launch vehicle (the Soyuz TM-21), lifting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Friday March 15 , 2024
Day 74: Joshua Appointed — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 74: The Christmas Mystery — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeHere’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 44 BC – The assassination of Julius Caesar takes place on the Ides of March.
- 1820 – Maine is admitted as the twenty-third U.S. state.
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1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings become first professional baseball team.
- 1965 – President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells U.S. Congress “We shall overcome” while advocating the Voting Rights Act.
- 2024- These Movies Open.
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Saturday March 16, 2024
Day 75: The Keeping of Vows — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 75: Jesus’ Infancy and Hidden Life — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube-
1850-Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story of adultery and betrayal in colonial America, The Scarlet Letter, is published.
Sunday March 17, 2024
FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT
What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
St. Patrick’s Day
Traveling through Ever-Changing Ireland MARCH 17, 2021
Day 76: War Against Midian — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 76: Jesus’ Baptism and Temptation — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeSong of the Day
- 1697-The image of the Virgin Mary that wept tears of blood on St. Patrick’s Day | Catholic News Agencyve a long-term orbit.[10]
- 1960 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
- 1973 – The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family, which came to symbolize the end of United States involvement in the Vietnam War.
Episcopal Church Memes March 16, 2018 )Don’t forget that Saint Patrick is not the only saint whose feast day is March 17. It is also the feast of Saint Gertrude of Nivelles, the patron saint of cats and the people who love them.
Monday March 18, 2024
Saint Cyril of Jerusalem, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
Day 77: God is Faithful — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 77: The Kingdom of God — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube- 1889-Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte becomes the first Native American woman to graduate from medical school.
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1911-Irving Berlin copyrights the biggest pop song of the early 20th century “Alexander’s Ragtime Band.”
Tuesday March 19, 2024
St. Joseph’s Day
Blessed Marcel Callo
Bishop Robert Reed �@BpRobertReed (March 19, 2023) St. Joseph, you held the Son of God close to you. With that same care, intercede for me that I might grow in wisdom and grace before God. Preserve me from the corruption of this world, and pray that I may, in one eternal day, see the face of Jesus. Amen.
Day 78: The Song of Moses — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 78: Signs of the Kingdom — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeHere’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1687 – Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men.
- 1824 – American explorer Benjamin Morrell departed Antarctica after a voyage later plagued by claims of fraud.
- 1831 – First documented bank heist in U.S. history, when burglars stole $245,000 (1831 values) from the City Bank (now Citibank) on Wall Street. Most of the money was recovered.
- 1931-Nevada legalizes gambling.
- 1945 – World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his “Nero Decree” ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities, and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed.
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1953-First Academy Awards telecast on NBC.
- 1957-Elvis Presley puts a down payment on Graceland.
- 2003-War in Iraq begins.
- 2023-Gloria Dea, the 1st magician to perform on the Las Vegas Strip, dies at 100 : NPR
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Wednesday March 20, 2024
Steven D. Greydanus@DecentFilms (March 20,2023) Grant, we pray, almighty God, that by Saint Joseph’s intercession your Church may constantly watch over the unfolding of the mysteries of human salvation, whose beginnings you entrusted to his faithful care.
Day 79: Psalms of Ascent — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 79: Jesus’ Transfiguration and Messianic Acts — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube- 1852 – Harriet Beecher Stowe‘s Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published.
- 1854 – The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin, US.
- 1965-President Lyndon B. Johnson notifies Alabama’s Governor George Wallace that he will use federal authority to call up the Alabama National Guard in order to supervise a planned civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery.
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Fr Matthew P. Schneider, LC@FrMatthewLC (March 20,2023) Someone has no idea how much garlic my mom puts in her food. I think after dinner our family’s breath could kill a herd of vampires. Some family members eat whole pickled cloves of garlic. I grew up with lower capsaicin than many, but I doubt we lacked seasoning.
Thursday March 21, 2024
Day 80: Cities of Refuge — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 80: Summary of the Mysteries of Christ’s Life — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube- 1871 – Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
- 1970 – The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco.
- 1970 – San Diego Comic-Con, the largest pop and culture festival in the world, hosts its inaugural event.
- 2000 – Pope John Paul II makes his first ever pontifical visit to Israel.
- 2006 – The social media site Twitter is founded.
Friday March 22, 2024
Day 81: Israel Crosses the Jordan — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 81: Christ’s Paschal Mystery — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeHere’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1622 – Jamestown massacre: Algonquians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony’s population, during the Second Anglo-Powhatan War.
- 1631 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
- 1638 – Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
- 1794 – The Slave Trade Act of 1794 bans the export of slaves from the United States, and prohibits American citizens from outfitting a ship for the purpose of importing slaves.
- 1933 – Nazi Germany opens its first concentration camp, Dachau.
- 1963 – The Beatles release their debut album Please Please Me.
- 2024 – These Movies Open.
Saturday March 23, 2024
[Saint Turibius of Mogrovejo, Bishop]
Day 82: The Valley of Achor — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 82: Jesus and the Law — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube- 1839- The initials “O.K.” are first published in The Boston Morning Post. Meant as an abbreviation for “oll korrect,” a popular slang misspelling of “all correct” at the time, OK steadily made its way into the everyday speech of Americans.
