The Brookston Almanac

National Ambrosia Day
Switzerland Independence Day
Unmentionable Thoughts Festival (Goblins, Imps, and naughty Fairies)
Farewell to Autumn Festival begins (Hopi)
Guadalupe Day (Mexico)
Feast of Rekareka (God of Pleasure; Polynesia)
Poinsettia Day
Fiesta of the Virgin of Guadalupe (Mexico)
Kenya Indepedence Day (aka Jamhuri)
St. Vicelin’s Day
Runic half-month of Is ends
Toronto Peace Festival
Miracle of the Roses
Yuletide Lads begins (Iceland)
St. Spyridon’s Day (Eastern)
Festival of Our Lady Guadalupe
Bonza Bottler Day
St. Cury’s Day (patron against blindness, deafness, demonic possession)
National Ding-A-Ling Day
St. Jane Frances de Chantal’s Day

Frank Sinatra (1915)
Jennifer Connelly
Edvard Munch
John Jay
Alfred Werner
Ed Koch
Joe Williams
Andie MacDowell
Edward G. Robinson
Bob Barker
Gustave Flaubert
Erasmus Darwin
William Lloyd Garrison
Sondra Theodore (Pb 7/77)
John Osborne
Erasmus Darwin
Helen Frankenthaler
Cathy Rigby
Tracy Austin
Connie Francis
Albert Terhude
Dan Dailey
Carrie Westcott (Pb 9/93)
Emmerson Fittipaldi
Steve Farr
Haywood Jeffries
Grover Washington
Sheila E.
Dionne Warwick
Fuu Hououji (Rayearth Magic Knight)

Pennsylvania became the 2nd state (1787)
1st Motel opened (Milestone Mo-Tel, San Luis Obispo, CA; 1925)
Labrador Duck declared extinct
1st Bank of the US opened (1792)
Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner premiered
1st Trans-Atlantic Wireless sent
Ravel’s La Valse premiered
1st Mobile TV Unit went on the air
Hovercraft patented (1955)
Golf Tee patented
1st Crossword Puzzle in a newspaper
Worst Train Wreck occurred (France; 1917)
Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker premiered in the US (San Francisco; 1944)
Marconi sent 1st radio signal across Atlantic Ocean (1901)
Katzenjammer Kids comic strip began (1897)
Beethoven received his 1st music lesson (from Haydn)
South African Transvaal given full authority with white male suffrage (1906)
Experimental aircraft Voyager completed an around-the-world flight without refueling (1986)
Leona Helmsley sentenced to jail for tax evasion (1989)
543 died in the worst train wreck ever (France; 1917)
Zulu King Dinizulu surrendered to British troops (Natal; 1907)
Smokey Robinson’s Tears of a Clown reached No. 1 (1970)
Mona Lisa, stolen and missing for 2 years, rediscovered under a hotel bed in Florence (1913)
Elton John awarded $1.85 million against The Sun for libel (1988)
Russian Parliament voted to replaced USSR with Commonwealth of Independent States (1991)
29,000 British women linked hands arounds Greenham Common airbase to protest plans to house US cruise missiles there (1982)
New York passed a rule forcing women to sign an affidavit attesting to their age and good character before marrying (1907)
George Michael’s Faith reached No. 1 (1987)
Stone 12.12.12 Vertical Epic Ale will be released (2012)
Don Alfonso de Herrera granted permission to build the 1st brewery in the Americas (Mexico; 1543)
Gambrinus Brewing opened (Ohio; 1993)
Hereford & Hops Brewpub opened (Michigan; 1994)
Four Peaks Brewing opened (Georgia; 1996)
Bierbrier Brewing (Quebec, Canada; 2005)