The Brookston Almanac

National Columnists’ Day

Festival of the Thrasque (France)
Kutztown Folk Festival (Pennsylvania @)
Festival of Neither Nor
Initium Aestatis (Old Roman Summer Festival)
St. Cyril of Alexandria’s Day
St. Laszlo’s Day (patron of Hungary)
Djbouti National Day
National Orange Blossom Day
St. Ladislaus’ Day

Captain Kangaroo (Bob Keeshan)
Helen Keller
Willie Mosconi
John McIntire
Gilson Lavis
Madoka Ozawa
Emma Goldman
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Charles von Buddenbrock (1878)
Lafcadio Hearn
Norma Kamali
Anna Moffo
Gaston Bachelard
James Smithson
Charles Parnell
Philip Guston
Charles Parnell
Ivan Vazov
John McIntire
Hans Spemann
Craig Hodges
Mildred J. Hill
H. Ross Perot
Chuck Person
Bruce Babbitt
Lucille Clifton
Rico Petrocelli
Julia Duffy
Brereton C. Jones
IAL Diamond
Marguerite Empey (Pb 5/55 & 2/56)
Charles IX
Louis XII (the Just)
Charles XII

Tea 1st imported to the west (1615)
Smithsonian Institute established (1846)
Traffic laws began
1st Demonstration of color television
San Francisco premiered
US entered Korean War (1950)
Ruthless People premiered
1st Smallpox innoculation (1721)
Newberry Medal 1st awarded
Yen introduced in Japan (1871)
Disney’s Hercules premiered (1997)
Pen with truly erasable ink patented
1st Women’s magazine, the Ladies Mercury, published (1693)
Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire finished
1st Atomic power station began endangering the world (USSR; 1954)
Hugh Grant and hooker Divine Brown transacted a little business in the back of his rented BMW (1995)
Fillmore East closed (1971)
1st Blind Climbers reached summit of Mont Blanc, Switzerland (1988)
1st Mid-Air Refueling successfully accomplished
Labyrinth premiered
Stock Market Crash (1893)
PG-13 movie rating introduced (1984)
Liberty Bell returned to Philadelphia (1778)
Hubble Telescope discovered to be flawed (1990)
Juan Cabrillo sails up coast of California, claiming it for Spain (1542)
Chief Black Hawk agreed to move his tribe west of Mississippi (1831)
1st Japanese immigrant to US arrived (1841)
Joseph Smith murdered by mob (1844)
Nissan began importing cars to US (1958)
Central Line tube opened (London; 1900)
PanAm began Transatlantic flights (1939)
1st Blind climbers scaled Mont Blanc (1988)
Delaware Governor’s Aide, Anne Marie Fahey, last seen (1996)
Wobblies (International Workers of the World) founded in Chicago (1905)
Connie Francis’ Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool reached No. 1 (1960)
Deschutes Pub & Brewery (Oregon; 1988)
Kirin Pub Brewery Spring Valley (Japan; 1991)
Cerverceria Rio Bravo (Mexico; 1997)
Olympia Brewery closed (Tumwater, Washington; 2003)

Discovery Day (Canada)

Boardwalk Day
U.N. Charter Day
Festival of Ranting & Vaporing
St. Pelayo’s Day
National Chocolate Pudding Day
Sata-Hame Accordian Festival begins (Finland)
Feast of the Shepherds (Spain)
Rose Day (aka Alexandra Rose Day)
Somalia Independence Day
Madagascar Independence Day
Senior Citizen’s Day (Mason County, Michigan)
Handing Back of Tiger-Get-By’s Presents (Fairy)

Claudio Abbado
William Kelvin
Abner Doubleday
Edward Levi
Babe Zaharis
Peter Lorre
Arthur Middleton
Philip Doddridge
Bernard Berenson
William Thomson
Pearl S. Buck
Greg LeMond
Barbara J. Edwards (Pb 9/83)
George Morland
Charles Messier
James Anderton (1830)
Laurie Lee
Mick Jagger
Bob Thompson
Thomas Birch
Zeng Jinlian
Stuart Symington
John McTammany
Pamela Bellwood
Arthur Middleton
Jerome Kersey
Eleanor Parker
Robert Laird Borden
Charles Robb
Mick Jones
Willy Messerschmitt
Bill Robinson
Charlotte Zolotow
Jumpy Geathers
Big Bill Broonzy
Luiz Valdez

Plow patented
1st Cinema opened (Vitascope Hall; 1893)
A Hard Day’s Night released
Bicycle patented
1st Victoria Cross awarded
Federal Credit Union Act signed (1934)
Victoria & Albert Museum opened (1909)
Wagner’s Die Walkure premiered
St. Lawrence Seaway opened (1959)
Atlantic City, New Jersey opened the 1st Boardwalk (1870)
United Nations Charter signed (1945)
Mackinac Straits Bridge dedicated
Federal Credit Union Act passed
1st Smallpox innoculations given (1721)
Cast-iron plough patented (1797)
Haymarket anarchists pardoned (1893)
Maguire 7 found innocent (1991)
US Troops landed in France (1917)
Battle of Fleurus (1794)
Victoria Cross 1st awarded (UK; 1857)
1st Le Mans Grand Prix held (1906)
NFL Charities founded (1973)
Trigger retired (1957)
London’s Carlton Club bombed by IRA (1990)
Cabot discovered Newfoundland (1497)
William Powell & Carole Lombard married (1931)
Tallest free-standing structure opened (CN Tower; Ontario, Canada; 1976)
Largest pancake made (30 feet diameter; 1 inch thick; 1988)
Byrds’ Mr. Tambourine Man reached No. 1 (1965)
Blue Ridge Brewing opened (South Carolina; 1995)
Russell Brewing opened (Canada; 1995)
Diamondback Brewing opened (Ohio; 1996)
Stone Brewing opened (California; 1996)
Watson Brothers Brewhouse opened (Ohio; 1996)

National Camping Week

Gay/Lesbian Pride Parade (San Francisco)