The Brookston Almanac

St. Valentine’s Day (patron of lovers)
Beer & Chocolate Day
Juno Februa’s Day (Goddess of Love)
Read To Your Child Day
Fjortende Februar (Denmark)
Trifon Zarezan (Viticulturists’ Day; Bulgarian Dionysus Festival)
Ferris Wheel Day
National Have-a-Heart Day
Sts. Cyril & Methodius’ Day (patrons of Czechoslovakia, Europe, the Slavs)
Vali (Norse Archer God)
National Cream-Filled Chocolates Day
Birds Mating Season begins
National Random Acts of Kindness Day
Race Relations Day
Cat Festival
Borrowed Days end (Scottish Highlands)
National Cardiovasular Technologists Recognition Day

Nicolaus Copernicus
Edmund Love
Anna Howard Shaw
Porsche Lynn
Molly Ringwald
Lew Bryson (1959)
Kevin Keegan
Frederick Douglass
Skeezix Wallet
Noriko Sakai
Joseph Thomson
Richard Allen
Alan Parker
Murray “the K”
George McFarland
Thomas Malthus
Carl Bernstein
Florence Henderson
Hugh Downs
Tarina Young
Edmund George Love
Jim Kelly
Marty Feldman
Jack Benny
George Ferris (invented the “wheel”)
Mary of Burgundy (aka Duchesse de Bourgogne; 1457)
Kazmir Malevich
Christopher Scholes
Gregory Hines
Jimmy Hoffa
Mel Allen
Ben Blaz
Donna Shalala
Judd Gregg
Prince Hans Adam II of Liechtenstein
Lara Croft (Tomb Raider)

Oregon became the 33rd state (1859)
1st US President photographed in office (Polk; 1849)
Selma March to Montgomery, Alabama led by Martin Luther King Jr. (1965)
1st Speaking Clock built
Arizona became the 48th state (1912)
1st Porpoise born in captivity
Dresden fire-bombed (1944)
League of Women Voters founded (1920)
1st Cancer Clinic opened
US Telephone patented
1st Childern’s Hospital opened
Valentine’s Day Massacre took place (1929)
1st State Bird Sanctuary established
Apple Parer invented
British Navy under Captain Nelson defeated Spanish Armada off Cape St. Vincent (1797)
Malcolm X’s home fire-bombed (1965)
Captain Cook killed by Hawaiians (1779)
Torvill & Dean won a gold medal for ice dancing (1984)
California Oranges 1st shipped east (1886)
Sly & The Family Stone’s Thank You reached No. 1 (1970)
Richard II mysteriously died at Pontefract Castle (1400)
1st Trainload of California Oranges sent east (1886)
Prince married dancer Mayte Garcia (1996)
Rosanne Barr married ex-bodyguard Ben Thomas (1995)
Skeezix found on the doorstep of Walt & Phyliss Wallet (Gasoline Alley; 1921)
Ayatollah Khomeini placed a death sentence of Salmon Rushdie for writing a book (1989)
Samuel Smith Nut Brown Ale 1st imported to the U.S. (1989)
Cedar Brewing tapped their 1st beer (Iowa; 1996)
Texas Consolidated Brewing Association founded (1899)
Kona Brewing opened (Hawaii; 1995)
J.T. Whitney’s Brewpub opened (Wisconsin; 1995)
Mission Bridge Brewing opened (Alberta, Canada; 1995)
Herman’s Hofbrau opened (Texas; 1996)
Lake City Brewing opened (New York; 1996)
Fog City Brewing (Canada; 1997)