The Brookston Almanac

Feast of Good & Plenty
United Nations Day
Maladay (aka Elder Malaclypse’s Day; Discordian)
Zambia Independance Day
Pennsylvania Day
National Bologna Day
St. Raphael the Archangel’s Day (patron of health inspectors, druggists, happy meetings, leaving home, travellers; against blindness)
Suez Day (Egypt)
World Development Information Day (UN)
St. Anthony Claret’s Day (patron of weavers, savings banks)

Kevin Kline
Dr. Bones McCoy
Sarah J.B. Hale
Big Bopper
Moss Hart
Denise Levertov
Mainbocher
Bill Wyman
Y.A. Tittle
Lt. Uhuru
F. Murray Abraham
Anton Von Leeunanhoek
Anton van Leeuwenhoek (1632)
Hendrik Roozeboom
Craig Russell
Abu Nuwas
Morena Corwin (Pb 9/92)
Luciano Berio
Belva Lockwood
Patrick Hunter
James Sherman
Omar Moreno
Sybil Thorndike
Tito Gobbi
David Nelson
John L. Hoerber (brewer; 1821)

United Nations established (1945)
1st Weekly magazine published
Friction matches patented
1st Telegran sent across the US (1861)
Last ride of the Pony Express (1861)
40 hour work week established in US (1940)
1st Person survived going over Niagra Falls in a barrel (1901)
Rev. Jim Bakker sentenced to 45 years for swindling his followers (1989)
1st Soccer club established
Seth Thomas alarm clock patented
George Washington Bridge opened (NYC; 1931)
1st Comic strip appeared
Battle of Tours (732 CE)
Kojak debuted (1973)
Robert Motherwell’s 1st one-man exhibit opened (1944) Brenda Lee’s I Want To Be Wanted reached No. 1 (1960)
Horn of the Mark blown in the Shire (The Hobbit)
Al Capone sentenced to 11 years for tax evasion (1931)
James Brown recorded Live at the Apollo (1962)
Treaty of Westphalia signed, ending 30 Years’ War (1648)
Norwegian traitor Vidkun Quisling executed (1945)
US Bureau of Facts and Figures established (1941)
Anna Edson Taylor went over Niagra Falls in a barrel (1901)
Michael Jackson’s Bad reached No. 1 (1987)
IRS issued a regulation allowing up to 1 case of beer to be prescribed as medicine if beneficial for the patient’s health (1921)
Cerveceria La Constancia opened (El Salvador; 1906)
Hoskins & Oldfield Brewery opened (England; 1984)
Haneda Beer House opened (Japan; 1997)