The Brookston Almanac

Feast of Free Spirits
Dionysus’ Day (also St. Dionysis’ Day)
Goddess Month of Hathor begins
Child Health Day
Virus Appreciation Day
Buttering-Up Semi-Finals (Fairy)
Dog Day
St. Theresa of Lisieux’ Day (patron of missions)
National Carmel Custard Day
Leiden Day (Netherlands; 1573)
National Foundation Day (Korea; 2333 B.C.)
Chung Yeung Festival (Hong Kong)
St. Gerard of Brogne’s Day (patron against jaundice, scrofula)
Morazan Day (Honduras)
Goose Fair (Nottingham, U.K.)
St. Thomas de Cantilupe’s Day

Pierre Bonnard
Thomas Wolfe
Harvey Kurtzman
Chubby Checker
Gore Vidal
Patrick Manson
Timothy Bottoms
Warner Oland
Li Tzu-ch’eng
Patrick Manson
Leo McCarey
Johnny Burke
Al Sharpton
Keb’ Mo’
Tommy Lee
Clive Owen
Janel Moloney
Gwen Stefani
Keiko Agena
Neve Campbell
Alanna Ubach
Seann William Scott
William Crawford Gorgas
Steve Reich
Pamela Hensley
George Bancroft
John Gorrie
Eddie Cochran
George Ripley
James Darren
Karen Elaine Morton (Pb 7/78)
John Gund (1830)
Fred Horix (1843)
F.D. Radeke (1843)
Lindsey Buckingham
Madlyn Rhue
Francisco Morazan
William C. Gorgas
Eleanora Duse
Fred Clarke
Jeff Bingaman
Dave Winfield
Ashlee Simpson
Travis Hill

Dick Van Dyke Show debuted
Motor driven vaccuum cleaner patented
Father Knows Best debuted (1954)
Cartier discovered Montreal
Mickey Mouse Club debuted (1955)
SOS established as international distress code (1906)
Ozzie and Harriet debuted
Underdog debuted
1st Female US Senator took office (1922)
Johns Hopkins University established (1876)
Germany reunified (1990)
UK 1st exploded an atomic bomb (1952)
Andy Griffith Show debuted (1960)
Francis of Assisi died (1226)
Postal codes introduced in UK (1959)
Bob Bundurant drove in his 1st Grand Prix race (1965)
Chevrolet resumed auto production after WW2 (1945)
Frank Robinson named 1st black MLB manager (1974)
Thanksgiving officially designated by Lincoln as a national holiday (1863)
Gilligan’s Island staged a production of Hamlet (1966)
Sinead O’Connor ripped up the pope’s picture on Saturday Night Live (1992)
UK Law chied resigned in sex scandal (1991)
Mercury astronaut Wally Schirra orbited the Earth 6 times (1962)
Charles II revoked the Massachusetts Bay Colony Charter for ignoring Navigation acts and the Church of England (1684)
O.J. Simpson incredulously found not guilty (1995)
1st NFL football game played (1920)
The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes formally changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1929)
New York Giants third baseman Bobby Thomson hit a three-run home run in the bottom of the 9th inning to win the deciding game of a three-game playoff series against the Brooklyn Dodgers, sending the Giants into the World Series, it would later be known as “the shot heard ’round the world” (1951)
Germany re-unified (1990)
Attorney General Janet Reno said she had found no evidence that President Bill Clinton broke the law with White House coffees and overnight stays for big contributors (1997)
Five people were killed in random shootings in the Washington, D.C., area within a 14-hour period. Authorities began to search for the “Beltway Sniper” (2002)
A tiger attacked magician Roy Horn of the duo “Siegfried & Roy” during a performance in Las Vegas, leaving him partially paralyzed (2003)
President George W. Bush nominated White House counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. [She withdrew three weeks later after criticism over her lack of judicial experience and Republican concerns about her conservatism] (2005)
Louis Bergdoll Brewing opened (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 1881)
Pike Place Brewery opened (Washington; 1989)