The Brookston Almanac

Feast of Caligo (mother of Chaos)
St. Lydia’s Day (patron of cloth dyers)
Fairy Washing Festival (Fairy)
Niger Independence Day
Bourguiba Harib Day (Turkey)
Minstrel’s Gathering (Germany)
Royal National Eosteddfod (Wales)
National Watermelon Day

John T. Scopes
Martin Sheen
Leon Uris
Walter Clark
Christine Richters (Pb 5/86)
P.D. James
George Fitzgerald
Tony Bennett
Isabella C. Somerset
Ernie Pyle
Clifford D. Simak
Lance Alworth
Jay North
Delores Del Rio
Edward Wilmot Blyden
Isabella Caroline Somerset
Anne Klein
Richard Lamm
Marilyn Maxwell
Elisha Graves Otis
Bourguiba Harib
Harry Heilmann
Sid Bream
B.B. Dickerson
George S. Shonin
Todd Christensen
Stanley
John Carlin
Rupert Brooke
Larry Haines
Dolores Del Rio
John Stennis
Louis Gruenberg
Tim Mayotte
Vernon Louis Parrington
Stanley Baldwin
Haakon VII of Norway
Maggie Kuhn (founded Gray Panthers)

Columbus set sail on 1st voyage (1492)
Klaatu’s mysterious self-titled 1st album released
American Canoe Association established
Source of the Nile discovered
Hannibal defeated Roman Army at Battle of Cannae (216 CE)
1st Traffic Light at Piccadilly Circus turned on (1926)
In the Heat of the Night premiered
Sealing Wax 1st used
Lenny Bruce died from morphine overdose (1966)
Wings formed (McCartney’s post-Beatles band)
Perils of Pauline premiered
James II of Scotland killed by English at siege of Roxburgh Castle (1460)
Golf 1st played on the Moon (1971)
Battleship USS Maine finished
1st Aerial Crop Dusting
Atari released home version of Pong (1975)
Beatles played their last Cavern gig
US Air Traffic Controller strike began (1981)
Rossini’s William Tell premiered
1st Radio play aired (1922)
Gandalf visited Bilbo Baggins (Hobbit)
Richard Arkwright died (1792)
1st US Immigration Law passed (1882)
Doors’ Hello, I Love You reached No. 1 (1968)
Federal Air Traffic Controllers went on strike (1981)
Disney’s Duck Tales: The Movie — Treasure of the Lost Lamp premiered (1990)
Summerfield Amusment Park fire killed 46 people (Isle of Man; 1973)