The Brookston Almanac

Federal Lands Cleanup Day
Yellow Daisy Festival (Stone Mountain Park, Georgia)
Public Lands Day

Teddy Bear Day
Ascepigenia (Eleusinian Mysteries Priestess)
Jeune Genevois (Garden Show; Switzerland)
Horned Dance at Abbots Bromley (Celtic)
Chusok (Korea)
Bulgaria Freedom Day
North Korea Independence Day
Expectant Mother’s Day
Milk-Bathing Festival (Fairy)
Tajikistan Independence Day
Bonza Bottler Day
National Steak Au Poivre Day
Flower and Garden Festival (Geneva, Switzerland)
St. Peter Claver’s Day (patron of black missions, race relations, Colombia)
Wyatt Earp Prime Beef Day
Potato Bowl (Grand Forks, North Dakota)
St. Sergius of Antioch’s Day

Michael Keaton
Otis Redding
Leo Tolstoy
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Preston Dickinson
Colonel Sanders
Joe Theisman
B.J. Benjamin
Max Goldman
Cesare Pavese
James Hilton
Cliff Robertson
Frankie Frisch
William Bligh
Luigi Galvani
Jimmy the Greek
Billy Preston
Angela Cartwright
Daniel Majerlee
Frank Chance
Lem Barney
Chaim Topol
John Curry
Alfred Landon
Waite Hoyt
Bill France
Jack Trudeau
Mary Austin
Harishchandra
Dave Stewart
Frederick Spofforth
Inez Foxx
William Cranch Bond
Scott DeFreitas
Tom Wopat
Paul Goodman
Sylvia Miles
Louis Lingg
Adam Sandler
Cardinal Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu

Pilgrims set sail on the Mayflower for the New World (1620)
George of the Jungle / Super Chicken debuted
Solar System created (Sagan calendar)
California became the 31st state (1850)
Spiderman cartoon debuted
John Lennon’s Imagine released
Captain Blood premiered
1st Panda born in captivity
Attica prison riot began (1971)
Paper Chase debuted
William the Conqueror died in horseriding accident (1087)
1st Log Rolling Contest held
US invaded Italy (WW 2)
Popeye cartoon debuted
Elvis Presley 1st appeared on Ed Sullivan (1956)
Battle of Marathon ended (490 BCE)
1st American Bowling Congress Tournament held
Canned Laugh Track 1st used (1950)
American Poultry Industry began
Moon Mullins comic strip began (1923)
Notting Hill Race Riots (London; 1958)
Scottish King James IV killed at Battle of Flodden Field (1513)
Plowshare 8 hammer 12 nose cones at GE plant (King of Prussia, Pennsylvania; 1981)
A Taste of Honey’s Boogie Oogie Oogie reached No. 1 (1978)
FCC Created secondary stations allowing for independent UHF channels
South Carolina slave revolt attempted unsuccesfully to reach freedom in Spanish Florida (1739)
Martina Navratilova defected to the West (1978)
British Municipal Corporations Act established local government system (1835)
Israeli teenager hacked into US Defense computers and Visa (1991)
1st Balloon flown from NYC to Perth Amboy, New Jersey (1830)
2nd Continental Congress ruled United States would replace United Colonies as the new official name (1776)
Continental Brewing opened (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 1866)
Buffalo Bill’s Brewery opened (California; 1983)
Sharky’s Brewery & Grill opened (Nebraska; 1992)
Lakeside Brewery opened (Canada; 1993)
Fredericksburg Brewing opened (Texas; 1994)
Matsushima Brewery Pub Restaurant opened (Japan; 1997)
Airbrau opened (Germany; 1999)
Milton Brewery opened (England; 1999)
Phoenix Nest Brewing opened (Arizona; 1999)