While Marty and Doc Traveled Through Time This Also Happened

While Marty and Doc Traveled Through Time This Also Happened September 9, 2024

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1st Electric Circus Garden Outlaws – 1880 – 1888

Now we focus on these years beginning in

1885

The Year Marty McFly and Doc Brown time traveled to the old west
in their Time Traveling Delorean.

Also, two stepbrothers accidentally invent a time machine and are transported from the present day to 1885,
where they come into conflict with the local mayor and are Lost in the West.

Picture This

W. L. Wyllie Storm and Sunshine: A Battle with the Elements

News of the World

A lot of interesting events and firsts happen this year.
But to limit it, I narrowed it down…

Arrivals

This was the year that saw the birth of several people, some who would live to the year Star Wars first came out in cinemas across the globe including …

Alice Paul,  (January 11, 1885 – July 9, 1977) She is one of the foremost leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits sex discrimination in the right to vote.
Umberto Nobile, (January 21 1885 – 30 July 1978) Nobile was a developer and promoter of semi-rigid airships in the years between the two World Wars. He is primarily remembered for designing and piloting the airship Norge, which may have been the first aircraft to reach the North Pole, and which was indisputably the first to fly across the polar ice cap from Europe to America. Nobile also designed and flew the Italia, a second polar airship; this second expedition ended in a deadly crash and provoked an international rescue effort.
John Henry Towers, (January 30, 1885 – April 30, 1955)  was a highly decorated United States Navy four-star admiral and pioneer naval aviator.He was one of few and the only early Naval Aviation pioneers to survive the hazards of early flight to remain with naval aviation throughout his career.
Clementine Churchill, . April 1, 1885 –December 12, 1977) was the wife of English prime minister Winston Churchill.
George Francis “Gabby” Hayes (May 7, 1885 –  February 9, 1969) Gabby is best known for his numerous appearances in B-Western film series as the bewhiskered, cantankerous, but ever-loyal and brave comic sidekick of the cowboy stars Hopalong Cassidy and Roy Rogers.
Gianni Vella (9 May 1885 – 3 September 1977) was a Maltese artist. After studying in Rome, he produced many religious works which can be found in many churches in the Maltese Islands, but he also produced some secular works including landscape paintings, cartoons and a stamp design.
John Edensor Littlewood  (June 9, 1885 –September 6, 1977) was a British mathematician who worked on topics relating to analysisnumber theory, and differential equations,
Theda Bara (July 29, 1885 – April 7, 1955), One of the silent era cinema’s early sex symbols nicknamed The Vamp.

Departures

 Victor Hugo, (February 26,1802 – 22 May 22, 1885)
author of  The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) and Les Misérables (1862).

Saint Thérèse Couderc (1805–1885)

Jumbo the Circus Elephant (about December 25, 1860 – September 15, 1885)
a performer in P. T. Barnum‘s circus. He died when he was hit by a train.

Hey A Movie

American inventors George Eastman and Hannibal Goodwin each invent a sensitized celluloid base roll photographic film to replace the glass plates then in use.

On the Airwaves

Inventor Nathan Stubblefield, (November 22, 1860 – March 28, 1928) was an American inventor best known for his wireless telephone work. Between 1885 and 1892, he worked on an induction transmission system in regards to radio..

Publications Hot of the Press

Mark Twain’s ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‘ is published in the U.S.having been published in England the year before.
H. Rider Haggard’s “King Solomon’s Mines” featuring a Indiana Jones type character.
The Griffin and the Minor Canon by Frank R. Stockton  .It is found in the anthology Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy (2003) which also contain stories by popular fantasy writers such as, George McDonald, The Princess and the Goblin (1871)  L. Frank Baum The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)  E. Nesbit Five Children and It (1902)  and H. Rider Haggard.

May 2 Good Housekeeping magazine goes on sale for the first time in the United States.

Good Sports

  • National League v. American Association – Chicago NL ties St Louis A’s, 3 games to 3 with one tie.
  • The Cuban Giants, composed mainly of African-American players from Philadelphia, is the first black professional baseball team on a reasonably permanent basis. It will sometimes join a league and use a regular home park but more often tour independently.

