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Last Week and Year In Life Week 1 2023-Beginning Again

Last Week and Year In Life Week 1 2023-Beginning Again

Last updated on: February 5, 2023 at 10:14 pm by Mark Wilson

Last Week and Year In Life Week 1 2023-Beginning Again 2023-02-05T22:14:20-05:00 Mark Wilson

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Back in 2021 I attempted to chronicle all the major Catholic and non-Catholic news stories of the week. I called it Last Week in Life. I did it successfully for a year which is quite an accomplishment writing wise for me. In March of 2021 I started adding things that had happen in history on a particular day of the week to my articles. I mentioned the Catholic feast days of saints in the universal and American church and perhaps on occasion, I also mentioned a particular order (Carmelite) or other country (Ireland) connected to my wife or I in some way. I have included personal days of significance (birthdays, anniversary) to the authors of this blog as well.

In the posts I have added dates of significant points in history pertaining to science, space exploration, discoveries, inventions, national importance, human rights advancements, tragedies, injustices, arts, entertainment, church news, celebrities and various other things that I found interesting or think others would find interesting. I have tried to include things I have talked about in my blog posts. I’m sure I have missed some things I would want to include in these articles and will probably update posts as I discover new and interesting information lurking in my own articles and those somewhere out in history books and cyber space.

Whether I will make it through all 52 weeks with a new post giving you a bullet point list of historical events and trivia remains to be seen. I plan on inserting some of my favorite podcasters and youtubers who do weekly videos and podcasts that are worth listening to or watching. Overall this is a resource for you to browse through so you can be educated, entertained and enlightened regarding what is going on in God’s world.

But regardless of what I do or don’t do in the future, here is week 1 of 2023.

BONUS: How Do We Trust in Church Authority? (with Bishop Cozzens) – YouTube
Introduction to the Early World (with Jeff Cavins) — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

January 1983
Jenga was created by Leslie Scott the co-founder of Oxford Games Ltd, and was introduced at the London Toy Fair in January 1983.

Sunday January 1, 2023

Octave Day of Christmas, Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God

New Years Day

Saint Zygmunt Gorazdowski (November 1, 1845 –January 1, 1920)

Public Domain Day (Media from 1927)

Day 1: To Know and Love God — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 1: In the Beginning — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Click on Article to Read what Happen On This Day

Growing Spiritually in 2021JANUARY 01, 2021

As You Start Out Your New Year, This Also Happen…JANUARY 01, 2022

22 Year In Review, 100 Years Ago and Now JANUARY 01, 2023

2022-

January

… which begins with the world entering the third or possibly eighth year — nobody remembers anymore — of the pandemic. The American public is seriously divided: Everybody who is wearing a mask hates everybody who is not wearing a mask, and vice versa. Both sides are 100 percent supported by The Science. Dave Barry’s 2022 Year in Review (msn.com)

George Lerner was born on January 01, 1922 and died on January 01, 1995.
He created Mr. Potato Head (1952)

2023 – Croatia officially adopts the Euro, becoming the 20th Eurozone country, and joins the Schengen Area.

Fr Matthew P. Schneider, LC ��@FrMatthewLC (Jan 1,2023) Every Catholic needs to go to Mass on Sunday & every Catholic needs to pray every day. But there is no specific prayer a Catholic needs to pray every day, instead use the prayers that connect you to God the most.

Monday January 2, 2023

Saints Basil the Great (1 or 2 January 379) and Gregory Nazianzen (c. 329 – 25 January 25, 390)
bishops and doctors of the Church – Memorial

Mark and Kristin’s Wedding Anniversary (2010)

Day 2: How the Catechism Works — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 2: The Fall of Adam and Eve — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Click on Article to Read what Happen On This Day

Reflections on 11 Years of Marriage JANUARY 02, 2021

Welcome 12 Years of Marriage in 2022 JANUARY 02, 2022

13 Years Married/30 Years Friends JANUARY 02, 2023

St Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
2023 Marks 150 Years since she was born.

1788 – Georgia becomes the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution

Kane Tanaka, January 2, 1903 – 19 April 19, 2022)
Japanese Supercentenarian, Oldest Japanese person ever, Second oldest verified person in world history is born.

