The Brookston Almanac

Music in Our Schools Week
American Camp Week
Garden Book Week
National Proscrastination Week
Cycle Week
Fun Mail Week
Girl Scout Week
National Lutheran Schools Week
Bubble Gum Week
National School Breakfast Week
Chocolate Week
National Surveyor’s Week
Newspaper in Education Week
National Professional Pet Sitters Week

Holmenkellen Day (Winter Festival; Norway)

Worship of Tools Day (India)
Debunking Day
Feast of Guari (Hindu Married Women’s Feast;no widows)
Camp Fire Girls Day
Johnny Appleseed Day
St. Sophronius’ Day
Human Services Day
Bunching of Fairies for the Second Flight (Fairy)
St. Hercules’ Day
Flower Show Day
Birthday of the God of Literature (China)
St. Oengus’ Day
National Oatmeal-Nut Waffles Day
St. Constantine’s Day
National Anti-Drugs Day
St. Eulogius or Cordova’s Day (patron of carpenters, coppersmiths)

Douglas Adams
Vannevar Bush
Henry Cowell
Thomas Hastings
Raoul Walsh
Tina Louise
Nina Hartley
Lulu
Sam Donaldson
Dock Ellis
Kenneth Hayes Miller
Robert Treat Paine
Dorothy Gish
Antonin Scalia
Marius Petipa
Lawrence Welk
Rupert Murdoch
Torquato Tasso
Malcolm Campbell
Bobby McFerrin
Nigel Lawson
Cathy Lynn Rowland (Pb 8/71)
Ralph Abernathy
Harold Wilson
Robert Adam Mosbacher
Joey Buttafuoco

Romeo and Juliet married
Witchcraft Trials began
1st Newspaper Column published
Sitting Pretty premiered
1st Daily Newspaper published (1702)
Bureau of Indian Affairs established
1st Electric Oven for sale
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein published (1818)
Bank of Canada established (1935)
Niagra County, New York founded (1808)
1st Automobile hold-up
Heath Hen declared extinct
Boner’s Ark comic strip began (1968)
Paul McCartney knighted (1997)
Disney’s The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh premiered (1977)
Save the Redwoods Foundation formed (1918)
Charles Van Doren threw a game of Twenty-One on national TV (1957)
Pound Notes replaced by pound coins (UK; 1988)
13-year old Jennifer Capriati played her 1st pro tennis match (1990)
Confederate States adopted their own constitution (1861)
General MacArthurs makes his famous “I Shall Return” remark while leaving the Philippines (1942)
1st Women’s Medical College incorporated (1850)
British Luddites attack machines meant to replace them (1811)
Construction began on Pilbrow & Forward Brewery (New Zealand; 1865)
1st Prohibition offender killed by federal agents (New York; 1920)
Spoetzl Brewery opened (Texas; 1909)
Johnson Beer Co. opened (North Carolina; 1995)
Magic City Brewery opened (Alabama; 1995)