The Brookston Almanac

Lovers’ Fair (Belgium)
Atomic Day
Pan American Health Day
St. Chromatius’ Day
Feast of Pirate Utopias
Laos Republic Day
Festival of the Finger-Stalls (Fairy)
United Arab Emirates Independence Day
Sugarplum Festival
Walter Plinge Day (UK)
National Fritters Day
St. Bibiana’s Day (patron against hangovers)

Georges Seurat
Peter Goldmark
John Barbirolli
Maria Callas
John Bentley
Monica Seles
Julie Harris
Tracy Austin
William Randolph Hearst
Sharry Konopsko (Pb 8/87)
T. Coraghessan Boyle
Chretien De Troyes
Walter Plinge
Ray Walston
Adolph Green
Stone Phillips
Willie Brown
Renee Tenison (Pb 11/89)
Heinrich Barkhausen
William Wegman
Gary Meier
Randy Gardner
Charlie Ventura
Alexander Haig
Pedro Borbon
Julio Cruz
O.J. McDuffie
Brian Habib
Cathy Lee Crosby
Harry Reid
Edwin Meese III

St. Paul’s Cathedral opened (London; 1697)
1st Self-Sustaining Nuclear Chain Reaction made (1942)
Monroe Doctrine signed (1823)
Red Telephone Boxes 1st appeared (London; 1928)
1st permanent artificial heart transplant performed (on Barney Clark; 1982)
US built the 1st atomic pile (1942)
Ford Model A 1st for sale (1927)
1st English-language newspaper pubnlished (1620)
Napoleon crowned himself Emperor (1804)
Safety Razor with disposable blades 1st for sale (1901)
1st Televised child birth
Abolistionist John Brown hanged (1859)
Sam Cooke’s You Send Me reached No. 1 (1957)
Marquis de Sade died in a lunatic asylum (1814)
Pu-Yi ascends to the throne of China (1908)
Chinese republicans captured Nanking (1911)
Michael Jackson’s video Thriller premiered (1983)
British Intelligence deciphered a Japanese message regarding the attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)
Senator Joseph McCarthy finally condemned by Congress for “conduct unbecoming to a senator” (1954)
Mercenary coup to overthrow Seychelles by posing as golfer on vacation failed when a golf bag was dropped at the airport and a gun fell out (1981)
Carling reintroduced the “Hey Mabel, Black Label” ad campaign (1970)
Michigan legalized homebrewing (1997)
Lakefront Brewery opened (Wisconsin; 1987)
Faultline Brewing opened (California; 1994)
Montana Brewing opened (Montana; 1994)
Wiltse’s Brewpub oened (Michigan; 1994)
Three Rivers Brewing opened (Pennsylvania; 1996)