Darrell Epp@DarrellEpp (Jan 2, 2023) ON THIS DATE IN HISTORY 90 years ago, on January 2 1933, NANCY appeared for the first time in Ernie Bushmiller’s strip Fritzi Ritz. Of course Nancy was so cool, and became so popular, that she took over the strip and put Fritzi in the back seat.

Tuesday January 3, 2023

The Most Holy Name of Jesus– Optional Memorial

Day 3: What We Believe (Part 1 Introduction with Jeff Cavins) – YouTube
Day 3: Noah’s Ark — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

250 – Emperor Decius orders everyone in the Roman Empire (except Jews) to make sacrifices to the Roman gods.
1521 – Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.
1840-Father Damien (January 3, 1840 – April, 15, 1889) the leaper priest is born.
1956-Mel Gibson (Director of the Passion of the Christ and star of Mad Max) is Born.
1957- The third part of the secret of Fatima was written down “by order of His Excellency the Bishop of Leiria and the Most Holy Mother”. In June 1944, the sealed envelope containing the third secret was delivered to Silva, where it stayed until 1957, when it was finally delivered to Rome. If you want some sane theories regarding the mysterious 3rd secret listen to Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World episode on the matter.
1957 – Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
1959-Alaska becomes the 49th State.
1962 – 441 years after a pope excommunicated provocator of the protestant reformation, another pope, Pope John XXIII, excommunicates the leader of the revolution in Cuba, Fidel Castro.
1964– Pedro Edralin Flores (April 26, 1896 – January 3, 1964) dies. Pedro was a Filipino businessman and yo-yo maker who has been credited with popularizing yo-yos in the United States in 1928)
1973- J.R.R. Tolkien author of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings is born. (January 3rd, 1892 –September 2nd, 1973)
1993 – In Moscow, Russia, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
1993-“Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” debuts in the United States with “Emissary.”
1999 – The Mars Polar Lander is launched by NASA.
2015 – Boko Haram militants destroy the entire town of Baga in north-east Nigeria, starting the Baga massacre and killing as many as 2,000 people.
2018 – For the first time in history all five major storm surge gates in the Netherlands are closed simultaneously in the wake of a storm.
2023 – Singapore’s Jurong Bird Park permanently closes.

StarQuest Media (SQPN)@sqpn (Jan 3, 2023)

Who is Tom Bombadil?

@ThomasSanjurjo

@TeawithTolkien

@Salerno_Thomas

and Jeff Haecker discuss the enigmatic Tom: Who is he? What did Tolkien have to say about him? And what other similarly enigmatic characters are there in the Legendarium? https://starquest.fm/SME038

Wednesday January 4, 2023

USA: Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton (August 28, 1774 – January 4, 1821)

Day 4: Our Capacity for God — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 4: The Flood — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

1884 – The British socialist organisation, the Fabian Society is founded in London, United Kingdom.
1896 – This is a good week for states to be added to the U.S. as Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
1903 – Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The Edison film company records the film Electrocuting an Elephant of Topsy’s death.
1912 – The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Empire by royal charter.
1957 – After 69 years, the last issue of Collier’s Weekly magazine is published in the United States.
1958-Edmund Hillary‘s Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third overland journey to the South Pole, the first to use powered vehicles.
1958 – As we continue to explore our planet below meanwhile outside the planet, Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, falls to Earth from orbit.
1959 – A year later another Russian craft in space known as the Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.
1972 – Rose Heilbron becomes the first female judge to sit at the Old Bailey ( The Central Criminal Court of England and Wales )London, UK.
1999 – Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura (actor in Predator) is sworn in as governor of Minnesota, United States.
2007 – Congress elects Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history.
2023- Jeremy Renner shares photo from hospital bed after snowplow accident: ‘Thank you all for your kind words’

U.S. Catholic magazine@USCatholic (Jan 4, 2023): Maybe we need to fall madly in love with the things of God: charity, beauty, justice, mercy, truth, peace, forgiveness, kindness, faithfulness, hope. It would be awkward to spend forever in the company of someone with whom we have little in common.

