The Brookston Almanac

Rose Monday
Fastelavn (Shrove Monday; Denmark)
Bun Day (Iceland)
Shrove Monday
Collp Monday
Street Urchins’ Carnival (Denmark)

Fasching
Clean Monday

Lost Sunday
Septuagesima Sunday

Feast of Pusiuraura (God of the Dart Game; Melanesia)
Pisces zodiac sign begins
Consumer Credit Festival
Butter Festival begins (China)
St. Conrad’s Day (patron against hernia, famine)
Daytona 500 (@)
National Chocolate Mint Day
Goddess Month of Bridhe ends
Fly-By for Goblins and others (Fairy)

Nicolas Copernicus
Stan Kenton
Lee Marvin
William “Smokey” Robinson
David Garrick
Sven Anders Hedin
Holly Johnson
Dave Stewart
Vicki Lynn Lasseter (Pb 2/81)
Kaspar George Schmidt (1833)
Chris Black (1963)
Phil Rogers (1933)
Merle Oberon
Andres Segovia
Carson McCullers
Margaux Hemingway
Cedric Hardwicke
William White
Hana Mandlikova
Justine Bateman
Karen Silkwood
Jeff Daniels
Robert “Gottlieb” Schnick
Eddie Arcaro
Falco
Prince Andrew

Phonograph invented
Conflakes 1st for sale (1906)
1st Orange Juice tanker arrived in NYC
Tin-Type Camera patented
Knights of Pythias founded (1864)
Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood debuted (1968)
1st Sweet Corn canned
Cherry Coke introduced (1985)
Massachusetts Historical Society established
Fawlty Towers 2nd season debuted
1st Pan African Congress held (1919)
US Troops landed on Iwo Jima Island (WW2; 1945)
1st Helicopter flew (1921)
Liverpool Bread Riots begin (1855)
Tsingtao, 1st brewery in China, opened (1897)
Sammy Davis Jr. kissed Archie Bunker (on All in the Family; 1972)
Japanese-Americans placed in concentration camps in remote US areas (WW2; 1942)
1st Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Ezra Pound (1949)
Wearing a white bikini, Pamela Anderson & Tommy Lee married (1995)
International Council for Exceptional Children established
Kansas became 1st state to prohibit alcohol (1881)
Hofbrau Steaks Brewery opened (Texas; 1995)
Mcmenamins Crystal Ballroom Brewery opened (Oregon; 1997)