The Brookston Almanac

International Green Week
National Activity Professionals Week
Celebrity Read A Book Week
National Glaucoma Week
Mozart Week (Austria)
National Handwriting Analysis Week
AIDS Awareness Week
National Meat Week
National Cross Country Skiing Week

International Clergy Appreciation Week (begins on last Sun)

Serendipity Day
Daisy Day
National Kazoo Day
Hall of Fame Day
St. Thomas Aquinas’s Day (patron of students, pencil makers, theologians)
National Spieling Day
Love Among the Nations Day
Runic half-month of Elhaz (elk) begins
St. Charlemagne’s Day
Rwanda Independence Day
Bald Eagle Day
Smeltana (Betters Homes & Shanties Contest @)
National Blueberry Pancake Day
St. Ephraem Syrus’ Day
Rattlesnake Round-Up (@)
Fond du Lac Winter Celebration
St. Paulinus of Nola’s Day
Rinkydinks Annual Snowball Fight (@)

Jackson Pollock
Barbie Benton
William Burroughs
Colette
Henry M. Stanley
Artur Rubinstein
Claes Oldenberg
Alan Alda
Susan Sontag
Alexander MacKenzie
Luanne L. Lee (Pb 1/87)
Johannes Hevelius
Acker Bilk
Ernst Lubitsch
Henry VII
Jose Marti
Auguste & Jean Felix Piccard
Susan Howard
Ernie (Sesame Street)

Great Seal of the US established
1st Emmy Awards presented
Burma Road opened
Gunga Din premiered
Iceland became 1st country to legalize abortion (1935)
1st Streelights turned on (London; 1807)
Shuttle Challenger exploded during ascent (1986)
12 O’Clock High premiered
Nuclear Fission discovered (1939)
Charlemagne died (814)
1st Telephone Switchboard in service (1878)
US Coast Guard established
Japanese troops took Shanghai (1932)
Panama Railroad completed (1855)
GM announced Saturn small-car project (1985)
Vince Lombardi resigned as Packers head coach (1968)
We Are the World recorded (1985)
O.J. Simpson trial began (1995)
Stendahl’s 1st book published (1814)
Trans-Panama Railroad completed (1855)
Paris captured by Prussians (Franco-Prussian War; 1871)
Derek Bentley hanged at age 19 for murdering a policeman (UK; 1953)
Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campenella paralyzed in car accident (1958)
Binding Carolus Dopplebock 1st for sale (Germany; 1902)
Hubcap Brewery & Kitchen opened (Colorado; 1991)
Yegua Creek Brewing opened (Texas; 1994)
Pyramid Brewery & Alehouse opened (Berkeley, California; 1997)
Jack’s Brewing opened (California; 1999)
Wicked Hathern Brewery opened (England; 2000)
Swiss citizen Billy Meier 1st abducted by aliens from the Pleiades star system (1975)