Sanctifying Time

 

The Sound of Music and Other Cultural Milestones

How Great Thou Art

How Great Thou Art” is a Christian hymn based on an original Swedish hymn entitled “O Store Gud” written in 1885 by Carl Boberg (1859–1940). The English version of the hymn and its title are a loose translation by the English missionary Stuart K. Hine from 1949. The hymn was popularised by George Beverly Shea and Cliff Barrows during Billy Graham’s crusades. It was voted the British public’s favourite hymn by BBC‘s Songs of Praise. “How Great Thou Art” was ranked second (after “Amazing Grace“) on a list of the favourite hymns of all time in a survey by Christianity Today magazine in 2001 and in a nationwide poll by Songs Of Praise in 2019.

Prayer for Ukraine

This is a patriotic Ukrainian hymn published in 1885, which became a spiritual anthem of Ukraine. The text was written by Oleksandr Konysky, and the music was composed by Mykola Lysenko, first with a children’s choir in mind. The song became the regular closing hymn in services of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine and other churches. It gained national significance when it was performed by mass choirs during the Ukrainian War of Independence in 1917–1920. The hymn was intended to be an official spiritual anthem of Ukraine. It has closed sessions of oblast councils, and has been performed at major national functions.

Gilbert and Sullivan‘s comic opera The Mikado opens, at the Savoy Theatre in London on March 14. 1985

1931

Back to the Future: The Game 

Picture This

Fire Rescue Norman Rockwell

Salvador Dalí – The Persistence of Memory

News of the World

Arrivals

Departures

Hey A Movie

On the Airwaves

Lum and Abner

Publications Hot of the Press

Good Sports

Sanctifying Time

February 1931 –  In Płock, St. Faustina Kowalska had a vision of Jesus who tasked her with spreading the devotion to his Divine Mercy.

Venerations of 1931.

September 28, 1931 -C. S. Lewis becomes a Christian: One evening in September, Lewis had a long talk on Christianity with J.R.R. Tolkien (a devout Roman Catholic) and Hugo Dyson. (The summary of that discussion is recounted for Arthur Greeves in They Stand Together.) That evening’s discussion was important in bringing about the following day’s event that Lewis recorded in Surprised by Joy: “When we [Warnie and Jack] set out [by motorcycle to the Whipsnade Zoo] I did not believe that Jesus Christ was the Son of God, and when we reached the zoo I did.” The Life of C.S. Lewis Timeline – C.S. Lewis Foundation (cslewis.org)

The Sound of Music and Other Cultural Milestones

1955

Saturday,November 51955  The Mystery of Time Travel  Time Travel is first theorized- Doc Brown slips off his toilet whilst hanging a clock and has a vision of the flux capacitor.

Picture This

by Pablo Picasso.

Marriage LicenseNorman Rockwell 1955.
Norman Rockwell Museum.

News of the World

July 17, 1955 The Disneyland theme park opens in Anaheim, California, an event broadcast on the American Broadcasting Company television network.

Mysterious World

Christmas Eve, dated 1955, a boy starts to become skeptical of the existence of Santa Claus. Struggling to fall asleep, he witnesses a steam locomotive arrive on the street and goes outside to examine it, ripping a hole in his dressing gown pocket on the way. The conductor introduces the train as the Polar Express, which was on its way to the North Pole. Initially reluctant, the boy jumps aboard as the train departs.

June 28, 1955Steven Greer: Summoning Aliens? (CSETI, CE5) Steven Macon Greer (June 28, 1955) is an American ufologist who founded the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI) and the Disclosure Project, which seeks the disclosure of alleged classified UFO information’

1955 Area 51    Area 51 is the common name of a highly classified United States Air Force (USAF) facility within the Nevada Test and Training Range. A remote detachment administered by Edwards Air Force Base, the facility is officially called Homey Airport  (ICAOKXTAFAA LIDXTA)  or Groom Lake (after the salt flat next to its airfield). Details of its operations are not made public, but the USAF says that it is an open training range,  and it is commonly thought to support the development and testing of experimental aircraft and weapons systems. The USAF and CIA acquired the site in 1955, primarily for flight testing the Lockheed U-2 aircraft.

Area 51 is located in the southern portion of Nevada, 83 miles (134 km) north-northwest of Las Vegas. The surrounding area is a popular tourist destination, including the small town of Rachel on the “Extraterrestrial Highway“.

Arrivals

Kevin Costner January 18, 1955,
Jeff Daniels February 19, 1955 American actor
Kelsey Grammer, February 21, 1955
Bruce Willis March 19, 1955

Departures

Hey A Movie

On the Airwaves

Publications Hot of the Press

Good Sports

Sanctifying Time

Mother Teresa opened Nirmala Shishu Bhavan, the Children’s Home of the Immaculate Heart, as a haven for orphans and homeless youth.

