The Brookston Almanac

National Camping Week

Gay/Lesbian Pride Parade (San Francisco)

National Forgiveness Day
Gay Pride Day

Feast of the Optional Holiday
National Strawberry Parfait Day
San Juan Day (Puerto Rico)
Festival of Ranting & Vaporing
Doonesbury Day (Washington, DC)
St. Molaug’s Day (patron against headaches, insanity)
Teej Festival (Women & Girls Festival; India)
Fiesta of Santa Orosia (Spain)
National Columnist’s Day
Log Cabin Day (Michigan)
Tatar Festival of the Plow (USSR)
St. Prosper of Aquitaine’s Day
Elf Thumping Day (Fairy)
Mozambique Independence Day
St. Eurosia’s Day (patron of crops; against storms)
National Strawberry Parfait Day

George Orwell
Matthew Thornton
Rose O’Neill
Gustave Charpentier
Antoni Gaudi
Carly Simon
Aime Cesaire
Sidney Lumet
Joelle Hernandez
Sam Francis
George Abbot
June Lockhart
Herman Nernst
Devin De Vasquez (Pb 6/85)
Henry “Hap” Arnold
Rose Cecil O’Neill
Jimmie Walker
Dorothy Gilman
J. Hans Jensen
Willis Reed
Melinda Windsor (Pb 2/66)
Roger Livesey
Hap Arnold
Clifton Chenier
Andy French (1968)
Louis, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
Prince Bernhard
Arthur Tracy
Sally Sarell (Pb 3/60)
Hermann Oberth
Stephen Merritt
Hilda Terry
Phyllis George-Brown
George Michael

Korean War began (1950)
Custer made his last stand (1876)
1st Fork in the US
Radium discovered (1903)
Stravinsky’s Firebird premiered
Toscanini 1st conducted (1886)
1st Car Phone exhibited (1925)
Virginia became the 10th state (1788)
Fort Apache premiered
1st College Rep Tie made
Prayer in the school ruled unconstitutional (1962)
Toscanini conducted professionally for the first time
1st Color TV broadcast (CBS; 1951)
Minimum Wage Act passed
Stage Door Canteen premiered
Barbed wire patented (1867)
Caine Mutiny premiered
Harper’s Magazine 1st published
Queen Isabella II of Spain abdicated (1870)
1st 8-hour workday legislation passed (1868)
Florida readmitted to the Union (1868)
Gustave Flaubert tried for obscenity for Madame Bovary (1857)
1st Beverages, & More! opened (1994)
FDR issued Executive Order 8802, prohibiting discrimination in gov’t jobs (1941)
Beatles’ Paperback Writer reached No. 1 (1966)
Slovenia and Croatia declared independence, sparking civil war (1991)
Pabst aired the 1st color beer commercial on TV (1951)
Bobby Bonds became 1st man to hit grand slam in 1st major league at-bat (1968)
Ezra Haywood sented to 2 years hard labor for advocating sexual emancipation (1878)
Railhouse Brewery opened (Wisconsin; 1995)
Glen Ellyn Brewing opened (Illinois; 1996)
Ohio Brewing opened (Ohio; 1997)