The Jubilee year began in January 2025 with Trump as President once again and Pope as our new pope.
It Continued in
July 25
July 1, 2025 – France begins ban on smoking in all outdoor areas frequented by children — including parks, beaches, public gardens, bus stops, school entrances, and sports venues; fines start at 90 euros. – On This Day
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act passes in the Senate with a 51–50 vote, with Vice President JD Vance casting a tiebreaker vote. The bill is signed into law by President Donald Trump three days later.
July 2, 2025
Jurassic World Rebirth
It is the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2025
4th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, confirms he will have a reincarnated successor after his death; Chinese officials reject his declaration, announcing that the next Dalai Lama will be born in China and approved by the government. – On This Day
July 4th, 1925– Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, (April 6, 1901 – July 4, 1925) died.
Friday, July 4, 2025
Independence Day
July 5, 2025 – Three new swimming sites open to the public on the Seine River in Paris, France for the first time since being outlawed in 1923 due to pollution and navigation concerns. – On This 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 11 – August 3, 2025 – The 2025 World Aquatics Championships are held in Singapore.
July 11, 2025 – Superman
July 13, 1925 – Walt and Lillian Disney are married.
July 13, 2025 – The Institute: Season 1 (2025) MGM+
July 14, 2025 – American billionaire Alice Walton opens the Alice L. Walton School of Medicine in Arkansas, United States, and covers tuition for the first five graduating classes. – On This Day
World Chimpanzee Day: Jane Goodall releases “Dr. Jane’s Dream, The Goodall Centre of Hope” in Tanzania, an immersive experience of pivotal moments from Dr. Goodall’s life and the evolution of her work. – On This Day
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, 2025 – One of three known “Rosebud” props from the 1941 film ‘Citizen Kane’ sells at auction for $14.75M. – On This Day
July 16–27, 2025
The 2025 Summer World University Games will take place in the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, Germany.
July 17, 2025 – CBS announces the cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, which will air its final episode in May 2026, ending the franchise that David Letterman originated in 1993. (Colbert would acknowledge the news on-air during that night’s episode.)
July 17, 2025 – Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 (2025) Paramount+
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.
July 21, 2025 – United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee announces a ban on transgender women competing in Olympic women’s sports, in compliance with an executive order issued by Donald Trump. – On This Day
July 23, 2025 – South Park season 27
Jul 25, 2025
Fantastic Four: The First Steps
July 26, 2025 – Almost 140,000 civilians in Thailand and an estimated 38,000 in Cambodia flee their homes as fighting between the two countries intensifies. – On This Day
Beyoncé ends the Cowboy Carter Tour with a Destiny’s Child reunion, the first time Beyoncé, Michelle Williams, and Kelly Rowland have performed together in seven years. – On This Day
July 28, 2025 – August 3, 2025
Jubilee of Youth
July 28–29. 2025
Jubilee of Digital Missionaries and Catholic Influencers
July 28, 2025 -India overtakes China as the top exporter of smartphones to the United States, accounting for 44% of US imports as Apple shifts manufacturing to New Delhi due to increased tariff threats
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).
Aug 1, 2025
The Naked Gun
Aug. 4, 2025 – King of the Hill season 14 (2025) Hulu
August 5, 1925– Annie Walsh becomes the last woman to be executed in Ireland; she had murdered her husband.
Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025 – Wednesday: Season 2 (2025) Part 1, Netflix
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.
Aug 8, 2025
Freakier Friday
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 11, 2025 – Fictional girl group HUNTR/X from Netflix movie ‘Kpop Demon Hunters’ reaches number one on Billboard Hot 100, the first all-woman group to do so in 24 years (the last being Destiny’s Child in 2001). On This Day
August 12, 2025 – Bones of a British polar researcher who died in Antarctica in 1959 are discovered in a melting glacier; he is formally recognized as Dennis Bell. – On This Day
US President Donald Trump deploys at least 800 National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., and declares federal control of the DC police force. – On This Day
Alien: Earth (2025) FX
August 15, 2025
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Trump meets with Putin in Alaska to discuss a plan for resolving the conflict in Ukraine.
