The Brookston Almanac

National Flower Week
Tolkein Week
National Singles Week
Vitupertion Week (18th-24th)
National Child Care Week
International Priorities Week
National Courtesy Week
National Farm Safety Week
National Laundry Workers Week
National Chiropratic Week
National Osteopathic Medicine Week
National Adult Day Care Center Week
National Farm Animals Awareness Week

World Peace Day
Pig Face Sunday (Avening, UK)

Constitution Day (US)
International Day of Peace
Feast of the Pilgrims (Villers-Perwin, Belgium)
Festival of Min Kyawzwa (Burmese God of Drinking)
St. Hildegard of Bingen’s Day (patron saint of hop-growers)
Citizenship Day (fka “I Am An American Day”)
Stigmata of St. Francis’ Day
Day of the National Hero (Angola)
St. Robert Bellarmine’s Day (patron of catechists)
Bloodiest Day
Return of Kelp-Koli Celebration (under duress; Fairy)
Festival of Min Kyawzwa (Burma; God of Drinking & Fireworks)
St. Lambert’s Day (patron of children, nannies, truss makers)
National Apple Dumpling Day
St. Satyrus’ Day

Ken Kesey
Warren Burger
Jeff MacNelly
George Blanda
Fee Waybill
Mike Skov
Terry Nihen (Pb 12/83)
William Carlos William
Stan Hieronymus (1948)
Robert Vonnoh
Cassandra “Elvira” Peterson
David Souter
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Hank Williams Sr.
Roddy McDowell
Paul Benedict
John Ritter
Anthony Carter
Friedrich von Steuben
Chaim Herzog
Orlando Cepeda
Francis Chichester
David Dunbar Buick
Thomas A. Hendricks
Bobby Wine
Phil Jackson
Marquis de Condorcet
Charles Tomlinson Griffes
Frederick Ashton
Anne Bancroft
Virgilio Vargas
Maureen “Little Mo” Connolly
Thomas Hendricks
Luke Prestridge
Charles Grassley
Wenceslas II
Charles III (879 CE)

Micro Organisms discovered
Norton I, Emperor of US, self-coronated (1859)
Wild Wild West debuted
US Constitution adopted (1787)
M*A*S*H debuted (1972)
Sprinkler System patented
Panic of 1873
French Crown Jewels stolen (1792)
Mission: Impossible debuted
33 1/3 LP Record introduced (1931)
Battle of Antietam (1862)
Hogan’s Heroes debuted (1965)
1st Airplane Death (1908)
Operation “Market Garden” began (WW2; 1944)
Hector Berlioz’s Requiem premiered (1837)
Accord signed between Israel & Egypt at Camp David (1978)
Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza assassinated (1980)
Pat Boone’s Ain’t That a Shame incredibly reached No. 1 (1955)
Doors performed Light My Fire on Ed Sullivan, refusing to change lyrics (1967)
Lincoln Journal became 1st newspaper to move Doonesbury to the editorial page (1973)
US Stamp featuring blues musician Robert Johnson issued (1994; the cigarette in his mouth was later airbrushed out so kids wouldn’t get the wrong idea)
1st batch of beer brewed at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello (1813)
Pabst Theater opened (1890)
Carrie Nation visited President Taft but was unable to win his support for Prohibition (1908)
NFL founded (1920)
SLO Brewing opened (California; 1988)
Lafayette Brewing opened (Indiana; 1993)