al·ma·nac: ˈôlməˌnak,ˈalməˌnak/
noun: almanac; plural noun: almanacs; noun: almanack; plural noun: almanacks
an annual calendar containing important dates and statistical information such as astronomical data and tide tables. synonyms: yearbook, calendar, register, annual; typically published annually, containing information of general interest or on a sport or pastime.
I think the following may cover the above definition, however personally selective they are. I didn’t list ‘planting dates ‘, tide tables, or ‘astronomical data’, I guess, but there are plenty of important dates starting in 1690, which I realize is pretty late in the game. We’ll go backwards from then to the beginning of time, in a later edition of Wannaskan Almanac’s Thor’s Day, but lists can be entertaining too, especially if you possess a good imagination. While not every listing is potentially funny, enough are to make you chuckle at least for a few minutes.
I did note that U.S. nuclear tests are performed on February 8th with some regularity. Tick, tick, tick...
1690 French and Native American troops set Schenectady settlement New York on fire
1802 Simon Willard patents banjo clock (A little inconvenient on the subway)
1855 The Devil's Footprints, hoof-like marks mysteriously appear for over 60km (37.2823 miles) after a snowfall in southern Devon, England.
1861 Confederate States of America organizes in Montgomery, Alabama (US Civil War)
1862 Opera "Lily of Killarney" premieres in London
1865 Martin Robison Delany, 1st black major in US Army appointed during US Civil war
1883 Louis Waterman begins experiment to invent the fountain pen (Chinese laundry sees best year yet)
1887 The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments. Those who accepted allotments and lived separately from the tribe were granted United States citizenship.
1894 Enforcement Act repealed, making it easier to disenfranchise blacks.
1906 Without warning, Japanese torpedo boats make a night attack on Russian ships near naval base at Port Arthur, Manchuria; confusion because no deceleration of war given. (Just didn’t like Russians)
1912 1st eastbound US transcontinental flight lands in Jacksonville, Florida (Last chance to land on land, I reckon)
1912 British Emissary journeys to Berlin to suggest that Britain might support German colonial aspirations in Africa if Germany agrees to hold her current naval strength (Wishful thinking)
1916 NL votes down Charlie Ebbets proposal to limit 25 cent seats
1918 "Stars & Stripes,", weekly US armed forces newspaper, 1st published
1922 Radio arrives at the White House (#1: "April Showers" by Al Jolson • #2: "Three O'Clock in the Morning" by Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra • #3: "Stumbling" by Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra • #4: "Hot Lips" by Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra • #5: "Angel Child" by Al Jolson • #6: "On the Alamo" by Isham Jones & His Orchestra • #7)
1925 Kaufman & Berlin's musical "cocoanuts" premieres in New York City (Tropical women’s undergarments see huge surge in sales)
1926 Sean O'Casey's "Plough & Stars" opens at Abbey Theater Dublin (Satire based on “Stars & Stripes”)
1928 1st transatlantic TV image received, Hartsdale, NY (at Hartsdale post office)
1930 "Happy Days Are Here Again" by Benny Mereoff hits #1 (timing a little off there, Benny)
1933 -23°F (-31°C), Seminole, Texas (state record) (Uffdah, how could they stand it?)
1933 1st flight of all-metal Boeing 247 (altitude of five feet sustained for ten feet)
1936 1st ski jumping tournament, Red Wing, Minnesota (Minnesota record: 12 feet/48 skis)
1936 1st successful Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, Conacher vs Rangers
1941 NSB'er Max Blokzijl begins nazi propaganda on Dutch radio
1942 Japanese armored barges cross Strait of Johore to attack Singapore (WWII)
1942 Congress advises FDR that, Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn't oppose the US war effort
1944 1st African American reporter accredited to White House, Harry McAlpin
1944 U-762 sunk off Ireland (Later became pub in Dublin)
1945 Paul Brown agrees to coach the new American football expansion team in Cleveland, which would later be named the Cleveland Browns after their coach. (--won’t go there ...)
1955 The Government of Sindh abolished Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000 km²) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants. (What? What a concept! It was probably theirs to begin with)
1960 Boston Celtic Bill Russell becomes 1st NBAer with 50 rebounds (51)
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1965 Supremes release "Stop In the Name of Love" (Where were you?)