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Pope Francis@Pontifex (March 23, 2023) In #Lent, may we be increasingly concerned with speaking words of comfort, strength, consolation and encouragement, and not words that demean, sadden, anger or show scorn.
Sunday March 24, 2024
PALM SUNDAY OF THE PASSION OF THE LORD
Day 83: The Gibeonite Trickery — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 83: Jesus and the Temple — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeouTube- 1721 – Johann Sebastian Bach dedicated six concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt, now commonly called the Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046–1051.
- 1820- Blind Methodist Hymn Writer Fanny Crosby (March 24, 1820 – February 12, 1915) is born.
- 1832 – In Hiram, Ohio, a group of men beat and tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith.
- 1989: One of the worst oil spills in U.S. history begins when the supertanker Exxon Valdez, owned and operated by the Exxon Corporation, runs aground on a reef in Prince William Sound in southern Alaska.
Owl! at the Library ��♀️@SketchesbyBoze (Mar 24,2023) we need another Twilight-level literary phenomenon. I want to stand outside Barnes & Noble with a thousand strangers at midnight. I want to see Ao3 flooded with fan-fics. the pure adrenaline rush of seeing the whole world losing its head over a book
Monday March 25, 2024
Monday of Holy Week
THE ANNUNCIATION OF THE LORD
Day 84: The Sun Stands Still — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 84: The Claim of Savior — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube- 708 – Pope Constantine becomes the 88th pope. He would be the last pope to visit Constantinople until 1967.
- 1655 – Saturn‘s largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
- 1931 – The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
Tuesday March 26, 2024
Tuesday of Holy Week
Day 85: Fighting for Each Other — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 85: The Trial of Christ — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeHere’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1804-President Jefferson presented with a “mammoth loaf” of bread
1830 – The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York. - 1953-American medical researcher Dr. Jonas Salk announces on a national radio show that he has successfully tested a vaccine against poliomyelitis, the virus that causes the crippling disease of polio.
Wednesday March 27, 2024
Wednesday of Holy Week
Ven. Henriette DeLille (1813–1862),
Day 86: The Real Presence of God — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 86: God’s Plan of Salvation — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube- 1309 – Pope Clement V imposes excommunication and interdiction on Venice, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse with Venice, which had seized on Ferrara, a papal fiefdom.
- 1329 – Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
- 1513 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León reaches the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida.
- 1866 – President of the United States of America Andrew Johnson vetoes the Civil Rights Act of 1866. His veto is overridden by Congress and the bill passes into law on April 9.
- 1871 – The first international rugby football match, when Scotland defeats England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
- 1915 – Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine for the second time, where she would remain for the rest of her life.
- 2023-Kansas boy donates tonsils to human remains detection dogs for training
Thursday March 28, 2024
Thursday of Holy Week (Holy Thursday)
Day 87: God Keeps His Promises — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 87: Christ’s Life as Offering — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube- 1987-Baroness Maria Augusta von Trapp DHS (January 26, 1905 – March 28, 1987) dies. She was the stepmother and matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers. She wrote The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, which was published in 1949 and was the inspiration for the 1956 West German film The Trapp Family, which in turn inspired the 1959 Broadway musical The Sound of Music and its 1965 film version.
- 1990 – United States President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
- 2023-Priest reports possible eucharistic miracle at Connecticut church | Catholic News Agency
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Friday March 29 , 2024
Friday of the Passion of the Lord (Good Friday)
Day 88: Joshua’s Last Words to Israel — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 88: Christ’s Definitive Sacrifice — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube- 1882 – The Knights of Columbus is established.
- 1961 – The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential elections.
- 2024 – These Movies Come Out…
Saturday March 30, 2024
Holy Saturday
Day 89: Israel’s Cycle of Disobedience — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 89: Jesus Christ Was Buried — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeHere’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1822 – The Florida Territory is created in the United States.
- 1867 – Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about two cents/acre ($4.19/km2), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.
- 1870 – Texas is readmitted to the United States Congress following Reconstruction.
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1870 15th Amendment adopted
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1955- James Wong Howe becomes first Asian American to win an Academy Award. He got the Oscar for Best Cinematography for The Rose Tattoo, starring Anna Magnani and Burt Lancaster.
- 1962 — Edward J. Dwight Jr. became the first African-American candidate for astronaut training.
- 1981 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley Jr.; three others are wounded in the same incident.
- 2019 – Pope Francis visits Morocco.
- 2023 – Donald Trump is indicted by a New York City grand jury.
- 2023-Vatican: ‘Doctrine of discovery’ is not Catholic teaching | Catholic News Agency
Sunday March 31, 2024
EASTER SUNDAY OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE LORD
Day 90: Ruth and Boaz — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 90: Christ Descended into Hell — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube- 1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII is present, and joins the Crusade.
- 1492 – Queen Isabella of Castile issues the Alhambra Decree, ordering her 150,000 Jewish and Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.
- 1889 – The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
- 1918 – Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
- 1930 – The Motion Picture Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty-eight years
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