The Brookston Almanac

Feast of Great Expectations
Newspaper Day
Festival of the Sons of Saturn
National Chocolates Day
St. Saturnius’ Day
Fairy Flute Fantasy (Fairy)
Parliament Night
Square Dance Day
Yugoslavia Old Independence Day
St. Cuthbert Mayne’s Day
International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People (UN)
St. Sernin’s Day

C.S. Lewis
Louis May Alcott
Garry Shandling
Christian Doppler
John Mayall
C. Monteverdi
Busby Berkeley
Darron Welch (1967)
Wilhelm Riedlin (1850)
Gregory Gillespie
James Rosenquist
Gaetano Donizetti
Madeleine L’Engle
Ted Danson
Charles Thomson
Meco
Petra Kelly
Chuck Mangione
Walter Brendt
Morrison R. Waite
Wendell Phillips
Robert Devereux
Suzy Chaffee
Antonio Moniz
Cathy Moriarity
Howie Mandel
Diane Ladd
Jacques Rene Chirac
Christian Doppler
Vin Scully
Paul Simon
Bill Freehan
Minnie Minoso
Tracy Johnson
Rich Camarillo
Nellie Tayloe Ross

1st Paper made in US
Stock Market Crash
1st English newspaper published (1641)
King Tut’s Tomb discovered (1922)
San Jose founded
Cary Grant died (1987)
Technicolor US Money 1st proposed
1st Army-Navy Football Game (Navy won 24-0; 1890)
Czechoslovakia voted out Communist Rule (1989)
Ice discovered on the Moon (1996)
Compulsory education began in UK (1870)
LBJ appointed the Warren Commission (1963)
1st English newspaper published (1641)
Natalie Wood drowned (1981)
Carl Nielsen’s Saul and David premiered (1902)
Allied leaders FDR, Churchill, and Stalin 1st met (Tehran; 1943)
Novelist Maxim Gorky expelled from USSR Communist Party (1909)
Haiti cancelled its presidential elections (1987)
Richard Byrd flew over the South Pole (1929)
National Viewers’ and Listeners’ Association formed (UK; 1965)
1st Nationally broadcast NFL football game (Thanksgiving, 1934)
93-car pile-up on Interstate 5, Los Angeles, California (17 died; 1991)
Gymnist Nadia Comaneci escaped Hungary and asked for political asylum (1989)
150 Indian warriors, women & children killed by US Calvary at San Creek, Colorado (1864)
Beatles’ Come Together/Something reached No. 1 (1969)
Narragansett Brewing reached the 1-million barrel mark (1961)
Firehouse Brewing opened (South Dakota; 1991)
Harbor Docks Seafood & Brewery opened (Florida; 1996)
Kimberley Brewing opened (Canada; 1996)