Last year I published
I compared what happen a 100 years ago in 1925 with what was scheduled to happen in 2025. Now that a year has gone by, I think that it is time for another look at what happen a 100 years ago and what actually happen within the last year. I keep the other post up to see the differences in what was expected and what actually happen. It is a Jubilee year that started in 1924 and continued in
1925
100 Years Ago
Christmas Tunes And Hymns In The Last 100 Years |
A Look At The Last Century Of Christmas Music
1925 – Salvador Dali – Young Woman at a Window
1925 – Blind Lemon Jefferson‘s recording career begins.
1925 – The American Basketball League is formed as the first major league of professional basketball.
1925 – The 1925 All-America college football team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose All-America college football teams in 1925. Included in this team is Ernie Nevers who is regarded as one of the best football players in the first half of the 20th century, he played as a fullback and was a triple-threat man known for his talents in running, passing, and kicking. Nevers played four sports (football, basketball, baseball, and track and field) for Stanford University from 1923 to 1925.
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.
January 2025 – In Antarctica at the Little Dome C site, the European Beyond EPICA project has achieved a historic milestone by successfully drilling a 2800m-long ice core, consisting of ice which is more than 1.2 million years old.
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
Costa Rica decided to withdraw from the League of Nations over the League’s failure to address regional disputes.
How We Found the Universe – This was the day a paper was delivered telling of the universe’s discovery. Edwin Hubble discovered by use of the largest telescope in its day, located at Mount Wilson Observatory, that our galaxy is just one in a multitude of galaxies residing in the vast gulfs of space.
First day of radio broadcasting in Sweden: AB Radiotjänst (forerunner of Sveriges Radio) broadcasts its first program. 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
Public Domain Day 2025
1/4 of the way through the century
Some of the things entering the public domain include Popeye the Sailor, Tintin, and the first Silly Symphony short film, The Skeleton Dance, enter the public domain in the United States.
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 3, 2025 – Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl premiered internationally on Netflix.
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 canonized her in 1977; she is the patron of the congregation.
John DeLorean (January 6, 1925 – March 19, 2005) 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 6, 2025 – US records its first person to die from bird flu, in southwest Louisiana. – On This Day
At the 82nd Golden Globe Awards, Fernanda Torres becomes the first Brazilian actress to win the award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama.
January 10, 1925 (Saturday) – The Ku Klux Klan was banned from the state of Kansas when its Supreme Court ruled that it was a corporation organized for profit and therefore could not operate there without a charter.
January 10, 2025 – Singing drummer ex- Beetle Ringo Starr releases his 21st solo album “Look Up” which also happens to be his second country music tinged collection.
January 11, 2025
IFT-7 is scheduled to launch, with the debut of a Block 2 SpaceX Starship.
The 60th anniversary of the Wanda Beach Murders is commemorated by the victims’ families. They are the unsolved murders of Marianne Schmidt and Christine Sharrock at Wanda Beach near Cronulla in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It remains one of the most infamous unsolved Australian murder cases of the 1960s, and New South Wales’ oldest unsolved homicide case.
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 13, 2025 –February 26, 2025 – 2025 Prayag Maha Kumbh Mela was the most recent iteration of the Kumbh Mela, a Hindu pilgrimage festival that marked a full orbital revolution of Jupiter around the Sun. It was the world’s largest gathering, with more than 660 million (66 crores) people had taken a dip in the river. This event marked the completion of a 12-year Kumbh Mela cycle and was officially termed a Maha Kumbh Mela, spanning 45 days.
The Kumbh Mela had been organized for many centuries with its commencement date unknown. As per astrological calculations, the 2025 edition was unique since the constellation alignment seen was witnessed once in 144 years.
January 14 – February 2, 2025 – The 2025 World Men’s Handball Championship is held in Croatia, Denmark and Norway, and is won by Denmark.
January 15, 2025 – Gaza war: Israel and Hamas approve a ceasefire agreement that seeks to end the war, exchange Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners, and allow in international aid. It took effect on January 19.
Colossal Biosciences and University of Melbourne create the world’s first artificial womb in marsupials as part of their project toward de-extinction of the thylacine.
