The Brookston Almanac

Mid-Winter’s Day
Aldus Day (inventor of Italics)
St. Dorothy of Caesara’s Day (patron of brewers, brides, gardeners, florists, newlyweds; against lightning, fire, thieves)
Police Brutality Day
Waitangi (Maori, New Zealand)
St. Vedast’s Day
Lame Duck Day
St. Amand’s Day (patron of bar staff, bartenders, hotel workers, wine & beer merchants)
Carrot Festival
National Frozen Yogurt Day
St. Paul Miki and Companion’s Day
Rubik-Cube Muddling Championships (Fairy)
St. Peter Baptist (patron of Japan)
Move Hollywood and Broadway to Lebanon, Pennsylvania Day

George Herman “Babe” Ruth
Vince Guaraldi
Aaron Burr
Francois Truffaut
Bob Marley
Karoly Kisfaludy
Patrick McNee
Claudio Arrau
Rip Torn
Tom Brokaw
Gillian Bonner (Pb 4/96)
Lancelot Brown
Brian Ford (1964)
Jay Sheveck (1970)
Ben Lyon
Mike Farrell
Fabian
Jade East
Mamie Van Doren
Henri Fuseli
Natalie Cole
Queen Anne
Christopher Marlowe
Jeb Stuart
Gayle Hunnicutt
Michael Tucker
Rick Astley
Walter Edward Fauntroy
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Eva Braun
Ronald Reagan

English monarchy abolished by Parliament
Rolls Royce Mascot established
Highest Wave seen (112 ft.)
Massachusetts became the 6th state (1788)
Woman of the Year premiered
1st Perforated postage stamp made
Anything Goes premiered
1st Storm Warning given
Elizabeth II coronated Queen of England (1952)
Three golf balls driven on the moon
Western Electric contracted to make Bell Phone
Disney’s Saludos Amigo premiered (1943)
Norman Rockwell’s 1st Post cover in color (1926)
1st Minstrel Show performed (1843)
Maxmilian I of Germany declares himself “Holy Roman Emperor” (1493)
Klaus Barbie charged with Nazi war crimes (1983)
Britain annexed New Zealand (1840)
Felinfoel became 1st beer in a can in UK (1935)
Manchester United football team killed in plane crash (1958)
British Women over 30 got the vote (1917)
Violinist Yehudi Menuhin played his debut (1926)
Crayola made its one billionth crayon (1996)
1st Train collision (near Wappinger’s Creek, NY; 1871)
20th Amendment adopted (changing date of Presidential inauguration; 1933)
Mary went blind (on Little House on the Prairie; 1978)
Soldiers killed 5 Students crossing the border from Zimbabwe (1989)
Vince Lombardi became part-owner, executive V-P, & head coach of Washington Redskins (1969)
Anastasia, Tsar Romonov’s daughter, thought to be murdered, resurfaced in New York (1928)
Largest crowd assembled (15 million; Hindu Feast of Kumbh Mela at Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India; 1989)
Samuel Ecclees bought John Balkwill’s Simcoe Street brewery, later partnering with John Labatt (Canada; 1847)
The Grace Brothers bought the Santa Rosa Steam Brewery (California; 1897)
Commission of Internal Revenue declared beer over 0.5% “intoxicating” (1919)
Cambridge Brewing opened (Ohio; 1902)
Farmington River Brewing opened (Connecticut; 1996)
Hops Brewpub opened (Port Richey, Florida; 1996)
Virginia Beverage Co. opened (Virginia; 1996)