2025 A look Behind and Ahead- 700th Post

Here we are once again at another new year. Well for us Catholics the new year started with the first Sunday of Advent.  For most everyone else January 1 kicks off the new year. So what is going to happen in the coming year? Events are planned, anniversaries will be celebrated and the unexpected is hiding in the shadows waiting to show itself to the world.

We really don’t know what will happen  next year exactly ,but we do know what happened a century ago.

So here is a look at what will probably happen in 2025 and comparing it to what happened 100 years ago in 1925.

It was a Jubilee Year a Century ago and we enter into another one starting on Christmas 2024.

There are some things I have most likely left out and some things you may wonder why I included.

But after reading this you will have a hint at what is coming and a glance at what has been.

Thanks once again to Wikipedia for being there for me to borrow direct citations to fill out my timeline.

So here we start off with the birthday of a centurion.

1924

October 1, 1924 future U.S. President Jimmy Carter  is born.

2024

October 1, 2024 former U.S. President Jimmy Carter  turns 100.

November 21, 1924
Hobbit creator J. R. R. Tolkien’s son Christopher Tolkien is born.
(November 21, 1924 – January 16, 2020)

November 22, 2024
Wicked  Act 1 opens in theaters.

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November 28, 2024
Thanksgiving Day

December 1, 1924
A Soviet-backed communist 1924 Estonian coup d’état attempt fails in Estonia.

December 2, 2024
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew  premiers on Disney +

December 1, 2024
The New Liturgical Year Begins

December 11, 1924
The absolute world record for speed, 279.481 miles per hour (449.781 km/h), was set by the Bernard SIMB V.2 airplane,
designed by French aviator Jean Hubert and piloted by Florentin Bonnet.

December 11, 2024– Dick Van Dyke  turns 99.

December 11, 1924
Pope Pius XI opened the holy door at St. Peter’s Basilica to begin the Jubilee Year of 1925.

December 13, 1924

Rabbi Michael A. Robinson, (December 13, 1924 – July 20, 2006) is born. He was an American Reform rabbi, civil rights activist, and human rights activist. He was known for his association with Martin Luther King Jr., with whom he marched in Selma and on whose request he participated in a 1964 demonstration in St. Augustine, Florida, at which he was arrested and jailed together with 15 other Reform rabbis.

December 24, 2024
Opening of the Holy Door of Saint Peter’s Basilica
Kicking off the Jubilee Year

December 25, 1924
Christmas

Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow, leader of the Russian Orthodox Church within the Soviet Union, designated three different persons as potential successors, identifying Metropolitan Kirill Smirnov of Kazan, Metropolitan Agathangel Preobrazhensky of Yaroslavl and Metropolitan Peter Polyansky of Krutitsy. With Smirnov and Preobrazhensky imprisoned at the time of Tikhon’s death on April 7, Polyansky would be selected by the clerics of the church as Peter of Krutitsy, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.

December 25, 2024
Christmas

December 26, 2024
Opening of Holy Door at Rebibbia Prison

December 29, 1924

The adventure film Peter Pan, directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Betty Bronson in the title role, was released by Paramount Pictures (at the time, Famous Players–Lasky). The film was an adaptation of the J. M. Barrie (May 9, 1860 –  June 19, 1937) play Peter Pan, or, the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up, which had premiered almost exactly 20 years earlier (on December 27, 1904) and which Barrie novelized in 1911 in the book Peter and Wendy. After originally being considered lost, the film footage would be rediscovered at the Eastman School of Music in the 1950s and restored. In 2000, the Library of Congress would select the film for preservation in the National Film Registry.

Author Barrie died 13 years later on June 19, 1937

December 29, 2024
Opening of Holy Door at St John Lateran’s

December 31, 2024
New Years Eve

100 Years Ago
1925

The Cocoanuts Broadway production opened at the Lyric Theatre on December 8 and ran for 375 performances. The film version starring the zany Marx Brothers was released on May 23, 1929 (New York City) and is Public Domain as of January 1, 2025.

100 Years Later

2025

Weird Al continues zany by going on his Bigger and Weirder 2025 tour.

January 25

January 1925 – “Tea for Two” is a 1924 song composed by Vincent Youmans, with lyrics by Irving Caesar. It was introduced in May 1924 by Phyllis Cleveland and John Barker during the Chicago pre-Broadway run of the musical No, No, Nanette. When the show finally hit Broadway on September 16, 1925, Nanette was played by Louise Groody, and her duet with Barker of “Tea for Two” was a hit. The song went on to become the biggest success of Youmans’s career.

Thursday, January 1, 1925

I wonder what the new year holds.
Strange but the first seven months in every new year
interesting things seem to happen to me.
Every year seems to hold something unusual.
– To the Pole -The Diary and Notebook of Richard E. Byrd, 1925-1927

January 1, 1925

• Costa Rica decided to withdraw from the League of Nations over the League’s failure to address regional disputes.
• First day of radio broadcasting in Sweden: AB Radiotjänst (forerunner of Sveriges Radio) broadcasts its first programme. Gaston Borch conducts the Skandia Cinema Orchestra in the country’s first broadcast of orchestral music.