1965 22nd Golden Globes: "Becket", Peter O'Toole, & Anne Bancroft win
1967 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 Longest losing streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (10 games)
1967 Pirate Radio UKGM (England) closes down
1968 Officers kill 3 students demonstrating in SC State (Orangeburg)
1968 "Planet of the Apes" premieres in New York City
1969 Last edition of Saturday Evening Post
1969 Meteorite weighing over 1 ton falls in Chihuahua, Mexico
1971 Pedro Morales beats Ivan Koloff in NY, to become WWF wrestling champ
1971 Operation Lam Son 719 begins, a limited South Vietnamese incursion into Laos
1974 Soap opera "Secret Storm" ends a 20 year run
1974 3 US astronauts return to Earth after a 85 days in the US space station, Skylab
1975 1800 Unification church couples wed in Korea
1975 Caps only got one shot in a period against Islanders
1977 Hustler publisher Larry Flynt sentenced on obscenity charges
1979 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 "5 O'Clock Girl" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 12 performances
1981 "Brigadoon" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 133 performances
1983 prize stallion and Derby winner Shergar kidnapped in Ireland; never found Lloyds of London pays $10.6 million insurance
1984 14th Winter Olympic games opens in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
1984 1st time 8 people in space
1985 Bruce Morris, Marshall Univ, makes a 92' 5½" basketball shot
1986 5' 7" Spud Webb of Atlanta Hawks wins NBA Slam Dunk Competition
1990 "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney suspended by CBS for racial remarks attributed to him by a gay magazine
1994 Jack Nicholson uses a golf club to attack a car
1994 Kapil Dev sets world record for Test Cricket wickets with 432
1996 The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.
1998 1st female ice hockey game in Olympic history Finland beats Sweden 6-0
1998 NHL stops season until Feb 24th to accommodate the Olympics
2005 Israel and Palestinians agree to ceasefire.
2005 Leaders of both Palestine and Israel declare a truce in what many hope will be a "new era of peace"
2007 57th Berlin International Film Festival: "Tuya's Marriage" wins the Golden Bear
2009 62nd British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAS): "Slumdog Millionaire" Best Film, Danny Boyle Best Director
2013 A massive blizzard begins in the US and Canada that resulted in 15 deaths, 5,300 cancelled flights, and loss of power for 900,000 people
2017 US Senate confirms Jeff Sessions Attorney General, after controversy and protests
noun: almanac; plural noun: almanacs; noun: almanack; plural noun: almanacks
an annual calendar containing important dates and statistical information such as astronomical data and tide tables. synonyms: yearbook, calendar, register, annual; typically published annually, containing information of general interest or on a sport or pastime.
I think the following may cover the above definition, however personally selective they are. I didn’t list ‘planting dates ‘, tide tables, or ‘astronomical data’, I guess, but there are plenty of important dates starting in 1690, which I realize is pretty late in the game. We’ll go backwards from then to the beginning of time, in a later edition of Wannaskan Almanac’s Thor’s Day, but lists can be entertaining too, especially if you possess a good imagination. While not every listing is potentially funny, enough are to make you chuckle at least for a few minutes.
I did note that U.S. nuclear tests are performed on February 8th with some regularity. Tick, tick, tick...
1690 French and Native American troops set Schenectady settlement New York on fire
1802 Simon Willard patents banjo clock (A little inconvenient on the subway)
1855 The Devil's Footprints, hoof-like marks mysteriously appear for over 60km (37.2823 miles) after a snowfall in southern Devon, England.
1861 Confederate States of America organizes in Montgomery, Alabama (US Civil War)
1862 Opera "Lily of Killarney" premieres in London
1865 Martin Robison Delany, 1st black major in US Army appointed during US Civil war
1883 Louis Waterman begins experiment to invent the fountain pen (Chinese laundry sees best year yet)
1887 The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments. Those who accepted allotments and lived separately from the tribe were granted United States citizenship.
