The Brookston Almanac

Summer Solstice
Alban Hefin (Celtic; 7th Station)
Cancer zodiac sign begins
Aimless Wandering Day
St. Aloysius Gonzanga’s Day (protector of young students, young men)
All Heras Day
Midsummer Day
Piggie on the Rock Festival
St. Alban’s Day (patron of refugees)
National Peaches & Cream Day
St. Meen’s Day (patron against skin disease)
Grand International Crawdad Crawl
Martyr’s Day (Togo)
St. Leufredus’ Day (patron against flies)
Juhannus Day (Midsummer Festival; Finland)
Cuckoo Warning Day (it will be a wet summer if the cuckoo is heard today)
St. Albinus of Mainz’s Day (patron against gallstones, kidney disease, sore throat)

Jean-Paul Sarte
Berke Breathed
Ray Davies
J.C.F. Bach
Martha Washington
Henry O. Tanner
Jane Russell
Kari Kennell (Pb 2/88)
Mary McCarthy
Dorothy Stickney
Maximilian Wolf
Daniel Carter Beard
Maureen Stapleton
Rockwell Kent
Al Hirschfeld
Carl Stokes
Daniel D. Tompkins
Benazir Bhutto
Meredith Baxter-Birney
Pier Nervi
Judy Holliday
Doug Savant
Nils Lofgren
Juliette Lewis
Stephen Merrill
Rick Sutcliffe
Henry O. Tanner
Margaret Heckler
Robert Pastorelli
Mercy Rooney (Pb 12/72)
Derrick Coleman
Ron Ely
Michael Gross
Joe Flaherty
Marriette Hartley
Brenda Holloway
Joe Kramer
Mike McCormack
Reinhold Niebuhr
Ian McEwan
Juliette Lewis
Monte Markham
Leon Everette
Joey Kramer
Kathy Mattea
Sammi Davis-Voss
Bernie Kopell
Derrick Coleman
Prince William
Tiger-Get-By (3rd birthday; Fairy)

New Hampshire became the 9th state (1788)
1st Poem written in English
Building of Christopher Wren’s St. Paul’s Cathedral began (1675)
US Constitution came into force (1788)
A Japanese submarine fired on the Oregon coast (1942)
CBS began production of the 33 1/3 LP record (1948)
1st Seawater Conversion Plant opened
Black-Eared Busthit discovered
Reaper patented (1834)
1st Orange Suplhur Butterfly seen
Wagner’s Die Meistersinger premiered (1868)
Scottish Explorer Mungo Park reached River Niger (1796)
Molly Maguires executed (Pennsylvania; 1877)
Battle of Okinawa ended (1945)
Louis XVI caught trying to escape Paris (1791)
Brazil won World Cup for 3rd time (1970)
Royal College of Surgeons founded (UK; 1843)
Women’s Sunday Suffrage Rally held (1908)
Battle of Tobruk ended (WW2; 1942)
Pope Paul VI elected (1963)
Hungary re-launched its stock exchange after ending communist rule (1990)
Mungo Park reached the Niger River in Africa (1796)
Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame premiered (1996)
Bobby Darin recorded Splish Splash (1958)
German fleet of 70 ships scuttled themselves rather than be taken by UK fleet (WW1; 1919)
Richard Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nuerenberg premiered in Munich (1868)
Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette attempted to flee Paris but were captured by Revolutionists (1791)
1st 5 & 10 cent store opened (by Frank Woolworth; Lancaster, Pennsylvania; 1879)
John Hinckley found innocent of shooting Reagen by reason of insanity (1982)
3 Civil Rights Workers were killed investigating a church burning in Mississippi (1964)
New Amsterdam paying its soldiers in beer (1644)
Beer became legal in Idaho after Prohibition (1933)
Copper Tank Brewing opened (Texas; 1994)
Coddington Brewing opened (Rhode Island; 1995) Founders Hill Brewing (Illinois; 1996)
Monte Carlo Pub & Brewery opened (Nevada; 1996)