Wednesday, January 1, 2025
SOLEMNITY OF MARY, THE HOLY MOTHER OF GOD
Opening of Holy Door at St Mary Major’s
1/4 of the way through the century

January 2, 1925 – Leo Chiozza Money testified before Britain’s Royal Commission that an increase in the world’s population had led to the country’s food situation becoming as desperate as it was during the war. “The 10 pence price of bread has doubled in recent years and looking into the future there are good prospects of its doubling again”, he stated. Money recommended a “department of supply” be created to remedy the problem.

January 2, 2025
15th Wedding Anniversary
of
Mark and Kristin Wilson

January 3, 1925- Benito Mussolini makes a pivotal speech in the Italian Chamber of Deputies which will be regarded by historians as the beginning of his dictatorship.

January 5, 1925 – Nellie Tayloe Ross was inaugurated as the first woman elected as the governor of a U.S. state as she was inaugurated as Governor of Wyoming. Ross had won a special election on November 3 to fill the remainder of the term of her late husband, Governor William B. Ross, who had died on October 2. Mrs. Ross succeeded Frank Lucas, who had served as acting Governor upon Mr. Ross’s death.

January 5, 2025
Opening of Holy Door at St Paul’s outside the Walls

January 6, 1925– St. Rafaela Porras Ayllón (March 1, 1850 –January 6, 1925) dies.

Mary of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, (1 March 1850 – 6 January 1925) was a Spanish religious sister who established the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in conjunction with her sister Dolores. She devoted herself to the management of the congregation and resided in Rome until her death after her resignation as the congregation’s superior in 1893.

Pope Paul VI canonised her in 1977; she is the patron of the congregation.

January 11, 2025
IFT-7 is scheduled to launch, with the debut of a Block 2 SpaceX Starship.

January 12, 1925– In Chicago, the North Side Gang tried to kill Al Capone, using Tommy guns to rake his car with bullets as it idled outside a State Street restaurant. Only Capone’s bodyguard was wounded as Capone himself was doing business inside, but the attack prompted him to order Tommy guns for his own men, as well as his famous bulletproof Cadillac.

January 20, 1925– Miriam A. “Ma” Ferguson was sworn into office as the Governor of Texas, becoming the second woman to assume leadership of a U.S. state after winning an election.John D. Huddleston (June 12, 2010). “Ferguson, Miriam Amanda Wallace”. Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association.

January 6, 1925 – John DeLorean the maker of the Delorean automobile is born. The Delorean would be used as the world’s first time machine 60 years later in 1985 when Marty McFly takes Doctor Emmett Brown’s time machine 30 years back in time to 1955. This is the year J. R. R. Tolkien‘s  The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and C. S. Lewis ‘ The Magician’s Nephew is published. 

January 27, 2025
Mark’s 54th Birthday

January 31, 1925 – “The Witness for the Prosecution” is a short story and play by British author Agatha Christie. The story was initially published as “Traitor’s Hands” in Flynn’s, a weekly pulp magazine.

February 25

February 3, 1925– The first ever electric train of India completes its journey from Victoria Terminus to Kurla on the Central Line (Mumbai Suburban Railway).

February 8, 1925: Stop-motion film The Lost World premieres.

February, 8 – 9  2025
Jubilee of the Armed Forces, Police and Security Personnel

February 11, 1925– In the Dáil ‘(Assembly of Ireland‘) a resolution is passed making it illegal for any citizen to secure a divorce with the right to remarry in the State.

Meanwhile in Canada in 1925 -The federal divorce law was changed to allow a woman to divorce her husband on the same grounds that a man could divorce his wife – simple adultery. Before this, a woman had to prove adultery in conjunction with other acts such as “sodomy” or bestiality in order to initiate a divorce.

February 14, 1925– Paavo Nurmi ran another record-breaking race in Madison Square Garden by running two miles in 8 minutes 58.2 seconds.

February 15, 1925

Walt Disney’s Alice Solves the Puzzle is released. It marks both the first appearances both of recurring Disney antagonist Pete and Margie Gay in the role of Alice.

3 years later

November 18, 1928 – Mickey Mouse appears in Steamboat Willie, the third Mickey Mouse cartoon released, but the first sound film.

12 years later

December 21, 1937 – Walt Disney‘s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first feature-length animated cartoon with sound, opens and becomes a smash hit.

February, 15 – 18 2025
Jubilee of Artists

February 17, 1925 – Hal Holbrook (February 17, 1925 – January 23, 2021) is born. He was an American actor. He first received critical acclaim in 1954 for a one-man stage show that he developed called Mark Twain Tonight! while studying at Denison University. He won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play in 1966 for his portrayal of Twain. He continued to perform his signature role for over 60 years, only retiring the show in 2017 due to his failing health. Throughout his career, he also won five Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on television and was nominated for an Academy Award for his work in film.

February 20, 1925 –Robert Altman  (February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) He was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is considered an enduring figure from the New Hollywood era, known for directing subversive and satirical films with overlapping dialogue and ensemble casts.

4 Years Later on

January 17, 1929 – First appearance of E. C. Segar‘s American sailor comic book hero Popeye in Thimble Theatre. As of January 1, 2025 1929 Popeye is now part of the public domain.