August 15–17, 2025 – The first World Humanoid Robot Games are held in Beijing, China.
August 21, 2025 – Federal judge Kathleen Williams orders the closure of “Alligator Alcatraz“, a controversial migrant detention centre in the Florida Everglades, citing its severe environmental damage. The Trump administration is given 60 days to wind down the facility’s operations.- On This Day
A 1642 will at the center of a legal battle over Shakespeare‘s home is found after 150 years in an unlabeled box at the National Archives.- On This Day
Egyptian authorities unveil parts of a 2,000-year-old sunken city submerged off the coast of Alexandria, including buildings, statues, artifacts, and an ancient dock. – On This Day
August 22, 2025 – Famine is confirmed in Gaza City for the first time after the UN-backed body responsible for monitoring food security raises its classification to Phase 5, the highest and worst level. The IPC says more than 500,000 people are now facing “starvation, destitution and death”.
August 22 – September 27, 2025 – The 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup is held in, and is won by, England.
August 25, 2025
Kristin Wilson turns 51 years old.
President Trump signs an executive order directing federal prosecutors to seek charges against people who burn American flags, despite the 1989 Supreme Court case Texas v. Johnson affirming flag burning as protected speech under the First Amendment
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 26, 2025 – One person is killed and six others are wounded in a mass shooting near Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
American pop superstar Taylor Swift (35) and American NFL football player Travis Kelce (35) reveal their marriage engagement in social media post, garnering 1.2 million ‘likes’ in under 10 minutes.
August 27, 2025 –Annunciation Catholic Church shooting: Three people are killed, including two children and the perpetrator, and 21 others are wounded in a mass shooting at a Catholic church and school in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Mark David Chapman, who shot and killed former Beatle John Lennon in 1980, is denied parole again
Mark and Kristin begin their vacation by visiting the American Stonehenge in Salam NH. and visit his sister Patty.
They later arrive in Montpelier VT.
August 28, 2025 -Immersive AI-enhanced version of 1939 film “The Wizard of Oz” opens at Sphere in Las Vegas, Nevada. – On This Day
Mark and Kristin visit the Trapp Family Farm and see the graves of the Vonn Trapp family and they also visit Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream factory and take the tour.
August 30, 2025 – American singer Cyndi Lauper wraps up her “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour” at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, California; concert includes guest appearances by Cher, Joni Mitchell, SZA, and John Legend. – On This Day
On the way back to RI Mark and Kristin visit the Shaker Museum and The Telephone Museum.
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.
August 31, 2025 – Major landslide in western Sudan destroys entire village of Tarasin in the Marrah Mountains, killing at least 1000 people. – On This Day
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
The International Association of Genocide Scholars declares Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, Palestine, noting attacks on healthcare, aid, and educational sectors as contributing factors. – On This Day
September 2, 2025 – More than 85 international scientists submit comments condemning a Trump administration draft report that calls the threat of climate change overblown. – On This Day
US military launches the first of many lethal strikes against a suspected drug vessel in international waters of the Caribbean Sea, killing 11, in a departure from typical law enforcement interdiction and arresting of suspects. – On This Day
September 4, 2025 – “The Office” spinoff mockumentary sitcom “The Paper,” created by Greg Daniels and Michael Koman, starring Domhnall Gleeson and Chelsea Frei, premieres on Peacock – On This Day
Long-lost painting, ‘Portrait of a Lady’ by Giuseppe Ghislandi, is handed over to the Argentine justice system after being discovered in an estate that belonged to the daughter of a Nazi fugitive; the painting was looted in Nazi-occupied Europe, missing for 80 years. – On This 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 5, 2025 – Around 475 people, including 300 South Korean workers, are detained in an immigration raid at Hyundai plant in Georgia, United States; the largest single site enforcement operation in Homeland Security Investigations history. – On This Day
September 6 – 7, 2025 – The first official pilgrimage by members of the LGBT community to the Vatican City is held as part of the 2025 Jubilee.
