The Brookston Almanac

Passport Presentation Day (Russia)

Berchtoldstag (Nut Festival; Switzerland)
Run It Up the Flagpole and See If Anybody Salutes It Day
Festival of Fetishes
Ancestry Day (Haiti)
David Letterman Day (North Carolina)
Kakizome (First Writing; Japan)
Festival of Four Winds and All Sky
St. Adelard’s Day (patron of gardeners)
Good Luck Day (Macedonia)
Shigoto Hajime (Beginning of Work Day; Japan)
Advent of Isis
Granada Day (Spain)
Port Arthur Day
St. Macarius’ Day (patron of pastry cooks)
National Science Fiction Day
Feast of the Martyrs for the Holy Scripture
St. Gregory of Nazianzus’ Day
Revolution Day (Cuba)
St. Bercholt’s Day (patron of Switzerland)
Nativity of Our Lady Inanna (Sumerian Goddess)
St. Basil’s Day (Western; patron of hospital administrators, Russia)
Miniature Golf Day
Good Luck Day (Ancient Macedonia)
St. Seraphim of of Sarov’s Day
National Cream Puff Day
St. Macarius of Alexandria’s Day (patron of pastry cooks)

Isaac Asimov
Anna Lee
Nathaniel Bacon
Sally Rand
Mily Balakirev
David Bailey
Lynda Barry
Michael Tippitt
Christy Turlington
James Wolfe
Robert Nathan
Josh Baskin (1975; in film “Big“)
James W. Kenney (1845)
Fal Allen (1961)
Christopher Durang
Roger Miller
Calvin Hill
Gino Marchetti
Martha Thomas
Chick Churchill
Kay A. Orr
Julius La Rosa
Wendy Philips
Richard Riley
David Bailey
Gabrielle Cateris
Joanna Pacula
Chick Churchill
William Crowe
Toshiki Kaifu
Dan Rotenkowski
Vera Zorina
Gilbert Murray
Bill Madlock
Frederick Opper
David Cone
Jim Bakker
Joseph Stalin
Boo Boo Bear

1st Photograph of the Moon taken (1839)
Password debuted
1st Human Heart transplanted
George Washington raised the 1st US flag (1776)
Drinking Straw patented (1888)
British Royal Academy of Art opened (1769)
1st High School opened
Georgia became the 4th state (1788)
Burt Parks fired from Miss America Pageant
1st Commemorative Stamp issued (1893)
Grizzly Bear declared endangered species
Bob Cummings Show debuted (1955)
Calcutta captured by Clive (1757)
Ovid died in Rome (17 CE)
1st No-fault divorce law passed (1971)
Free Black Community of Philadelphia petitioned Congress to abolish slavery (South Carolina buried it in committee; 1800)
1st Electric Omnibus ran (NYC; 1900)
Religious service 1st broadcast on radio (1921)
Cardinal Richelieu established the Academie Francasie (1635)
1st State Liquor Store opened (Pennsylvania)
Federal Law lowering speed limit to 55 signed (1974)
Helicopters 1st used in war (1944)
Muslims ousted from Spain (1492)
1st spacecraft from earth orbited sun (Luna 1, which missed the moon; 1959)
Queen Victoria wrote her “we are not amused” line (1900)
British Royal Academy opened (1769)
Indonesia quit the UN (1965)
Cigarette ads banned from TV (1971)
National Woman’s Party formed (US; 1913)
Rockefeller & 7 other oil companies joined forces to create a “trust” (1882)
Hamilton County, Ohio founded (home of Cincinnati; 1797)
Pope Pius XII declared TV a threat to family life (1952)
Sinclair Lewis and Dorothy Thompson divorced (1942)
1st Black became President of a white university (Michigan State; 1970)
66 soccer fans trampled to death at Ibrox Park stadium, Glasgow (1971)
Trial of Bruno Hauptmann for kidnap of Lindbergh baby began (1935)
Publishers of Enid Blyton’s Noddy books agreed to transform Golliwogs into sanitized, neutral, PC Gnomes (1987)
NYC Accountant waited 45 days before claiming $3 million lottery ticket to save on taxes (1988)
President Rossevelt closed a Missouri post office for refusing to employ a black woman (1903)
Blue Ribbon Label 1st used by Pabst (1898)
Jefferson County voted to re-legalize saloons (Ohio; 1912)
Lagunitas’ 1st batch, a red ale, went in the brew-kettle (1994)
Heavenly Daze Brewery & Grill opened (Colorado; 1993)
Olde Hickory Brewing opened (North Carolina; 1995)
Roffalo Brewpub/MacBradees Brewing opened (Canada; 1999)