The Brookston Almanac

Evaluate Your Life Day
Feast of the Wicked Scam
National Seafood Bisque Day
St. Peter of Alcantara’s Day (patron of Brazil, watchmen)
Anniversary Day
Bob Evans Farm Festival
Potato Festival
Birth of Bab (Baha’i)
Change Your Life Day
St. John de Breboeuff and Issac Jogues and companions’ Day
Feast of St. Paul of the Cross
Sweetest Day
Jesuit Martyrs Day (Canada)
Seek the King Week begins (Fairy)
Bettara-Ichi (Pickle Market Fair; Japan)
St. Rene Goupil’s Day (patron of anesthesiologists)

Peter Max
Umberto Boccioni
Jack Anderson
Alfred Dreyfus
John LeCarre
Robert Beatty
Tor Johnson
John Lithgow
William Burns
Thomas Browne
Auguste Lumiere
Martha Jefferson
Robert Reed
Lewis Mumford
Anna Clarke (Pb 4/87)
Miguel Angel Asturais
Walter Cannon
Amy Carter
John McLoughlin
Arleigh Burke
Woody (Madness)
Patricia Ireland
Bradley Lee Daugherty
Anne S. Peck
Jim Dombrowski
Webster Slaughter
Bern Bennett
Tim Belcher
La Wanda Page
Mordecai “Three Finger” Brown
Evander Holyfield

Army shoulder patches established
George Washington made 5-star general
1st Air warfare
“Black Monday” worldwide stock market crash (1987)
Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington at Yorktown (1781)
West Side Story premiered
San Jose Sharks played their 1st game
Washington Monument cornerstone laid
Battle of Yorktown ended (1781)
Marlon Brando debuted on Broadway (1944)
N.C. Wyeth died in automobile accident (1945)
A-Ha’s Take on Me reached No. 1 (1985)
Napoleon began retreating from Moscow (1812)
Star Spangled Banner 1st sung (1814)
1st company to manufacture internal combuction engines formed (1860)
Newspapermen’s round-the-world airplane race ended (1936)
De Lorean car plant in Belfast, Northern Ireland closed (1982)
Monty Python’s 3rd season debuted in U.K.
Billy Preston’s Nothing from Nothing reached No. 1 (1974)
Martin Luther King Jr. and 52 others arrested in sit-down demonstration (Atlanta, Georgia; 1960)
11-year old Grace Bedell wrote President Lincoln, asking him to grow a beard (1860)
Only known ad for Anchor Brewery ran in Portola Festival program (1909)
Southern Brewing (Tampa, Florida; 1933)
Silo Microbrewery opened (Kentucky; 1992)
Picaroons Brewing opened (Canada; 1995)