The Brookston Almanac

Compitalia (Old Roman Slave Festival to Household Gods)
Printing Ink Day
Working Woman’s Appreciation Day
Festival of Sarasyati (Hindu Goddess of Wisdom)
National Pharmacist Day
Bikini Appreciation Day
Goblin Gala (Fairies not invited)
Zanzibar Revolution Day (Tanzania)
St. Ailred’s Day
Ullr Festival (Mythical God of Winter)
Feast of Fabulous Wild Men
St. Allan’s Day
National Marzipan Day
Lift Every Voice and Sing Day
Work Harder Day
St. Benedict Biscop’s Day (patron of architects, glass workers, musicians, painters, speleologists)
Runic half-month of Eoh ends

John Singer Sargent
Edmund Burke
Charles Perrault
Jack London
Thomas Moran
Glenda Jackson
Kirstie Alley
Vendela Kirsebom
HAL
Kreskin
Joe E. Lewis
Ira Hayes
Angela Davis
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Tex Ritter
John Winthrop
Vivekanada
Dominique Wilkins
Henny Youngman
Joe Frazier
Luise Rainer
Glenn Yarborough
James Farmer
Ray Price
Long John Baldry
Anthony Andrews
Patsy Kelly
Judi Monterey (Pb 1/63)
Des O’Connor
Ricky Van Shelton
Luise Rainer
Ray Price
Cynthia Robinson
Paul Hermann Muller
Jean Baptiste van Helmont
Per Gessie
William Lee Golden
P.W. Botha
Joseph Joffre
Hermann Goering
Rush Limbaugh
Howard Stern

HAL became operational (1997; in 2001: A Space Odyssey)
1st Public Museum opened (Charleston, SC; 1773)
His Girl Friday premiered
1st X-Ray taken
Batman debuted
Freeland Colony founded in US (1900)
Santa Clara Mission founded (1777)
How To Stuff a Wild Bikini premiered
All in the Family debuted (1971)
1st Sale at Saks 5th Avenue
Biafran War ended (1970)
1st Supermarket in UK opened (1948)
Zulu-British War began (1879)
Boeing 747 completed its 1st atlantic flight (1970)
Sultan of Zanzibar banished (1964)
Aeronautical Society of Great Britain founded (1866)
2 Earth-size planet discovered orbiting pulsar PSR1257812 (1992)
Boeing 747 made its maiden voyage (1970)
Steve Miller’s The Joker reached No. 1 (1974)
1st Woman elected to the US Senate (1932)
Queen of England opened the New Zealand Parliament (1954)
Lift Every Voice and Sing, Negro National Anthem, 1st performed (1900)
Idi Amin expelled from Zaire (1989)
Franfurter temporarily renamed “Victory Sausage”
US House of Representatives rejected proposal to allow women to vote (1915)
A Luminous pancake-shaped UFO landed in North Bergen, New Jersey & took soil samples (1975)
Sharkey’s Brew Club opened (Colorado; 1995)
Storm Brewing opened (Canada; 1995)
Mammoth Brewing opened (California; 1996)
Marquette Habor Brewery opened (Michigan; 1996)
Neustadt Springs Brewery opened (Canada; 1997)