The Brookston Almanac

Religious Freedom Day
National Nothing Day
Dies Electricia (Aurora Borealis)
Concordia (Old Roman Goddess of Harmonious Relations)
Festival of All Fairies (Fairy)
Book Publishers Day
National Good Teen Day
There’s No Business Like Show Business Day
National Fig Newton Day
St. Honoratus’ Day
Haru-No-Yabuiri (Day of No Work for the Overworked; Japan) Angola Independence Day
St. Priscilla’s Day (patron of widows)
Lee-Jackson Day (Virginia)

Andre Michelin
Jay “Dizzy” Dean
Kate Moss
Eartha Kitt
Ma Barker
Robert W. Service
Samuel McIntyre
Marilyn Horne
Carol Lombard
Robert W. Service
Sade
Ethel Merman
John Carpenter
Guy Chamberlin
Daniella
A.J. Foyt
Jim Stafford
Paul Webb
Alexander Knox
Francesco Scavullo
Debbie Allen
Bob Bogle
Ronnie Milsap
Jack Burns McDowell
Bill Francis
Michael Wilding Jr.
Stirling Silliphant
William Kennedy
Brendan Moylan (1961)
M.K. Goetz (1833)

Scout Handbook published
1st Monk, St. Anthony, took the pledge
France 1st recognized the US
Sandwich Islands discovered
Ivan the Terrible crowned Tsar (1547)
Nylon patented (1937)
Prohibition began (1920)
Cavern nightclub opened in Liverpool
1st US Female Astronauts selected (1978)
Pendleton Act passed creating Civil Service (1883)
Electric Organ patented
Hormones discovered
US Civil Service established (1883)
Love a Mystery debuted on radio (1939)
Gulf War began (1991)
Battle of Burma (1942)
Edmund Spenser died (1599)
Cavern Club opened in Liverpool (1957)
Winnebago County, Illinois founded (1836)
Dodge Omni & Plymouth Horizon debuted (1977)
1st Non-stop flight around the world (1957)
George Harrison’s Got My Mind Set on You reached No. 1 (1988)
Pago Pago Commerce Treaty signed (Samoa)
1st Photofinish camera installed at a racetrack (1936)
Banny Goodman & friends played 1st jazz concert in Carnegie Hall (1938)
Eisenhower appointed Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Erope (WW 2)
Duke Ellington’s It Don’t Mean a Thing recorded (1932)
Clamp-on Roller Skates patented
1st Native American college in 400 years opened (Navajo Community College; 1969)
BBC radio hoax of an anarchy uprising caused rioting and widespread panic in London (1926)
San Francisco Brewing opened (California; 1986)
Fort Garry Brewing opened (Canada; 1995)
Station Casinos Breweries opened (Nevada; 1997)
Nebraska became the 36th state to ratify the 18th Amendment, being the last necessary for it to pass (eventually 46 states ratified, all except Rhode Island & Connecticut; 1920)