September 7, 2025 – Italy’s Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati are canonized as saints of the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Leo XIV at an open-air mass in Saint Peter’s Square.
Sept. 7, 2025 – The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon: Season 3 (2025) AMC+
September 8, 1925 – Peter Sellers (September 8, 1925 – July 24, 1980) was born. He was an English actor and comedian. He first came to prominence performing in the BBC Radio comedy series The Goon Show. Sellers featured on a number of hit comic songs, and became known to a worldwide audience through his many film roles, among them Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther series.
September 8, 2025 – Gen Z Protests: young people gather at the federal parliament building in Kathmandu, Nepal to protest government shutdown of social media, nepotism, and political corruption; army fires on crowd killing 19. – On This Day
The United States House Oversight Committee releases a “birthday book” compiled for Jeffrey Epstein in 2003, including a letter allegedly signed by President Donald Trump; the White House denies its authenticity. – On This Day
September 9, 2025
The 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly opens in New York City, United States.
Russian drone incursion into Poland: Multiple drones breach Polish airspace during a large-scale Russian attack on Ukraine and are intercepted by Polish and NATO forces, marking the first attack on NATO territory and prompting Poland to invoke Article 4.
500-pound World War II bomb is found in Bratislava, Slovakia, prompting evacuations and public transportation halts. – On This Day
Only Murders in the Building season 5 (2025) Hulu
September 10, 2025 – Charlie Kirk, an American right-wing activist and influential ally of President Trump, is assassinated at a campus event in Utah, prompting widespread reactions both domestically and internationally.
More than a dozen Russian drones fly into Poland’s airspace, forcing NATO aircraft to scramble to intercept and shoot down some of the devices. – On This Day
September 11, 1925 – Miss California, Fay Lanphier, was crowned the winner of the 5th Miss America pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
September 11, 2025 – Suspect in the assassination of US political activist Charlie Kirk surrenders at the urging of his father and a family clergyman. – On This Day
Sep 12, 2025
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
More than 300 South Koreans detained by an immigration raid at a Hyundai plant in Georgia, United States, arrive home in South Korea, sparking national outrage over investing in the US. – On This Day
September 12–28, 2025 – The 2025 FIVB Men’s Volleyball World Championship is held in Pasay and Quezon City, the Philippines, and is won by Italy.
September 13, 2025 “Grace for the World” concert at St. Peter’s Square, Vatican City, featuring singers Andrea Bocelli, Pharrell Williams, John Legend, Jennifer Hudson, Jelly Roll, Angélique Kidjo, and others. – On This Day
A water-stained celling is dried out in Mark and Kristin’s house.
September 13–21, 2025 – The 2025 World Athletics Championships are held in Tokyo, Japan. A total of 53 nations won medals at the championships, more than in any previous edition. Samoa, Saint Lucia and Uruguay won their first ever medals at the championships, while Tanzania won their first ever gold medal.
September 13, 1925 – Xavier University of Louisiana, the first Catholic university for African-Americans in the world, opened.
September 15, 2025
Jubilee of Consolation
Emilia D’Albero becomes the first American to ever win the Mondial du Fromage, considered the “Cheesemonger World Cup,” in Tours, France. – On This Day
Sept. 15, 2025 – Futurama: Season 13 (2025) Hulu
September 16, 2025 – Jerry Greenfield of Ben & Jerry’s resigns from the ice cream maker he co-founded in 1978, citing corporate parent company Unilever’s curbing of the brand’s activism. – On This Day
Mark and Kristin visit a Benedictine monastery for a mini-retreat vacation. They also visit on this trip their friend Jackson who converted to the Catholic church after dating their daughter and is now a postulate in a Marianite monastery.
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 17, 2025 – Disney-ABC indefinitely suspends production of late night television talk show “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” after complaints about his political jokes, and threat of broadcast license revocation by FCC chairman Brendan Carr. – On This Day
The Polarizing Death Of Charlie Kirk
September 18, 2025 – Mark and Kristin visit the Emily Dickinson House and then go camping in a cabin in the woods.
September 19, 2025 – Mark and Kristin visit the Divine Mercy Shrine.
