The Brookston Almanac

National Bowling Week
International Toy Fair
Someday We’ll Laugh About This Week
National Word Processing Transcriptionist Week
Cuckoo Dancing Week
National Pizza Week
Printers Ink Week
Healthy Weight Week
Manwatcher’s Appreciation Week
International Printing Week
National Book Week
Munich Fasching Festival (7th to Shrove Tue)

Leisure Suit Saturday

Old Rock Day
Sekhmet (Ancient Egyptian New Year’s Day)
Nanakusa (7 Plants Festival; Japan)
St. Distaff’s Day
Eastern Orthodox Old Christmas
National Tempura Day
Ganna (Ethiopian Christmas; aka Leddat)
Pioneers Day (Liberia)
St. Aldric’s Day (patron against asthma)
Usokae (Bullfinch Exchange Day; Japan)
St. Lucian of Antioch’s Day
Panama Canal Day
St. Reinhold’s Day (patron of stone masons)
Celebration of the 1st Week of Moonhopper (Fairy)
St. Cedda’s Day
National Pass Gas Day
Bear Mt. Ski Festival (@)
St. Raymond of Penafort’s Day (patron of medical record librarians, lawyers)

Millard Fillmore
Charles Addams
Nicolas Cage
Jean-Pierre Rampal
Nicholson Baker
Francis Poulenc
David Bowie
Mike McGear
Jacques Montgolfier
Butterfly McQueen
Charles Peguy
Zora Neale Hurston
Adolf Zuker
Louis II
John Kress (1825)
Jennifer Le Roy (Pb 2/93)
Albert Bierstadt
Noah Beery
Vincent Gardenia
Paul Revere
Victor Lasky
William Blatty
Jann Wenner
Douglas Kiker
Kenny Loggins
Erin Gray
Maury Povich
Johnny Mize
Carl Laemmie
Eilhard Mitscherlich
Gerald Durrell
Joseph Bonaparte
Marie-Bernard Soubirous (St. Bernadette)
Katie Couric

Typewriter patented
1st US Presidential Election held (1789)
4 Moons of Jupiter discovered
1st Transatlantic telephone call made (1927)
George Burns & Gracie Allen married (1926)
Chrysler’s 1st car introduced (1924)
1st Handball tournament held
Harlem Globetrotters established (1927)
Panama Canal 1st crossed (1914)
1st Balloon went across the English Channel (1785)
Paul Klee’s paintings 1st exhibited in US (1924)
Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom debuted
French recaptured Calais from the English (1558)
1st Modern US Microbrewery opened (Grant’s; 1982)
Glasgow University founded (1450)
Buck Rogers comic strip began (1929)
Hal Foster’s Tarzan comic strip began (1929)
Ant Farm 1st for sale (1958)
Coca-Cola’s “Thirst Knows No Season” ad campaign launched (1922)
Fannie Farmer Cookbook published (1896)
1st US Railroad Station opened (Baltimore; 1830)
Galilleo discovered the 4 moons of Jupiter (1610)
Francis Bacon became Lord Chancellor of England (1618)
1st Benefit Play peformance given
CQD distress call introduced (1904; replaced 2 years later by SOS)
Flying V Guitar patented
Leaning Tower of Pisa closed to the public (1990)
Princess Julianna of the Netherlands married Prince Bernhard (1937)
OPEC raised crude oil prices 10% (1975)
1st Commercial Bank in US opened (Philadelphia; 1782)
Victor Hugo is elected to the Academie Francaise (1841)
Coldest temperature reached in a laboratory (12 millionths of a degree above absolute zero; 1988)
Poet John Berryman committed suicide by juMping off a bridge into the Mississippi River (1972)
USAF Pilot, Capt. Thomas Mantell Jr., chased a UFO near Mayville, Kentucky up to 25,000 feet where 1 minute later his plane plummeted to Earth & exploded (1948)
1st Pint of beer poured at the Tied House in Mountain View, California (1988)
Anchor Porter 1st brewed in modern times (1972)
Yakima Brewing & Malting Co./Grant’s Brewing opened (Washington; 1982)