The Brookston Almanac

Straw Bear Day

Twelfth Day (aka Twelfthtide)
Epiphany
Blessing of the Waters (Turkey)
Swap Day
King of the Bean (aka Bean Day)
Apple Tree Day
La Befana (Italy)
Maroon Festival (Jamaica)
Greek Cross Day
Three King’s Day
Feast of Aesculapius (Greek God of Healing)
Perch Tenlauf (Austria)
Take a Poet to Lunch Day
Children’s Day (Uruguay)
St. Peter Baptist’s Day (patron of Japan)
Army Day (Iraq)
St. Balthazar, Caspar, and Melchoir’s Day (patron of travelers)
Old Christmas Day
St. Macra’s Day (patron against breast disease)
National Shortbread Day

Richard I
Carl Sandburg
Andy Partridge
Rowan Atkinson
Joan of Arc (1412)
Sherlock Holmes (1854)
Alexander Scriabin
Max Bruch
Charles Addams
Alan Watts
Gustave Dore
P.J. Kavanagh
Kahlil Gibran
E.L. Doctorow
John Singleton
Heinrich Schliemann
Scott Bryce
John DeLorean
Margy Rochlin
Jacques Etienne Montgolfier
Danny Thomas
Haym Solomon
Loretta Young
Terry Venables
Barry John
Kathy Sledge
Bonnie Franklin
Nancy Lopez
Syd Barrett
Joey Adams
Earl Scruggs
Nancy Lopez
Haym Salomon
Sun Myung Moon
Lou Holtz
Charles Haley
Jedidiah Smith
Sylvia Sims
Mark O’Toole
Early Wynn
Lou Harris
Howie Long
Malcolm Young
Joey Adams
Capucine
Kapil Dev
Tom Mix
Richard II (1367)
Charles Haley
Vic Tayback

FDR gave his Four Freedoms speech (1941)
Iron patented
New Mexico became the 47th state (1912)
George & Martha Washington married
Zinc patented
Dorm Room Refrigerator patented (1956)
Pizarro discovered Lima, Peru
Jimmy Carter saw a UFO (1969)
1st Commercial Global flight completed (1942)
Halls of Montezuma premiered
Santa Fe County, New Mexico founded (1852)
1st Underwater telephone coversation (1898)
Telegraph 1st demonstrated by Morse (1838)
Lufthansa, German National Airline, founded (1926)
Henry VIII and Anne of Cleaves married (1540)
Pepe Le Pew debuted in Warner Bros. cartoon (1945)
Stanley Steamer Rocket achived speed of 127 mph (1906)
King Alfred defeated the Dames at the Battle of Ashdown (871 CE)
Harold II crowned King of England (1066)
Sigmund Freud fled Vienna to London (1938)
EMI Records fired the Sex Pistols for misbehaving in a TV interview (1977)
Paris brasserie, La Coupole, sold for 6 million pounds (1988)
Danny & the Juniors’ At the Hop reached No. 1 (1958)
Skater Nancy Kerrigan whacked in the knees (1994)
A man fell out of an bi-plane and then fell back into it at a lower altitude
Emma Bunting and Dante Hicks wedding date in 2007 (in the movie Clerks 2; 2006)
Brazilian naval ship Almirante Saldanha photographed a metallic, Saturn-shaped UFO (1958)
Nebraska ratified the 18th Amendment, they were the 36th state needed to adopt Prohibition (1919)
Anchor Distilling founded (1993)
Sunday River Brewing opened (Maine; 1993)
Banff Brewery opened (Alberta, Canada; 1995)
Beermann’s Beerworks opened (California; 2000)