The Brookston Almanac

Be Kind to Humankind Week
Carpenter Ant Awareness Week
Shepherd’s Fair (Last 2 weeks @)

Plague Sunday (Gloucestershire, UK)

Wedding of the Giants (Belgium)

Feast of Incandescent Rebellion
Moldova National Day
Nativity of Isis (Egyptian Goddess of Fertility)
St. Monica’s Day (patron of married women, mothers)
Petroleum Day
Notting Hill Carnival (London @)
St. Caesarius’ Day
Threethousandth Thnork of the Year (Fairy)
Ould Lammas Fair (Ireland)
National Pots de Creme Day

Confucius
Frederich Hegel
C.S. Forester
Titian
Harry Reems
Man Ray
Ira Levin
Theodore Dreiser
Paul “Pee Wee Herman” Reubens
Lester Young
Augusto Righti
Sri Chinmoy
Louis Mountbatten
Samuel Goldwyn
Tuesday Weld
Patty Duffek (Pb 5/84)
Donald Bradman
Lyndon B. Johnson
Fred Bowman (1944)
Mother Teresa
Alex Lifeson
Hannibal Hamlin
Mike Maddux
Bernhard Langer
Charles Gates Dawes
Daryl Dragon
J. Robert Kerrey
Martha Raye
Tommy Sands
Hannibal Hamlin
John Lloyd
Yuri V. Malyshev
Cynthia Potter
Martha Raye
Rob Burnett
William Least-Heat-Moon
Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi

Caesar invaded Britain
Synthetic Gene 1st constructed
Tarzan comic strip 1st published
1st Vote held by ballot
Metal Cabinet patented
1st Successful jet plane flight (1939)
Oil 1st discovered in US (Titusville, PA; 1859)
1st BBC broadcast
Speeder 1st jailed
Titian died (1576)
1st Hydrogen Balloon flew (1783)
Napoleon defeated allied army at Dresden (1813)
John White lost 110 colonists at Roanoke (1587)
Cadillac made its 1st automobile (1902)
1st Baseball Game televised (Dodges vs. Red; 1939)
Beatles’ Manager Brian Epstein found dead from overdose (1967)
200,000 marched in Mexico to demand government resignation (1968)
Battle of Brooklyn (1776)
1st Radio installed in an airplane
Battle of Long Island (1776)
Kellogg-Briand Pact signed by 15 nations (1928)
Lord Louis Mountbatten murdered by IRA bomb (1979)
1st Play in US performed (The Bear and Ye Cub; 1665)
“Talking Pictures” 1st shown (by Thomas Edison; 1910)
13-year old Chinese girl who had been left to live with pigs returned to “normal life” after three years of special training (1987)
Elvis Presley and the Beatles met for the 1st and only time, performing I Feel Fine (1965)
Honeymooning couple’s actions in flight cause American Airline flight to cut short scheduled coast-to-coast flight and land in Houston (1987)
1st batch of La Chouffe brewed by Brasserie d’Achouffe (Belgium; 1982)
Moonlight Brewing opened (California; 1992)
Jefferson Bay Brewhouse opened (New York; 1997)