The Brookston Almanac

Festival Of Peace
National Croissant Day
Escape Day
St. Martina’s Day (patron of nursing mothers)
Bloody Sunday (Northern Ireland)
St. Charles’ Day
Puce and Ochre Day (Fairy)
St. Adelelm’s Day (patron of menservants)
Bon Soo Winter Carnival (Ontario, Canada)
St. Aldegund’s Day (patron against cancer, childhood illness, fever, eye disease, sudden death, wounds)
Three Archbishops Day
St. Bathild’s Day (patron of children)
Yodel For Your Neighbors Day

Mohammed
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Boris Spassky
Julie McCullough (Pb 2/86)
Yuki Maiko
Harold Prince
Richard Greene
Maiko Yuki
Philip Glass
Vanessa Redgrave
Gene Hackman
Saul Alinsky
Tammy Grimes
Dorothy Malone
Victoria Principal
Dick Martin
John Profumo
Barbara Tuchman
Marty Balin
Georg Dionysius
Asa Gray
Boris III
John Henry Towers
Curtis Strange
Jody Watley
Snagglepuss

Beatles played in public for the last time (London; 1969)
King Charles I beheaded by order of Cromwell (1649)
Gandhi assassinated (1948)
1st Jazz Record cut (1917)
Pnematic Hammed patented
1st Science Association established
USS Monitor launched
Dr. Strangelove premiered (1964)
Lone Ranger debuted on radio (1933)
Highest rated TV show, Roots, Pt. 8, aired (1977)
1st Automobile Race Track built
Halle Orchestra founded (1858)
Yves St. Laurent’s 1st fashion show held (1958)
Contraceptive “Pill” 1st for sale in UK (1961)
American Motors Rambler debuted (1958)
Jay County, Indiana founded (1837)
City of Milwaukee founded (Wisconsin; 1846)
Tet offensive began (Vietnam War; 1968)
Charles I beheaded by order of Oliver Cromwell (1649)
1st Fight broke out on the floor of the US House of Representatives
Mid-Atlantic collision sank the passenger liner Elbe (1895)
5 Black Pharaonic figures dating from 1470 BCE found in Luxor, Egypt (1989)
1st Assassination attempted on US President (the gunshots missed Andrew Jackson; 1835)
Beatles’ played their last live performance on top of Apple Records building in London (1969)
US Library of Congress re-established after the gift of Jefferson’s 6,457-book library (1815)
Reinheitsgebot, German beer purity law, enacted (1516)
Ezra Pound met Mussolini and read him from her Cantos (1935)
Queen Elizabeth II broke precedent by becoming the 1st reigning monarch to attend a commoner’s funeral (Winston Churchill; 1965)
Hitler named “Chancellor of the Third Reich” by President Hindenburg (1933)
Lincoln Brewery (Illinois; 1866)
Bow Valley Brewing opened (Alberta, Canada; 1995)
Peak Brewing opened (Alberta, Canada; 1995)
Stone Coast Brewing opened (Maine; 1996)
U.S. Border Brewery opened Cantina (Georgia; 1996)