The Brookston Almanac

Hurricane Thanksgiving Day (Virgin Islands)
National Heroes Day (Jamaica)

World Food Day (UN)
Dictionary Day
National Boss Day
St. Gall’s Day (patron of birds, Switzerland)
International Credit Union Day
St. Hedwig’s Day (patron of Bavaria, Silesia)
Maintenance Personnel Day
Sukkoth
St. Lullus’ Day
National Liqueur Day
St. Gerard Majella’s Day (patron of childbirth, mothers)
St. Margaret Mary Alacoque’s Day (patron against polio)

Eugene O’Neil
Bob Mould
Oscar Wilde (1856)
Noah Webster
Tim Robbins
Gunther Grass
Arnold Bocklin
Bob Weir
Albrecht von Haller
David Ben-Gurion
Laurel Canyon
Michael Conrad
Bert Kaempfert
Melissa Belote
Flea
Martha Smith (7/73)
Angela Lansbury
Leo Carroll
Nicholas Culpepper
Leon “Goose” Goslin
Manute Bol
Paul Strand
William O. Douglas
Fannie Lou Hamer
Linda Darnell
Suzanne Sommers
Lynn Cain
Chris Doleman
Alfonso de Portago
Kevin McReynolds

Marie Antoinette lost her head (1793)
US Mint at Philadelphia established
1st Correspondence School opens
Raid on Harper’s Ferry (1859)
1st Birth Control Clinic opened (1916)
Zorro debuted
GOES I launched into orbit (1975)
1st modern Hotel opened (Tremont; 170 rooms with baths; Boston; 1829)
Disney Studio established
Yale founded (1701)
Napoleon exiled to St. Helena (1815)
1st Anesthetized operation (1846)
Boromir reaches Rivendell (Hobbit)
Lion Sermon 1st given (1647)
Mao-Tse Tung began China’s Long March (1934)
British New Guinea became part of Australia (1906)
China exploded its 1st atomic bomb (1964)
Rick Dees’ Disco Duck reached No. 1 (1976)
Creedence Cleawater Revival disbanded (1972)
1st Appearance of the Rhino in Spiderman comics
US Deportation Act for alien anarchists passed (1919)
Massacre at Luby’s Cafeteria (Killeen, Texas; 1991)
Ether 1st used in a capital operation (1846)
Houses of Parliament burned (UK; 1834)
Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN established (1945)
International Trade in Endangered Species voted 76-11 to ban ivory trade (1989)
Prime Minister Thatcher scrapped Independent Broadcasting Authority because they refused to stop the airing of a controversial documentary which showed her in a bad light (1991)
Vat of porter beer burst a Meux & Co. Brewery of Tottenham Court, London, flooding the surrounding area and killing 20 when the 25-foot wave knocked down the brick wall of the brewery (1814)
Anchor Brewing 1st bottled at their present location on Mariposa Street (San Francisco, California; 1979)
Crane River Brewpub opened (Nebraska; 1992)
West Virginia Brewing opened (West Virginia; 1992)
Milwaukee Ale House opened (Wisconsin; 1997)