The Brookston Almanac

Civil Rights Week
Human Rights Week
National Drunk Drivers Awareness Week

National Lager Day
Lux Mundi (Light of the World; Roman Goddess of Liberty)
International Human Rights Day
Nobel Prize Day
Constitution Day (Thailand)
Festival for the Souls of Dead Whales (Inuit Eskimos)
St. Eulalia’s Day (patron of Barcelona, childbirth, sailors, travelers, calm waters; against miscarriage)
Burma National Day
St. Miltiades’ Day

Emily Dickinson
Cesar Franck
Otis Redding
John Hammond
Oliver Messaien
Morton Gould
Dorothy Lamour
Chet Huntley
Jack Joyce (1942)
Holly Witt (Pb 11/95)
Kenneth Branagh
Louis Lozowick
Melvil Dewey
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
Oliver Messiaen
Victor McLaglen
Mark Aguirre
George MacDonald
Dennis Morgan
Una Merkel
Harold Gould
Gloria Loring
Brian Henesey
Steve Renko
Nia Peeples
Susan Dey
John Hammond Sr.

Mighty Mouse debuted
1st Nobel Peace Prize awarded (1901)
Monkees’ I’m A Believer released
Pennies From Heaven premiered
Mississippi became the 20th state (1817)
Wings Over America released
1st Traffic Light erected
Chief Red Cloud died (1909)
Aswan Dam on the Nile River finished (1902)
Women got the vote in Wyoming (1869)
Dr. Livingstone arrived back in England
Puccini’s opera La fanciulla del West premiered (1910)
Albert Einstein received the Nobel Prize for Physics (1921)
National began US domestic jetliner service (1958)
Society for Human Rights, 1st gay rights organization, founded (1924)
Australian newspaper empire, The Fairfax Group, declared bankruptcy (1990)
Beach Boys’ Good Vibrations reached No. 1 (1966)
Randy Newman’s Short People hit the charts, many complained (1977)
Davy Jones played at Marcia Brady’s prom (on the Brady Bunch; 1971)
Roman Strauss sentenced to the death penalty (1949; in film, Dead Again)
St. Louis Brewery & Taproom brewed its 1st beer, which was a hefeweizen (1991)
L’Inox brewery opened (Canada; 1987)
Great Basin Brewing opened (Nevada; 1993)
Big Horn Brewing opened (Texas; 1995)
Oglethorpe Brewing opened (Georgia; 1996)