January 16, 2025 – The first single “A Stone Only Rolls Downhill” from OK Go’s 2025 Album And the Adjacent Possible is released.
January 17, 1925 – 5th anniversary of Prohibition in the United States that started with the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution which banned the sale of alcohol in United States.
Coming Out Jan 17, 2025
Wolf Man In Theaters
January 17, 2025 – Earliest evidence for a human transport vehicle uncovered, with drag marks made by travois – long pieces of wood loaded with goods and dragged, 22,000 years old at White Sands, New Mexico. – On This Day
The director of the Pompeii Archeological Park revealed the discovery of a large thermal complex or a private bathhouse.
January 18, 2025 – TikTok voluntarily goes offline in the US, hours before a new law banning the platform comes into effect.
January 19, 2025 – Personnel from the Henryk Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station discovered the remains of Dennis Bell, a 25-year-old British meteorologist who died in a glacier crevasse on King George Island on July 26, 1959. The remains were later carried to the Falkland Islands aboard RRS Sir David Attenborough and then transported to London.
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 20, 2025
Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The inauguration of Donald Trump
as the 47th president of the United States
Trump issues roughly 1,500 pardons and six commutations to people charged in connection with the January 6 US Capitol attack
January 21, 2025 – Historic snowstorm hits US deep south, with Louisiana and parts of Texas issuing their first-ever blizzard warnings: record snow accumulations in Louisiana and Florida. On This Day
January 22, 1925– Fanny Bullock Workman (January 8, 1859 – January 22, 1925) dies. She was an American geographer, cartographer, explorer, travel writer, and mountaineer, notably in the Himalayas. She was one of the first female professional mountaineers; she not only explored but also wrote about her adventures. She set several women’s altitude records, published eight travel books with her husband, and championed women’s rights and women’s suffrage.
January 23, 2025 – Trump signs an executive order for the public release of classified documents relating to the assassinations of John F Kennedy, Robert F Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr.
January 24 – 26, 2025
Jubilee of the World of Communications
January 25, 1925 -The tomb of Tutankhamun was reopened in Egypt so Howard Carter could resume his archaeological work. Carter was disappointed to find that the pall which had covered the sarcophagus was now ruined because someone in Egypt’s antiquities department had carelessly stored it in a wooden shed that did not provide adequate protection from sunlight.
January 26, 1925– Australia’s oldest commercial radio station, 2UE, begins broadcasting in Sydney.
January 27–February 1, 1925 -The 1925 serum run to Nome (the “Great Race of Mercy”) relays diphtheria antitoxin by dog sled across the U.S. Territory of Alaska to combat an epidemic.
January 27, 2025
Mark’s 54th Birthday
January 29, 2025 – January 29 – Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man premiered on Disney+.
January 30, 2025 -Global planetary defense procedures triggered for the first time after 100-meter Asteroid 2024 YR4 is found to have a 1.3% chance of hitting Earth in 2032
School Spirits – Season 2 premiere.
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.
Coming Out Jan 31, 2025
Dog Man In Theater
February 25
February 2, 2025 – Now and Then” won Best Rock Performance and was nominated for Record of the Year in the 67th Annual Grammy Awards. Dubbed “the last Beatles song”, it appeared on a double A-side single, paired with a new stereo remix of the band’s first single, “Love Me Do” (1962), with the two serving as “bookends” to the band’s history.
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 4, 2025
Trump
China–United States trade war: China announces export controls and increased tariffs on certain American imports in retaliation for Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs on Chinese goods.
Donald Trump announces that the United States will take control of the Gaza Strip in an agreement with Israel, and that the U.S. military will be in charge of Gaza’s reconstruction.
Gun Shooting in Sweeden
At least 11 people are killed (and the perpetrator) and another 15 are injured after a gunman opens fire at an adult education centre in Örebro, Sweden, the deadliest mass shooting in the country’s history. On This Day
Medical History
First clinical trial approved to transfer genetically modified pigs’ kidneys into humans by the US Food and Drug Administration.
World Record
3,794 nautical miles (4,366 mi; 7,026 km) separate the docks of Lagos, Portugal from Cayenne, French Guiana. The weather alternates between disorienting storms and a relentless sun, hurling waves and marine life at boats setting off from the southern coast of Europe and travelling along the equator to South America. A few cruise ships and cargo freights interrupt the horizon, but the Atlantic Ocean is otherwise a blue and isolated expanse.
