The Brookston Almanac

National Magic Week
Peace, Friendship and Good Will Week
National Cleaner Air Week
National Hug-A-Vending Machine Week
National Forest Products Week
Toastmaster’s Week
National Consumers Week
National Save Your Back Week
New International Version of the Bible Week
Disarmament Week (24th-30th)

Exaltation of the Shellfish (Spain)
Mother-in-Law Day

National Nut Day
Festival of Eras (Jidalmatsuri, Japan)
World’s End Day (Millerism)
Jidai Matsuri (Festival of the Eras; Kyoto, Japan)
Festival of the House of Mercy
National Barber’s Day
St. Mary Salome’s Day
Holy See (Vatican City)
Chung Yeung (Hong Kong)
St. Donatus’ Day
Libra zodiac sign ends
St. Abercius’ Day

N.C. Wyeth
Franz Liszt
Timothy Leary
Le Corbusier
Doris Lessing
Jimmy Foxx
Sarah Bernhardt
Cherrie Whitter (Pb 2/85)
Robert Rauschenberg
Edmund Dulac
George Beadle
Joan Fontaine
Constance Bennett
Layla Harvest Roberts (Pb 10/97)
Jean Grolier
Bobby Seale
John Reed
Grizzly Adams
Catherine Deneuve
Brian Boitano
Jeff Goldblum
Annette Funicello
Christopher Lloyd
Robert Rauschenberg
Curly Howard
Derek Jacobi
Joe Carr
Pete Pihos
Eddie Brigati
Wilbur Wood
Christopher Lloyd
John Chafee
Rowland Emett
Tony Roberts

Worldwide flu epidemic (1918; 20 million died)
1st US planes used in war
Jackie Robinson became 1st black major league baseball player
Barber’s Association of America established
1st Streamlined Pullman train used
Cuban Missile Crisis began (1962)
Boston Symphony gave their 1st performance (1881)
Princeton University chartered (1746)
1st Xerox image produced (1938)
Gopher trap patented
Terry & the Pirates comic strip began (1934)
1st Parachute jump (1797)
San Houston sworn in as 1st President of Republic of Texas (1836)
Metropolitan Opera House opened
Break the Bank debuted (1948)
1st Woman flew a solo flight (1909)
Trans-Australian Railway opened (1917)
Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen found guilty of murdering his wife (1910)
Nelson Mandela’s treason trial began (1962)
Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas premiered (1993)
KGB spy George Blake escaped from maximum security prison in London (1966)
Phil Collins’ Groovy Kind of Live reached No. 1 (1988)
William Miller predicted the world would end on this day in 1844
Deer Hunter discovered unmanned plane crashed in tree after pilot crank-started it and it had taken off without the pilot 65 miles away (1987)
Federal agents discovered 15,000 gallons of beer fermenting in the cellars of the Ebeneezer Brewery (New York; 1925)
George Brau Brauhaus opened (Germany; 1992)
Naisbitt’s Brewery opened (Utah; 1992)
Sophie’s Brauhaus opened (Germany; 1993)
Oregon Fields Brewing opened (Oregon; 1994)
Montgomery Brewing opened (Alabama; 1995)
Hang Ten Brewery opened (California; 1997)
Concordia Brewery at the Kennedy School (Oregon; 1997)