The Brookston Almanac

Labor Day (Bahamas)
Donut Day (Salvation Army)

Mother Earth’s Day
Festival of Utter Confusion
Seaman’s Day (Iceland)
Republic Day (Italy)
St. Elmo’s Day (aka St. Erasmus; patron of sailors, childbirth; against seasickness, stomachaches)
Youth Day (Tunisia)
National Hazelnut Cale Day
British-American Festival (@)
National Rocky Road Day
St. Blandina’s Day (patron of girls)
Eel Festival (Denmark)
New England Arts Festival (@)
St. Pothinus’ Day
Contango Day
Elfreth’s Alley Day (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Festival of Light and Dark Spots (Fairy)
Hristo Botev Day (Bulgaria)
Festival of the Golden Chariot (Mons, Belgium)
St. Nicephorus’ Day (Greek)
Constitution Day (Tunisia)
Yell “Fudge” At the Cobras in North America Day
St. Marcellinus and Peter’s Day
Mother Shipton’s Day (Ursula Sontheil; patron of laundresses)

Marquis De Sade
Thomas Hardy
Edward Elgar
George S. Kaufman
Lotte Reiniger
Paul Albert Besnard
Diana Canova
Michael Todd
Johnny Weismuller
Chuck Barris
Hedda Hopper
Melissa Myers (1973)
Leo Gorcey
Hristo Botev
Charles Haid
Sally Kellerman
Marvin Hamlisch
Charlie Watts
Dana Carvey
Albert Innaurato
Cornel West
Stacey Keach
Tex Schramm
Marie Cheatham
Tootie Robbins
Jerry “The Beaver” Mathers
Garo Yepremian
Sammy Turner
Milo O’Shea
William Guest
Karl Gjellerup
Simone Weil
Merril Bainbridge
Joanna Gleason
B-Real
Constantine II
Pius X

Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper released (1967)
Radio patented (1896)
1st Night Baseball Game played
Chain-Stitch Sewing Machine invented
1st Italian Immigrant arrived in US
Queen Elizabeth coronated (1953)
Italy became a republic (1946)
Vandals sacked Rome
PLO formed in Jerusalem (1964)
1st Derby horserace ran (1780)
Elfreth’s Alley built (oldest street in US)
Locomobile Co. founded (1899)
UK Parliament passed Tea Act
Bill Clinton played saxophone on Arsenio Show (1992)
1st Black Catholic Bishop consecrated (1875)
Butch Cassidy & Gang robbed Union Pacific Train (1899)
Little Bears & Tykes comic strip began (1892)
Ray Charles’ I Can’t Stop Loving You reached No. 1 (1962)
UK Troops crushed Marathas in India and annexed their lands (1868)
1st Prohibition legislature passed (Maine; 1851)
English football clubs banned indefinitely from playing in Europe (1985)
US space probe Surveyor landed on the moon (1966)
Roscoe the dog caught his own tail (1979; legend on statute in Far Side cartoon)
Lindy Chamberlain, convicted of murdering her baby in “dingo baby” case, pardoned (1987)
Congress agreed to support American glass manufacturing, largely to improve the supply of beer bottles (1790)
1st U.S. alcohol prohibition law enacted (Maine; 1851)
Blue Ridge Brewing/Starr Hills Brewing opened (Virginia; 1987)
Massachusetts Bay Brewing/Harpoon opened (Massachusetts; 1987)
Fort Spokane Brewery opened (Washington; 1989)