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Last Year and Week in Life Week 4 2023-Remembering The Blizzard of 78

Last Year and Week in Life Week 4 2023-Remembering The Blizzard of 78

Last updated on: February 21, 2023 at 10:01 pm by Mark Wilson

Last Year and Week in Life Week 4 2023-Remembering The Blizzard of 78 2023-02-21T22:01:51-05:00 Mark Wilson

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This past week…

The country Tunisia abolished slavery way ahead of the U.S.

The Gold Rush began as well as the Blizzard of 78.
Hawaii became a diocese and Kansas a state.
Also Kansas elected it’s fist native American politician.
The law found Ted Bundy and the Mansons guilty.
Elvis appeared on TV for the first time and Edgar Allen Poe in print.
I also celebrated my 52nd Birthday.
All this and more…

Happened Last Week and Year in Life.

Monday January 23, 2023

USA: Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children

Day 23: Judah Changes — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 23: We Believe — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

“I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.” (Letter XVI)

1656 – Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales.
1846 – Slavery in Tunisia is abolished.
1909 – RMS Republic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day.
1941 – Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.
1957– January 23– Ku Klux Klan members force 24 year old African-American truck driver Willie Edwards Jr. (November 13, 1932 – January 23, 1957to jump off the Tyler-Goodwin Bridge, along the Alabama River near Montgomery.
1964-Pope Paul VI institutes the World Day of Prayer for Vocations. During this celebration the Pope reminds the universal Church that still today salvation comes to everyone. It continues to be celebrated every Fourth Sunday of Easter (also known as Good Shepherd Sunday).
1964-Blessed Benedetta Bianchi Porro dies.
1986 – The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino, The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley.
2018 – The China–United States trade war begins when President Donald Trump places tariffs on Chinese solar panels and washing machines.
2022 – Mutinying Burkinabè soldiers led by Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba depose and detain President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré amid widespread anti-government protests.
2023-7 killed in shooting in Half Moon Bay, California.(cnn.com)

Quote of the Day: The River Shannon@Shonomatopoeia(Jan 23, 2023) Crazy how music can take you back to a time and place Just heard “Girl on Fire” and was transported back a decade to the Philippines, where we heard that song EVERYWHERE and Contractor Friend Steve would sing it enthusiastically What’s a song that unlocks a memory for you?

Tuesday January, 24 2023

Saint Francis de Sales, Bishop and Doctor of the Church

“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself.
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections,
but instantly set about remedying them—every day begin the task anew.”
― Francis de Sales

Day 24: Tears of Joy — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 24: Unity of Faith — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

The Gold Rush

Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.

41 – Claudius is proclaimed Roman emperor by the Praetorian Guard after they assassinate the previous emperor, his nephew Caligula.
1438 – The Council of Basel suspends Pope Eugene IV.
1536 – King Henry VIII of England suffers an accident while jousting, leading to a brain injury that historians say may have influenced his later erratic behaviour and possible impotence.
1835 – Slaves in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, stage a revolt, which is instrumental in ending slavery there 50 years later.
1848 – California Gold Rush: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter’s Mill near Sacramento.
1857 – The University of Calcutta is formally founded as the first fully fledged university in South Asia.
1918 – The Gregorian calendar is introduced in Russia by decree of the Council of People’s Commissars effective February 14 (New Style).
1933 – The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, changing the beginning and end of terms for all elected federal offices.
1984 – Apple Computer places the Macintosh personal computer on sale in the United States.
1986 – The Voyager 2 space probe makes its closest approach to Uranus.
1987 – About 20,000 protestors march in a civil rights demonstration in Forsyth County, Georgia, United States.
1989 – Notorious serial killer Ted Bundy, with over 30 known victims, is executed by the electric chair at the Florida State Prison.
1990 – Japan launches Hiten, the country’s first lunar probe, the first robotic lunar probe since the Soviet Union‘s Luna 24 in 1976, and the first lunar probe launched by a country other than Soviet Union or the United States.
2003 – The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.

Quote of the Day

Owl! at the Library ��‍♀️@SketchesbyBoze (Jan 24, 2023)
Don’t let anyone tell you that owning books is somehow snobbish or middle-class. I grew up destitute and read my way out of poverty. Books helped me to imagine better worlds than the one I lived in. Every book I owned was a treasure.

Wednesday January 25, 2023

The Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle

Day 25: Job’s Questioning — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 25: Summary of Faith — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.

