The Brookston Almanac

World Population Day
Swimming Pool Day (USA)
National Blueberry Muffin Day
Bawming the Thorn Day (UK)
Feast of Theano (patron of vegetarianism)
National Cheer Up the Lonely Day
Goddess Month of Kerea begins
Buffalo Bill Day
Mongolia Revolution Day
St. Benedict II’s Day (patron of Europe, architects, the dying, farm workers, monks, spelunkers, servants who break things; against gallstones, poison, witchcraft)
The Old Dance (Tibet; buddhist demon festival)
Bowdler’s Day
Anthony Wayne Day
Bodmin Riding (Wales)
Chesapeake Turtle Derby
5 Billionth person on the earth born (1987)
St. Pius I’s Day
International Just for Laughs Festival begins (@)

E.B. White
Deborah Foreman
Robert the Bruce
Thomas Mitchell
Roger de La Fresnaye
Giorgio de Chirico
Chandler Ian Moore
Theodore Maiman
Robert Greene
Val Kilmer
Giorgio Armani
John Wanamaker
Yul Brynner
John Quincy Adams
John Gardiner (1825)
Joseph “Papa Joe” Griesedieck (1863)
Don Younger (1941)
Lisa Morrison (1963)
Colin Purdie Kelly
James Smith
Debbie Harry
George W. Norris
Thomas Bowdler
Tab Hunter
Lu Pan
Julie Woodson (Pb 4/73)
Harold Bloom
Bill Cosby
Susan Hayes
Eva Perssons
Bonnie Pointer
Yasonari Kawabata
Leon Spinks
Bob Allison
Terry Garthwaite
Rodney Saulsberry
Gough Whitlam
Ruth Pointer

U.S. Marine Corps made permanent
Spurs invented (@ 1300 CE)
Newlywed Game debuted (1966)
Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel (1804)
1st Satellite transmission (1962)
Savannah committed suicide (1994)
Napalm 1st used (1945)
McHale’s Navy debuted
Triborough Bridge opened (NYC)
US Air Force Academy dedicated (1955)
Babe Ruth played his 1st major league game (1914)
Telstar Communications Satellite launched (1960)
US Intelligence Agency created (later became the OSS; 1943)
Automobile registration became mandatory in Texas (1907)
Japan rejected Ford’s plans to build cars in Japan (1936)
Skylab space station fell out of orbit (1979)
Mohawk Indians and Montreal Police exchange gunfire over land rights (1990)
Lafayette presented Declaration of Rights of Man to National Assembly (France; 1789)
2,000 year old Chinese terracotta army disovered (1975)
Pope condemned Christian tolerance of Confucianism (1742)
Striking miners blew up Pinkerton barracks (Idaho; 1892)
UK magazine fined 1,000 pounds for publishing a poem suggesting Jesus had been a homsexual (1977)