The Brookston Almanac

Scaling Day (aka Escalade; Switzerland)
Upper Volta Independence Day
St. Daniel’s Day
National Noodle Ring Day
St. Damasus’ Day (patron of archeologists)
Most Boring Celebrities of the Year Convention
Nose-Scrambling and Hair-Hiking Events (Fairy)
St. Gentian’s Day (patron of innkeepers)

Hector Berlioz
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Elliot Carter
Max Born
Big Mama Thornton
Fiorello La Guardia
Annie Jump Cannon
Susan Seidelman
Teri Garr
Brenda Lee
Fiorello La Guardia
Carlo Ponti
Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh
Victoria Fuller (Pb 1/96)
Jean-Louis Trintignant
Mark Toby
Jim Harrison
Marjorie Buell
David Brewster
Kemal Bey
Curtis Williams
Donna Mills
Lynda Day-George
Rita Moreno
Laurie Carr (Pb 12/86)
Jay Bell
Christine Onasis
Grace Paley
John F. Kerry
Danan Hughes
Max Baucus
Jermaine Jackson

Laughing Gas 1st used to pull a tooth
UNICEF established (1946)
1st Theatrical performance illuminated by incandescent bulbs (1882)
US Declared War on Germany & Italy (WW 2; 1941)
Sonderbund established
Indiana became the 19th state (1816)
King Edward VIII abdicated to marry divorced American (1936)
Prince Albert crowned King George VI
Magnum P.I. debuted (1980)
Venetian Blinds patented (1769)
1st Automobile Show held (Paris; 1894)
Battle of the Falklands (WW1; 1914)
King James II fled England (1688)
Delage automobile introduced (1905)
Edward R. Murrow died (1965)
Joe DiMaggio retired (1951)
1st Transatlantic radio signal transmitted (1902)
Alaska’s 1st TV station went on the air (KTVA; 1953)
Martial Law declared in Ireland due to rebellion by Republican army (1920)
Enterprize, Alabama unveiled its monument to the Boll Weevil (1919)
John D. Rockefeller donated the land for the United Nations (1946)
Marvelettes’ Please Mr. Postman reached No. 1 (1961)
Edward Muybridge solved the riddle of horses by photographing them running proving all 4 feet are off the ground while running (1877)
Tampa Bay Buccaneers won their 1st game after 26 straight losses (1977)
Frank Sinatra Jr. freed from kidnapping after Frank Sr. paid $240,000 ransom (1963)
Muslim death sentence on Salman Rusdie renewed after the author asked for paperback publication (1991)
Edith Thompson sentenced to death for murdering her husband along with her new lover (1922)
Derek Bentley sentenced to death for murder even though accomplice Christopher Craig pulled the trigger (1952)
King Frederic August of Saxony decalred Radeberger Export Brauerei the Royal Court Brewery of Saxony (1905)
Prison inmate walked off a work detail and into town to buy beer and cigarettes, then shocked guards by returning to the prison a few hours later (Vermont; 2001)
Stone Smoked Porter 1st released (1996)
Shed Restaurant brewery opened (Vermont; 1994)
Hoppers Seafood & Grill brewery opened (Utah; 1996)
Komi Beer Brau House Fujigaoka opened (Japan; 1996)
Raccoon Lodge & Brewpub opened (Oregon; 1998)