The Brookston Almanac

International Day of Families (UN)
Peace Officer Memorial Day (aka Police Memorial Day)
Straw Hat Day
Feast of Maia and Mercury (Old Roman)
St. Dympna’s Day (patron of the insane, asylums, mental health workers; against epilepsy, insanity, sleepwalking)
Feast of St. Isidore (patron of farmers, Madrid)
Never Turn Your Back on the Ocean Day
Israeli National Day
Paraguay Independence Observance Day
San Isidro Day (Mexico)
French Fried Fairy Awareness Day (Fairy)
Police Memorial Day Goddess Month of Maia ends
St. Hallvard’s Day (patron of Oslo; defending innocence)
Cold Sophie’s Day (5th Ice Saint)
St. Isidore’s Day (patron farmers, farm workers, ranchers)
National Chocolate Chip Day
Relive Your Past By Listening to the First Music You Ever Bought, No Matter What It Was!, No Excuses Now Day

L. Frank Baum
Sigurd Rascher
Jasper Johns
Louis Bamburger
Paul Zindel
Mike Oldfield
Richard Avedon
Katherine Anne Porter
James Mason
Peter Shaffer
Joseph Schlitz (1831)
Shaun O’Sullivan (1963)
Arthur Schnitzler
Max Frisch
Thomas Lake Harris
David Cronenberg
Erroll Garner
Brian Eno
Pierre Curie
Joseph Cotten
Arthur Schnitzler
Trini Lopez
Constance Cummings
Emmitt Smith
Lee Horsley
Ursula Theiss
Eddy Arnold
Lenny Welch
Amy Chow
Clifton Fadiman
George Brett
Ellen Louise Axson Wilson
Mikhail Bulgakov
Anna Maria Alberghetti
David Charvet
Richard Daley
Prince Be
Wavy Gravy

Philosophy started (578 BCE)
Las Vegas founded
Nylon stockings 1st for sale (1940)
Horton heard “a small noise” (Dr. Suess)
Panama Canal opened
US Air Mail service began (1918)
1st Stewardess flew (1930)
Cape Cod discovered
Showboat premiered
George Wallace shot (1972)
1st Keedoozle Store opened
Virginia Convention held
Edward Hopper died (1967)
Machine Gun patented (1718)
UK 1st dropped the H-Bomb (1957)
James Hatfield attempted to assassinate George III (1800)
US Congress declared slave trade to be piracy (1829)
Rube Goldberg’s Boob McNutt comic strip began (1915)
Jane Seymour & James Keach married (1993)
Tienanmen Square student protests began during Gorbachev visit to China (1989)
Flying Doctor Service established (Australia; 1928)
National Woman Suffrage Association founded (1869)
Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve played the Fillmore, San Francisco (1996)
USSR began troop evacuation of Afghanistan (1988)
Madam Miss Whiplash lost her case against Inland Revenue for back taxes (1990)
Sempervirens Club founded (1900)
Judgment Day, according to Anabaptist Hans Huth (1527)
Motion Picture Censor Board established to impose their morals on everyone
Navigator Bartholomew Gosnold landed in New England (1602)
Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder’s Ebony and Ivory reached No. 1 (1982)
Dymphna, Princess of Gheel, Belgium beheaded (her father had her killed because she could cure those “possessed by the devil” by touching them; 600 CE)
Porter 1st brewed outside of London (in Sheffield; 1744)
Ground broken for Schreiber Brewing (Buffalo, New York; 1899)
Grolsch Brewery destroyed by fire (2000)
Gettelman Mansion destroyed by fire (Milwaukee, Wisconsin; 2001)
Joseph Leinenkugel Brewing opened (Wisconsin; 1867)
Brooklyn Brewery opened (New York; 1984)
Spinnakers Brewoub opened (Canada; 1984)
Old Dominion Brewing opened (Virginia; 1990)
New Albany Brewing opened (Ohio; 1992)
Assets Grill & Brewing opened (New Mexico; 1993)
Bootlegger’s Brew Co. opened (California; 1994)
Palmetto Brewing opened (South Carolina; 1994)
Rio Grande Brewing opened (New Mexico; 1994)
Midnight Sun Brewing opened (Alaska; 1995)
Round House Co. opened (Massachusetts; 1995)
Wallaby Brewpub opened (Ohio; 1995)
Bavarian Brewing opened (Ohio; 1996)
Fort Hill Brewhouse opened (Massachusetts; 1996)
Shadow Mountain Brewing opened (California; 1996)