The Brookston Almanac

Animal Day
National Bike to Work Day
St. Brendan the Navigator’s Day (patron of sailors, Ireland)
Goddess Month of Hera begins
Biographer’s Day
Love A Tree Day
Rogation Day
St. Honoratus’ Day (patron of bakers, millers)
Cancer Day
Falling Off a Log Night (Fairy)
St. Brendan’s Voyage Day
National Coquilles St. Jacques Day
St. John of Nepomuk’s Day (patron of bridges, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia)
Wear Purple For Peace Day
St. Simon Stock’s Day (patron of tanners)

Woody Herman
Studs Terkel
Debra Winger
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
William Henry Seward
Edmund Kirby-Smith
Henry Fonda
Billy Cobham
Pierce Brosnan
Gabriela Sabatini
Mare Winningham
Niles Spencer
Liberace
Olga Korbut
Tracey Gold
Dan Coats
Janet Jackson
Billy Martin
John Thomas Salley
Lowell P. Weicker
Edmund Kirby-Smith
Adrienne Rich
Levi Parsons Morton
John Schneider (1833)
Roger Lind (1961)
Ingeborg Sorensen (Pb 3/75)
Betty Carter
James B. Hunt
Tracey Gold
Lainie Kazan
Jim Langer
Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin
Ralph Tresvant
Swami Muktananda Paramahansa
Rick Trevino
Tori Spelling

1st Academy Awards Ceremony held (1929)
Pogo 1st published
Mary Wells’ My Guy reached No. 1 (1963)
1st US Nickel issued (1866)
Jim Henson died (1990)
Hyundai founded (1947)
1st Transcontinental Motorcycle Trip completed
Top Gun premiered
17th Amendment proposed by US Congress (1916)
Food Stamps 1st issued Rochester, New York; 1939)
1st Color Photo taken
US Sedition Act passed (1918)
1st Woman Prime Minister in France (1991)
Demonstration of Flat Recording Disk 1st given (1888)
1st Envelope made
Junko Tabei became the 1st woman to climb Mt. Everest (1975)
Pete Townsend spent a night in jail for kicking a policeman off stage (1969)
National Horseshoe Pitchers Association established
1st Successful hole-in-the-heart operation performed
George’s fiance Susan died from licking wedding invitation envelopes (Seinfeld; 1996)
Hayes Williams released from a Louisiana prison after 30 years for a crime he didn’t commit (1996)
Charles Elmer Hires invented root beer (1866)
Tennents Brewery became 1st to sell 16 oz. cans in UK (Glasgow, Scotland; 1955)