The Brookston Almanac

Oregon Brewers Festival, Portland
Pilgrimage of St. Anne d’Auray (France)

Festival of the Polymorphously Perverse
Dragon Day
National Lasagna Day
Cherry Feast (Germany)
Oslok (aka St. Olaf’s Feast; Norway)
First Assembly Day
Cheese Sacrifice Purchase Day
Thor’s Day (Norse)
St. Martha’s Day (patron of innkeepers, cook, housekeepers, laundresses, waitresses)
Runic half-month of Thorn (defense) begins
Somers Day (Bermuda)
Mutomboko Ceremony Day (Zambia)
St. Olaf’s Day (patron of Norway)
Pardon of the Birds (Quimperle, Brittany)
National Roller Skating Tournament
St. Lupus’ Day (patron against stomachaches)
Rain Day (Waynesburg, Pennsylvania)
St. Olave’s Day

Dave Stevens
William Powell
Alexis de Tocqueville
Dag Hammarskjold
Garrett Oliver (1962)
Rasputin
Ken Burns
Sigurd Romberg
Don Marquis
Peter Bogdanovich
Don Carter
Vladimir Zworkin
Booth Tarkington
Maria Checa (Pb 8/94)
Peter Jennings
Clara Bow
Eastman Johnson
Robert Reid
Charles Beebe
Melvin Belli
Paul Taylor
David Warner
Tim Mara
Michael Spinks
Patty Scialfa
Greg Minton
Eyvind Johnson
I.I. Rabi
Nancy Landon Kassebaum
Tim Mara
Jim Wahler
William Gass
Paul Taylor
Getty Lee
Alexandra Paul
Leslie Easterbrook
Robert Fuller
Thelma Todd
Jeanetta Arnette
Wil Wheaton
Elizabeth Dole
Benito Mussolini

1st Almanc published
NASA established (1958)
1st Asphalt road built
Help! premiered
Prince Charles and Lady Diana married (1981)
1st International Boxing Match fought
Brownsea Island Camp, 1st Boy Scout camp, opened
Spanish Armada dispersed (1588)
International Atomic Agency established (1957)
Jack Paar Show debuted (1957)
Iron Lung invented (1928)
Pope condemned all birth control (1968)
Japan granted US trade privileges (1858)
US Socialist Party established (1901)
Doors’ Light My Fire reached No. 1 (1967)
Paris seized by French Liberals opposed to Charles X’s new restrictions (1830)
Mary Queen of Scots married her cousin, Henry Stewart (1565)
Record for Hammock Swinging began (240 hours; 1986)
Homestead Steel Mill strike began (Pennsylvania; 1892)
UN International Atomic Energy Agency came into force (1957)
Nathaniel Bacon led rebellion against Royal Governor in Jamestown (1676)
Gilbert O’sullivan’s Alone Again (Naturally) reached No. 1 (1972)
New Trade Agreement between US and Japan allowed Americans to live anywhere in Japan, the 1st time this is allowed of outsiders (1858)
Casco Bay Brewing opened (Maine; 1994)
Concord Junction Brewing opened (Massachusetts; 1995)