The Brookston Almanac

Child Health Day
Universal Children’s Day (UN)
Wold Habitat Day (UN)

Old Man’s Day (Hertfordshire, UK)
Goddess Month of Mala ends
Feast of Guardian Angels (Spain; patron of police)
Name Your Car Day
World Farm Animals Day
Buttering-Up Quarter Finals (Fairy)
National French Fried Scallops Day
Guinea Republic Day
Fashion Farrex (UK)
Marching Band Festival
St. Leger’s Day (aka Leodegar; patron against blindness)
Book It/National Young Reader’s Day

Mohandas K. “Mahatma” Gandhi
Sting (Gordon Sumner)
Hieronymus Bosch
Groucho Marx
Sherry Arnett (Pb 1/86)
Ruth Rohde
Graham Greene
Nat Turner
Charles Ricketts
Mike Rutherford
Bud Abbott
Donna Karan
Bunny Bleau
Kimberly Herrin (Pb 3/81)
Erica Boyer
Moses Gunn
Alex Raymond
Rex Reed
Cordell Hull
Annette Anderson
Don McLean
Maury Wills
Kathryn Morrison (Pb 5/78)
Don Gortemiller (1952)
Willy Ley
Yuri Glazkov
Spanky McFarland
Mickey Marvin
Clay S. Felker
Roy Campbell
Charlie Brown
Yogi Bear
Snoopy

Phileas Fogg begins his 80-day trip around the world (1872)
1st Atomic clock starts ticking
Oldest Rocks known on Earth formed (Sagan calendar)
Peanuts comic strip debuted (1950)
Tin Can with opener patented
Brigham Young arrested for polygamy (1871)
Twilight Zone debuted (1959)
Geneva Convention begins
YMCA established
Password debuted (1961)
Cartier landed at Montreal (1535)
London’s red doubledecker buses began service (1925)
Cries of Mutiny are 1st heard on Columbus’ ships
Environmental Protection Agency established
Secret Squirrel debuted
Redwood National Park established (1868)
Aristole died (322 BCE)
Peanuts comic strip began (1950)
This Old House debuted (1979)
1st Pan American Conference held (1889)
Thurgood Marshall appointed to US Supreme Court (1967)
London becomes a “smokeless zone”
Chevrolet sold its 1st Covair (1959)
Samuel Adams died (1803)
O.J. Simpson circus trial finally ended (1995)
Rod Stewart’s Maggie May reached No. 1 (1971)
Santa Anna led 1st Texas Uprising (1835)
Pitcher Bobby Feller struck out 18 Detroit Tigers in a row (1938)
Catholic Church declared papal infallibility extended to matters of faith and morals (1870)
British Major John Andre hanged as spy for being involved in a plot with Benedict Arnold (1780)
Carre ice machine patented (1860)
Manway Door patented (1888)
Redmond Brewing opened (Washington; 1996)