The Brookston Almanac

Tower of Pisa 1st leaned
Beethoven’s 8th Symphony premiered
1st American died in World War I
Battle of Wounded Knee (1973)
15th US Amendment passed (”right to vote”; 1869)
Lincoln gave his “might makes right” speech (1860)
Anabaptist “New Jerusalem” began (Germany; 1534)
Gulf War ended (1991)
Saccharine discovered (1879)
Cigar-rolling Machine patented by Oscar Hammerstein (1883)
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O), 1st US passenger railroad, chartered (1827)
Kuwait City liberated as 100-Hour War ended (1991)
Shanghai Communique held between Richard Nixon and Chou En-Lai (1972)
Emergency Powers introduced in Yugoslavia as Serbs attempted to assert rule over ethnic Albanians (1989)
God received an American Family Publishers’ Sweepstakes entry mailed to the Bushnell Assembly of God, which began “God, you may already be a sweepstakes winner” (Florida; 1997)
22nd Amendment ratified limiting President to 2 terms (passed by Republican Congress after FDR; later Republicans tried to get rid of it to allow Reagan to run again but were unable to undo their own knot; 1950)
Brewery Cellar Lamp patented (1877)
Newcastle Breweries opened (England; 1890)
Chicago Brewpub opened (South Carolina; 1995)