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LWIL Week 5-2023-The Chinese Spy Balloon Tour

LWIL Week 5-2023-The Chinese Spy Balloon Tour

Last updated on: February 10, 2023 at 4:42 am by Mark Wilson

LWIL Week 5-2023-The Chinese Spy Balloon Tour 2023-02-10T04:42:40-05:00 Mark Wilson

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Everyday of the year is the anniversary of some historical event.

I have gathered several of these instances and put together a list of them
on the particular day and year that they happen for my own amusement and perhaps yours.
Although years apart, I find it interesting to know that Phil Collins was born on the same day the Beatles gave their last public concert.
Thomas Edison opened the first movie studio on the same anniversary of the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.
And the day that money was first officially used in the Americas is the same day, years later, that we allowed the U.S. government to collect an income tax from us.
And when I find interesting current events, such as U.S. Tour of the Chinese Spy Balloon, I include that as well.
These are just some interesting trivia you will learn about that happened…

Last Week and Year in Life.

Monday January 30, 2023

National Croissant Day

Day 30: Nile Turned to Blood — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 30: God Is Who Is — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1826 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world’s first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, is opened.
1933 – Adolf Hitler’s rise to power: Hitler takes office as the Chancellor of Germany.
1939 – During a speech in the Reichstag, Adolf Hitler makes a prediction about the end of Jewish race in Europe if another world war were to occur.
1948 – British South American Airways‘ Tudor IV Star Tiger disappears over the Bermuda Triangle.
1948 – Following the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in his home compound, India‘s prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, broadcasts to the nation, saying “The light has gone out of our lives“. The date of the assassination becomes observed as “Martyrs’ Day” in India.
1951– One of my favorite singers, Phil Collins (January 30, 1951) is born.
1956 – In the United States, Civil Rights Movement leader Martin Luther King Jr.‘s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery bus boycott.
1969 – The Beatles‘ last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.
1972 –Sunday Bloody Sunday, or the Bogside Massacre, takes place in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland, when British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during a protest march against internment without trial. Fourteen Catholics are shot dead. U2 latter writes a hit song about this sad event.
2020 – The World Health Organization declares the COVID-19 pandemic to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
2023- The Chinese Spy Balloon entered Canadian airspace over the Northwest Territories. It first entered U.S. Space on January 28 north of Aleutian Islands in Alaska.

Quote of the Day

Anthony Esolen@AnthonyEsolen (January 30, 2023) We all know that few people now can make the plaster or wooden moldings we see in old houses, or do the work in iron and copper; the craftsmen are rare. Revelation: the same is true in most other human enterprises requiring knowledge and skill: poetry, painting, music, etc.

Tuesday January 31, 2023

Saint John Bosco, Priest

National Hot Chocolate Day

Day 31: Frogs, Gnats, and Flies — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 31: The Meaning of Faith — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

314 – Pope Sylvester I is consecrated, as successor to the late Pope Miltiades..
1673-St. Louis de Montfort is born. (January 31, 1673 – April 28 1716) is canonized on July 20, 1947. He is well known for his book on consecration to the blessed virgin Mary
1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief of all Confederate armies.
1919- The first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era, Jackie Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972)is born.
1927-Demonologist Lorraine Rita Warren (January 31, 1927 – April 18, 2019) is born. She is the main character in the The Conjuring Franchise along with her husband Edward Warren.
1950 – President Truman orders the development of thermonuclear weapons.
1956- Winnie the Pooh creator, A.A. Milne, (January 18, 1882 –January 31, 1956) dies.
1958 -The first successful American satellite, Explorer 1, is launched into orbit.
1958 – Cold War: Space Race: The first sucessful American satellite detects the Van Allen radiation belt.
1971-Apollo 14 departs for the moon
2018 – Both a blue moon and a total lunar eclipse occur.
2023-The Chinese Spy Balloon reentered U.S. airspace over northern Idaho.
2023-James Gunn Reveals New DC Studios Slate With Superman, Batman, Swamp Thing, and A Lot More (comicbook.com)

Quotes of the Day

Jeremy Wayne Tate@JeremyTate41 (January 31, 2023) When a Catholic school has an NFL quality athletic complex, but no chapel and Mass just once a month in the cafeteria it sends the wrong message.

S. P. Cooper@Prof_Cooper: (January 31, 2023) Princeton has daily Mass at noon and two Masses on Sunday, confession before every weekday mass, and twice-weekly adoration, all in the University Chapel and provided by the Aquinas Institute.

Catholic schools should do as least as much.

Dan Sheehan@lvstories: (January 31, 2023) I hope you’re in that confessional every day, Cooper.

S. P. Cooper@Prof_Cooper: (January 31, 2023) That poor priest must be well tired of hearing about you.

Dan Sheehan@lvstories: Well played.