21-year-old Zara Lachlan (UK) rowed it, alone, in a 24-foot (7-m) boat.
She is the first woman and youngest person to complete the journey, as well as the youngest woman to row an ocean solo, unsupported, and non-stop.
February 8, 1925: Stop-motion film The Lost World premieres.
February 8 – 9, 2025
Jubilee of the Armed Forces, Police and Security Personnel
February 10, 2025 – A bus falls off a bridge over the Las Vacas River in Guatemala City, Guatemala, killing at least 55 people, and seriously injuring 9 others. President Bernardo Arévalo declared three days of national mourning and deployed the Guatemalan army along with the disaster agency to provide response efforts.
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 13, 2025 -The Treasury Department sanctions Karim Ahmad Khan, the top prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, over his decision to investigate Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant regarding their conduct during the Gaza war.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is confirmed as the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
The revival series of Mr. Bean: The Animated Series premiered on the Cartoon Network Asian feed.
February 14, 1925– Paavo Nurmi ran another record-breaking race in Madison Square Garden by running two miles in 8 minutes 58.2 seconds.
Coming Out Feb 14, 2025
Valentine’s Day 2025
Captain America: Brave New World In Theaters
Also on this date- Pope Francis is admitted at Gemelli Hospital in Rome due to breathing difficulties; diagnosed with bronchitis and later pneumonia.
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 18, 2025 – Egypt announces the discovery of Thutmose II‘s tomb by a joint British-Egyptian team, the first royal tomb to be discovered since Tutankhamun‘s in 1922. It is the 15th and final pharaoh tomb from the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt to have been found by archeologists.
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.
February 28, 2025 – A meeting between U.S. president Donald Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy takes place at the White House. Trump and V.P. JD Vance sharply criticize Zelenskyy, raising questions about support for Ukraine, a proposed end to the war, and the country’s future in general.
March 25
March 2025– Rembrandt‘s only known seascape, The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, stolen in 1990 in a famed art heist from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston is seemingly recovered by FBI from an art gallery in Manhattan. After video of the event goes viral on social media it is revealed that it was staged for a film shoot.
March 2025 – Willy Linthout and Ann Smet release the first public domain The Adventures of Nero story in album format, titled De Babbelkousen.
March 1, 2025 – A seven-day search for the remains of the three Beaumont children at the former Castalloy site in the Adelaide suburb of North Plympton Australia concludes without any new evidence discovered. As of 2018, a A$1 million reward has been offered for information related to the cold case by the South Australian government.
Adelaide
Sister Raffaella Petrini becomes the first woman to become President of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State and President of the Governorate of Vatican City State.
March 2, 2025 – Firefly Aerospace becomes the first commercial company to successfully land on the Moon with no technical issues, with its Blue Ghost Mission 1.
I’m Still Here, directed by Walter Salles, becomes the first Brazilian film to win at the Academy Awards after being recognized as Best International Feature Film.
March 3rd, 2025
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 4, 2025
Colossal Biosciences creates woolly mice as part of de-extinction efforts for the woolly mammoth.
Thomas Quine – | Flickr
World’s biggest iceberg A23a, weighing nearly a trillion metric tons (1.1 trillion tons), grounds off the coast of the island of South Georgia in the south Atlantic. On This Day
March 5, 1925- Albert Einstein sets off on a 3 month tour in South America which included Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil.
March 5, 2025
Ash Wednesday
Nature published a study showing that the oldest human-crafted bone tools on record are 1.5 million years old, found in Tanzania.
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.
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, 2025 – More than 1,000 people, including civilians, are reported killed in a crackdown by Syrian transitional government security forces in the Alawite region, described as the country’s worst violence for years.
March, 8 – 9, 2025
Jubilee of the World of Volunteering
March 8–17, 2025 – The 2025 Special Olympics World Winter Games will take place in Turin, Italy.
March 9, 2025 -Colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni), a species identified in 1925, is filmed for the first time by scientists from the Schmidt Ocean Institute; the 30 sm (11.8 inches) juvenile was captured on video at a depth of 600 meters (1968 feet) near the South Sandwich Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean using SuBastian, a remotely operated vehicle
March 10, 1925 -The Milky Way trademark was registered in the U.S., claiming a first-use date of 1922.