The Sound of Music and Other Cultural Milestones

 1985

October 26, 1985,1:20 a.m.: First Time Traver (that we know of)- Doc Brown’s  Temporal Experiment #1 proves to be a success. His dog Einstein becomes the world’s first time traveler by departing one minute into the future. (This time jump does not create a new timeline; timelines are only created by going back in time. Einstein merely moves one minute forward on Timeline 1. The Doc states this is the case with timelines.

Picture This

Reigning Queens is a 1985 series of silkscreen portraits by American artist Andy Warhol. The screen prints were presented as a portfolio of sixteen; four prints each of the four queens regnant. The subjects were Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, Queen Ntfombi Twala of Swaziland and Queen Margrethe II of Denmark. The portrait of Queen Elizabeth II was based on the official photograph released for her Silver Jubilee in 1977, taken by Peter Grugeon at Windsor Castle on April 2, 1975.

News of the World

Mysterious World

January 1985 –  The Secret Soviet Doomsday Machine   Dead Hand or  Perimeter , Cold War-era automatic nuclear weapons-control system, comes into operation. The Russian built device has the ability to launch nuclear strikes even if all the Russian leaders are dead. By most accounts, it is normally switched off and is supposed to be activated during times of crisis; however, as of 2009, it was said to remain fully functional and able to serve its purpose when needed.

Arrivals

Departures

Hey A Movie

June 15 – Studio Ghibli, an animation studio, is founded in Tokyo.

On the Airwaves

Publications Hot of the Press

Good Sports

Sanctifying Time

The Sound of Music and Other Cultural Milestones

Elvis Presley At 50 – January 5, 1985 – ABC World News Saturday – YouTube
Priscilla Presley with Barbara Walters 1985 – YouTube

Les Misérables  colloquially known a  is a sung-through musical and an adaptation of Victor Hugo‘s 1862 novel of the same nam Les Mis or Les Miz (/leɪ ˈmɪz/ lay MIZ),e, by Claude-Michel Schönber is a sung-through musical and an adaptation of Victor Hugo‘s 1862 novel of the same namg (music), Alain Boublil, Jean-Marc Natel (original French lyrics) and Herbert Kretzmer (English lyrics). The original French musical premiered in Paris in 1980 with direction by Robert Hossein. Its English-language adaptation by producer Cameron Mackintosh has been running in London since October 1985, making it the longest-running musical in the West End and

2015

Picture This

May 1112 – Version O of Les Femmes d’Alger by Pablo Picasso sells for US$179.3 million at Christie’s auction in New York, while the sculpture L’Homme au doigt by Alberto Giacometti sells for US$141.3 million, setting a new world record for a painting and for a sculpture, respectively.

News of the World

Mysterious World

2015 – God and the gods  The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible by Michael S. Heiser is published.

January 1, 2015The Holy Fire?  Haris Skarlakidis publishes Holy Fire: The Miracle of the Light of the Resurrection At the Tomb of Jesus. Seventy Historical Accounts (4th – 16th C.)  

 March 23,2015The Bizarre Case of Victim F   At approximately 1:53 p.m., VICTIM M called the Vallejo,
CA Police Department (VPD) reporting that between the early morning  hours of 3:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m., an unknown and unidentified person or persons  had broken into his residence located on Mare Island in Vallejo, California, drugged him and his girlfriend VICTIM F by force, and then took her with them against her will to an unknown location in his (VICTIM M’s) vehicle.

Arrivals

Princess Charlotte of Wales (Charlotte Elizabeth Diana; born  May 2, 2015) is a member of the British royal family. She is the second child and only daughter of William, Prince of Wales, and Catherine, Princess of Wales. A granddaughter of King Charles III, she is third in the line of succession to the British throne and was born during the reign of her paternal great-grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II.

Jasmine Johnson (December 162015)  is the second child of American actor, producer, and retired professional wrestler Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson.

Departures

Charles H. Townes, (July 28, 1915 – January 27, 2015)  American Nobel Prize-winning physicist and contributor to the invention of the laser

Rod Taylor, ( January 11, 1930 –  January 7, 2015) was an Australian actor. He appeared in more than 50 feature films, including  The Time Machine (1960),  One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) and  The Birds (1963), directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

21 Coptic Martyrs of Libya – On February 12, 2015, the Islamic State (IS) released a report in their online magazine Dabiq showing photos of 21 Egyptian Christian construction workers that they had kidnapped in the city of Sirte, Libya, and whom they reported had been killed.

B.B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B. B. King, was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending, shimmering vibrato, and staccato picking that influenced many later blues electric guitar players.

