The Brookston Almanac

Miracle Day
Festival of Enormous Changes At the Last Minute
Romania Republic Day
Madagascar Independence Day
Kwanzaa, Day 5: Nia (Purpose)
Fairy Frequent Fliers’ Awards (Fairy)
Rizal Day (Philippines)
St. Sabinus’ Day
National Bicarbonate of Soda Day

Rudyard Kipling
Mike Nesmith
Dmitri Kabalevsky
Simon Guggenheim
John Milne
Davy Jones
Sandy Koufax
Tracy Ullman
Stephen Leacock
Jack Lord
Bert Parks
Jeff Lynne
Del Shannon
Stephen Leacock
Bo Diddley
Asa Griggs Candler
Skeeter Davis
Ben Johnson
Carol Reed
Paul Bowles
Jo Van Fleet
Frank Torre
Devon Mitchell
Tojo Hideki

1st Color TV for sale (Admiral; 1953)
Gadsen Purchase (1853)
Let’s Make a Deal debuted
1st Public Concert given
Boer War began
American Meterological Society established
Bruckner’s 7th Symphony premiered
Los Angeles dedicated its 1st Freeway (1940)
USS Monitor sank in storm (1862)
Tokyo Subway dedicated (1927)
Roy Rogers Show debuted (1951)
Transvaal became a republic (1880)
Soviet Russia renamed Union if Soviet Socialist Republics (1922)
1st Female law student admitted to Lincoln’s Inn (London; 1919)
Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance premiered in London (1879)
UAW (United Auto Workers) held their 1st sit-down strike (1936)
Olover North subpoenaed US President Ronald Reagan and George Bush to testify in Iran-Contra trial (1988)
1st “Black-Face” act performed (1799)
Primate brain’s frontal lobes 1st developed and 1st hominids and giant mammals appeared (Sagan calendar)
Miller High Life 1st bottled (1903)
Alaskan Amber 1st bottled (1986)
Anchor’s Junipero Gin 1st bottled (1997)
Red Bank Brewery opened (New Jersey; 1995)
Cross Creek Brewing opened (North Carolina; 1998)