The Brookston Almanac

Time Day
National Chocolate Day
St. Simon’s Day
Fyribod (or Forebode)
National Holiday (Hungary) Folly Day
Runic half-month of Hagal (constraint) begins
Ohi Day (Greece)
Wild Foods Day
Czechoslovakia Independence Day
St. Firmilian’s Day (Eastern)
Celtic tree month of Ngetal (Reed) begins
Nationalist China Independance Day
St. Jude’s Day (patron of desperate or hopeless cases)

Francis Bacon
Jonas Salk
Evelyn Waugh
Desiderius Erasmus
Julia Roberts
Richard Doll
Annie Potts
Charlie Daniels
Edith Head
Veronica Gamba (Pb 11/83)
Joan Plowright
Howard Hanson
Georges Escoffier
Bruce Jenner
Jane Alexander
Elsa Lanchester
Henry III (1017)
Pan Dawber
Robert Liston
Auguste Escoffier
Jami Gertz
Bowie Kuhn
Dennis Franz
Thelma Hopkins
Anna Elizabeth Dickinson
Benjamin Paul Blood
Joe Page
Wayne Fontana
Cleo Laine
Steve Atwater
Dody Goodman
Tom Schlafly (brewer; 1948)

Le Morte D’Arthur published
Cotton Gin patented
Harvard University founded (1636)
Gulliver’s Travels published (1726)
1st Child born in an airplane
Statue of Liberty dedicated (1886)
Americazation of Emily premiered
Tchaikovsky’s 6th Symphony premiered
Hungarian Revolution (1956)
1st Female US Ambassador appointed (1949)
Earthquake destroyed Lima, Peru (1746)
Black-Shirt Fascists captured Rome (1922)
UK Parliament opening 1st televised (1958)
George Eastman announced invention of Color Photographic Process (1914)
Edouard Manet married Suzanne Leenhoff (1863)
Nick Gilder’s Hot Child in the City reached No. 1 (1978)
Cuban Missile Crisis ended (1962)
Volstead Act passed by Congress over the veto of President Woodrow Wilson (1919)
Michael Faraday invented device to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy (1831)
Dutch colonial government in New Amsterdam imposed a tax of 3 Guilders on every beer barrel (1644)
Labatt’s Brewery opened (Ontario, Canada; 1847)
Ali’i Brewing opened (Hawaii; 1994)
Olde Burnside Brewing opened (2000)