The Brookston Almanac

No News Is Good News Day
Wrench In the Works Day
National Neighborhood Day
Auditor’s Day
Diocletian New Year
National Tricky Handshake Day
Jinnah Day (Pakistan)
Make Your Bed Day
Ethiopian New Year
St. Deiniol’s Day
Harvest Festival (Hungary)
St. Ethelburga’s Day
Chelsea Antique Fair
Discontinued Thoughts Exhibition (Fairy)
St. Paphnutius’ Day
National Hot Cross Bun Day
St. Protus and Hyacinth’s Day

D.H. Lawrence
O. Henry
Kristy McNichol
Jessica Mitford
Ken Kesey
Elizabeth Daily
James Thompson
Erastus Flaval Beadle
Cathryn Damon
Kristy McNicol
Uncle Charlie
Brian DePalma
Theodor Adorno
James Jeans
Geno Acevedo (1961)
William Xavier Kienzle
Tom Landry
Hedy Lamarr
Alfred Slote
Thomas Hill
Herbert Lom
Bear Bryant
Lola Falana
Daniel K. Akaka
Barry Sheene
Ellis Burks
Don Mosebar
Sonny Callahan
Gherman Titov
Daniel Kahikina Akaka
Bonnie Gadusek
Marty Liquori
Robert L. Crippen
William Wirth Allen
Leo Kottke
Reubin Askew
Betsy Drake
Anne Seymour
Earl Holliman
Ferdinand Marcos
Bob Packwood

World Wildlife Fund founded (Zurich, Switzerland)
Mail Chute patented
Vatican II began (1962)
Miss America Pageant 1st on TV
Oh, Susanna premiered
New York to California bus service started
Battle of Brandywine (1777)
Magilla Gorilla debuted
Annapolis Convention began (1786)
Collapsible Tire patented
4 men arrested trying to steal Marineland Dolphin (1987)
Luddite potato riot (Nottingham, UK; 1812)
1st Newspaper Cartoon Strip began
Stravinsky’s Rake’s Progress premiered (1951)
London-Brighton express train commuter service began (1841)
Oliver Cromwell massacred 1,500 Irish rebels (1649)
Swedish Nightingale “Jenny Lind” sang her US debut (1850)
1st 12,000-mile warranty offered (by Ford; 1960)
Dan Rather stomped off CBS EVening News, set remained dark for 6 minutes (1987)
Chile’s democratically elected Marxist government overthrown with US backing (1973)
Pretty Boy Floyd robbed his 1st grocery store (1925)
Daniel Webster resigned his cabinet post in protest of Tyler’s veto of Banking Bill (1841)
KC & The Sunshine Band’s (Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty reached No. 1 (1976)
After 20 are killed in riots, striking United Mine Workers managed to establish 8-hour work day and more (1897)
World Trade Center and the Pentagon attacked by terrorists flying commercial airplanes into them (2001)
Spaten-Fraziskaner-Brau opened (Germany; 1397)