The Brookston Almanac

Festival of All Possible Worlds
Mayor’s Day (Southwold, UK)
Fleur-de-Lis Day
Vesta (Old Roman Festival to Open Sanctuary Temple of Vesta)
Daniel Boone Day (Kentucky)
Foundation Day (Western Australia)
Kataklysmos (Flood Festival; Cypress)
St. Willibald’s Day
Judgment Day (Leaping Songs; Fairy)
Fete of St. Gilbert the Englishman
National Chocolate Ice Cream Day
St. Meriadoc’s Day (patron against deafness)
Vivien Kellems Memorial Day
St. Paul of Constantinople’s Day (Western)

Paul Gauguin
George Szell
Pietro Annigoni
Charles Strouse
Tom Jones
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
George “Beau” Brummell
Thurman Munson
Vivien Kellems
The Dalai Lama
Jessica Tandy
Rocky Graziano
Gwendolyn Brooks
James Young Simpson
Sandra Bernhardt
Peter Rodino
Bill Kreutzmann
John Hansell (1960)
Nikki Giovanni
Tracey Adams
Larisa Oleynik
Susan Elizabeth Blow
Imre Nagy
Robert Mulliken
Earl of Liverpool
Gregory XIII
Prince Rogers Nelson

$64,000 Question debuted
Dime Novel invented
1st Pinch Hitter used
Battle of Midway ended (WW 2; 1942)
Mt. McKinley 1st climbed
1st Plymouth built (1928)
Siege of Jerusalem began (1st Crusade; 1099)
1st Art Gallery illuminated by electric light opened
Pennsylvania State Assembly banned slavery (1712)
NY Times reported alligators were living in the sewer
Daniel Boone reached Kentucky via Cumberland Gap (1769)
1st Play televised with original cast (Susan & God)
Graceland opened to the public (1982)
Royal Exchange foundation laid (London; 1566)
Norway declared independence from Sweden (1905)
Henry Miller died (1980)
Who’s Tommy premiered at Metropolitan Opera House, New York City (1970)
New York Times announced it would begin capitalizing the word “Negro” (1930)
India sealed its border to Bangladesh to keep out cholera victims (1971)
Ulyssess S. Grant gave Lick Observatory 1,380 acres on Mt. Hamilton
Ballet The Seven Deadly Sins premiered (Paris; 1933)
Continental Congress delegate Richard Henry Lee of Virginia moved for a resolution “That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown . . .” (1776)
Frederick and Josephine Miller were married (1853)
Trout Creek Brewing opened (Colorado; 1986)
Railway Brewing opened (Alaska; 1996)
Henry Ortlieb’s Original Philadelphia Beer Co./Poor Henry’s (1997)