The Brookston Almanac

Midsommar (Sweeden, Finland)

Viking Festival (Denmark)

Midsummer’s Eve (Druid, UK, Finland, Sweden)
Feast of the Sun
Ancient Druidic Midsummer Baal
National Day (Luxembourg)
Festival of the Purple Void
Grand Duke Day (UK)
Pardon of the Fire (Brittany)
Hootenanny (Fairfield County, South Carolina)
National Fink Day
St. Audrey’s Day (patron against neck pain. throat disease)
Great Teddy Bear Rally (Philadelphia Zoo)
Midsommar (Denmark, Norway)
St. Agrippina (patron against evil spirits, leprosy, thunder)
VooDoo Ceremonies (New Orleans, Louisiana)
Dandruff Dance (Goblins and Gnomes)
St. Ethelreda’s Day
Rhododendron Festival
Midnight Madness (Canada)
St. Nicetas (patron of Romania)
Discovery Day (Newfoundland)
St. John’s Festival (Portugal)
Heidi Festival
National Pecan Sandy Day

Bob Fosse
Alan Turing
Edward VIII
Alfred Kinsey
Richard Bach
Stuart Sutcliffe
Laurie Wood (Pb 3/89)
Giambattista Vico
Jean Anouiln
Carl Milles
Debbie Boostrom (Pb 8/81)
Leonard Hutton
Empress Josephine
Carl Milles
David Ogilvy
George Sax
James Levine
Clarence Thomas
Adam Faith
Wilma Rudolph
Carl Reinecke
Henry Foss (1817)
Ted Schackelford
June Carter Cash
Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
Dave Butz
Bert Convy
Duke of Windsor

Saxophone patented (1848)
1st National Lipreading Tournament held
Secret Service established
Typewriter patented (1868)
Disney’s Pocahontas premiered (1995)
1st Boat race held
Marineland opened
Guns of Navarone premiered
King Crimson re-formed
What’s New Pussycat? premiered
King Elessar & Arwen married (Hobbit)
A VW Bug reached 1,400,000 miles (1992)
Battle of Plassey (1757)
David Letterman’s Morning Show debuted (1980)
Nassar elcted President of Egypt (1956)
San Francisco’s Castro Theatre opened (1922)
Duran Duran’s The Reflex reached No. 1 (1984)
Sophie’s Garden Party (in Jostein Gaardner’s novel, Sophie’s World)
William Penn signed treaty with Lenni Lenape indians under Treaty Elm in Shackamaxon, Philadelphia (1683)
Minnesota Brewers Association founded (1888)
Great Divide Brewing opened (Colorado; 1994)
Wig & Pen opened (Australia; 1994)
Times Square Brewery opened (New York; 1996)