The Brookston Almanac

Banned Books Week
Constitution Week
National Food Service Workers Week
Religious Freedom Week
National Dog Week
National Singles Week
National Roller Skating Week
American Newspaper Week
National Mind Mapping For Problem Solving Week
National Pickled Pepper Week (begins Last Thurs)

Fidelity Day
Schwenkfelder Thanksgiving (Pennsylvania Dutch)
Buy Nothing Day
Festival of the Latest Novelties
Bolton Fair (UK)
Feast of Maiso (pre-existent Mother Goddess; Brazil)
National Cherries Jubilee Day
Feast of the Ingathering (aka Harvest Festival; UK @)
Nuestra Senora De Las Mercedes (Peru)
Feast Day of Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes (Dominican Republic)
National Bluebird of Happiness Day
Trinidad Republic Day
Feast of Maiso (Pre-Existent Mother Goddess; Brazil)
Guinea-Bissau Independence Day
St. Gerard’s Day (patron of Hungary)
Festival of Latest Novelties
Third Republic Day (Ghana)
American Indian Day (New York)
Festival of Nafulectu Dilxiln (Black Big Spider; San Carlos Apache, Arizona)
Milligan Mini-Polka Day (Nebraska)
Feast of Our Lady of Mercy
18th Century Military Encampment Day

Jim Henson
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Horace Walpole
John Marshall
Lisa Matthews (Pb 4/90)
Arthur Guinness (1725)
Eberhard Anheuser (1805)
Antoine Louis Barye
Francis Scott Key
Linda McCartney
Anthony Newley
Jim McKay
Svetlana Beriosova
Anne H. Carlson
Sheila MacRae
Rafael Palmeiro
John Mackey
Fred “Dixie” Walker
Joe Greene
Georges Claude
Jacquie Courtney
Tim Worley
Cheryl Crawford
Alan Herbert
John W. Young
Rafael Palmeiro
John Brunner

Norman Conquest began (1066)
1st Toy Store opened
Bullwinkle and Rocky debuted on TV (1961)
60 Minutes debuted (1968)
1st recorded autopsy performed
Charly premiered
U.S. Supreme Court established
1st Nuclear aircraft carrier, USS Enterprise, launched (1960)
Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color debuted Munsters debuted
Devil’s Tower National Park established
Faneuil Hall opened (Boston; 1742)
1st Hydrogen Airship flew (1852)
Mod Squad debuted (1968)
Love of Life debuted (1951)
Siege of Leningrad began (WW2; 1941)
Juan Peron retured to Argentina (1973)
1st Transatlantic telephone cable finished (1956)
Record Bar opened its 1st Record Store
Michael Archer murdered by Castor Troy (1991; in Face/Off, 1997)
Business Executives responsible for Seveso dioxin disater jailed (Italy; 1983)
Sikhs murdered 1200 Muslim refugees on train in Punjab (1947)
Washington ordered militia to put down Whisky Rebellion (1792)
UN International Development Association established (1960)
Bobby McFerrin’s Don’t Worry Be Happy reached No. 1 (1988)
Japanese Samurais all but wiped out rebelling against new modern Japanese Army (1877)
Sam returned from his failed sailing trip around the world to find Rebecca Howe running his bar (on Cheers; 1987)
US Senate approved nuclear test ban treaty signed by US, USSR, UK, but not France (1963)
Scheme to corner the gold market failed when US President Grant refused to play along (aka Black Friday; 1869)
English Brewers Guild officially recognized (1493)
Blue Coyote Brewing opened (Michigan; 1995)