The Brookston Almanac

National New Idea Week
Boy Scouts Week
National Crime Prevention Week
Celebration of Love Week
Big Brothers/Sisters Week
National Cardiopulmonary Week
Circle K International Week
National Future Homemakers of America Week
Hero Week
Virgin Islands Week
National Salute to Hospitalized Veterans Week
Dietary Managers’ Pride in Food Service Week
National School Counseling Week
International Forgiveness Week
Great American Pizza Bake
Love May Make the World Go ‘Round, But Laughter Keeps Us From Getting Dizzy Week
Camellia Festival (Fort Valley, Georgia)
National Kraut & Frankfurter Week (begins 2nd Thurs)

Sexagesima Sunday

Boy Scouts Sabbath

National Inventor’s Day
Don’t Cry Over Spilled Milk Day
White Shirt Day (Flint, Michigan)
Anthesteria (Feast of Flowers; Ancient Greece)
Foundation Day (Japan; 660 BCE)
Ghost Day
St. Blaise’s Day (Eastern)
Grandmother Achievement Day
Runic half-month of Elhaz ends
Youth Day (Cameroon)
St. Benedict of Aniane’s Day
Vatican City Independence Day
St. Caedmon’s Day (patron of poets)
Armed Forces Day (Liberia)
National Day (Iran)
Lateranensi Pact Day (Vatican City)
St. Gregory II’s Day
National Peppermint Patty Day
Make A New Friend Day
Feast of Our Lady’s Miraculous Apparitions to St. Bernadette Soubirous at Lourdes begins

Daniel Boone
Thomas Edison
Jennifer Anniston
Leslie Nielsen
Tina Louise
Shannon Long (Pb 10/88)
Brandy (1979)
Jennifer Aniston (1969)
Sheryl Crow (1962)
Paul Bocuse
Gene Vincent
Henry Fox Talbot
Melville W. Fuller
Josiah Gibbs
Lloyd Bentsen
Joseph Mankiewicz
Mary Quant
Burt Reynolds
Sidney Sheldon
Virginia Johnson
Max Baer
Sergio Mendes
Mike Leavitt
Eva Gabor
Mel Carnahan
Daniel Jung (1822)
Manuel Noriega

Bald Eagle declared endangered
1st Public Lavatory opened (Women’s)
Glenn Miller Story premiered
Madison Square Garden opended
The French Chef, starring Julia Child, debuted (1963)
Nelson Mandella finally freed from prison after 27 years (1990)
Yap Treaty signed
1st US Hospital began admitting patients (1752)
Henry Ford announced the V-8 Engine (1932)
US opened 11 million acres of Sioux land to white settlers (1890)
Beatles recorded their 1st single, Please Please Me (1963)
Quakers petitioned Congress to free slaves (1790)
Paula Abdul’s Straight Up reached No. 1 (1989)
Napoleon married Marie-Louise (1810)
Vatican City became an independent principality (1929)
Benito Juarez declared President of Mexico (1858)
Lateran Treaty signed (1929)
Gerrymandering 1st occurred (1812)
Jack Paar walked off the Tonight Show over censorship of a “water closet” joke (1960)
Flint, Michigan sit-down strike ended; resulted in United Auto Workers (1937)
China ends its ban on Aristotle, Plato, Shakespeare, Balzac, Dickens & Twain (1978)
Bernadette Soubirous, a 14-year old French girl saw the Virgin Mary at Lourdes (1858)
Molson opened Lord Stanley’s Mug, a brewpub at Air Canada Centre (Toronto, Canada; 1999)
RJ’s Riptide Brewery opened (California; 1992)
Tampa Bay Brewing opened (Florida; 1996)
Bonnema Brewing opened (California; 1997)
Rock Pasta Brick Oven Pizza & Brewery opened (Washington; 1998)