55 Years Later on

December 12, 1980
Popeye
stars Robin Williams as Popeye the Sailor Man
and Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl
and directed by Robert Altman

Monday, February 17, 2025
Washington’s Birthday (Presidents day)*

Coming Out Feb 21, 2025
The Unbreakable Boy In Theaters

February 21, 1925 -The first issue of The New Yorker magazine is published by Harold Ross.

February, 21 – 23  2025
Jubilee of Deacons

February 25, 1925- Art Gillham records (for Columbia Records) the first Western Electric masters to be commercially released.

March 25

March 3rd 2025
 National Read Across America Day (Dr. Seuss Day)

March 5, 1925- Albert Einstein sets off on a 3 month tour in South America which included Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil.

March 4, 1925 – Calvin Coolidge is sworn in for a full term as President of the United States, in the first inauguration to be broadcast on radio.

March 7, 1925 – The Public Security Preservation Law of 1925 (治安維持法, Chian Iji Hō) is passed in the diet. It forbade conspiracy and revolt, and it criminalized socialism and communism. It was one of the most significant laws of pre-war Japan.

March 8, 1925 -Saint Manuel Míguez González, (March 24, 1831 – March 8, 1925) dies at age 93. He was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest and founder of the Calasanzian Institute. Míguez González would be canonized as a Roman Catholic saint more than 90 years later, on October 15, 2017.

March, 8 – 9  2025
Jubilee of the World of Volunteering

• In Egypt, Alan Rowe, the deputy director of George Reisner‘s Harvard-Boston Expedition, became the first person in 4,500 years to open the chamber of the tomb of Hetepheres I, the mother of the Pharaoh Cheops and the Queen consort of the Pharaoh Sneferu.
• Dr. Herman N. Bundesen, Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health announced in an article in the Department’s weekly bulletin that the ongoing crossword puzzle fad caused no ill health effects from headaches or eye strain, as had previously been feared, and was beneficial to health in general. In a feature titled “Cross-Worditis”, Bundesen noted humorously that…

“The savage little cross-word microbe may be largely explained by the fact that part of our lives and much energy must be put into amusement, to satisfy the play instinct within us. Therefore any play or game that has a mental ‘kick’ in it, is quickly accepted and eagerly pursued.“ 

March 8–17, 2025
The 2025 Special Olympics World Winter Games will take place in Turin, Italy.

March 13, 1925 –Lucille Ricksen (born Ingeborg Myrtle Elisabeth Ericksen; August 22, 1910 – March 13, 1925) died. She was an American motion picture actress during the silent film era. She died of tuberculosis on March 13, 1925, at the age of 14.

March 15, 1925– Seven Chances starring Buster Keaton is released.

March 17, 2025
St. Patrick’s Day

March 18, 1925 – The Tri-State Tornado, the deadliest in U.S. history, rampages through Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, killing 695 people and injuring 2,027. It hits the towns of Murphysboro, Illinois; West Frankfort, Illinois; Gorham, Illinois; Ellington, Missouri; and Griffin, Indiana.

March 18, 2025
“Sunrise on the Reaping” by Suzanne Collins

After the success of “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” “Sunrise on the Reaping” is anticipated to be one of the biggest books of the year. The fifth book in “The Hunger Games” series tells the story of Haymitch Abernathy, the second District 12 competitor to win the eponymous Hunger Games after Lucy Gray. Since the story is a prequel, we know how Haymitch’s story ends, but getting the details will be worth the read. 15 Most Anticipated Books of 2025 | PS Books

March 19, 1925 – The Good Pope St. Pope John XXIII  (November 25, 1881 –  June 3, 1963) is consecrated by Giovanni Tacci Porcelli.

39 Years Later

January 25, 1925 –Pope John XXIII announces that the Second Vatican Council will be convened in Rome.

March 21, 1925 – Catholic author G.K. Chesterton starts publishing G.K.’s Weekly. His book The Everlasting Man is published.

Coming Out Mar 21, 2025
Snow White In Theaters

March 25, 1925-  Catholic author Flannery O’Connor (March 25, 1925 – August 3, 1964) is born.

March 5, 2025
Ash Wednesday

30 Years Later

Flannery published A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (1955)

March 28, 2025
24 Hours for the Lord

March 28, 1925 – In the U.S., the National Speech and Debate Association (NSDA) was founded in Wisconsin by Ripon College professor Bruno E. Jacob, originally as the National Forensic League (NFL). On May 17, 2013, the organization would change its name, explaining that

“As a communication organization, we need to effectively communicate who we are and what we do. There is a common misunderstanding of ‘NFL’ or ‘forensics,’ including confusion with the National Football League or crime scene investigation; changing our name to focus on the activity of speech and debate will appeal to more students, coaches, alumni, sponsors, and the general public.

March, 28 – 30  2025
Jubilee of the Missionaries of Mercy

March 31, 1925– Radio station WOWO in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, begins broadcasting.

April 2025

 The Chosen Season 5

April 1, 1925 – Frank Heath and his horse Gypsy Queen leave Washington, D.C. to begin a two-year journey to visit all 48 states.