March 11, 2025 – The discovery of 128 new moons of Saturn is reported, by astronomers using the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope, bringing the gas giant’s total number of confirmed satellites to 274.
A 132-year old shipwreck is rediscovered in Lake Superior of the steel streamer “The Great Western” which sank in 1892 with the loss of 27 lives. –On This Day
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
The original Looney Tunes cartoons are removed from Max as part of a new plan to focus more on adult and family programming, with children’s programming no longer being a priority to the streaming service due to low viewership.
The Second World War Royal Air Force fighter pilot, John “Paddy” Hemingway, from Dublin, died at the age of 105. He served in the Battle of Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain (he was the last surviving pilot of the battle), the Invasion of Italy, and the Invasion of Normandy. He was shot down four times.
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 18–19, 2025 – The 2025 Major League Baseball season began with the MLB Tokyo Series 2025, played at the Tokyo Dome between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs.
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, 1959 –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.
30 Years Later
Flannery published A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (1955)
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, 2025
24 Hours for the Lord
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 2025 – A rare ‘pack ice’ killer whale (Type B1) has been filmed by researchers aboard the Antarctic sailing vessel Australis near the Antarctic Peninsula.
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
Fram2 launches aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, becoming the first crewed spaceflight to enter a polar retrograde orbit.
Legendary movie poster artist Drew Struzan March 18, 1947 – October 13, 2025) announces he can no longer paint due to Alzheimer’s; Struzan is known for illustrating over 150 movie posters, including The Shawshank Redemption, Blade Runner, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, as well as films in the Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, Harry Potter, and Star Wars film series. – On This Day
Coming Out Apr 4, 2025
A Minecraft Movie In Theaters
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 11, 2025 – Angel Studios‘ The King of Kings was released.
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 13 – October 13, 2025 – Expo 2025 is held in Osaka, Japan.
April 13, 2025
Palm Sunday
April 16, 2025 – Chinese chess grandmaster Ju Wenjun wins her 5th consecutive Women’s World Chess Championship with a score of 6.5–2.5, becoming the first Chinese player to win the championship five times. On This Day
April 17, 2024 – The atmosphere of K2-18b, a candidate water world located 124 light-years away, is found to contain large quantities of dimethyl sulfide and/or dimethyl disulfide – two compounds that, on Earth, are only known to be produced by life.
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 20, 1925 – Percy Fawcett British explorer of South America disappeared on this date (along with his eldest son, Jack, and one of Jack’s friends, Raleigh Rimmel) during an expedition to find an ancient lost city which he and others believed existed in the Amazon rainforest.
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 21, 2025 – Pope Francis, head of the Catholic Church since 2013, dies at the age of 88. World leaders pay tribute. Many countries have declared national mourning.
April 23, 2025 – A day after Pope Francis passes away, Patrick J. Marrin concludes his celebrity comic Francis about Pope Francis, which he had drawn since the first year of Francis’ papacy in 2013. However, it received a spin-off, The Brother Leo Chronicles on May 12, centering on the newly elected pope Leo XIV.
April 25, 2025
Arbor Day
April 25, 2025 – The 110th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings are commemorated at annual Anzac Day services across Australia and New Zealand.
April 25 – 27, 2025
The Jubilee of Teenagers
April 26, 2025 -The funeral of Pope Francis is attended by delegations from 164 countries, including 82 leaders, and 250,000 members of the public.
April 26, 2025 – Willie Nelson – Oh What a Beautiful World– This is his 77th solo studio album.
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 3, 2025 – Lady Gaga‘s free concert at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, draws crowd estimated at 2.5 million attendees, the largest concert in history for a female artist; police later reveal they thwarted a bombing attempt. On This Day
May, 4 – 5 2025
Jubilee of Entrepreneurs
May 4, 2025 – Nearly three weeks of uninterrupted 24-hour live streaming (478 hours) of Sweden’s ‘Great Moose Migration’ end after moose cross the Ångerman River. On This Day
US President Donald Trump announces 100% tariffs on foreign films brought into the United States. – On This Day
May 5, 1925 – The General Election Law is passed in Japan, extending suffrage to all males aged 25 and over.
