The Brookston Almanac

Fasching Sunday (Germany & Austria)
Shrove Sunday
Fastingong Sunday
Quinquagesima Sunday

Brotherhood Week
National Pedestrian Toll Week
Health Education Week
International Friendship Week
National Engineers Week
Pay Your Bills Week
National Condom Week
Home for Birds Week
National Cardiovasular Technologists Recognition Week
Community Pubs Week (UK)

Chinese New Year [ website ]

2006 is the Year of the Dog [ chinese astrology, 2, 3, 4, 5, wikipedia ]
2006 is also known by its formal name: bingxu
2006 is, in the Chinese calendar, the year 4703.

Losar (Tibetan New Year)
Solnal (Korean New Year)
Tet (Vietnamese New Year)

Drink Too Much Wine Day
Festival of Women (Persia)
Tacita (Roman Silent Goddess)
Chaosflux (Discordian)
Bun Day (Iceland)
Gambia Independence Day
Tribhuvan Jayanti (Nepal)
St. Bernadette’s Day
Celtic tree month of Nuin (Ash) begins
Kiki Bird Days
St. Colman’s Day
Fly-By for Fairies and Elves (Fairy)
St. Fra Angelico’s Day (patron of artists)
National Crab Stuffed Flounder Day
St. Leo I’s Day (Eastern)
Aquarius zodiac sign ends
St. Flavian’s Day (Western)

Niccolo Paganini
Gahan Wilson
Molly Ringwald
“Bloody” Mary Tudor
John Travolta
Alessandro Volta
Jessica Lee (Pb 8/96)
Henry Weinhard (1830)
Teri Fahrendorf
Bobbi Mimmack
George Peabody
Milos Forman
Jack Palance
Vanna White
John Warner
Bill Cullen
Louis Tiffany
Heidi Mark (Pb 7/95)
Johnny Hart
George “The Gipper” Gipp
Rob Bachman
Matt Dillon
Helen Gurley Brown
Toni Morrison
Pee Wee King
Audre Lorde
Edward Arnold
George Kennedy
Wendell Wilkie
Richard Stockton
Cybil Shepherd
Andre Breton
Leonard Ford
John William Warner
Bob St. Clair
Juice Newton
Dr. Dre
Yoko Ono
Sholom Aleichem (Yiddish “Mark Twain”)

Pluto discovered (1930)
1st 3-D Movie premiered (Bwana Devil)
Shuttle “Enterprise” 1st flew
Pilgrim’s Progess published
Cows 1st flew in an airplane (1930)
Santa Clara County, California created
Phrase “one world” 1st used (1892)
Michaelangelo died (1564)
South Africa banned foreign TV news crews (1986)
John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress published (1678)
2nd 3-D Movie premiered (Creature from the Black Lagoon)
Golden Gate Exposition opened (1939)
Snow fell on the Sahara Desert (1979)
Jefferson Davis inaugurated as 1st, and only, President of Confederate States of America (1862)
Platters’ Great Pretender reached No. 1 (1956)
Japanese-American Internment Camps opened (WW 2; 1943)
Single drum malting machine patented (1898)
McSorley’s Old Ale House opened (NYC; 1854)
Angelic Brewing opened (Wisconsin; 1995)
Brewmaster’s Pub opened (Wisconsin; 1987)
Orange County Brewing opened (California; 1995)
Awajishima Hobrau opened (Japan; 1997)