April 1, 2025
Donald Trump has had enough and lets J.D. Take Over. Kamila becomes his VP

 

April, 5 – 6  2025
Jubilee of the Sick and Health Care Workers

April 6, 1925 – A flight billed as showing the first “in-flight movie” was conducted by Imperial Airways from London to Paris, showing The Lost World. Subsequent research has established that this was actually not the first, as the earliest known in-flight movie has been dated to 1921.

Alexandra Kitchin, (September 29, 1864 – April 6, 1925) dies. She was a notable ‘child-friend’ and favourite photographic subject of Alice in Wonderland author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll).

1925 marks the 60th Anniversary of the publication of Alice in Wonderland (1865) which is also the year the American Civil War ended.

April 10, 1925– F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes his novel The Great Gatsby in New York. Also that month  Fitzgerald  and Ernest Hemingway meet in the Dingo Bar, rue Delambre, in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, after the April 10 publication of Gatsby and before Hemingway departs on a trip to Spain that he will fictionalize in The Sun Also Rises (1926).

April 13, 1925 –The Wizard of Oz  directed by Larry Semon and starring Dorothy Dwan as Dorothy, Larry Semon as  the Scarecrow, Oliver Hardy as the Tin Woodman, and Curtis McHenry briefly disguised as a less “cowardly” Lion than in the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer version of Baum’s work, The Wizard of Oz.

A Oz Book was also published in 1925

The Lost King of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson (19th in the Oz series overall and the fifth written by her)

25 Years Earlier

May 17, 1900 -The publication of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum.

April 19, 1925- The Minute Man: depicted on a US postage stamp issued in 1925, commemorating the Battles of Lexington and Concord on it’s 150th Anniversary.

April 19, 2025
250th Anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord

April 20, 2025
Easter Sunday

April 21, 1925

•  King Features President Moses Koenigsberg presented a “Phonofilm“, made by the company owned by inventor Lee de Forest, to a gathering of editors and publishers in New York City. Shot the week before, Calvin Coolidge became the first U.S. president to talk on film as he delivered a four-minute address.
• 15th Anniversary of the death of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn author Mark Twain (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910).

April 25, 2025
Arbor Day

April 25 – 27, 2025
During the Jubilee of Teenagers
Blessed Carlo Acutis will be canonized as the FIRST MILLENNIAL SAINT �

April, 28, 1925 – 15th Anniversary of 1910 London to Manchester air race which was the first long-distance aeroplane race in the United Kingdom. It was won by Frenchman Louis Paulhan.

April, 28 – 29  2025
Jubilee of People with Disabilities

May 25

May 1,1925– In the Destruction of early Islamic heritage sites in Saudi Arabia, the al-Baqi’ mausoleums are destroyed by King Ibn Saud.

May,  1 – 4 2025
Jubilee of Workers

Coming Out May 2, 2025
Thunderbolts In Theaters

May 3, 1925 – The groundbreaking ceremony was held for the Washington, D.C. Jewish Community Center. President Calvin Coolidge addressed the event, stating, “The Jewish faith is predominantly the faith of liberty.

May,  4 – 5 2025
Jubilee of Entrepreneurs

May 5, 1925 – The General Election Law is passed in Japan, extending suffrage to all males aged 25 and over.

May 8,  1925 –

•  Afrikaans officially replaces Dutch as the second official language after English in South Africa.
•  African American Tom Lee rescues 32 people from the sinking steamboat M.E. Norman on the Mississippi River.

May 10, 2025
5th Anniversary of the Catholic Bard
Which was on Mother’s Day 2020

May 10, 1925 – The 17th Anniversary of Mother’s Day being observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.

May, 10 – 11  2025
Jubilee of Marching Bands

May 12, 1925 – William Jennings Bryan agreed to participate in a trial of John Scopes on the side of the prosecution, ensuring great national interest.

May 12, 1925 -The American baseball player Yogi Berra, (May 12, 1925 – September 22, 2015) is born.

May 11, 2025
Mother’s Day

May, 12 – 14 2025
Jubilee of the Eastern Churches

May 14, 1925- H. Rider Haggard,  (June 22, 1856 –   May 14, 1925) author of  King Solomon’s Mines dies.

Film versions of his book were made in

12 years later  King Solomon’s Mines (1937) directed by Robert Stevenson
25 years later King Solomon’s Mines (1950) directed by Compton Bennett and Andrew Marton
60 years later  King Solomon’s Mines (1985) and starred  Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, Herbert Lom, and John Rhys-Davies (Lord of the Rings films).

May 14, 1925– Virginia Woolf‘s novel Mrs Dalloway is published by the Hogarth Press in Bloomsbury, London. Woolf is beginning work on To the Lighthouse.

May 15, 1925 –

• U.S. president Calvin Coolidge ruled out prohibitionist Wayne Wheeler‘s plan to use the American navy to enforce the Volstead Act, believing the navy’s purpose should only be for national defense and not police duty.
• Editorials in the Japanese press decried American plans to strengthen the naval base at Pearl Harbor, as such plans either suggested fear of Japanese aggression towards America or American aggression towards Japan.

16 years later on

December 7 (December 8 – 3:18 a.m., Japan Standard Time) – WWII: Attack on Pearl Harbor: Aircraft flying from Imperial Japanese Navy carriers launch a surprise attack on the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, thus drawing the United States into World War II.

