The Brookston Almanac

All or Nothing Day
Somers Day (Bermuda)
Wonderful Drinks Day (Fairy)
Slepnir (Celtic Horse Festival)
Curacaco Day
Bagelfest
St. Anne’s Day (patron of Canada, grandmothers, housewives, miners; against infertility)
Liberia Independence Day
Curacao Day (Curacao)
Maldives Independence Day
Revolution Day (Cuba)
St. Joachim’s Day
National Coffee Milkshake Day
Central Maine Egg Festival begins (Pittsfield, Maine @)
Black-Eyed Peas Jamboree begins (Athens, Texas @)

Carl Jung
George Bernard Shaw
Stanley Kubrick
Robert Graves
Jean Shepard
Constantino Brumidi
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
George Catlin
Blake Edwards
George Grosz
Vivian Vance
Carl Michael Bellman
Vitas Geralitus
George Louis Beer
Mick Jagger
Isaac Babbitt
Mark Ruedrich (1951)
George Clinton
Jason Robards
Aldous Huxley
Gracie Allen
Serge Koussevitzky
Andre Maurois
George Grosz
Paul Gallico
Hoyt Wilhelm
Bob Waterfield
Salvador Allende Gossens
Mary Jo Kopechne
Auguste Beernaert
Donald Voorhees
Bob Lilly
Dorothy Hamill
Marjorie Lord
Linda Harrison
Micki King
Susan George
Bert (Sesame Street)

Mayan calendar started
New York became the 11th state (1788)
1st Ballet tutu appeared
King Farouk of Egypt abdicated (1952)
Ben Franklin appointed 1st Postmaster General (1775)
Charles named Prince of Wales
F.B.I. and C.I.A. established
1st Test Tube Baby born (1978)
Andrea Doria collided with the Stockholm
1st Book published in Esperanto (1887)
National Security Council created (1947)
Argentina cried for Evita (1952)
1st Ocean Cruise taken
President Nassar nationalized Suez Canal (1956)
Charles V of Spain sanctioned expidition of Pizarro (1529)
Truman banned racial segregation in military (1948)
1st Flight across the English Channel (1910)
U.S. Department of Defense created
Winton automobile crossed US (1903)
Mark Twain began his stagecoach trip to the far West (1861)
Pee-Wee Herman watched Nurse Nancy in Florida movie theatre (1991)
Fidel Castro led unsuccessful rebellion and was imprisoned by Cuban dictator Batista (1953)
Menachem Begin ignored plea from US President Carter and ordered more settlements built on West Bank (1977)
Peter Gabriel’s Sledgehammer reached No. 1 (1986)
Southampton Publick House opened (New York; 1996)
Stone Brewing opened (California; 1996)
Cervejara Colorado opened (Brazil; 1997)