The Brookston Almanac

New Year’s Eve
Hogmanay Day (Scotland)
World Peace Meditation Day
Make Up Your Mind Day
Noche de Pedimento (Wishing Night)
Omisoka Day (Japan)
Amateur Night
Congo Republic Day
St. Sylvester’s Day
Watch Night
Namahge (Japan)
Comoros Independence Day
Unlucky Day (Astronomy)
National Champagne Day
Kwanzaa, Day 6: Kuumba (Creativity)
Fairy Eve’s Year News (Fairy)
Check the Smoke Alarms Day
Revolution Day (Ghana)
Cowbellion de Rakin Revel (Alabama)
No Resolution Day
Samoan Fire Dance (Western Samoa)
You’re All Done Day
Allendale Baal Fire Festival

Henry Matisse
Tim Matthieson (voice of Jonny Quest)
Steve Rude
Andy Summers
Jacques Cartier
Anthony Hopkins
Ben Kingsley
Tim Matheson
Val Kilmer
Bebe Neuwirth
Lord Leighton
John Wycliffe
Lord Cornwallis
George C. Marshall
Sarah Miles
Patti Smith
John Denver
Diane Von Furstenburg
Odetta
Mike “King” Kelly
Hugh McElhenny
Rich Baldinger
Ed Simmons
Rick Aguilera
Marie Wilson
Donna Summer
“Bonnie Prince” Charles Edward Stuart

1st Humans appeared (10:30 p.m.)
Martin Luther excommunicated
Calvin & Hobbes last comic strip (1995)
Monopoly patented (1935)
Inspector General premiered
1st Transatlantic voice broadcast
Three Men In a Boat debuted
East India Company chartered (1600)
Czech-Slovak split at midnight (1992)
Ellis Island opened
Monkees’ I’m a Believer reached No. 1 (1966)
Government of Ghana overthrown (1981)
Paul McCartney knighted (1996)
Trafalgar Square’s giant Christmas tree attacked by Norwegian man with a chainsaw (1990)
Esso Oil announced it was divesting in South Africa (1986)
Frank Sinatra debuted solo at NYC’s Paramount Theatre
Panama will take over the Panama Canal (1999)
MBE awarded to Eric Bristow, darts’ world champion (1988)
1st Huguenot emigrants to South Africa left France with grapevines (1687)
Michigan J. Frog debuted in Warner Bros. cartoon (1955)
Little Match Girl froze to death (Hans Christian Anderson)
Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance premiered on Broadway (1879)
France turned down a non-aggression pact from Germany (1922)
Hudepohl-Schoenling Brewing opened (Ohio; 1985)
Carver Brewing opened (Colorado; 1988)
Blackstone Brewery opened (Tennessee; 1994)
Longshore Brewing opened (New York; 1996)
Arizona Roadhouse opened (Arizona; 1997)
Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000-year lease for the St. James Gate property in Dublin (Ireland; 1759)
The “drunkometer,” the 1st breathalyzer debuted (1938)
Scheidt Brewing closed (Pennsylvania; 1974)
Blitz-Weinhard in Portland, Oregon closed (1999)
Lone Star Brewing in Texas closed (1999)
Celis Brewery in Austin, Texas closed (2000)
Pliocene Period ended, Quatenary (Pleistocene and Holocene) Period began; humans 1st appeared at 10:30 p.m. (Sagan calendar)

Other Sagan calendar events:

• 11:00:00: Stone tools 1st used
• 11:46:00: Fire domesticated
• 11:56:00: Most recent glacial period began
• 11:59:00: Cave painting in Europe
• 11:59:20: Agriculture invented
• 11:59:35: 1st Cities appeared
• 11:59:50: 1st dynasties in Sumer, Egypt; astronomy developed
• 11:59:51: Alphabet invented
• 11:59:53: Trojan War; compass invented
• 11:59:55: Buddha born
• 11:59:56: Roman Empire; Christ born; Greek sciences
• 11:59:57: Zero and decimals invented; Fall of Rome
• 11:59:58: Mayan civilization; Byzantine Empire; China’s Sung Dynasty
• 11:59:59: Renaissance in Europe; China’s Ming Dynasty