The Brookston Almanac

National Teacher Day

Lost Sock Memorial Day
Astronomy Day
Victory Day (USSR)
Lemuria (Old Roman; Honors Ghosts of Dead without Family)
National Teacher Day
School Family Day
National Bike To Work Day
Joan of Arc Processions (France)
National Butterscotch Brownie Day
St. Pachomius’ Day
Grand Bairam Holiday begins (Egypt)
National Holiday (Czechoslovakia)
Liberation Day (Jersey, Channel Islands)
Earls Court Day (Kansas, Virginia, Iowa, Wyoming, Minnesota)

Richard Adams
James M. Barrie
Bobby Fischer
Gregory Bateson
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Billy Joel
James L. Brooks
Pancho Gonzalez
Mike Wallace
John Brown
Belle Boyd
Steve Katz
Barbara Woodhouse
Candice Bergen
Albert Finney
Glenda Jackson
John Brown
Howard Carter
Alexander Ross
Gregory Beecroft
James Pollard Espy
David Prater
Belle Boyd
Terry Drinkwater
Henry J. Kaiser
Vance Brand
Tommy Roe
Dave Gahan
Hank Snow
Sonny Curtis
Richie Furay
Tony Gwynn
Clint Holmes

Beer Pump Handles 1st patented (1785)
Treaty of Windsor signed
Columbus left on his 4th & last voyage
1st Purple Hearts awarded (1783)
Nazis burned 25,000 books
Siege of Orleans (1429)
1st Flight over the North Pole (1926)
Eye Bank 1st opened
Fifth Element premiered (1997)
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show opened in London (1887)
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Fairies founded (Fairy)
English Crown Jewels stolen (1671)
John Osborne’s play Look Back in Anger premiered (1956)
1st Newspaper Cartoon (Join-or-Die by Ben Franklin)
FCC President called TV a “vast wasteland” (1961)
Guess Who’s American Woman reached No. 1 (1970)
1st Driver’s License in Nova Scotita issued (1907)
Burne Hogarth’s Tarzan comic strip began (1937)
UK Parliament agreed to home rule for Ireland (1911)
Image Comics superhere, Shadow Hawk, died of AIDS (1995)
Beatles signed a recording contract with EMI Parlaphone (1962)
1st Mother’s Day declared (1914)
“God” hit the campiagn trail in India (N.T. Rao Rama; 1991)
Aldo Moro’s body discovered murdered in Rome (1978)
Sinead O’Connor refused to appear on Saturday Night Live with Andrew Dice Clay (1990)
Freighter crashed into Sunshine Skyway Bridge, killing 35 (Tampa Bay, Florida; 1980)
Dianetics 1st published (1950)