The Brookston Almanac

Yosemite National Park established
1st Tightrope walk across Niagra Falls (1859)
Tower Bridge opened (London; 1894)
Cigarettes 1st taxed
Siberian Explosion of 1908
Electric Stove patented
Guiding Light debuted on TV (1952)
Tower Bridge opens
Psycho premiered (1960)
Action Comics #1 published (1938)
Bicycle 1st went 60 mph
Gone With the Wind published (1936)
Apollo 13 premiered (1995)
Brenda Starr comic strip began (1940)
Casters patented
Montazuma killed by Spaniards (1520)
Bell Laboratories announced development of Transistor to replace radio tubes (1948)
Meat Inspection Act passed (1906)
Use of the Pillory banned (UK; 1837)
Mikhail Baryshnikov defected from USSR (1974)
3 Russians Cosmonauts found dead upon re-entry after 24 days in space (Soyuz 11; 1971)
Abbaye Prison attacked by French Revolutionaries (1789)
Lord Baltimore given Charter for Maryland (1632)
26th US Amendment ratified giving vote to 18 years & older (1971)
George Harrison’s Give Me Love reached No. 1 (1973)
Hitler eliminated his rivals in “Night of the Long Knives” (1934)
Asteroid the size of a 10-story building exploded over Siberia (1908)
Control of Hong Kong reverted to China as UK’s lease expired (1997)
Mary’s Little Lamb stolen (statute in Mary’s hometown, Sterling, Massachusetts; 1990)
By a tie vote, the US Senate blocked approval of treaty to annex Dominican Republic (1870)
Pure Food & Drug Act established to unofficially help businesses deceive the public with misleading labelling (1906)
At the India Queen Tavern a compromise was worked out that allowed the US Constitution to be created (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 1787)
Prohibition began in Canada (1915)
Beer became legal in Maine after Prohibition (1933)
Allagash Brewing opened (Maine 1995)
Barrel House Brewing opened (Ohio; 1995)
Elephant Butte Pizzeria & Brewery opened (New Mexico; 1995)