May, 16 – 18  2025
Jubilee of Confraternities

May 17, 1925 – St. Thérèse the Little Flower was canonized  by Pope Pius XI.Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face or St. Thérèse of Lisieux

72 years later

October 19, 1997 –Pope John Paul II declared Therese Doctor of the Church, one of four women so named, the others being Teresa of Ávila, Catherine of Siena and Hildegard of Bingen.

May 19, 1925

• • Malcolm X, (May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965) The African-American civil rights activist is born on the same day as
  • Pol Pot, (May 19, 1925 – April 15, 1998) The Cambodian Stalinist dictator and leader of the Khmer Rouge.

May 20th,  1925 –C. S. Lewis is elected a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, where he tutors in English language and literature until 1954.

25 years later

October 16, 1950 – C. S. Lewis‘s children’s portal allegorical fantasy novel The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, illustrated by Pauline Baynes, is published by Geoffrey Bles in London, first of the seven-book The Chronicles of Narnia.

May 21st,  1925 – St. Peter Canisius becomes the 25th Doctor of the Church.

May 29, 1925 -English explorer Percy Fawcett sends a last telegram to his wife before he disappears in the Amazon.

May 29, 2025
The Ascension of the Lord [Thursday]

May  30, 2025 –  June 1,  2025
Jubilee of Families, Children, Grandparents and the Elderly

St. John Vianney is Canonized  May 31, 1925, at Vatican City by Pope Pius XI.

June 25

June 1925- Theodore Geisel graduates from Dartmouth College.

12 Years Later -December 21, 1937 –Dr. Seuss‘s first book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, is published by Vanguard Press.
25 Years Later –  If I Ran the Zoo (1950)
50 Years Later –Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! (1975)
75 Years Later – How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1957) was adapted into a live-action film(2000), directed by Ron Howard and starring Jim Carrey as the Grinch.

June 1925 –Pablo Picasso – The Three Dancers

June 6, 1925 -The Chrysler Corporation is founded as an automobile manufacturer by Walter Percy Chrysler in the United States.

June 7th, 1925- Venerable Matt Talbot (May 2, 1856 –June 7, 1925) dies.

June,  7 – 8 2025
Jubilee of Ecclesial Movements, Associations and New Communities

June 8, 1925 –Barbara Bush (June 8, 1925 – April 17, 2018) is born in New York City. She was first lady of the United States from 1989 to 1993, as the wife of the 41st president of the United States, George H. W. Bush. Previously, she had been second lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989, and founded the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy. Among her children are George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States, and Jeb Bush, the 43rd governor of Florida.

June 8, 2025
Pentecost Sunday

June  9, 2025
Jubilee of the Holy See

June 11, 1925 -Miner William Davis was killed in New Waterford, Nova Scotia, Canada when he was shot by a company policeman during a protest by striking miners. June 11 is now William Davis Miners’ Memorial Day in Nova Scotia, recognizing all miners killed on the job in the province.

June 14, 1925 – In a spontaneous reaction against the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera, the crowd at an FC Barcelona game jeered the “Marcha Real” and applauded the English anthem “God Save the King” as performed by an English marching band. The football club was fined and shut down for six months in reprisal.

June,  14 – 15 2025
Jubilee of Sport

June 15, 2025
Father’s Day

Thursday, June 19, 2025
Juneteenth National Independence Day

June, 20 – 22  2025
Jubilee of Governments

June 23, 1925

• First ascent of Mount Logan, the highest mountain in Canada.
• The Soviet Union created the Lenin Prize for accomplishments relating to science, literature, arts, architecture and technology.

June 22, 2025
The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ

June, 23 – 24  2025
Jubilee of Seminarians

June Lockhart (born June 25, 1925) She  is an American retired actress, beginning a film career in the 1930s and 1940s in such films as A Christmas Carol and Meet Me in St. Louis. She acted primarily in 1950s and 1960s television and with performances on stage and in film. On two television series, Lassie and Lost in Space, she played mother roles.

June 25, 2025
If Alive June will turn 100

June,  25 2025
Jubilee of Bishops

June, 25 – 27  2025
Jubilee of Priests

June 26, 1925– The Gold Rush  starring Charlie Chaplin is released.

June 26, 1925 –Charles Schultz (1846-1925) from Saxony, Germany dies in Westcliffe, Custer, Colorado, USA. Meanwhile Charles Monroe Schulz  is 2 going on 3 and lives at 919 Chicago Avenue South, #2, Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was during this time period that he got the nickname Sparky ter the racehorse character Spark Plug featured in the popular newspaper comic strip, Barney Google by Billy DeBeck.

25 Years Later –October 2, 1950- The daily comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz, makes its debut in nine United States newspapers.
40 Years Later -December 9 – The first Animated Peanuts special A Charlie Brown Christmas premieres on CBS.
52 Years Later – August 24, 1977 -The third Peanuts movie Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown is released in theaters.
75 Years Later February 13, 2000 – Final Peanuts comic is printed in newspapers, preceded by author Charles M. Schulz‘s death the night before. It was the most popular comic strip in history, running for 50 years.