Wednesday February 1, 2023

Saint Brigid of Ireland and Saint Ignatius of Antioch

Day 32: Cattle, Boils, and Hail — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 32: The Most Holy Trinity — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1796 – The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York.
1835 – Slavery is abolished in Mauritius.
1861 – American Civil War: Texas secedes from the United States and joins the Confederacy a week later.
1865 – President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1884 – The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
1893 – Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.
1895 – Fountains Valley, Pretoria, the oldest nature reserve in Africa, is proclaimed by President Paul Kruger.
1942 – Voice of America, the official external radio and television service of the United States government, begins broadcasting with programs aimed at areas controlled by the Axis powers.
2013 – The Shard, the sixth-tallest building in Europe, opens its viewing gallery to the public.
2022 – Five-year-old Moroccan boy Rayan Aourram falls into a 32-meter (105 feet) deep well in Ighran village in Tamorot commune, Chefchaouen Province, Morocco, but dies four days later, before rescue workers reached him.
2023-The Chinese Spy Balloon continues its U.S. Tour over Montana, South Dakota, and Nebraska.
2023-Tom Brady announces he’s retiring for good.
Quote of the Day

Where Peter Is@Where_Peter_is: (February 1, 2023) Can you believe it? February 1, 2023 will mark the 5th anniversary of Where Peter Is – there is the Church

We are grateful to our readers, patrons, and contributors for everything they’ve done to help us support Pope Francis and promote his mission and vision for the Church.

Thank you!

Here is my contribution… A snapshot of the world of Vatican II – Where Peter Is

Thursday February 2, 2023

The Presentation of the Lord

That’s right Wood Chuck Chuckers, it’s Groundhog day!

It’s also Candlemas

Day 33: Locusts, Darkness, and Death of the First Born — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 33: God as Father — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1653 –Even Old New York was once New Amsterdam . That great city is incorporated on this day.
1925 – Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race.
1959 –The Dyatlov Pass incident – Nine experienced ski hikers in the northern Ural Mountains in the Soviet Union die under mysterious circumstances. Jimmy Akin has the story in this Mysterious World episode. MYS024: What on Earth Happened at Dyatlov Pass? (sqpn.com)
2000 – First digital cinema projection in Europe (Paris) realized by Philippe Binant with the DLP CINEMA technology developed by Texas Instruments.
2005 – The Government of Canada introduces the Civil Marriage Act. This legislation would become law on July 20, 2005, legalizing same-sex marriage.
2023– The Chinese Spy Balloon is probably somewhere flying over some American city.
2023–30-year-old Bobi breaks record for world’s oldest dog ever – CBS News
Quote of the Day

Thomas Peters @AmericanPapist (February 2, 2023) Since deleted, but truly: does the middle finger mean you’re dishonest in Italian culture? Where the heck did this strange “metaphor” come from?

The Next Big HBO Series

Friday February 3, 2023

Saint Blaise, Bishop and Martyr; Saint Ansgar, Bishop

Song of the Week

Day 34: The Passover Instituted — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 34: Unity in the Holy Spirit — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1690 – The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in the Americas.
1809 – The Territory of Illinois is created by the 10th United States Congress.
1913 – The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax.
1966 – The Soviet Union‘s Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon, and the first spacecraft to take pictures from the surface of the Moon.
2023– The Chinese Spy Balloon continues on and is seen Kansas, Missouri and makes its way towards North Carolina.

Quote of the Day

John Herreid @HerreidJohn (February 3, 2023)
The fun thing about having lived in San Francisco and the Bay Area for 20 years is that 90% of the movies or TV shows set there have establishing shots and maybe two scenes filmed in the city and then the rest of the movie is clearly filmed in Vancouver or Toronto.

“OK, we just finished walking across the Golden Gate Bridge. To the secret Canada portal!” *vworp*

Saturday February 4, 2023

Day 35: Crossing the Red Sea — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 35: Formation of Trinitarian Dogma — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1703 – In Edo (now Tokyo), all but one of the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master’s death.
1758 – The city of Macapá in Brazil is founded by Sebastião Veiga Cabral.
1789 – George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
1810 – Napoleonic Wars: Britain seizes Guadeloupe.
1938 – Adolf Hitler appoints himself as head of the Armed Forces High Command.
1945 – World War II: The Yalta Conference between the “Big Three” (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea. extreme.
2004 – Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin.
2020 – The COVID-19 pandemic causes all casinos in Macau to be closed down for 15 days.
2023- The Chinese Spy Balloon is finally shot down over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Carolina after trekking across America taking in the sites.

Quote of the Day

Scott Barber@thescottbarber (February 4, 2023) The Bible would have made a great trilogy. Why did they stop with the second testament?

Sunday February 5, 2023

Saint Agatha, virgin and martyr – Memorial

Day 36: Manna from Heaven — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmidt
Day 36: The Nature of the Trinity — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.
1576 – Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.
1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.
1869 – The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the “Welcome Stranger“, is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.
1905 – In Mexico, the General Hospital of Mexico is inaugurated, started with four basic specialties.
1907 – Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world’s first synthetic plastic.
1918 – Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane; this is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.
1958 – A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
1971 – Astronauts land on the Moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
2019 – Pope Francis becomes the first Pope in history to visit and perform papal mass in the Arabian Peninsula during his visit to Abu Dhabi.
2020 – United States President Donald Trump is acquitted by the United States Senate in his first impeachment trial.
2021 – Police riot in Mexico City as they try to break up a demonstration by cyclists who were protesting after a bus ran over a bicyclist.Eleven police officers are arrested.
2023-Pope Francis at Mass in South Sudan: In the name of Jesus, lay down the weapons of hatred | Catholic News Agency
2023-Pope Francis’ in-flight press conference: God accompanies people with same-sex attraction | Catholic News Agency

Quote of the Day

Gloria Purvis@gloria_purvis (February 5, 2023) Father, creator of unfailing light, give that same light to those who call to you. May our lips praise you; our lives proclaim your goodness; our work give you honor, and our voices celebrate you for ever. – Psalm Prayer, Morning Prayer, Liturgy of the Hours

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