The Brookston Almanac

Feast of Great Typos
Festival of Brigantia begins
Up Helly AA (Viking Festival)
Festival of Imbolc begins
Nauru Independence Day
Festival of Trasmission Errors
Child Labor Day
St. John Bosco’s Day (patron of editors, apprentices)
Phlegm-Green, Moldy-Grey, and Gazzard Day (Goblin)
Valkyries’ Day (Norse)
St. Marcella’s Day
Kitchen God Visits Heaven (China)
National Brandy Alexander Day
St. Tryphena’s Day (patron of nursing mothers)
St. Veronus’ Day (patron saint of Lambeek & Belgian brewers)

Franz Schubert
Terry Kath
John O’Hara
Rudolph Wurlitzer
Phil Collins
Zane Grey
Robert Morris
Jackie Robinson
Irving Langmuir
Don Hutson
Philip Glass
Ernie Banks
Suzanne Pleshette
Jean Simmons
Rachel Jean Marteen (Pb 8/95)
Thomas Merton
Carol Channing
James Franciscus
Norman Mailer
Anna Pavlova
Mario Lanza
Joanne Dru
Eddie Cantor
Jessica Walters
Nolan Ryan
Johnny Rotten
Theodore Richards
Wayne Milner
Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands
James Watt

Automobile 1st reached 100 mph
1st VD Clinic opened (1747)
Green Hornet debuted on radio
1st Lifeboat made
Bonnie Prince Charlie died in exile (1788)
US Launched Explorer, its 1st satellite (1958)
Leon Trotsky expelled from USSR (1929)
US entered World War 1 (1917)
Coca-Cola trademarked (1893)
Explorer I, 1st US Satellite, launched into orbit (1958)
RCA introduced 1st Musical Synthesizer (1955)
Gandhi assassinated (1947)
1st Miss Albania crowned (1992)
War in El Salvador officially ended (1992)
Harry S. Truman approved development of Hydrogen Bomb (1950)
J.D. Salinger’s A Perfect Day for Banana Fish published in The New Yorker (1948)
All American Indians ordered onto reservations (1876)
Jackson 5’s I Want You Back reached No. 1 (1970)
Truman publicly denounced Senator Joseph McCarthy (1952)
Anton Chekov’s Three Sisters premiered in Moscow (1901)
Terrorists killed 73 people in Sri Lanka (1995)
Germany declared unrestricted submarine warfare (WW1; 1917)
Crescent City Brewhouse opened (Louisiana; 1991)
Joe’s Brewing opened (Illinois; 1992)