September 20, 1925 – The Freshman starring Harold Lloyd is released.
September 20, 2025
Jubilee of Justice
Intervision 2025 is held in Moscow, Russia. Vietnamese contestant Đức Phúc wins with the song “Phù Đổng Thiên Vương”
Farm Aid 40th anniversary benefit concert held in Minneapolis, Minnesota; performers include Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Dave Matthews, Margo Price, Kenny Chesney, Steve Earle, and Billy Strings. – On This Day
Mark and Kristin visit the Norman Rockwell Museum.
September 21, 2025 – Calder Garden, an indoor-outdoor immersive space dedicated to the works of American sculptor Alexander Calder, opens to the public in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. – On This Day
Nearly 100,000 attend memorial service for slain political activist Charlie Kirk at the State Farm Stadium near Phoenix, Arizona; Kirk’s wife Erika, the president, vice-president, and other administration officials speak, – On This Day
Mark and Kristin meet the Great Great grandson of Charles Dickens.
September 22, 2025 – Kristin gets taken off some of her medicine for epilepsy.
September 26 – 28, 2025
Jubilee of Catechists
September 26, 2025 – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses United Nations General Assembly, vowing “finish the job” against Hamas in Gaza, and condemning recent endorsements of Palestinian statehood; many nations boycott his appearance. – On This Day
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.
September 28, 2025 – Huajiang Canyon Bridge over the Beipan River in Guizhou, China opens, becoming the world’s highest bridge (625 m/2,051 ft), surpassing Duge Bridge, 200 km upstream. – On This Day
September 30, 2025 – Internet provider AOL discontinues its dial.
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.
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 1, 2025 – Israel intercepts the Global Sumud Flotilla, a fleet carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, in international waters, arresting 443 activists from 47 countries.
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 2, 2025 – The Swiss Guard releases a new uniform to be used on nonceremonial, formal occasions including diplomatic receptions and official dinners outside the Vatican.
Mark and Kristin go to the Monett immersion experience.
Oct. 2, 2025 – Charlotte’s Web (2025), HBO Max
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 3, 2025 – Republic Records releases “The Life of a Showgirl,” the twelfth studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift; a companion cinema-only release party film tops the weekend box office. On This Day
Mark and Kristin visit the Lizzie Borden house for the 2nd time with their friend Jean.
Marvel Zombies: Season 1 (2025) Disney+
The Sisters Grimm: Season 1 (2025) Apple TV+
October 4, 2025 – Apostolic Exhortation Dilexi te of the Holy Father Leo XIV on Love for the Poor is released.
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.
Oct 10, 2025
TRON: Ares
October 11 – 12, 2025
Jubilee of Marian Spirituality
Monday, October 13, 2025
Columbus Day
Gaza war: Hamas releases the last 20 living hostages in Gaza after they were kidnapped during the 2023 October 7 attacks. In exchange, Israel releases 250 Palestinian prisoners and more than 1,700 detainees.
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.
Oct. 16, 2025 – Ghosts: Season 5 (2025) CBS
October 19, 2025 – Pope Leo XIV canonizes seven new saints (José Gregorio Hernández, Carmen Elena Rendiles Martínez, Ignatius Maloyan, Vincenza Maria Poloni, Maria Troncatti, Bartolo Longo and Peter To Rot) at an open-air mass in Saint Peter’s Square
Thieves disguised as construction workers force open a Louvre museum upper floor window, smash display cases, and flee with 8 pieces of Napoleonic jewels worth over $100M; daylight heist occurs 30 minutes after opening, with visitors already inside. On This Day
Mark and Kristin revisit their alma mater, where they meet back in 1993, Fitchburg State College now with the State taken out of the name.
October 20, 2025 – MLB Toronto Blue Jays rally to defeat the visiting Seattle Mariners 4-3 in game 7 of the ALCS at Rogers Centre to return to the World Series for the first time since 1993. On This Day
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 23, 2025 – King Charles III and Pope Leo XIV hold the first joint prayer between a British monarch and a Catholic pope since 1534, at the Sistine Chapel.
