The Brookston Almanac

National Juggling Day
Kitchen Klutzes of America Day
Goddess Month of Rosea begins
Reform Movement Day (Temen)
Children’s Day (US)
Runic half-month of Odal ends
National Lobster Day
First-in-Line and Queue-Jumping Tournament (Fairy)
St. Anthony “the Hammer of Heretics” of Padua’s Day (patron of young lovers, the poor, Portugal, spinsters; against infertility, lost objects)

William Butler Yeats
James Clerk Maxwell
Ally Sheedy
Maria-Helena Vieira da Silva
Basil Rathbone
Joseph Stella
Dorothy L. Sayers
Red Grange
Luis Alverez
Christo
Ralph Edwards
Fanny Burney
Albert
Paul Lynde
Winfield Scott
Paavo Johannes Nurmi
Lois Weber
Richard Thomas
Sarunas Marciulionis
Malcolm McDowell
Bettina Bunge
Scott Winfield
Richard Thomas
Bettina Bunge
John Parsons
Don Budge
Jim Guy Tucker
Dennis Locorriere
Elizabeth Schumann
Janet Pilgrim (Pb 7&12/55, 10/56)
Bobby Freeman
Catarina Lindquist
Eleanor Holmes
Dennis Locorriere
Charles II (”the Bald”)
Deniece Pearson
Jamie Walters
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen

Sunspots discovered
Boxer Rebellion (1900)
Columbus discovered Isle of Pines
Yukon Territory established as a separate Canadian territory (1898)
Stravinsky’s Petroushka premiered
1st Telecast of moving picture
Star Club opened in Hamburg, Germany
Cleopatra premiered
Bilbo returned to BagEnd (Hobbit)
Pentagon Papers published (1971)
1st Tubeless Tires offered on an automobile (Packard; 1954)
Mission San Luis Rey de Francia founded (1798)
Home Owners Loan Act passed (1933)
King Ludwig II of Bavaria drowned (1886)
V1 Flying Bombs 1st dropped (London; 1944)
Alexander the Great died at age 33 (323 BCE)
Queen Victoria became 1st monarch to travel by train (1842)
Rhode Island became 1st US state to ban slavery (1774)
UK National Theatre foundation laid (1951)
Real Madrid won 1st European Cup (1956)
1st Beauty Contest held in Russia (1988)
Coca-Cola’s “Coke and a Smile” ad campaign launched (1979)
Medgar Evans assassinated (1963)
Christopher Columbus 1st landed on continental America (1494)
Mikhail Gorbachev and Helmut Kohl agreed to reunite Germany (1989)
Donn Bolles killed by mafia while undercover for a newspaper
Beatles’ Long and Winding Road reached No. 1 (1970)
Sioux awarded 17.5 million dollars for land taken by US Gov’t in 1877 (1979)
Thomas Jefferson sent home from Paris his plans for the Virginia state capitol (1786)
US Supreme Court ruled in Miranda v. Arizona that criminal suspects must be “read their rights” before interrogation (1966)
Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral perfected a method to bottle beer (1568)
Original Cassily Adams painting “Custer’s Last Fight,” copies of which are believed to be the first brewery promotional item, destroyed by fire (1916)
Arizona’s A-1 Brewery bought Jordan Brewery of Minnesota (1946)
Garretts Mill Brewing opened (Ohio; 1995)
Main Street Brewery opened (Indiana; 1996)