The Brookston Almanac

National Goof-Off Day
Tree Planting Day (Lesotho)
Festival of Immortality
Banned in Boston Day
St. Nicholas von Flue’s Day (patron of Switzerland)
World Day for Water (UN)
National Sing-Out Day
Arab League Day
Saka (Indian New Year)
St. Catherine of Sweden’s Day
Liberty Day
Jordan Independence Day
National Bavarian Crepes Day

Anthony Van Dyck
James T. Kirk (2228)
Randolph Caldecott
Stephen Sondheim
William Glackens
Rosa Bonheur
Ernest Lawson
Robert Millikan
Marcel Marceau
George Benson
Werner Klemperer
Bob Costas (1952)
Robert Milikan
Matthew Modine
Elvis Stojko
Stephen Pearl Andrews
Ross Martin
John Bartram
Karl Malden
Bill Wendell
Andrew Lloyd Webber
William Shatner
Nicholas Monsarrat
Chico Marx
Mariah Carey
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Orrin Hatch
Pat Robertson
Cody Gifford

Laser patented (1960)
Rutlemania began
Senate approved ERA
Cornstarch patented
International Airline service began
Anything Goes premiered
1st Color Pictures in a Newspaper (1904)
English Football League founded (1888)
Beatles’ album Early Beatles released
Stamp Act imposed by England (1765)
Arab League Pact signed
Niagra Falls ran out of water due to a drought (1903)
Grand Coulee Dam became operational (1941)
1st Metered Taxi Cabs in London (1907)
UK Parliament buys 38 paintings to begin National Collection (1824)
Carbonated Water discovered by Joseph Priestly (1733)
1st Women’s College Basketball Game played (1893)
Equal Rights Amendment sent to the states for ratification (1972)
Puerto Rico abolished slavery (1873)
Beatles’ single Please Please Me released
Tillie the Toiler comic strip began (1931)
Hale-Bopp comet came closest to Earth (4 a.m.; 1997)
Patrick Henry gave his “Give me liberty or give me death speech” (1775)
1st brew made at Central Brewing (Illinois; 1902)
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Cullen Bill, making beer with 3.2% alcohol legal (1933)
Beer became legal in Alabama after prohibition (1937)
Smokey Mountain Brewery opened (North Carolina; 1993)
Stoddard’s Brewhouse & Eatery opened (California; 1993)
Barley & Hopps opened (California; 1995)
Pale Ale Brewing opened (North Carolina; 1996)
Tomcat Brewing opened (North Carolina; 1996)