1554 – São Paulo, Brazil, is founded by Jesuit priests.
1792 – The London Corresponding Society is founded.
1819 – University of Virginia chartered by Commonwealth of Virginia, with Thomas Jefferson one of its founders.[10]
1858 – The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn is played at the marriage of Queen Victoria‘s daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia, and becomes a popular wedding processional.
1881 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
1890 – Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
1915 – Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
1924 – The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
1937 – The Guiding Light debuts on NBC radio from Chicago. In 1952 it moves to CBS television, where it remains until September 18, 2009.
1941 – Pope Pius XII elevates the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of a diocese. It becomes the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu.
1949 – The first Emmy Awards are presented in the United States; the venue is the Hollywood Athletic Club.
1955- Toru Iwatani is born. He is a Japanese video game designer who spent much of his career working for Namco. He is best known as the creator of the arcade game Pac-Man (1980)
1959- Pope John XXIII announces that the Second Vatican Council will be convened in Rome.
1971 – Charles Manson and four “Family” members (three of them female) are found guilty of the 1969 Tate–LaBianca murders.
1978-January 25–27 – The Great Blizzard of 1978 strikes the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes, killing 70.
1996 – Billy Bailey becomes the last person to be hanged in the United States.
1998 – During a historic visit to Cuba, Pope John Paul II demands political reforms and the release of political prisoners while condemning US attempts to isolate the country.

Quote of the Day

Pope Francis@Pontifex (Jan 25, 2023) What is the shortest way to encounter Jesus? Make yourself needy. Recognize your need for grace, your need for forgiveness, your need for joy. And Jesus will draw near to you. #GeneralAudience

Thursday, January 26, 2023

Saints Timothy and Titus, Bishops

Day 26: God Responds to Job — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 26: Communion of Believers — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Fr. Casey, OFM@caseyofm (January 26, 2023) I’m serving the homeless with a group of high schoolers this week. A car just drove by and indiscriminately shot pellets at the homeless waiting in line, hitting one of our friars in the face. “What you do to the least of these you do to me.” Jesus is wounded again tonight.

Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.

1837 – Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. state.
1905 – The world’s largest diamond ever, the Cullinan, which weighs 3,106.75 carats (0.621350 kg), is found at the Premier Mine near Pretoria in South Africa.
1905- Maria Von Trapp (January 26, 1905 –March 28, 1987) is born.
1926 – The first demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird.
1930 – The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj (“Complete Independence”) which occurred 17 years later.
1934 – The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.
1950- The Douglas C-54 Skymaster serial number 42-72469 disappeared en route from Alaska to Montana, with 44 people aboard.
1959 – The 41-acre (17 ha) Chain Island is listed for sale by the California State Lands Commission, with a minimum bid of $5,226.
1959-Bob Lazar is born. He is an American conspiracy theorist who claims to have been hired in the late 1980s to reverse-engineer extraterrestrial technology at what he described as a secret site called “S-4”. Lazar alleges that this subsidiary installation is located several kilometres south of the United States Air Force facility popularly known as Area 51.
1962 – Ranger 3 is launched to study the Moon. The space probe later misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).
1966 – The three Beaumont children disappear from a beach in Glenelg, South Australia, resulting in one of the country’s largest-ever police investigations.
2020 – A Sikorsky S-76B flying from John Wayne Airport to Camarillo Airport crashes in Calabasas, 30 miles west of Los Angeles, killing all nine people on board, including former five-time NBA champion Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna Bryant.
2021 – Protesters and farmers storm the Red Fort near Delhi, clashing with police. One protester is killed and more than 80 police officers are injured.

Quote of the Day

@josemaria4ever (January 26, 2023)
Off to solve some mysteries with Mr Holmes and Dr Watson as I prepare to doze off to sleep.

I highly recommend you read some Sherlock Holmes if you should find the occasion. It’s elementary!

Night, chaps!

“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
Sherlock Holmes i-The Sign of the Four, ch. 6 (1890)

Friday January 27, 2023

[Saint Angela Merici, Virgin]

My 52nd Birthday

Day 27: The Birth of Moses — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 27: The Gift of the Creed — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Song of the Week

Alexander 23- How to Drive

1971 The Second Vatican Council, began on October 11, 1962 by Pope John XXIII and was closed by Pope Paul VI on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception on December 8, 1965. So just 6 years later on..