Actress June Lockhart (June 25, 1925 – October 23, 2025, dies at 100.
October 24, 2025 – Columbia Records releases “Nebraska ’82 Expanded Edition” package of original solo album by Bruce Springsteen, unreleased full-band versions of most tracks, and new live run through by Springsteen with minimal accompaniment; feature film surrounding the original album’s genesis “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere” starring Jeremy Allen White is released theatrically. On This Day
October 25, 2025 –In the 2025 Irish presidential election Catherine Connolly is elected as Ireland’s 10th President in a landslide victory, securing 63% of the first preference votes.
October 26, 2025 – IT: Welcome to Derry: Season 1 (2025) HBO
October 27, 2025 –Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Freddie Freeman hits ‘walk-off’ solo home run to lead-off bottom of the 18th inning in 6-5 win over Toronto Blue Jays at Dodger Stadium; ties record for longest World Series game ever. On This Day
October 28, 2025 – Apple reaches a market value of $4 trillion for the first time, but closed below the benchmark; Microsoft also reaches, and maintains $4 trillion valuation. On This Day
Massive police raid against criminal gangs and drug traffickers in Rio de Janiero, Brazil leaves at least 132 dead, and 56 arrested. On This Day
October 30, 2025 – Buckingham Palace announces Prince Andrew (65) will be stripped of all titles and evicted from the Royal Lodge due to his association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein; he shall be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and move into private lodgings. On This Day
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 2, 2025 – Former Olympian diver Tom Daley hosts new knitting competition show “Game of Wool: Britain’s Best Knitter” on Channel 4. – On This 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 3, 2025 – Jonathan Bailey makes history as the first openly gay man to be named People’s Sexiest Man Alive. – On This Day
November 8, 2025 – 40th Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Bad Company; Chubby Checker; Joe Cocker; Cyndi Lauper; Outkast; Salt ‘n’ Pepa; Soundgarden; White Stripes: Warren Zevon; Nicky Hopkins; Carol Kaye; Thom Bell, and Lenny Waronker. – On This Day
November 9, 2025 – Stephen Schwartz’ musical “The Queen of Versailles,” starring Kristin Chenoweth and F. Murray Abraham, opens at the St. James Theater, NYC. – On This Day
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.
November 12, 2025 – Final US penny is minted in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; manufacturing cost of the1-cent coin, produced for 232 years, had risen to nearly 3.7 cents, an estimated 1.4 billion remain in circulation. – On This Day
Bergkäserei Vorderfultigen, a Swiss Gruyère crafted by cheesemaker Pius Hitz, wins Cheese of the Year at the World Cheese Awards in Bern, Switzerland. – On This Day
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 15, 2025 – Pope Leo XIV formally returns 62 indigenous artefacts taken from Canada and held in the Vatican’s Anima Mundi museum to the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops on behalf of members of the First Nations community.
November 16, 2025
Jubilee of the Poor
November 18, 2025 –Gustav Klimt’s ‘Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer,’ a painting from the estate of cosmetics executive Leainard Lauder, sells at auction for record $236.4 million at Sotheby’s in New York City. – On This Day
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Lakers forward LeBron James {40} begins his 23rd NBA season – the longest career in the league’s history, winning 140-125 over Utah Jazz at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. – On This Day
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 21, 2025 – Pope Leo XIV signs an amendment to the 2023 law allowing women to become President of the Pontifical Commission, removing a requirement that would-be officeholders must hold the rank of cardinal.
“Wicked: For Good” the second part of film adaptation of the Broadway musical “Wicked” is released; weekend box office receipts reach $150 million. – On This Day
November 21 – December 7, 2025 – The 2025 FIFA Futsal Women’s World Cup is held in the Philippines.
November 22, 2025
11th Anniversary of the adoption of our Daughter Princess.
