The Brookston Almanac

Chauvin Day
Loaded Dice Day
Assumption
St. Mary’s Day
Great Mother Goddess Day
Fool’s Dance begins (Japan)
St. Arnulph of Soissons’ Day (patron of brewers)
Our Lady of Flowers Festival (Florida, New York)
Congo Independence Day
Lichtenstein National Day
National Relaxation Day
Ferragosto (Oven of August; Italy)
India Independence Day
Military Regime Day (Niger)
Our Lady of the “Monte” Festival (Portugal)
Korea Republic Day
National Failures Day
Dog Days end
National Lemon Meringue Pie Day
St. Tarsicius’ Day (patron of first communicants)
Great American Tomato Canning Tournament
Dog Days of Summer end

Walter Scott
Jacques Ibert
Napoleon Bonaparte
Thomas E. Lawrence “of Arabia”
Oscar Peterson
Priscilla Lee Taylor (Pb 3/96)
Hal Foster
Julia Child
Edna Ferber
Thomas DeQuincy
Jimmy Webb
Mike Connors
Rose Marie
Barbara Bouchet
Ethel Barrymore
Vernon Eulion Jordan Jr.
Princess Anne
Gene Upshaw
Bill Baird
Walter Crane
Charles Comiskey
Fred Strickland
Luigi Pulci
Jim Dale
Signe Hasso
Lukas Foss (Fuchs)
Abby Dalton
Wendy Hiller
Janice Rule
Peanut Louie
Lori Nelson
Ewcia “Cookie” Olejnik
Robert Bolt
James Douglas
Frederick William I
Linda Ellerbee
J. Keir Hardie
Lillian Carter
Florence K. DeWolf Harding
Louis-Victor due de Broglie
Phyllis Schlafly

Woodstock Music Festival began (1969)
1st Croquet Tournament held
Beatles played Shea Stadium (1965)
Panama Canal opened (1914)
1st Aerial Dogfight
Dentist Chair patented
1st Detective Force created
Berlin Wall completed
Rene Magritte died (1967)
Disney’s Make Mine Music premiered (1946)
1st California newspaper published (1846)
Transcontinental Railroad actually finished
Columbus entered the Sargasso Sea (1492)
Will Rogers killed in plane crash (1935)
Tivoli Gardens opened (Copenhagen, Denmark (1834)
Ignatius Loyola and his followers took a vow of poverty, chasity and obedience (1534)
Elvis Presley’s It’s Now or Never reached No. 1 (1960)
1st Feature-length cartoon released (Sinking of the Lusitania; 1918)
King McBeth killed by King Duncan I’s son, Malcolm (1057)
John Carroll consecrated as 1st US bishop (1790)
Menendez Brothers killed their parents (1989)
India and Pakistan gained independence from UK (1947)
Corporal Punishment banned in UK schools, except private schools (1987)
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesen burned down by deranged servant (1914)
Giant mutant trees discovered near nuclear reactor at Chernobyl, Russia (1989)
Columbia Brewery brewed their 1st batch of beer (Pennsylvania; 1898)
“Beer is Best” ad campaign begun by Brewers Journal (1920)
San Diego Brewing opened (California; 1986)
Creemore Springs Brewery opened (Canada; 1987)
Hartford Brewery opened (Connecticut; 1991)
Deschutes Brewery opened (Oregon; 1993)
Gate City Brewing opened (North Carolina; 1994)
Brandywine Brewing opened (Delaware; 1995)
Buckhead Brewery opened (Nebraska; 1995)
King Brewing opened (Michigan; 1995)
Poplar Head Mule Co. Brewpub opened (Alabama; 1995)
Tapps Brewing opened (Washington; 1995)
Black Bear Brewing opened (Georgia; 1996)
Henni’s Brewery & Restaurant opened (South Carolina; 1996)
Nimbus Brewing opened (Arizona; 1996)
Stoopid Moose Brewing opened (California; 1996)