The Brookston Almanac

National Flag Week
Agricultural Fieldays (New Zealand)
National Carp Week
Grafitti Week
National Fraternal Week (ends Flag Day)
Brain Tumor Awareness Week
National Theraputic Recreation Week
National Clay Week
National Little League Baseball Week

Trinity Sunday

Rose Day (Manheim, Pennsylvania)
Children’s Sunday
Race Unity Day (Baha’i)
Cherry Festival begins (Emmett, Idaho)

Festival of Goibnui (Provider of the Ale of Immortality)
Lindbergh Day
King Kamehameha Day (Hawaii)
St. Barnabas’ Day (patron of harvests, Cyprus)
King’s Birthday (Nepal)
National Hug Holiday begins (until 17th)
Peace of Chaco Day (Paraguay)
Milk Jug Regatta
Holiday of the Happy Gnomes (Fairy)
Barnaby Bright Day (aka Long Barnaby)
National Asparagus Festival (Michigan @)
Old Whaler’s Festival
National German Chocolate Cake Day
St. Bartholomew’s Day (Eastern)

Richard Strauss
Vince Lombardi
John Constable
Ben Johnson
Jacques Cousteau
Shelly Manne
Nelson Mandala
William Baziotes
Jackie Stewart
Gene Wilder
Jeanette Rankin
Kenelm Digby
J.G. Palitzsch
William Styron
James L. Kemper
Athol Fugard
Paul Mellon
Lawrence Spivak
Bartholomeo Vanzetti
Karl von Linde
Richard Todd
Adrienne Barbeau
Jackie Stewart
Chad Everett
Rise Stevens
Johnny Brown
Gary Fencik
Henry Cisneros
Josephine Miles
Richard Todd
Donnie Van Zandt
Ernie Nevers
Charles Fabry
Joey Dee
Frank Beard
Roger Bresnahan
Dan Lavery
Millicent G. Fawcett
Joe Montana

Ferris Bueller took the day off (1986)
Stove patented
Greeks siezed Troy
E.T. premiered (1982)
Committee chosen to write Declaration of Independence (1776)
David Bowie’s Space Oddity released (1969)
Sauron attacked Osgilath (Hobbit)
Henry VIII married Catherine of Aragon (1509)
Mussolini declared war on allied forces (1940)
Italy declared a republic again (1946)
US Equal Pay Act went into effect (1964)
Mandrake the Magician comic strip began (1934)
Rolling Stones’ Paint It Black reached No. 1 (1966)
83 Spectators killed during Le Man auto race (France; 1955)
Gas Light Company of Baltimore founded to put up coal gas street lights (1816)
Metz Brewery began home delivery of beer (Louisville, Kentucky; 1867)
Wagner Brewing’s 1st batch of bottled beer released (Granite City, Illinois; 1904)
Kalamazoo Brewing became 1st brewery in Michigan to sell beer directly to the public (1993)
Amstel Brewery opened (Amsterdam, Netherlands; 1870)
N. Thomas Brewing opened (Ohio; 1900)
Gordon Biersch Brewery & Bottling opened (California; 1997)