June 28, 1925– Antonio Ascari wins the 1925 Belgian Grand Prix, the first held on the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps.

Coming Out Jun 20, 2025
28 Years Later In Theaters

July 30, 1925 – Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde  is released in theaters. The film itself is both a spoof of the previous Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde films (e.g. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1912) and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), both adaptations of and the 1886 novella by Robert Louis Stevenson Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde). The film stars Stan Laurel as the title character.

July 25

Friday, July 4, 2025
Independence Day

July 6, 1925  Bill Haley (July 6, 1925 – February 9, 1981) is born. He is credited by many with first popularizing this form of music in the early 1950s with his group Bill Haley & His Comets and million-selling hits such as “Rock Around the Clock“, “See You Later, Alligator“, “Shake, Rattle and Roll“, “Rocket 88“, “Skinny Minnie“, and “Razzle Dazzle”. Haley has sold over 60 million records worldwide.^[1][2] In 1987, he was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

July 9, 1925– In Dublin, Oonagh Keogh becomes the first female member of a stock exchange in the world.

July 10–21, 1925 – Scopes Trial: In a staged test case (the “Monkey Trial”) in Dayton, Tennessee, United States, John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher (technically arrested on May 5 and indicted on May 25) is accused of assigning a reading from a state-mandated textbook on Darwinian evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law, the “Butler Act“. He is found guilty and fined $100, though the verdict is later overturned on a technicality. The trial makes explicit the fundamentalist–modernist controversy within the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, with William Jennings Bryan (who dies on July 26) being challenged by the liberal Clarence Darrow.

July 13, 1925 – Walt and Lillian Disney are married.

July 16, 1925 -The Canadian province of Saskatchewan repealed the Prohibition Act of 1916. The government continued to control wholesale outlets for the selling and distribution of alcohol.

July 16–27, 2025 
The 2025 Summer World University Games will take place in the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, Germany.

July 18, 1925– The Temporary Slavery Commission of the League of Nations filed their report on their global investigation of slavery and slave trade, preparing the ground for the introduction of the 1926 Slavery Convention.

July 18, 1925 – Adolf Hitler publishes Volume 1 of his personal manifesto Mein Kampf in Germany.

14 Years Later

September 1, 1939 – The invasion of Poland by the German’s kicks off World War II.

July 20, 1925– The 1925 MacMillan Arctic Expedition left Wiscasset, Maine. Donald Baxter MacMillan led a scientific expedition to the North Pole backed by the National Geographical Society and financed primarily by the Chicago entrepreneur Eugene McDonald – which was accompanied by U.S. Navy personnel and planes commanded by Antarctica explorer Lt. Cmdr. Richard E. Byrd.

Coming Out Jul 25, 2025
Fantastic Four: The First Steps In Theaters

July 28, 2025 – August 3, 2025
Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati will be canonized during the
Jubilee of Youth

July 29, 1925 –

• Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano printed a long list of Fascist offenses against Catholics.
• A new law was announced in a semi-official Italian publication stating that any newspaper publishing attacks on the government that were “too strong and too frequent” would receive two warnings, after which the paper would no longer be recognized,

August 25

August 1, 1925 – The New Cape Central Railway and its 204 miles 69 chains (329.7 kilometres) long line between Worcester and Voorbaai is incorporated into the South African Railways (SAR).

Coming Out Aug 1, 2025
The Naked Gun In Theaters

August 5, 1925– Annie Walsh becomes the last woman to be executed in Ireland; she had murdered her husband.

August 7, 1925 –The United Kingdom passed the Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act, making it illegal to sell peerages or any other honours.

August 7–17, 2025
The 2025 World Games will take place in Chengdu, China.

August 8, 1925 – The Ku Klux Klan, the largest fraternal racist organization in the United States, demonstrates its popularity by holding a parade with an estimated 30,000-35,000 marchers in Washington, D.C.

Coming Out Aug 8, 2025
Freakier Friday In Theaters

August 10, 1925 – The future St. Faustina Kowalska (August 25, 1905 – October 5, 1938) entered the Convent of the Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy in Warsaw, and took the name of Sister Maria Faustina. She had apparitions of Jesus Christ which inspired the Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy, therefore she is sometimes called the “secretary” of Divine Mercy.

75 Years Later

April 30, 2000 – Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwide.

August 15, 2025
Assumption of the Blessed Virin Mary

August 25, 2025
Kristin’s 51st Birthday

August 26, 1925 –Mother Teresa   (August 26, 1910 –September 5, 1997) turns 15.

3 Years Later

She left home in 1928 at age 18 to join the Sisters of Loreto at Loreto Abbey in Rathfarnham, Ireland, to learn English with the intent of becoming a missionary; English was the language of instruction of the Sisters of Loreto in India.

25 Years Later

October 7, 1950 – Mother Teresa received Vatican permission for the diocesan congregation, which would become the Missionaries of Charity.

August 31, 1925 – Anthropologist Margaret Mead lands in American Samoa to begin nine months of field work that will culminate in her 1928 book Coming of Age in Samoa. The bestselling book will become the first popular anthropological study and will change many attitudes towards tribal peoples.