May 5, 2025 – The Vatican announces the Popemobile will be donated and converted into a mobile health clinic for wounded children in Gaza, Palestine. – On This Day
May 7, 2025 – The 2025 papal conclave begins.
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 8, 2025 – The fourth ballot of the papal conclave elects a new pope after the second and third ballots failed earlier in the day. American-born Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost is announced as the new pope, choosing the name Pope Leo XIV.
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 18, 2025 – My Father’s Shadow, directed by Akinola Davies Jr. and co-written by his brother Wale, becomes the first Nigerian film to be screened at the Cannes Film Festival.
The papal inauguration of Pope Leo XIV is held.
May 20, 2025 – Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen plays to a draw against an online team of 143,000 players from around the world. – On This Day
March 25, 1925 – John Logie Baird gave the first public demonstration of televised silhouette images in motion at Selfridges department store in London.
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
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- 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 21, 1925 – Peter Canisius canonized and declared a Doctor of the Church.
Coming Out May 23, 2025
Lilo & Stitch In Theaters
May 25, 2025
48th Anniversary of the release of Star Wars (1977)
Memorial Day
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 – Taylor Swift announces she has bought back the rights to her entire discography from Shamrock, including the master recordings of her first six studio albums. – On This Day
May 30, 2025 – June 1, 2025
Jubilee of Families, Children, Grandparents and the Elderly
May 31, 1925 – John Vianney is canonized a saint.
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 1, 2025 – Freedom Flotilla ship Madleen, carrying humanitarian aid en route to Gaza, Palestine, sets sail with Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, Member of the European Parliament Rima Hassan, and 10 other volunteers. – On This Day
June 4, 2025 – Google signs agreement with Chile to build the first submarine fiber-optic cable connecting South America and Australia. – On This Day
June 6, 1925 -The Chrysler Corporation is founded as an automobile manufacturer by Walter Percy Chrysler in the United States.
June 6, 2025 – June 2025 Los Angeles protests: Protests erupt in Los Angeles in response to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests and deportations of illegal immigrants.
June 7th, 1925- Venerable Matt Talbot (May 2, 1856 –June 7, 1925) dies.
June 7, 2025 – US President Donald Trump orders deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops to southern California to quell protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sweeps in and around Los Angeles. On This Day
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, 2025 – July 13, 2025 – The 2025 FIFA Club World Cup is held in the United States, and is won by Chelsea.
Coming Out Jun 13, 2025
How to Train Your Dragon In Theaters
June, 14 – 15 2025
Jubilee of Sport
June 15, 2025
Father’s Day
June 16–17, 2025 – The 51st G7 summit is held in Kananaskis, Canada.
June 20, 1925- Benito Mussolini proclaimed the “Battle for Wheat”, aimed at increasing Italy’s wheat production to the point of becoming completely self-sufficient and no longer needing to import grain.
Audie Murphy, (June 20, 1925 – May 28, 1971) is born. He was an American soldier, actor, and songwriter. He was widely celebrated as the most decorated American combat soldier of World War II, and has been described as the most highly decorated enlisted soldier in U.S. history.
Thursday, June 19, 2025
Juneteenth National Independence Day
June, 20 – 22 2025
Jubilee of Governments
June 21, 2025 – The Netherlands returns 119 sculptures from the Benin Bronzes collection that were looted from the Kingdom of Benin (present-day Nigeria) by colonial forces. – On This Day
June 22, 2025 – Iran–Israel war: The United States carries out B-2 bomber airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear sites in Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan.
June 23, 2025 – Iran launches missiles at US bases in Qatar and Iraq in response to the previous day’s strikes.
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 24, 2025 – NATO summit takes place in The Hague, Netherlands, with all 32 NATO members expected to attend.
June 25, 1925
June 25, 1925 – American actress, June Lockhart (June 25, 1925 – October 23, 2025) was born.
June, 25 2025
Jubilee of Bishops
June 25, 2025 – The Axiom Mission 4 is launched. The mission involves four astronauts, including the first astronauts from Poland (Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski) and India (Shubhanshu Shukla) since the end of the Cold War.
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.
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