The Brookston Almanac

Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Human Relations Day
Elementary School Teachers Day
Junk Food News Alert Day
Lee-Jackson Day (Virginia)
Golden Globe Awards

Ivy Day
Feast of the Abbot of Unreason
Hermit Day
Procrastinator’s New Year
Craft-Brew Day (Berkeley, California)
Feast of the Ass
Dia Del Maestro (Teacher’s Day; Venezuela)
Seijn-No-Hi (Adult’s Day; Japan)
Humanitarian Day
Pioneer Day (Idaho)
Hat Day
St. Paul of Thebes’ Day (aka Paul the Hermit; patron of weavers)
Moliere Day (France)
Coming of Age Day (Japan)
Massage Parlor Day
St. Maurus’ Day (patron against colds)
Iroquois White Dog Feast
National Strawberry Ice Cream Day
St. Macarius of Egypt’s Day
Top Junk-Food News Stories Day
Feast of Christ of Esquipulas (Black Christ Festival; Guatemala)

Moliere
Edward Teller
Martin Luther King Jr.
Gene Krupa
Matthew Brady
Franz Grillparzer
Sonya Kovalevski
Osip Mandelstam
Martin Agronsky
Chuck Berry
Mazo de la Roche
St. Paul the Hermit
Don Van Vliet
Lloyd Bridges
Captain Beefheart
Philip Livingston
Ace Goodman
Margaret O’Brien
Julian Sands
Edwin Sherin
Aristotle Onasis
Rod MacLeish
Matha Davis
Gamal Nassar
Peter Trewavas
Kenny Easley
Stuart Eizenstat
Ernest Gaines
Mario Van Peebles
Chad Lowe
Andrea Martin
Randy “The Monster” White
Maria Schell
Charo
John O’Connor
Joseph Junk (1841)

London Beer Shortage began (1940)
Pentagon building completed (1943)
1st Super Bowl (1967; Green Bay 35, Kansas City 10)
Basketball Rules 1st published (1892)
1st Telephone Directory published
British Museum opened (1759)
Disney’s Sleeping Beauty premiered
1st All-glass building completed
Cable Street Car patented
Happy Days debuted (1974)
1st Top Hat worn
Moliere baptized in Paris (1622)
Radioactivity discovered
1st Ski Club formed
Hill St. Blues debuted
Irish Free State established (1919)
Aswan Dam opened (1971)
1st Gold dental inlay used (1907)
Otis patented the Steam Elevator (1861)
Fletcher Christian & other Bounty mutineers arrived on Pitcairn Island (1790)
Democratic “Donkey” symbol 1st appeared (1870)
Nixon ordered halting of bombing in Vietnam (1973)
Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England (1559)
National Academy of Design founded (1826)
Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty premiered (1890)
21 People died in Great Boston Molasses Flood (1919)
Honore de Balzac signed his 1st publishing contract (1829)
Don McLean’s American Pie reached No. 1 (1972)
1st Propaganda leaflets dropped from an airplane
Pyramid Brewery’s Berkeley, California brewpub opened (1997)
Cook County, Illinois founded (home of Chicago; 1831)
James Hetherington fined in London for wearing the 1st Bowler Hat (1797)
McGuire’s Irish Pub & Brewery opened (Canada; 1991)
Blue Water Brewing opened (California; 1994)
Legend Brewery opened (Virginia; 1994)
Mill Creek Brewery & Restaurant opened (Missouri; 1994)
Shipp Inn opened (New Jersey; 1995)
Pend Oreille Brewing opened (Idaho; 1996)
Phantom Canyon Brewing opened (Colorado; 1997)
Siskyo Brewing opened (Oregon; 1997)
Smiling Moose Brewing opened (Colorado; 1997)
Squaw Mountain Brewing opened (Colorado; 1997)
Tombstone Brewing opened (Arizona; 1997)
Twin Falls Brewing opened (Idaho; 1997)
Black Horse Pub & Brewery opened (Tennessee; 1998)
Saskatoon Brewing opened (Saskatchewan, Canada; 1999)
Wild Goose Brewing closed (Maryland; 1998)