The Brookston Almanac

Cruelty to Animals Act established
Globe Theater burned down (1603)
Daily Telegraph 1st published (1855)
1st Lighthouse opened
Mikhail Baryshnikov defected (1974)
The King & I premiered
1st Passenger Railway built
Military ground action begins in Vietnam (1965)
1st Appendicectomy performed
Policeman 1st killed on duty
Isabel Peron takes over Presidency of Argentina (1974)
1st Census taken in UK (1801)
English colonists 1st arrived in Salem (1629)
UK Parliament prohibits growing tobacco in UK (162)
Gordon Lightfoot’s Sundown reached No. 1 (1974)
Townshend Acts approved (1767)
South Africa imposed racial inequality as political policy (1925)
Rent Boy Scandal in White House uncovered (1989)
Arthur Miller & Marilyn Monroe married (1956)
Julius Caser defeated Pompey to become absolute ruler of Rome (48 BCE)
Algerian President Mohammed Boudiaf assassinated (1992)
Colonel Hogan actor Bob Crane murdered in his apartment (1978)
Lithuania announced suspension of its declaration of independence for 100 days (1990)
US Supreme Court in Furman v. Georgia decided death penalty violates 8th Amendment (1970)
General Eisenhower requested Coca-Cola provide 10 portable bottling plants for US troops overseas (WW2; 1943)
Miller Brewing bought Meister Brau (1972)
Fullerton Hofbrau opened (California; 1990)
Lake St. George Brewing opened (Maine; 1993)
Sugarloaf Brewing opened (Maine; 1994)
Market Street Mill brewery opened (South Carolina; 1995)
Nutfield Brewing opened (New Hampshire; 1995)