The Brookston Almanac

St. Lucy’s Day (patron of writers, lights, people with eye trouble, glass workers, lamplighters; against dysentary, throat disease, blindness, hemorrhage)
Malta Republic Day
Ice Cream & Violins Day
Runic half-month of Jara (year) begins
Santa Lucia
Namibia Independence Day
Little Yule (Festival of Lights)
National Coccoa Day
St. Odilia’s Day
Luciadagen (Sweden)
St. Jose’s Day (patron of harvests, ships; against fire, fever, storms)

Rick Reynolds
Dick Van Dyke
Phillip Brooks
Kristine Simoni
William Drummond
Clark Mills
Diego Rivera
Emily Carr
Heinrich Heine
Christopher Plummer
Mary Todd Lincoln
Ross MacDonald
Karen Witter (Pb 3/82)
Van Heflin
Marianne Gravatte (Pb 10/82)
Fergie Jenkins
Laurens van der Post
Tim Conway
Kenneth Patchen
Richard Lamar Dent
Edward Koren
Carl “Disk” Erskine
John Davidson
Larry Doby
Eleanor Bradley (Pb 2/59)
Joel Williams
Gary Zimmerman
Deborah Driggs (Pb 3/90)
Carlos Montoya
Scott Zolak
Ted Nugent

1st Incident in the American Revolutionary War
George Gershwin’s An American in Paris premiered (1938)
1st US Savings Bank opened (1816)
New Zealand discovered (1642)
The Mauretania ran aground at Liverpool (1907)
Pope Celestine V abdicated (1294)
1st Abdominal Operation performed
Virus released killing 5 billion people (1996; 12 Monkeys)
Battle of Fredericksburg (1862)
Ice Cream Cone patented (1903)
Jerry Maguire premiered (1996)
Porsche begins making cars (1930)
Grandma Moses died at age 101 (19610
Vanna White turned over her 1st letter (a “T”; 1982)
Mars Attacks premiered (1996)
1st Electric Train went into service on London’s Metropolitan Railway (1904)
Lightnin’ Hopkins recorded I’m A Crawlin’ Black Snake
Coca-Cola’s 1st Headquarters opened (Atlanta, Georgia; 1898)
Sir Francis Drake set sail on 2nd around-the-world journey (1577)
Brown Death smog killed 160 (London; 1952)
Disney’s Bedknobs and Broomsticks premiered (1971)
Vietnam refugees 1st repatriated from Hong Kong by riot police (1989)
North and South Korea signed a formal treaty ending Korean War (1991)
Daisy Adair died (in the TV series, Dead Like Me; 1938)
Bruce Hornsby’s The Way It Is reached No. 1 (1986)
Nelson Mandela and South African presdient F.W. de Klerk 1st met (1989)
Council of Europe’s Torture Committee declared UK’s prision system of “inhuman and degrading treatment of prisoners” (1991)
Idaho Brewing brewed their 1st beer, a pale ale (2002)
George Rublein Brewing (Marquette, Michigan; 1873)
Laguna Beach Brewing opened (California; 1994)
Skagit River Brewing opened (Washington; 1994)
Breckenridge Brewing in Buffalo (New York; 1995)
Rattlesnake Creek Brewery opened (North Dakota; 1995)
Whaler’s Brewpub opened (Hawaii; 1997)