1894 Enforcement Act repealed, making it easier to disenfranchise blacks.
1906 Without warning, Japanese torpedo boats make a night attack on Russian ships near naval base at Port Arthur, Manchuria; confusion because no deceleration of war given. (Just didn’t like Russians)
1912 1st eastbound US transcontinental flight lands in Jacksonville, Florida (Last chance to land on land, I reckon)
1912 British Emissary journeys to Berlin to suggest that Britain might support German colonial aspirations in Africa if Germany agrees to hold her current naval strength (Wishful thinking)
1916 NL votes down Charlie Ebbets proposal to limit 25 cent seats
1918 "Stars & Stripes,", weekly US armed forces newspaper, 1st published
1922 Radio arrives at the White House (#1: "April Showers" by Al Jolson • #2: "Three O'Clock in the Morning" by Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra • #3: "Stumbling" by Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra • #4: "Hot Lips" by Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra • #5: "Angel Child" by Al Jolson • #6: "On the Alamo" by Isham Jones & His Orchestra • #7)
1925 Kaufman & Berlin's musical "cocoanuts" premieres in New York City (Tropical women’s undergarments see huge surge in sales)
1926 Sean O'Casey's "Plough & Stars" opens at Abbey Theater Dublin (Satire based on “Stars & Stripes”)
1928 1st transatlantic TV image received, Hartsdale, NY (at Hartsdale post office)
1930 "Happy Days Are Here Again" by Benny Mereoff hits #1 (timing a little off there, Benny)
1933 -23°F (-31°C), Seminole, Texas (state record) (Uffdah, how could they stand it?)
1933 1st flight of all-metal Boeing 247 (altitude of five feet sustained for ten feet)
1936 1st ski jumping tournament, Red Wing, Minnesota (Minnesota record: 12 feet/48 skis)
1936 1st successful Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, Conacher vs Rangers
1941 NSB'er Max Blokzijl begins nazi propaganda on Dutch radio
1942 Japanese armored barges cross Strait of Johore to attack Singapore (WWII)
1942 Congress advises FDR that, Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn't oppose the US war effort
1944 1st African American reporter accredited to White House, Harry McAlpin
1944 U-762 sunk off Ireland (Later became pub in Dublin)
1945 Paul Brown agrees to coach the new American football expansion team in Cleveland, which would later be named the Cleveland Browns after their coach. (--won’t go there ...)
1955 The Government of Sindh abolished Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000 km²) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants. (What? What a concept! It was probably theirs to begin with)
1960 Boston Celtic Bill Russell becomes 1st NBAer with 50 rebounds (51)
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1965 Supremes release "Stop In the Name of Love" (Where were you?)
1965 22nd Golden Globes: "Becket", Peter O'Toole, & Anne Bancroft win
1967 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 Longest losing streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (10 games)
1967 Pirate Radio UKGM (England) closes down
1968 Officers kill 3 students demonstrating in SC State (Orangeburg)
1968 "Planet of the Apes" premieres in New York City
1969 Last edition of Saturday Evening Post
1969 Meteorite weighing over 1 ton falls in Chihuahua, Mexico
1971 Pedro Morales beats Ivan Koloff in NY, to become WWF wrestling champ
1971 Operation Lam Son 719 begins, a limited South Vietnamese incursion into Laos
1974 Soap opera "Secret Storm" ends a 20 year run
1974 3 US astronauts return to Earth after a 85 days in the US space station, Skylab
1975 1800 Unification church couples wed in Korea
1975 Caps only got one shot in a period against Islanders
1977 Hustler publisher Larry Flynt sentenced on obscenity charges
1979 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 "5 O'Clock Girl" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 12 performances
1981 "Brigadoon" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 133 performances
1983 prize stallion and Derby winner Shergar kidnapped in Ireland; never found Lloyds of London pays $10.6 million insurance
1984 14th Winter Olympic games opens in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
1984 1st time 8 people in space
1985 Bruce Morris, Marshall Univ, makes a 92' 5½" basketball shot
1986 5' 7" Spud Webb of Atlanta Hawks wins NBA Slam Dunk Competition
1990 "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney suspended by CBS for racial remarks attributed to him by a gay magazine
1994 Jack Nicholson uses a golf club to attack a car
1994 Kapil Dev sets world record for Test Cricket wickets with 432
1996 The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.
1998 1st female ice hockey game in Olympic history Finland beats Sweden 6-0
1998 NHL stops season until Feb 24th to accommodate the Olympics
2005 Israel and Palestinians agree to ceasefire.
2005 Leaders of both Palestine and Israel declare a truce in what many hope will be a "new era of peace"
2007 57th Berlin International Film Festival: "Tuya's Marriage" wins the Golden Bear
2009 62nd British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAS): "Slumdog Millionaire" Best Film, Danny Boyle Best Director
2013 A massive blizzard begins in the US and Canada that resulted in 15 deaths, 5,300 cancelled flights, and loss of power for 900,000 people
2017 US Senate confirms Jeff Sessions Attorney General, after controversy and protests
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