The Brookston Almanac

National Frappe Day
Goose Fair opens (Nottinghamshire, UK)
Victoria, Our Lady of Victories’ Day (aka Pallas Athena)
Festival of Food
Pallas Athena (Old Roman Goddess of Triumph)
Festival of the Deerk Toes (Fairy)
Lepanto Day (Greece)
Constitution Day (USSR)
St. Justina’s Day (patron of Padua, Venice)
Deed of Cession Day (Fiji)
Expulsion of Fascist Settlers Day (Libya)

Niels Bohr
William Billings
Caesar Rodney
Thomas Wise
Howard Chaykin
John White Alexander
Kenyon Cox
Desmond Tutu
Yo-Yo Ma
Tomme Arthur (1973)
Charles Stegmeier (1821)
June Allyson
Sarah Churchill
Andy Devine
Jayne Torvill
Thomas Keneally
Imamu Amiri Baraka
R.D. Laing
Charles Dufoit
John Cougar Mellencamp
Alfred Drake
Vaughn Monroe
Martha Stewart
Kevin Godley
Al Martino
Joe Hill
Elijah Muhammed
R.D. Laing
Alfred Wallenstein
James Whitcomb Riley
Henry Wallace
Kim Morris (Pb 3/86)
Amiri Baraka
Chuck Klein
Jose Cardenal
Erick Anderson
Toni Braxton
Heinrich Himmler
Oliver North
Judy Landers

Carbon Paper patented
American Bandstand debuted
1st Double-decker steamboat arrived in New Orleans
Steve Hackett quit Genesis
1st Studio portrait photographed
Edgar Allen Poe died
1st Infra-red photo taken
Folding Machine patented
Harvard Medical School opened (1783)
1st Pajama contest (NWU)
Georgia Tech beats Cumberland 222-0 in Amer. Football
Death Valley Days debuted (1952)
1st Greyhound race
Battle of Saratoga
George III closed US West to settlement (1763)
1st Railroad in US completed
UK Newspaper “The Independent” 1st published (1986)
Stamp Act passed by Congress
1st Airline, Holland’s KLM, established (1919)
Battle of King’s Mountain (NC)
Spartacus premiered
Cats premiered on Broadway (1982)
1st Royal Broadcast on BBC (1922)
Nuclear accident at Windscale atomic power station (UK; 1957)
Alanis Morrisette’s album Jagged Little Pill reached No. 1 (1995)
US Granite industry began (1826)
1st Pictures of dark side of the Moon seen (1959)
JFK signed nuclear test ban treaty with USSR and UK (1963)
Charge of the Light Brigade premiered
Ted Danson & Mary Steenburgen married (1995)
Janet Jackson’s Miss You Much reached No. 1 (1989)
Salon Exhibition criticized greatly leading to art style term “Fauvism” (Paris; 1905)
Virginia’s House of Burgess granted freedom to slaves who fought in Revolutionary War (1783)
Brickskeller opened (1957)
People in Alkmaar riot due to beer tax (Netherlands; 1714)
SAB bought Pilsner Urquell (1999)
Hausbrauerei Feierling opened (Germany; 1989)
Capital City Brewing Co. opened (Washington, DC; 1992)
O’Ryan’s Tavern & Brewery opened (New Mexico; 1994)
Liberty Steakhouse Brewery opened (South Carolina; 1995)