September 25

September 1, 1925 – John Rodgers‘ seaplane touched down in the Pacific Ocean short of the goal of Honolulu due to a lack of favorable winds. Although naval ships were stationed at intervals along the route, the plane ran out of gas trying to locate one, and the seaplane’s fate was not known to the public at the time.

Monday, September 1, 2025
Labor Day

September 5, 1925 – The ocean liner SS Sophocles barricaded its striking sailors into the ship and then pulled out of Cape Town, South Africa en route to Australia, but was forced to turn around and go back when the sailors refused to work.

September 13, 1925 – Xavier University of Louisiana, the first Catholic university for African-Americans in the world, opened.

September 15, 2025
Jubilee of Consolation

September 17, 1925 – Frida Kahlo is seriously and permanently injured when a bus in which she is riding collides with a trolley car in Mexico City; she takes up painting while immobilized following the accident.

September 20, 1925 – The Freshman  starring Harold Lloyd is released.

September 20, 2025
Jubilee of Justice

September 26 – 28,  2025
Jubilee of Catechists

September 27, 1925– Feast of the Cross according to the Old Calendar: A celestial cross appears over Athens, Greece, while the Greek police pursues a group of Greek Old Calendarists. The phenomenon lasts for half an hour.

October 25

October 1925 – Bing Crosby   and his friend Al Rinker leave the Clemmer Theatre in Spokane (now known as the Bing Crosby Theater) to seek fame in California.

October 1, 1925 – Mount Rushmore National Memorial is dedicated in South Dakota.

October 2, 1925– In London:

• John Logie Baird successfully transmits the first television pictures with a greyscale image.
• The city’s first double-decker buses with covered top decks are introduced.

October 3, 1925 –  Simone Segouin (October 1925 – 21 February 2023) is born. She was a French Resistance fighter who served in the Francs-tireurs et partisans group during World War II. Among her first acts of resistance was stealing a bicycle from a German patrol, which she then used to help carry messages. She went on to take part in large-scale or otherwise dangerous missions, such as capturing German troops, derailing trains, and acts of sabotage.

October 1st, 1925 – J. R. R. Tolkien becomes Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford. He also publishes an  essay called ‘The Devil’s Coach Horses”. He also edits

‘Gawain Poet‘ (14th century), Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and is also edited by  E. V. Gordon

12 Years Later

September 21, 1937 – J. R. R. Tolkien‘s juvenile fantasy novel The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is published in England by George Allen & Unwin on the recommendation of young Rayner Unwin.

October 4 – 5,   2025
Jubilee of the Missions

October 4, 1925 – After eleven years of limited Prohibition, the Soviet Union removed all restrictions on the alcohol content of beverages.

October 4 – 5,  2025
Jubilee of Migrants

October 5th, 1925 – St. Anna Schäffer.  She had mystical phenomena developed around her. She was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI on October 21, 2012.

October 7–15, 1925 — Pittsburgh Pirates (NL) defeats Washington Senators (AL) to win the 1925 World Series by 4 games to 3. The Pirates are the first team to win a Series in a comeback down three games to one.

And in other Sports News

• Hilldale (ECL) defeats Kansas City Monarchs (NNL) 5 games to 1 in the 1925 Colored World Series
• The American Basketball League is formed as the first major league of professional basketball.

October 8 – 9,   2025
Jubilee of Consecrated Life

October 9, 1925 –Carry On, Jeeves is a collection of ten short stories by P. G. Wodehouse.

Coming Out Oct 10, 2025
TRON: Ares In Theaters

October 11 – 12, 2025
Jubilee of Marian Spirituality

Monday, October 13, 2025
Columbus Day

October 16, 1925 – Dame Angela Lansbury (October 16, 1925 – October 11, 2022) is born. She was a British-American actress. In a career spanning 80 years, she played various roles across film, stage, and television. Although based for much of her life in the United States, her work attracted international attention.

October 23, 1925 – Johnny Carson  (October 23, 1925 – January 23, 2005) is born. He was an American television host, comedian, and writer best known as the host of NBC‘s The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962–1992).

October 27, 2025
The 2025 Irish presidential election will be held no later than this date.

October 31, 1925 – The Persian Parliament formally deposed the exiled Shah of Persia, Ahmad Shah Qajar, ending the Qajar dynasty and clearing the path for Prime Minister Reza Khan to assume the throne.

October 31, 2025
Halloween

October 31, 2025 –  November 2, 2025
Jubilee of the World of Education

November 25

November 1, 1925

Go West  starring Buster Keaton is released.

Max Linder (December 16, 1883  – November 1, 1925) dies. He was a French actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and comedian of the silent film era. His onscreen persona “Max” was one of the first recognizable recurring characters in film. He has also been cited as the “first international movie star” and “the first film star anywhere”. He died by a double suicide with wife.

November 1, 2025
All Saints Day

November 3, 1925– Alfred Hitchcock‘s first (silent) film, The Pleasure Garden, completed (but not released in the UK until  January  16, 1927).

November 11, 1925 – Howard Carter and an autopsy team began the unwrapping of the mummy of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. The process was exceedingly difficult due to the extreme fragility of the bandages and the resinous coating that held the mummy fast inside the sarcophagus.

Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Veterans Day

November 14 -27,  1925- Artist Salvador Dalí holds his first solo exhibition at Galeries Dalmau in Barcelona. This exhibition, before his exposure to Surrealism, included twenty-two works and was a critical and commercial success. Some of his future paintings include this painting 50 years from 1925 in 1975.

Salvador Dalí – The Madonna of Port Lligat
(second version, Fukuoka Art Museum)
Approved by Pope Pius XII

November 16,  2025
Jubilee of the Poor

 November 20, 1925 –  Robert F. Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968) is born. He served as the 64th United States attorney general from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968, when he was running for the Democratic presidential nomination. Like his brothers John F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy, he was a prominent member of the Democratic Party and is considered an icon of modern American liberalism.

November,  22 – 23 2025
Jubilee of Choirs

November 23, 1925 -The most notorious episode in the Kip Rhinelander divorce trial unfolded when Mrs. Rhinelander was taken to the jury room and compelled to partially disrobe in front of the jury to establish that she was indeed “colored” and that Mr. Rhinelander had to have been aware that she was not white.

November 23, 2025
11th Anniversary of the adoption of our Daughter Princess.

Coming Out In Theaters Nov 26, 2025
Zootopia 2 In Theaters
 Wicked Part 2 In Theaters

November 27, 1925 – A state funeral was held at Westminster Abbey in London for Queen mother Alexandra. The kings of England, Denmark, Norway and Belgium marched behind the casket in the procession.

November 27, 2025
Thanksgiving Day

November 28, 1925– The weekly country music-variety radio program Grand Ole Opry is first broadcast on WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee, as the “WSM Barn Dance”.

November 30, 1925

William H. Gates, Sr., (November 30, 1925 – September 14, 2020) attorney and father of Bill Gates, is born in Bremerton, Washington

The film Cobra, starring Rudolph Valentino and Nita Naldi, opened.

November 30, 2025
First Sunday of Advent

December 25

December 1925- Complete excavation of the Great Sphinx of Giza by Émile Baraize begins (continues to 1936).

December 8, 1925 – Sammy Davis Jr. – Wikipedia (December 8, 1925 – May 16, 1990) was an American singer, actor, comedian and dancer.

On December 11, 1967, NBC broadcast a musical-variety special featuring Nancy Sinatra, the daughter of Frank Sinatra, titled Movin’ with Nancy. In addition to the Emmy Award-winning musical performances, the show is notable for Nancy Sinatra and Davis greeting each other with a kiss, one of the first black-white kisses in US television.

Davis had a friendship with Elvis Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) in the late 1960s, as they both were top-draw acts in Las Vegas at the same time. Davis was in many ways just as reclusive during his hotel gigs as Elvis was, holding parties mainly in his penthouse suite that Elvis occasionally attended. Davis sang a version of Presley’s song “In the Ghetto” and made a cameo appearance in Presley’s 1970 concert film Elvis: That’s the Way It Is.

 December 8, 2025
Feast of the Immaculate Conception

December 11, 1925 –Pope Pius XI‘s encyclical Quas primas, on the Feast of Christ the King, is promulgated.

Dick Van Dyke  is also born on this day.

December 11, 2025 –
Dick Van Dyke  if still alive turns 100

December 14, 1925 – Pope Pius XI elevated four new cardinals: Bonaventura Cerretti, Enrico Gasparri, Irishman Patrick O’Donnell and Alessandro Verde. He also made a speech that did not specifically mention Mussolini or fascism by name but condemned “legislation which makes the state and not the church the center of social life.

December 14,  2025
Jubilee of Prisoners

December 15, 1925— The first NHL game is played at Madison Square Garden between the New York Americans and the Montreal Canadiens. The Canadiens win the game 3-1 and are awarded the Prince of Wales Trophy.

December 15 – December  22, 2025
Hanukkah/Chanukah

Coming Out Dec 19, 2025
Avatar: Fire and Ash In Theaters
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants In Theaters

December 20, 1925 -The Western film Tumbleweeds was released.

December 21, 1925 –

• The Sergei Eisenstein film Battleship Potemkin was released in the Soviet Union.
• A Soviet decree announced that December 25 and 26 would be “days of rest” throughout Russia, although no mention of Christmas was made. Soviet efforts to make its citizens go to work on Christmas had been unpopular in previous years.

December 22, 1917 – 8th Anniversary of the death of St. Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini  (July 15, 1850 – December 22, 1917)

21 Years Later

On July 7, 1946, Mother Cabrini became the first U.S. citizen to be canonized a saint by the Catholic Church. She had entered the United States via New York City in 1889, and is now the patron saint of immigrants.

December 24, 1925 –

• A. A. Milne‘s Winnie-the-Pooh story “The Wrong Sort of Bees” appears in the London Evening News.
• Pope Pius XI closed the holy door at St. Peter’s Basilica as the Jubilee year drew to a close.

December 25, 1925 – The American Geographic Society announced the recipients of medals for notable contributions to the field of geography. Lucien Gallois, Erich von Drygalski, Robert Bartlett and David L. Brainard were among the honorees.

December 25, 2025
Christmas

December 30, 1925 – Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is released.