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 –Long-dormant Hayli Gubbi volcano in Afar region of Ethiopia erupts for first time in 10,000 years; no injuries reported, but ash drifts across the Red Sea, travelling as far as Yemen, Oman, Pakistan, and India. – On This Day
Apostolic Letter In Unitate Fidei on the 1700th Anniversary of the Council of Nicaea
November 25, 2025 – A new report published by the United Nations shows that Indonesian capital Jakarta has surpassed Japanese capital Tokyo as the world’s largest city, with a population of 42 million people.
November 26, 2025 – Stranger Things: Season 5 (2025) Part 1, Netflix
November 26 – December 14, 2025 – The 2025 World Women’s Handball Championship is held in Germany and the Netherlands.
November 26, 1925
Thanksgiving Day
Nov 26, 2025
Zootopia 2
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
National Women’s Soccer League Championship: Gotham FC wins title with 1-0 win over the Washington Spirit; over 1 million television viewers tune in.
November 27, – December 2, 2025 – Apostolic Journey of His Holiness to Türkiye and Lebanon with Pilgrimage to İznik (Türkiye) on the occasion of the 1700th Anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea
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 28, 2025 – Pope Leo XIV marks Nicaea anniversary, urges Christians to overcome divisions
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 1, 2025 – Father Bob and his bicycle: How this 88-year-old priest serves Bangladesh’s disabled children
Don’t get angry, but the 2025 Oxford Word of the Year is ‘rage bait’
Dec 2, 2025 – Pope Leo prays at Beirut blast site, meets families seeking justice
December 5, 2025 – Pope Leo sends surprise video message to Australian Catholic youth festival
‘Peace Be With You!’ First full-length book by Pope Leo XIV set for February release
Netflix will buy Warner Bros’ studio and streaming businesses for $72 billion
December 6, 2025 – Chris Pratt to release documentary on tomb of St. Peter
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.
The Cocoanuts Broadway production opened at the Lyric Theatre on December 8,1925 and ran for 375 performances. The film version starring the zany Marx Brothers was released on May 23, 1929 (New York City)
100 Years Later
The movie version of The Coconuts is Public Domain as of January 1, 2025.
Also in
2025
Weird Al continues zany by going on his Bigger and Weirder 2025 tour.
December 8, 2025
Feast of the Immaculate Conception
Trump honors Mary’s ‘freedom from original sin’ in Immaculate Conception message
Not so fast, Netflix. Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
December 9, 2025 – The pope urges ‘continued dialogue’ after receiving Zelenskyy in Castel Gandolfo
December 10, 1925 – The Virgin Mary appear once again to Sister Lucia of Fatima in the Pontevedra province in Spain, where the popular devotion of the Five First Saturdays of the month was revealed to her.
December 10, 2025 – 100 years ago today Our Lady appeared to Fatima visionary Sister Lucia in Pontevedra, Spain
December 11, 1925 –Pope Pius XI‘s encyclical Quas primas, on the Feast of Christ the King, is promulgated.
A Century Of The Feast Of Christ The King |
Papal Homilies On The Feast Of Christ The King
Dick Van Dyke is also born on this day and turns 1 years old.
December 11, 2025 – Dick Van Dyke turns a century old.
Poll: Most Catholic voters support Trump, deportations despite bishops’ concern
December 12, 2025 – 50 young French martyrs murdered by Nazis beatified in Notre Dame Cathedral
December 13, 2025 – The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025 is held in Tbilisi, Georgia. French contestant Lou Deleuze wins with the song “Ce monde“.
Cupid goes Catholic: New faith-based dating show brings faith and matchmaking together.
Curtis Martin steps down as CEO of FOCUS after nearly 3 decades leading ministry group.
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
Brown University shooting victims identified; the gunman remains at large
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
December 15, 2025 – 15 killed in mass shooting in Sydney. And, Rob Reiner and his wife found dead
Executions nearly double in 2025 due to dramatic rise in Florida
December 16, 2025 – Miracle of the liquefaction of blood of St. Januarius is repeated in Naples, Italy
December 17, 2025 – Vogue magazine includes Pope Leo XIV on its list of best dressed of 2025
First painting in Rome of Our Lady of Guadalupe preserved in fourth-century church
Italy makes a surprising discovery ahead of the Winter Olympics: dinosaur tracks
December 18, 2025 – Sony to Own Control of Peanuts in $457 Million Deal With WildBrain
Blue Origin will make history when it sends the first person who uses a wheelchair past the Kármán line, an internationally recognized boundary of space that’s 62 miles above Earth.