Thursday January 5, 2023

St. John Neumann (March 28, 1811 – January 5, 1860)

Day 5: How We Know God — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 5: Tower of Babel — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

1781 – American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia, is burned by British naval forces led by traitor Benedict Arnold.
1846-St. Mariam Baouardy (January 5, 1846 – August 26, 1878) a Discalced Carmelite nun of the Easter Rite Melkite Greek Catholic Church is born.
1914– Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday, and a daily wage of $5.
1919– The German Workers’ Party, which would become the Nazi Party, is founded in Munich.
1925– Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female governor in the United States.
1933– Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
1939-Amelia Mary Earhart (July 24, 1897 – disappeared July 2, 1937) is declared dead. Want to learn more about Ms. Earhart? Tune into Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World to find out more.
1941– Amy Johnson, a 37-year-old pilot and the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia, disappears after bailing out of her plane over the River Thames, and is presumed dead.
1944– The Daily Mail becomes the first major London newspaper to be published on both sides of the Atlantic.
1947– Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to offer a round-the-world ticket.
1949 – In his “State of the Union” address, United States President Harry S. Truman unveils his Fair Deal program.
1950 – In the Sverdlovsk air disaster, all 19 of those on board are killed, including almost the entire national ice hockey team (VVS Moscow) of the Soviet Air Force – 11 players, as well as a team doctor and a masseur.
1959- George Reeves, (January 5, 1914 – June 16, 1959) is born. He starred in Adventures of Supermanon television from 1952 to 1958, and died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at age 45
**1973-**The Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland was signed into law, thus canceling the Catholic Churches “special position”. It now recognizes certain other named religions instead of just the Catholics.
2021 – 2020 United States Senate elections: The Democratic Party wins both seats and by extension control of the US Senate in the Georgia runoff elections; Jon Ossoff defeats GOP incumbent senator David Perdue in the regular election, and Rev. Raphael Warnock defeats GOP incumbent senator Kelly Loeffler in the special election.
2023-Funeral mass for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is held in St. Peter’s Square
2023-The House adjourned Thursday for a third day without a speaker, after Republican leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) fell short of the votes he needs to become House speaker in an 11th ballot, breaking a 100-year-old record with the 10th vote. 10 things you need to know today: January 6, 2023 | The Week
2023- Mark and Kristin celebrate their 13th wedding anniversary in downtown providence.

May be an image of 4 people and outdoors

Catholic Answers@catholiccom (Jan 5,2023) 25 years ago today, we aired our first ever Catholic Answers Live broadcast. Since then, the Catholic laity have piled into every new medium, fulfilling Vatican II’s call for a New Evangelization. We thank God for using us to evangelize, and pray for (at least) 25 more years!

Friday January 6, 2023

Epiphany Solemnity

Saint André of Montreal (August 9, 1845 – January 6, 1937)

National Bobblehead Day
Orthodox Christmas Day

Day 6: Knowing God With Certainty — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 6: Trust in the Lord — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Song of the Week

1492– The Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella of Aragon enter Granada at the conclusion of the Granada War.
1536– The first European school of higher learning in the Americas, Colegio de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco, is founded by Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza and Bishop Juan de Zumárraga in Mexico City.
1540– King Henry VIII of England marries wife 3 of 6 Anne of Cleves who ended up not being beheaded.
1839 – The Night of the Big Wind, the most damaging storm in 300 years, sweeps across Ireland, damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in Dublin.
1912-Yet another state joins the US. New Mexico becomes the 47th State.
1912– Alfred Wegener puts forward his theory of continental drift.
1929 –St. Mother Teresa arrives by sea in India. She will eventually work among India’s poorest and sick people.
1955-Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) is born.
1964-In his first State of the Union Address, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson declares a “War on Poverty”.
1994 – American figure skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked and injured by an assailant hired by her rival Tonya Harding‘s ex-husband during the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.
2021 – Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump attack the United States Capitol to disrupt certification of the 2020 presidential election, resulting in five deaths and evacuation of the US Congress.
2022 – Sidney Poitier, (February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) movie legend and star of one of Kristin’s favorite movies Lilies of the Field (1963) and also –To Sir, with Love (1967); Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967), and In the Heat of the Night, (1967) dies.
2023- A 6-year-old student shot and wounded a teacher at his school during an altercation inside a first-grade classroom. – ABC News (go.com)

Joseph not Joe ☮ ❤✝��@OLRefugeMonksCA (January 6, 2023) To those upset that Epiphany in the US is celebrated next Sunday and not today: I was very much alive in the pre-Vatican II days. When Jan 6 arrived we were back in school and the feast was pretty much ignored. Certain countries observe today as a national holiday and a holy day of obligation. Observing the feast on a Sunday allows US Catholics to focus on the importance of the feast and provides an opportunity to properly celebrate it, without the stress surrounding Dec. 25!

