The Brookston Almanac

Ati-Atihan Festival begins (Philippines)
World Championship Snow Sculpture Contest begins (Breckenridge, Colorado)

Babin Den (Grandmother’s Day; Bulgaria)
St. Sebastian’s Day (patron of archers, soldiers, athletes, Rio De Janeiro)
Aquarius zodiac sign begins
Basketball Day
Heroes Day (Cape Verde)
Celtic tree month of Beth ends
Hat Day
St. Sebastian’s Day (patron of Rio de Janiero, archers, athletes, hardware, lace makers, the military, pin makers, potters, police officers; against plague)
Mali Army Day
St. Fabian’s Day (patron of lead founders, potters)
Heroes Day (Guinea-Bissau)
US Presidential Inauguration Day (every 4 years)
Lesotho Army Day
Take A Walk Outdoors Day
St. Euthymius’ Day
National Buttercrunch Day

Richard Henry Lee
Ernest Chausson
Robert Morris
Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin
David Lynch
Huddie “Leadbelly” Ledbetter
DeForrest Kelly
Bill Maher
Federico Fellini
Walter Piston
George Burns
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
Andre Marie Ampere
Frederico Fellini
Nathaniel P. Willis
Harold Gray
Yevgeniy Zamyatin
Aristotle Onasis
Charles III (1760)
Jay Adamson
Leon Ames
Patricia Neal
Slim Whitman
Arte Johnson
Paul D. Cloverdale
John Michael Montgomery
Anatoly Scharansky
Ron Harper
Paul Stanley
Eric Stewart
Ron Towson
Bruce Sundlun
Ozzie Guilen
Ely Landau
Joan Rivers
Lorenzo Lamas

1st Basketball game played (1892)
Roller Coaster patented
1st Baseball game played (1892)
UK recognized US (1873)
American Hostages released by Iran
Meet the Beatles released
Sartre’s On Being and Nothingness published (1943)
John Marshall appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (1801)
Where the Boys Are premiered
British Parliament 1st met (1265)
US Hostages in Iran released (1981)
Hong Kong ceded to UK by China (1841)
London Docks opened (1805)
US Navy leased Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (1887)
Robert Frost read his poem The Gift Outright at JFK’s inauguration (1961)
World’s Largest Cheese made (34,591 lbs.; cheddar)
Dennis Miller Show debuted
Citizens in Varginha, Brazil witnessed authorities capture huminoid creatures and drive away (1996)
1st Brew made at National Brewing (Chicago; 1890)
Master’s Brasserie & Brewpub opened (Ontario, Canada; 1988)
Left Hand Brewing Co. opened (Colorado; 1994)