The Brookston Almanac

1st World Cup final held (Uruguay won; 1904)
Marseillaise 1st sung (1792)
US Navy WAVES established (1942)
1st Color Movie demonstrated
England won World Cup (1966)
Last Playboy Club closed (Lansing, Michigan; 1988)
1st Ad for an automobile
Kon Tiki reached Polynesia
Lake Victoria named (1858)
Jimmy Hoffa seen in public for the last time (1975)
1st Masonic Lodge established (1733)
Insulin discovered
Medicare created (1965)
Rain of Frogs (London 1838)
Apollo 15 landed on the Moon (1971)
Captain Easy comic strip began (1933)
John Updike’s Murder Makes the Magazine 1st published at amazon.com (1997)
Glass Factory 1st made windows in “common sizes” (1740)
Saudi Arabia police open fire on Iranian zealots during annual pilgrimage to Mecca (1987)
Families of Thalidomide babies awarded $11 million in damages in class action suit (1973)
General A. Pinochet came to power in Chile after a coup d’etat (1973)
Fleetside Pub & Brewery opened (Colorado; 1995)
Mount Angel Brewing opened (Oregon; 1995)
Steve Winwood’s Roll With It reached No. 1 (1988)
Hitler presented highest non-citizen award to Henry Ford in Berlin (1938)