The Brookston Almanac

Evacuation Day
St. Mercury’s Day (patron of the military)
Celtic tree month of Ruis (Elder) begins
Suriname Independence Day
Cathern Day
National Parfait Day
Cat-Nipping Convention (Fairy)
National Don’t Utter a Word Day
St. Catherine of Alexandria’s Day (patron of philosophers, maidens, mechanics, lawyers, librarians, nurses, secretaries, schoolgirls, spinsters, teachers, universities; against tongue disease)

Virgil Thompson
Paul Desmond
Christina Applegate
Lenny Moore
Joe DiMaggio
Carrie Nation
Sean Topping
Maurice Denis
Herschel Savage
John F. Kennedy Jr.
Karl Benz
Henry Purcell
Laurence Stalling
Tina Turner
John Larroquette
Andrew Carnegie
Robert Ripley
Monique St. Pierre (Pb 11/78)
Ricardo Montalban
Arthur Schwartz
Stacy Lattislaw
Cynthia Gwyn Brown (Pb 5/95)
Art Shell
Bucky Dent
Kathryn Crosby
Bernie Kosar
Chris Carter
Amy Grant
Rosalyn Drexler
Augusto Pinochet
John XXIII

1st Typewriter made
Evaporated Milk patented (1884)
Beatles’ White Album released
US Speed Limit changed from 70 to 55 (1973)
1st Brain Surgery performed
Dynamite invented
1st Gift Coupons given out
JFK’s state funeral began (1963)
Greek Monarchy restored (1935)
Disney’s Aladdin premiered (1992)
Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas? recorded (1984)
Silk Power Loom patented
Mr. Bojangles, Bill Robinson, died (1949)
Japanese novelist, Yukio Mishima, committed hari kari (1970)
1st Sword-swallowing exhibition performed
Agatha Christie’s play The Mousetrap opened in London (1952)
Humbolt County, Nevada founded (home of Winnemucca; 1861)
Strawberry Alarm Clock’s Incense and Peppermint reached No. 1 (1967)
Ku Klux Klan refounded in Atlanta by idiots (1915)
Segregation prohibited in public transportation (1955)
Hollywood Ten banned after refusing to testify before House UnAmerican Committee (1947)
1st License to brew beer in Virginia granted (1652)
Seattle Brewers opened (Washington; 1992)
Original Sarasota Springs Brewpub opened (New York; 1995)
AAA Brewing opened (New York; 1997)