January 27th-The Catechist is Born in Beverly Hospital. I was an unexpected baby. My parents didn’t think they would have any more kids. But Surprise!! I was later Baptized within the next month, thus putting that mark (LOL) on my soul identifying me as a Catholic. While I was a babe in my mother’s arms.

A shadowy group of people decided they needed to begin an investigation of the FBI, something that just needed to be done because nobody else was doing it. And they decided to do this with a burglary. This is the subject of a podcast of Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World in which he mentions an inclusive interview given to the Catholic Bard about his podcast.

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Quote of the Day

Obi-Wan Kenosi@elmago3221 (Jan 27, 2023) What’s with all the comic stripes and radio dramas about broads falling in love with wolfs?

Patrick Neve@catholicpat (Jan 27,2023)
Shakespeare (Alpha): *invents hundreds of new words*

Us (Beta): OH WELL I guess nothing rhymes with orange!!
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Saturday January 28, 2023

Saint Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Doctor of the Church

Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy …
wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery.

— Saint Thomas Aquinas

In a summarized form, from Summa Theologiae (1266-73), I-II, Q.32.a.8

Day 28: The Burning Bush — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 28: The Nature of God — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.

1077 – Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, is lifted after he humbles himself before Pope Gregory VII at Canossa in Italy.[4]
1521 – The Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25.
1547 – Edward VI, the nine-year-old son of Henry VIII, becomes King of England on his father’s death.
1813 – Jane Austen‘s Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.
1902 – The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
1909 – United States troops leave Cuba, with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, after being there since the Spanish–American War.
1915 – An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.
1935 – Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
1956 – Elvis Presley makes his first national television appearance.
1958 – The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
1977 – The first day of the Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977, which dumps 3 metres (10 ft) of snow in one day in Upstate New York. Buffalo, Syracuse, Watertown, and surrounding areas are most affected.
1981 – Ronald Reagan lifts remaining domestic petroleum price and allocation controls in the United States, helping to end the 1979 energy crisis and begin the 1980s oil glut.
1986- The Space Shuttle Challenger killing 7 people including Christa McAuliffe who lives in Framingham where I used to live.
2023 – Protests begin after police beat and murder Tyre Nichols
2023-Lisa Loring (born Lisa Ann DeCinces; February 16, 1958 – January 28, 2023) was an American actress. She is best known for her work as a child actress playing Wednesday Addams at six years old on the 1964–1966 sitcom The Addams Family.

Quote of the Day

William C. Michael on FB (January 28, 2023) How can anyone argue that homosexuality should be criminalized but not care that fornication, adultery, pornography, gluttony, drunkenness, etc., are not also criminalized? This is what is referred to as “discrimination”.

Sunday January 29, 2023

Day 29: Moses Returns to Egypt — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 29: Knowing the Name of God — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

The Raven

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“‘Tis some visiter,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—
Only this and nothing more.”

—Edgar Allan Poe

Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.

1845 – “The Raven” is published in The Evening Mirror in New York, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe.
1850 – Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress.
1856 – Queen Victoria issues a Warrant under the Royal sign-manual that establishes the Victoria Cross to recognise acts of valour by British military personnel during the Crimean War.[7]
1861 – Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
1863 – The Bear River Massacre: A detachment of California Volunteers led by Colonel Patrick Edward Connor engage the Shoshone at Bear River, Washington Territory, killing hundreds of men, women and children.
1886 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
1891 – Liliʻuokalani is proclaimed the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
1907 – Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.
1936 – The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.
2002 – In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush describes “regimes that sponsor terror” as an Axis of evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.
2005 – The first direct commercial flights from mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines flight lands in Beijing.
2010-Father Dowling Author Ralph Matthew McInerny (February 24, 1929 – January 29, 2010) dies
.2020 – COVID-19 pandemic: The Trump administration establishes the White House Coronavirus Task Force under Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar.

Quote of the Day

Shemaiah Gonzalez@shemaiahng (January 29, 2023) Every time I spend time in Europe, I think to myself, what the heck do they put in our food in the States? At home I work so hard to keep my weight under control. Here I am not bloated, eating more (def more carbs) and no I am not exercising more, in fact less and have lost.

Related: schools and churches, please quit giving my children sweets as a reward for anything. We don’t bring that stuff into our house. It is an odd reward system that happens daily at my children’s already unhealthy, overweight school.

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