The Brookston Almanac

Mind Day
Alexandrian New Year
Charisteria (Old Roman Thanksgiving)
St. Fiacre’s Day (patron of cabbies)
Victory Day (Turkey)
Julienne Fries Day
Santa Rosa de Lima (Peru)
National Toasted Masrhmellow Day
St. John Roche’s Day (patron of boatmen)
Huey P. Long Day (Louisiana)
Chatter Champion announced (Fairy)
International Pow Wow Ceremony (Gallup, New Mexico)
St. Pammachius’ Day

Jacques Louis David
Mary Shelley
R. Crumb
Fred MacMurray
Bill Daily
Joan Blondell
Elizabeth Ashley
Joan Bennett (Pb 1/85)
Charlie Sheen
Jacobus Van’t Hoff
Raymond Massey
J. Alden Weir
Timothy Bottoms
John Gunther
Ernest Rutherford
Robert L. Parish
Jean-Claude Killy
Shirley Booth
Nancy Li Brandi (Pb 12/75)
Roy Wilkins
Ted Williams
Jean-Claude Killy
Ricky Sanders
Hazen “Kiki” Cuyler
Frank “Tug” McGraw
Theodor Svedberg
Peggy Lipton
Ellen Herndon Arthur
Kitty Wells
Regina Resnik
Dennis Healey
Roy Wilkins
William Schilling
Huey P. “Kingfish” Long

Hot Line installed between White House & Kremlin (1963)
Cleoptara committed suicide, bitten by an asp (30 BCE)
Top Hat premiered
1st Meat Inspection conducted
Pajama Game premiered
Battle of Bull Run II (1862)
1st Trains ran in Britain (1860)
Tarriff 1st imposed on obscene literature & photographs
Donald Duck comic strip began (1936)
The Fly premiered
Stereophonic Sound System patented (1881)
Polish workers granted right to form trade unions (1980)
1st President’s Wife gave birth in he White House (1893)
Vacuum Cleaner patented (1901)
Coccaine discovered (1867)
German troops surrounded Lenningrad (1941)
John Lennon & Harry Nilsson’s Pussycats released
Bigfoot discovered on Northern Exposure (1990)
Laurence Olivier married Vivien Leigh (1940)
Christopher Cross’ Sailing reached No. 1 (1980)
Steve Winwood’s Higher Love reached No. 1 (1986)
Guion S. Bluford Jr. became the 1st black man in space (1983)
Charles II fired Lord Chancellor Edward Hyde over Treaty of Breda (1667)
Beer: The Movie premiered (1985)
Ipswich Brewing opened (Massachusetts; 1992)
Lone Wolfe Brewing opened (Colorado; 1996)