The Brookston Almanac

Kissing Day
Nippy Lug Day (Westmoreland, UK)

Fariseos (Mayan Indians; celebration making fun of Christian ceremonies)

Ember Day
Guyana Republic Day
Terminalia (End of Old Roman Year)
St. Polycarp’s Day
Victoria Daffodil Bonspiel
Pancake Day (Venice)
National Banana Bread Day
Vaudville Day
St. Mildburga’s Day (patron of birds)
Feast of the Incappucciati (Italy)
National Day (Brunei Darussalam)
St. Willigis’ Day (patron of carters)
International Dog Biscuit Appreciation Day

George Frederic Handel
Johannes Gutenberg
Dana Scully
Samuel Pepys
Christi Schmahl Stirrat
Majel Barrett
Casmir Funk
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne
Meyer Rothschild
W.E.B. Dubois
Melinda Mays (Pb 2/83)
Christopher Marlowe
Doug Moench
Johnny Winter
Dinna J. Stone
George Watts
Victor Fleming
Erich Kastner
Peter Fonda
Bobby Bonilla
Ed “Too Tall” Jones
George Taylor
Betram O. Frasier-Reid
Fred Biletnikoff
Howard Jones
Sylvia Chase
Dante Lavelli
Jackie Smith
Jade Emperor (of China)

Printing Press with movable type invented
1st Radio Contest held
Boston incorporated
Aluminum invented
Siege of the Alamo began (1836)
John Lee survived 3 hangings
1st Cotton Mill founded (1813)
Incredible Shrinking Man premiered
US Flag raised on Iwo Jima (WW 2; 1945)
1st NASCAR sanctioned race held (1948)
Rotary Club established
Source of the Nile discovered (1863)
Handel’s Oratorio premiered (1732)
1st Mass Inoculation (1954)
Ground war against Iraq began (1991)
Theater censorship ended in UK (1968)
Mississippi readmitted to the Union (1870)
Queen’s Crazy Little Thing Called Love reached No. 1 (1980)
Japanese Submarine shelled Santa Barbara (WW 2)
Billy Joel married Christie Brinkley (1985)
Arizona separated from Mexico and was made a US Territory (1863)
UK lifted economic ban on South Africa (1990)
Emile Zola imprisoned for his letter J’Accuse (1898)
A gust of wind lifted a schoolgirl 20 feet & then dropped her to her death (Bradford, UK; 1911)
Free State Brewing opened (Kansas; 1989)
Sioux Falls Brewing opened (South Dakota; 1995)
Harvest Moon Brewery/Sullivan Brewing opened (New Jersey; 1996)
Silver Peak Restaurant & Brewery opened (Nevada; 1999)