The Brookston Almanac

Missouri Day (Missouri)

Persons Day (Canada)
St. Luke’s Day (patron of brewers, doctors, painters, glassmakers, artists, butchers, notaries, sculptors)
Festival of Poetic Terrorism
Alaska Day
Pandrosos (Greek all-refreshing Goddess)
Nike Awareness Day
Great Horn Fair (Kent, UK)
St. Luke the Apostle’s Day (patron of brewers)
National Chocolate Cupcake Day
Chile Independence Day
No Beard Day
Lukesmas
King Look Under Your Mattress’s Unique Hiding Display (Fairy)
International Credit Union Day

D.T. Suzuki
George C. Scott
Hans Holbein the Younger
James David Brooks
Canaletto
Evelyn Waugh
Ntozake Shange
Salomon Auguste Andree
Chuck Berry
Pierre Trudeau
Henri Bergson
Inger Stevens
Peter Boyle
Forrest Gregg
Avis Kimble (Pb 11/62)
Wynton Marsalis
Melina Mercouri
Pierre de Lacios
Mike Ditka
Emily Arth (Pb 6/88)
Alfred Binet
Wendy Wasserstein
Pam Dawber
Ntozake Shange
John Johnson
A.J. Liebling
Keith Jackson
Richard Stankiewicz
Cyrus Reed Teed (aka Prophet Koresh)
Laura Nyro
Erin Moran
George Hendrick
Tommy Hearns
Andy Carey
Michael Archer (1986; in Face/Off)
Gary Richrath
Jesse Helms

Ivory Soap invented
1st Art school opened
Sandblasting patented
BBC Radio established (1922)
1st Underwater Telegraph cable laid (NY Harbor; 1842)
H.E.W. banned cyclamates
Brotherhood of the Cooperative Commonwealth founded (1895)
Puerto Rico became US Colony (1898)
Lincoln shaved off his beard
Hi and Lois comic strip began (1954)
Water Pollution Control Act passed (1972)
XYZ Affair
Citroen 2CV automobile introduced (1948)
Roseanne debuted (1988)
1st War Crimes trial began (1945)
Disney’s Jungle Book premiered (1967)
John Lennon and Yoko Ono arrested for marijuana possession (London; 1968)
Rules of American Football 1st formulated (1873)
US attacked Iranian oil rig in retaliation for gunboat attacks (1987)
International Court of Justice at the Hague announced (1907)
UK declared Canadian women to be “persons” (1929)
1st Nike Awareness Day observed (started by Kim Doonesbury, in comic strip Doonesbury)
Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes forcing many protestants (aka Huguenots) to flee France (1685)
Teddy Roosevelt is ridiculed in the press for inviting black leader Booker T. Washington to the White House (1901)
Munich Beer Riot, over raising the price one penny (1848)
Wynkoop Brewing opened (Colorado; 1988)
Bricktown Brewing opened (Oklahoma; 1992)
Sweetwater Brewing opened (Wyoming; 1994)
Arcadia Brewing opened (Michigan; 1996)
Black Forest Brau Keller opened (Michigan; 1996)
Meyer Brewing opened (Ohio; 1996)