The Brookston Almanac

International Clergy Appreciation Week (begins on last Sun)

Serendipity Day
Daisy Day
National Kazoo Day
Hall of Fame Day
St. Thomas Aquinas’s Day (patron of students, pencil makers, theologians)
National Spieling Day
Love Among the Nations Day
Runic half-month of Elhaz (elk) begins
St. Charlemagne’s Day
Rwanda Independence Day
Bald Eagle Day
Smeltana (Betters Homes & Shanties Contest @)
National Blueberry Pancake Day
St. Ephraem Syrus’ Day
Rattlesnake Round-Up (@)
Fond du Lac Winter Celebration
St. Paulinus of Nola’s Day
Rinkydinks Annual Snowball Fight (@)

Jackson Pollock
Barbie Benton
William Burroughs
Colette
Henry M. Stanley
Artur Rubinstein
Claes Oldenberg
Alan Alda
Susan Sontag
Alexander MacKenzie
Luanne L. Lee (Pb 1/87)
Johannes Hevelius
Acker Bilk
Ernst Lubitsch
Henry VII
Jose Marti
Auguste & Jean Felix Piccard
Susan Howard
Ernie (Sesame Street)

Great Seal of the US established
1st Emmy Awards presented
Burma Road opened
Gunga Din premiered
Iceland became 1st country to legalize abortion (1935)
1st Streelights turned on (London; 1807)
Shuttle Challenger exploded during ascent (1986)
12 O’Clock High premiered
Nuclear Fission discovered (1939)
Charlemagne died (814)
1st Telephone Switchboard in service (1878)
US Coast Guard established
Japanese troops took Shanghai (1932)
Panama Railroad completed (1855)
GM announced Saturn small-car project (1985)
Vince Lombardi resigned as Packers head coach (1968)
We Are the World recorded (1985)
O.J. Simpson trial began (1995)
Stendahl’s 1st book published (1814)
Trans-Panama Railroad completed (1855)
Paris captured by Prussians (Franco-Prussian War; 1871)
Derek Bentley hanged at age 19 for murdering a policeman (UK; 1953)
Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campenella paralyzed in car accident (1958)
Binding Carolus Dopplebock 1st for sale (Germany; 1902)
Hubcap Brewery & Kitchen opened (Colorado; 1991)
Yegua Creek Brewing opened (Texas; 1994)
Pyramid Brewery & Alehouse opened (Berkeley, California; 1997)
Jack’s Brewing opened (California; 1999)
Wicked Hathern Brewery opened (England; 2000)
Swiss citizen Billy Meier 1st abducted by aliens from the Pleiades star system (1975)

Punch the Clock Day
National Chocolate Cake Day
Birth of Uncanny Conjunctures
Festival of Root Vibrations
Kalamazoo Snowflakes & Spirits Festival
Runic half-month of Peorth ends
St. Angela Merici’s Day
Thomas Crapper Day
National Activity Professionals Day
Brussels Lace Day
St. John Chrysostom’s Day

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Lewis Carroll
Frank Miller
Edouard Lalo
Jerome Kern
William Randolph Hearst
Akiko Hinagata
David Seville
Samuel Gompers
Mimi Rogers
Harry Ruby
Charlotte J. Kemp (Pb 12/82)
Mordecai Richler
Skitch Henderson
Troy Donohue
Karen Velez (Pb 12/84)
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Donna Reed
Nedra Talley
Art Rooney
Bobby “Blue” Bland
Hymen G. Rickover
David Seville
Jean Bertrand Aristide
Kaiser William II of Germany

Henry M. Stanley found Dr. Livingstone, he presumed (1868)
National Geographic Society founded (1888)
1st Magnetic Tape Recorder made
Apollo I fire on the launchpad (1967)
Vietnam War ended (1973)
Fighting 69th premiered
Lime invented
Terramycin antibiotic introduced (1950)
How To Murder Your Wife premiered
Incandescent Light Bulb patented
1st US University, University of Georgia at Athens, founded (1785)
Sub-Mariner attacked New York City
Carter pardoned Vietnam draft dodgers
1st Public demonstration of television
Standardization of Weights & Measures
Howdy Doody debuted
Auschwitz freed by allied troops (WW2; 1945)
Dante exiled from Florence for his politics (1302)
French submarine “Minerse” disappeared in Mediterranean Sea (1968)
Shotz Brewery introduced with the debut of Laverne & Shirley (1976)
1st Woman announced she would seek nomination for US President for a major party (Margret Chase Smith; 1964)
Asia Brewery opened (Philippines; 1982)
Main Street Brewing opened (Massachusetts; 1996)
Blue Corn Cafe East opened (New Mexico; 1997)
Gabsreiter Brewpub, Bruck an der Mur opened (Austria; 1998)

Spike the Punch Day
Uphellyaa Day (Scotland)
Australia Day
St. Timothy’s Day (patron against stomachaches)
Duarte Day (Dominican Republic)
Republic Day (India)
St. Titus’ Day (patron of Crete; against freethinking)
National Popcorn Day
St. Paula’s Day (patron of widows)
Gone To Croatan Festival
Smeltania (Boyne City, Michigan)
National Peanut Brittle Day
St. Polycarp’s Day
Fond du Lac Winter Celebration (Lake Winebago @)
St. Xenophon’s Day (Eastern)
End of the Fifth Quarter of the Ninth Dozen of the Thirteenth Set (Fairy)

Jules Feiffer
Paul Newman
Senna Matsuda
Eddie Van Halen
Philip Jose Farmer
Joan Leslie
Claude Helveticus
Sal Buscema
Gene Siskel
Henry Jordan
Wayne Gretzky
Sean MacBride
Jimmy Van Heusen
Roy Chapman Andrews
Scott Glenn
Andrew Ridgley
Mary Mapes Dodge
Stephane Grappelli
Roger Vadim
Eartha Kitt
Roy Andrews
Bob Uecker
Merissa Mathes (Pb 6/62)
Ralph Olson (1951)
Angela Davis
Jack Youngblood
Douglas MacArthur
Charles XIV
Julia Dent Grant
George Howard Clements
C. William Verity
David Allen Pothier
Nicolae Ceausescu

1st Boy Scout Troop organized
Brazil discovered (1500)
Worker’s Compensation established
1st Hydrplane flew
Khartoum fell (1885)
Michigan became the 26th state (1836)
1st Convicts arrived in Australia
Black Knight 1st appeared
Virginia readmitted to the Union (1870)
Internal Combustion Engine patented by Karl Benz (1886)
1st State Temperance Law passed (Tennessee, naturally; 1838)
Rugby Football Union established (UK; 1871)
1st Demonstration of television
Fortean Society founded (1931)
Rocky Mountain National Park founded
Louisiana seceded from the Union (1861)
1st Electric Dental Drill built
Peru declared independence from Chile (1827)
55 mph US National Speed Limit adopted (1974)
Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race 1st held (1925)
August Tappan Wright’s Islandia published
J.M. Synge’s Playboy of the Western World premiered at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre (1907)
Michael Jackson’s hair caught on fire filming a Pepsi commercial (1984)
British Surgeon General linked smoking with cancer (1926; 40 years before US)
Hoover 1st calls for “meatless” and “wheatless” days to deal with war shortages
Anchor Brewery owner/brewer Otto Schnikel Jr. thrown from Bryant Street streetcar and run over (1907)
Bradley’s Restaurant & Brewery opened (Texas; 1996)