The Brookston Almanac

Army & Navy Union Day (Massachusetts)

Fiesta of the Mother of Health (Mexico)
National Pastry Day
International Anti-Corruption Day
Tanzania Independence Day
End of Days of Reckoning (Fairy)
Upper Volta National Holiday
St. Leocadia’s Day (patron of Toledo; against plague)
Ozcanabans of Oz Convention (@)

Joel Chandler Harris
Clarence Birdseye
John Milton
Kirk Douglas
Jean de Brunhoff
Michael Dorn
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Buck Henry
John Malkovich
Neil Innes
Henry H. Rueter (1832)
Fritz Maytag (1937)
Mark Gestler
Broderick Crawford
Fritz Haber
Edwin Sandys
Deacon Jones
Margaret Hamilton
Worf (2340)
Dick Butkus
John Cassavantes
Hermione Gingold
Beau Bridges
Michael Ondaatje
David “Deacon” Jones
Joan Armatrading
Thomas “Tip” O’Neill
Dick Van Patten
Otis Birdsong
Tom Kite
George “Doc” Medich
Joe Kelley
Redd Foxx
Grace Hopper
Robert J.L. Hawke
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Donny Osmond
Gustavus II Adolphus
Bob Hawke
Junior Wells
Thomas A. Daschle
Bill Wilburn
Emmett Kelly

1st Christmas Cards sent
A Charlie Brown Christmas debuted (1965)
Ball-bearing roller skates patented
Virgin of Guadlupe appeared to indian boy (1531)
1st Christmas Seals issued (1907)
William de Kooning married Elaine Fried (1943)
12th US Amendment passed (1803)
NYC’s 1st Newspaper (by Noah Webster; The American Minerva; 1793)
John Birch Society founded (1958)
Chicago Auditorium opened (1889)
1st Formal Cremation in US (1792)
Carmel, California banned high heels (1982)
Newgate Prision held its 1st execution (London; 1783)
Pioneer Venus 1 reached Venus (1978)
Xerces Society founded (to protect endangered insects)
Poland’s 1st free elections held (1990)
Germany and UK seized the Venezuelan Navy (1902)
Turkey stopped an Arab revolt in Palenstine (1910)
UK captured Jersusalem from the Turks (1917)
Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis married (1948)
Nicholae Ceausescu became president of Romania (1967)
General Patton paralyzed from the neck down in auto accident (1945)
Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start the Fire reached No. 1 (1989)
Kramer came up with his idea for a coffee table book about coffee tables (Seinfeld; 1993)
300 children killed when Indian planes bombed an orphanage in Pakistan (1971)
Argentina General Jorge Videla sentenced to life imprisonment (1985)
Henry VII granted exclusive exploration patent to English & Portugese merchants called “the Company of Adventurers of the New World” (1502)
1st batch of Anchor “Old Potrero” Rye Whiskey distilled (1994)
Cerveceria Union opened (Colombia; 1901)
Nevada City Brewing opened (California; 1986)
Bryan Brewing opened (Texas; 1994)
Lake Superior Brewing opened (Minnesota; 1994)
Lift Bridge Brewing opened (Ohio; 1994)
Ocean Avenue Brewing opened (California; 1994)
Beacon Brewery opened (Massachusetts; 1998)