The Brookston Almanac

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Winnie the Pooh Day
Jazz Day
Wellington Day (New Zealand)
Santa Prisca Day (Taxco, Mexico)
Thesaurus Day
Four an’ Twenty Day (Scotland)
Old Twelfth Day
Carrot Festival (Holtville, CA)
St. Ulfrid’s Day
Revolution Day (Tunisia)
National Peking Duck Day

A.A. Milne
Jacob Bronowski
Daniel Webster
Cary Grant
Peter Mark Roget
Danny Kaye
John Boorman
Sharon Mitchell
Jamie Emmerson (1963)
Emmanuel Chabrier
Thomas Sopwith
Charles de Montesquieu
Byron Werner
Ray Dolby
Antoine Pevsner
Oliver Hardy
Ruben Dario
David Ruffin
Joseph Glidden
Kevin Costner
Pedro Rodriguez
Daniel Hale Williams
Andrei Gromyko
Constance Moore
Evelyn Lear
Larry Smith
Pat Sullivan
Mark Mesier
Bobby Goldsboro
“Legs” Larry Moore
Curt Flood
Steven L. DeBerg
Curt Flood

German Empire founded
1st Jazz Concert at the Met
Dark Side of the Moon released
1st Speakeasy opened (50-50 Club, NYC; 1920)
Hawaii discovered
1st White Bear in US
X-Ray Machine 1st exhibited (1896)
Pilgrims saw a UFO
Versailles Peace Conference held
Wilhelm of Prussia crowned 1st German Emperor (1871)
Quinine 1st used to treat malaria (1538)
Pulsars 1st identified (1969)
Vacuum Tube developed (1903)
1st Launch & landing of a plane from a ship (1911)
Auschwitz Death March began (WW2; 1945)
Frederic Brown’s What Mad Universe? published
Irish author Liam O’Flaherty and republican comrades captured Dublin’s Rotunda (1922)
American William Walker declared himself President of Sonora (consisting of 2 Mexican states; 1854)
Houses of Lancaster & York united by marriage of Henry VII and Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Edward IV (1485)
UK’s House of Lords debated the existence of UFOs (1979)
Anchor’s Old Potrero Single Malt Rye Whisky 1st for sale (1996)
Barley’s Casino & Brewing opened (Nevada; 1996)
Boscos Brewing opened (Nashville, Tennessee; 1996)
Asheville Pizza & Brewing opened (North Carolina; 1999)