On its next mission, a Blue Origin New Shepard rocket will take Michaela “Michi” Benthaus, an aerospace and mechatronics engineer who suffered a spinal cord injury after a mountain biking accident, along with five others, on a journey past the Kármán line. New Shepard rockets are fully reusable spacecraft that Blue Origin says require less maintenance between flights, saving money and reducing waste. ABC News
December 18, 2025 – HHS announces actions to restrict ‘sex-rejecting procedures’ on minors
Dec 19, 2025
Avatar: Fire and Ash
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants
David
A new blessed for Argentina: Pope Leo XIV approves miracle attributed to Enrique Shaw
December 19, 2025 – Brown University shooting suspect found dead. And Epstein files release deadline looms
December 20, 1925 -The Western film Tumbleweeds was released.
December 20, 2025 – German engineer Michaela Benthaus becomes the first wheelchair user to travel into space, aboard the Blue Origin NS-37
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 21, 2025 – January 18, 2026 – The 2025 Africa Cup of Nations is held in Morocco.
December 22, 1925 – 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 22, 2025 – Florida bishops call for immigration enforcement moratorium over Christmas
December 23, 2025 – Pope asked Illinois governor to veto assisted suicide bill
130 students and teachers kidnapped from Catholic school in Nigeria released
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 24, 2025 – With a rhythm of hymns carrying prayer and hopes for the nation, a group in Lebanon has launched an exceptional event aspiring to make history: a continuous Christmas hymn recital lasting 170 uninterrupted hours in an attempt to break a world record and inscribe the name of the Land of the Cedars in the Guinness World Records. –Christmas recital in Lebanon aims for Guinness World Record | Catholic News Agency
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
Stranger Things: Season 5 (2025) Part 2, Netflix
The United States, in cooperation with the Nigerian government, initiates a series of airstrikes targeting Islamic State-affiliated militants operating in the country’s Sokoto State. US President Donald Trump has stated that rising extremist violence against Christians is a primary reason for the strikes
December 29, 2025 – Northern Ireland’s only Catholic college celebrates 125 years of training teachers
December 30, 1925 – Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is released.
December 30, 2025 –Bangladesh’s first woman prime minister, Catholic school alumna, dies at 80
Cecilia Giménez just wanted to freshen up an old painting at her church in Borja, Spain. She ended up becoming an internationally known artist.
The piece in question was a fresco by painter Elías Garcia Martínez known as Ecce Homo. It depicted a portrait of Jesus, in a red tunic with a crown of thorns on his head. By 2012, the piece was looking a little worse for wear, so Giménez took it upon herself to restore it. The result wasn’t immediately seen as an improvement, necessarily. News articles at the time said she “botched” the project, with people dubbing the new version, Ecce Mono. –The artist who ‘restored’ the face of Jesus has died at 94 : NPR
More than 3 million people attended Vatican audiences and ceremonies in 2025
December 31, 1925 (Thursday) -The first attempt at a worldwide New Year’s celebration was made via international radio. The United States sent out musical entertainment and New Year’s greetings from the consuls general of various foreign countries in New York. Evening listeners for participating stations across the United States heard a radio announcer in London say, “This is 2LO calling America and sending New Year’s greetings. We have received word that the American stations are broadcasting this program and we hope that it is being relayed successfully.
December 31, 2025
New Years Eve
Stranger Things: Season 5 (2025) Part 3, Netflix
MTV Shuts Down Iconic Operation After 44 Years –
MTV Music’s Last Song: “Video Killed The Radio Star”
“At its end,” Leo said, “the Church invites us to place everything before the Lord, entrusting ourselves to his providence, and asking him to renew, in us and around us, in the coming days, the wonders of his grace and mercy.” Pope Leo XIV ends 2025 urging Catholics to examine conscience and entrust the new year to God | Catholic News Agency
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