Saturday January 7, 2023

My Sister Laurie’s Birthday (1966)

Saint Raymond of Penyafort, (c. 1175 – 6 January 1275) priest – Optional Memorial

Day 7: God Reveals Himself — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 7: God’s Covenant with Abram— The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

49 BC –The Senate of Rome says that Caesar will be declared a public enemy unless he disbands his army. This prompts the tribunes who support him to flee to Ravenna, where Caesar is.
1608 – Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
1610 – Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able to distinguish the last two until the following day.
1782 – The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
1785 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
1835 – HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin on board, drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.
1844-St. Bernadette Soubirous (January 7, 1844 – April 16, 1879) is born.
1894 – Thomas Edison makes a kinetoscopic film of someone sneezing. On the same day, his employee, William Kennedy Dickson, receives a patent for motion picture film.
1904 – The distress signal “CQD” is established only to be replaced two years later by “SOS“.
1927 – The first transatlantic telephone service is established from New York City to London.
1928-William Peter Blatty (January 7, 1928 – January 12, 2017) is born. He wrote the 1971 novel The Exorcist, for which he won the Academy Award for the screenplay of its film adaptation and was nominated for Best Picture as its producer.
1931 – Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand’s west coast.
1959-The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
1980 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
1999 – The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.
2022-First successful transplant of a pig’s heart into a human when genetically modified pig’s heart inserted into a 53 year old man in Baltimore, Maryland.
2023– After a historic 15 rounds of voting, Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy was finally elected as House speaker early Saturday morning. (yahoo.com)
2023- Adam Rich (October 12, 1968 – January 7, 2023) was an American actor. He was best known for his portrayal of Nicholas Bradford, the youngest son on the television series Eight Is Enough, which ran for five seasons (1977–1981)

Steven D. Greydanus@DecentFilms: (January 7, 2023) January is National Blood Donor Month! If you haven’t donated in a while, or if you’ve been turned down in the past but it’s been a while, please consider giving it another shot! The need is great, and regular donors are few.

Sunday January 8, 2023

St. Apollinaris

Day 8: The Surrender of Abraham — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 8: God Forms his People — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

1297 – François Grimaldi, disguised as a monk, leads his men to capture the fortress protecting the Rock of Monaco, establishing his family as the rulers of Monaco.
1454 – The papal bull Romanus Pontifex awards the Kingdom of Portugal exclusive trade and colonization rights to all of Africa south of Cape Bojador.
1790 – George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York City.
1828 – The Democratic Party of the United States is organized.
1877 – Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory.
1889 – Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the ‘Art of Applying Statistics’ — his punched card calculator.
1894– Martyr Maximilian Kolbe who died in a Nazi concentration camp (January 8, 1894 – August 14, 1941) is born
1900 – President William McKinley places Alaska under military rule.
1918 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson announces his “Fourteen Points” for the aftermath of World War I.
1935-“King of Rock and Roll” Elvis Presley (January 08, 1935 – August 16, 1977 (age 42) is born.
1956 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, are killed for trespassing by the Huaorani people of Ecuador, shortly after making contact with them. Learn more about these 5 martyrs @ Jim Elliot, US, Missionary | 365 Christian Men
1964 – In his first State of the Union Address, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson declares a “War on Poverty”.
1973 – Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins. Wouldn’t you know it Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World did a podcast about it.
1981 – A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be “perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time”.
1994 – Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.
2002 – President of the United States George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.
2023– • Iran executed two men on Saturday – one a karate champion, the other a volunteer children’s coach – in connection with the nationwide protests that have swept the country since the death of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini in morality police custody on September 16. | CNN

�� @josemaria4ever (January 8, 2023)

A lot of people keep knocking The Chosen.

I get the criticism that it isn’t 100% accurate, but it doesn’t pretend to be.

I wouldn’t recommend it to someone who hasn’t got a good grasp of the NT, but those who do can easily separate the factual from the theatrical.

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