The Brookston Almanac

Capital Day

Indian Day
Braemar Highland Gathering (Scotland)

Beer & Can Day
Good Society Day
St. Sulien’s Day
Celtic tree month of Muin (Vine) begins
Historical Regatta (Italy)
Vietnam Independence Day
National Blueberry Popsicle Day
Feast of Ali (Nussairis, Asia Minor)
Bison-Ten-Yell Day
Tolkien Calendar Adjustment Day
V-J Day (WW 2)
Feast of Bishamon-Ten (Japan)
National Frisbee Disc Festival (@)
St. John the Faster’s Day (Eastern)
Old Timer’s Day
Coughing and Spluttering Convention (Fairy)
Braemar Royal Highland Gathering (Scotland @)
Festival of P’ing An Fu Chu Wang, the Star King (China)
St. Agricola of Avignon’s Day (patron for/against rain; against bad luck)

Jimmy Conners
Mark Harmon
Suzanne Trageser
Eugene Field
Marlene Janssen (Pb 11/82)
Henry George
Shauna Sand (Pb 5/96)
Christa McAuliffe
Romare Bearden
James Forten
Cleveland Armory
Hiram Maxim
China Lee (Pb 8/64)
Lydia Kamekeha Liliuokalani
John Howard
Martha Mitchell
Terry Bradshaw
George Brown
Al Spalding
Keanu Reeves
Hiram Johnson
Linda Purl
Eric Dickerson
Peter Ueberroth
Alan Drury
Frederick Soddy
Joe Danelo
Marge Champion
Eric Dickerson
Richard Castellano
Wilhelm Ostwald
Jimmy Clanton
Alan K. Simpson
Steve Porcaro

Battle of Marathon, 1st marathon ran (490 BCE)
Twilight Zone debuted
Arsenic & Old Lace premiered
1st Game Preserve opened
US Treasury Department established (1789)
Great Fire of London began (1666)
Road Runner Show debuted
Cleveland founded (1796)
London Fire began (1666)
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes premiered
Japan signed unconditional surrender (WW 2; 1945)
Last episode of The Bullwinkle Show aired (1973)
Atlanta evacuated (1864)
CD-video debuted (by Philips; 1987)
Paris mob killed 1,000 people (1792)
1st Night baseball game played (1880)
Last original Star Trek episode aired (1969)
German SS destroyed the Warsaw Ghetto, killing 50,000 Jews (1942)
Vietnam declared independence from Japan (1945)
UK slaughtered 10,000 Mahdist dervishes (Omdurman, Sudan; 1898)
Heart Operation 1st used freezing technique
Paula Abdul’s Cold Hearted reached No. 1 (1989)
Yellow Rose of Texas copyrighted (1858)
Gas lighting introduced in Hawaii (1859)
Bureau of War Risk Insurance established (1914)
Terry Fox completed his run across Canada on one leg (3,000 miles; 1980)
Teddy Roosevelt made his “speak softly and carry a big stick” speech (1901)
David Gerrold’s The Man Who Folded Himself published
Chile exiles returned to Santiago, led by Salvador Allende’s daughter (1988)
Van Buren sisters became the 1st women to cross the US on motorcycles (1916)
Boundary disputes began between Maori Kingitanga and British settlers in New Zealand (1865)
Gregorian Calendar Adjusted so the next day was Sep. 14 & New Year’s Day moved from Mar. 25 to Jan. 1 (1751)
Maltsters National Association founded (1874)
Hausbrauerei Rampendahl Ludwig Merton opened (Germany; 1988)
Belfast Bay Brewing opened (Maine; 1996)