Yogi Berra (May 12, 1925 – September 22, 2015) was an American professional baseball catcher who later took on the roles of manager and coach. He played 19 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) (1946–1963, 1965), all but the last for the New York Yankees. He was an 18-time All-Star and won 10 World Series championships as a player—more than any other player in MLB history.[2] Berra had a career batting average of .285, while hitting 358 home runs and 1,430 runs batted in. He is one of only six players to win the American League Most Valuable Player Award three times. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest catchers in baseball history[3] and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972.

Hey A Movie

On the Airwaves

Publications Hot of the Press

The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams by Philip Zaleski and  Carol Zaleski 

The Annotated Marx Brothers: A Filmgoer’s Guide to In-Jokes, Obscure References and Sly Details  by Matthew Coniam 

What Pet Should I Get? is a Dr. Seuss children’s book, posthumously published in 2015. Believed to have been written between 1958 and 1962, the book chronicles the adventures of Jay and Kay from Seuss’ One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish in their attempts to buy a pet.

It  was revealed on June 26, 2015 -the new Harry Potter story would be a play and it would receive its world premiere in mid-2016 at London’s Palace Theatre. The announcement marked the eighteenth anniversary of the publication of the first Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, published on   June 26,1997. The new play was called Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

Harper Lee – Go Set a Watchman (July 14; written c.1955)

The Bodleian Library of the University of Oxford acquires its twelve millionth book, on November 10, 2015 – a unique copy of Shelley‘s subversive Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things “by a Gentleman of the University of Oxford”, published in 1811.

Good Sports

July 31 – The International Olympic Committee awards Beijing the right to host the 2022 Winter Olympics.

The Kansas City Royals captured the second World Series title in franchise history, with a 12-inning, 7–2 victory over the New York Mets in Game 5 at Citi Field. The Kansas City Royals are the first team since the 1989 Oakland Athletics to win the World Series a season after losing the World Series the previous year. They also are the first American League team since the 1961 New York Yankees to win a World Series a year after losing Game 7 of the World Series

Sanctifying Time

Mariam Baouardy  or Mary of Jesus Crucified, (January 5, 1846 –  August 26 1878), was a Discalced Carmelite nun of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church  and was canonized on  May 17, 2015.

Laudato si’ (June 18, 2015) is the second encyclical of Pope Francis, subtitled “on care for our common home”. In it, the Pope critiques consumerism and irresponsible economic development, laments environmental degradation and global warming, and calls all people of the world to take “swift and unified global action.”

Louis Martin (August 22, 1823 –  July 29, 1894) and Azélie-Marie (“Zélie”) Guérin Martin ( December 23, 1831 –  August 28, 1877) were a French Roman Catholic couple and the parents of five nuns, including Thérèse of Lisieux, a Carmelite nun who was canonized as a saint of the Catholic Church in 1925, a Doctor of the Church on October 9, 1997 and Léonie Martin declared “Servant of God” in 2015. In 2015, the couple were also canonized as saints, becoming the first spouses in the church’s history to be canonized as a couple.

Pope Francis canonized Junípero Serra  on  September 23, 2015 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., during his first visit to the United States.  Serra’s missionary efforts earned him the title of “Apostle of California”.

On December 17, 2015, the Vatican Press Office confirmed that Pope Francis recognised a second miracle attributed to Mother Teresa

Missionaries of Charity nuns to close adoption centers in India – UCA News They cite difficulties in complying with government guideline. Mother Teresa began her first orphanage — Nirmala Shishu Bhavan — in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata in 1955, five years after she founded the congregation.

The Sound of Music and Other Cultural Milestones

  Elvis at 80: The King still rules | CNN

Kathleen Chaplin – Tu y Yo Feat. Billy Ronca

Kathleen Chaplin, (b 1975) is the third daughter of Michael John Chaplin (March 7, 1946) who was Charlie Chaplin’s son.  Chaplin Children and Grandchildren

 Hamilton: An American Musical is a sung-and-rapped-through biographical musical with music, lyrics, and a book by Lin-Manuel Miranda as well as choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler. Based on the 2004 biography Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow, the musical covers the life of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton and his involvement in the American Revolution and the political history of the early United States. Composed over a seven-year period from 2008 to 2015, the music draws heavily from hip hop, as well as R&Bpopsoul, and traditional-style show tunes. It casts non-white actors as the Founding Fathers of the United States and other historical figures. Miranda described Hamilton as about “America then, as told by America now.”

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