The Brookston Almanac

Bald Eagle Appreciation Days begin

Old New Year’s Day (Wales; Julian Calendar)
Change of Style Day
Silvesterklause (Switzerland)
Blame Someone Else Day
Festival of the Body of Habits
Zero Birth Day
Recuperation Fortnight begins (Fairy)
Tiugunde Day (Old England)
Midvintersblot (Norse Midwinter Festival)
Liberation Day (Togo)
St. Hilary of Poitiers’ Day (patron of backward children, lawyers; against insanity, snakebites)
Tyvendedagen (Norway)
Stephen Foster Memorial Day
Door-to-Door Salespeople Day
Strive and Succeed Day
Runic half-month of Peorth (womb, dice cup) begins
St. Knute’s Day
National Tractor Pull (@)
Stephen Foster Memorial Day
National Peach Melba Day

Tabita Stevens (Bewitched)
Salmon P. Chase
Wyatt Earp
Sam Woolworth
Anna-Marie Goddard (Pb 1/94)
Patrick Dempsey
Horatio Alger Jr.
Gwen Verdon
John Dos Passos
Suggs
Penelope Ann Miller
Frank Gallo
Jay McInerney
Michael Bond
Robert Stack
Don Snow
Vicki McCarty (Pb 9/79)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Kevin Anderson
Charlie “Swamp Baby” Wilson
Robert “Squirrel” Lester
Graham McPherson
Richard Moll
Frances Sternhagen
Sandra Church
Potter Stewart
Wilhelm Wien
Ralph Edwards
William B. Davis
Alfred Carl Fuller
Kevin Mitchell
Gary Moore
Johannes Bjelke-Petersen
Ted Willis
Harry Worth
Brandon Tartikoff
Sophie Tucker
Charles Nelson Reilly
Rubber Duckie (Sesame Street)
Henry Shlaudeman (1834)

Frisbee debuted by Wham-O (1957)
Accordian patented (1854)
Duke appointed Governor of Samoa (Doonesbury)
1st Plastic Car made
Yellow Submarine released
Lifeboat premiered
1st Dynamite Factory built
British Labour Party formed (1893)
1st Public Radio Broadcast (1910)
Mickey Mouse comic strip began (1930)
1st Woman conducted the Metropolitan Opera (1976)
Friday the 13th Computer Virus supposedly actived (1989)
Jayne Mansfield married Mickey Hargitay (1958)
1st Ad for a radio appeared (in Scientific American; 1906)
Jonathan Swift was ordained an Anglican priest (Ireland; 1695)
NASA selcted 1st US Women Astronauts (1978)
1st Black played in NBA All-Star basketball game (1953)
Canadian radical William Lyon Mackenzie fled to the US (1838)
Independent British Labour Party formed (1893)
Capitol Records reluctantly released 1st Beatles record in US (I Wanna Hold Your Hand; 1964)
Emile Zola sent an open letter to French President, reprinted in L’Aurore newspaper as J’accuse (1898)
Chubby Checker’s The Twist reached No. 1 (1962)
Darrin and Samatha Stevens give birth to Tabitha (Bewitched; 1966)
French newspaper, La Liberation published list of 32 CIA agents operation undercover in Paris (1976)
London Appeals Court ruled mere possession of cannibis not an offense under English Law
California ratified the 18th Amendment (1919)
Clubhaus Brewpub opened (Minnesota; 1995)
Watertower Brewing opened (Minnesota; 1997)