The Brookston Almanac

Feast of Fools
Canning Day
Festival of Forgotten Gods
Swallows leave Capistrano
National Boston Cream Pie Day
Chulalongkorn Day (Thailand)
National Mole Day
St. James’ Day
Finding of the King Jubilation (Fairy)
Hungarian Revolution Day
St. John of Capistrano’s Day (patron of military chaplains)
TV Talk Show Host Day
Scorpio zodiac sign begins

Pele
Michael Crichton
Pierre Larousse
Robert Bridges
“Weird Al” Yankovic
Johnny Carson
Lawren Harris
Jean-Louis Forain
William Coolidge
Gertrude Ederle
Nikki Charm
Diana Dors
Adlai Stevenson
Nicolas Apert
Louis Riel
Felix Bloch
Ned Rorem
James Daly
Katherine Hushaw (Pb 10/86)
Rama V (1868)
Louann Fernald (Pb 6/79)
Frank “Bruiser” Kinard
Jim Bunning
Mike Tomczak
Doug Flutie
Brent Williams
Juan “Chi-Chi” Rodriguez
Doug Flutie
Al Jolson

Planet Earth created (9:00 a.m.)
1st National Horseshoe Tournament held
Taming of the Shrew premiered
1st Shot fired in WW II
Flying Tigers premiered
Leon Trotsky expelled from Communist Party (1926)
1st National Women’s Rights Convention (1850)
Disney’s Dumbo premiered (1941)
1st Old age home
Metropolitan Opera House opened (1883)
1st Plastic surgery operation performed
Videotape 1st aired on TV (Jonathan Winters Show; 1956)
Terrorists attacked US embassy in Beirut, Lebanon killing 240 (1983)
1st National US radio broadcast (1924)
Dion’s Runaround Su reached No. 1 (1961)
Battle of El Alamein began (WW2; 1942)
1st Reconnaisance flight (WW I)
Coup d’etat attempted against Napoleon (1812)
UK Courts finally ruled wives have right to say “no” (1991)
Russian tanks called in to Hungarian Revolution (1956)
World Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois opened (1892)
Charles I’s Cavaliers clashed with Cromwell’s Roundheads at Battle of Edgehill (1642)
25,000 women march in NYC for right to vote (1915)
Chicago’s If You Leave Me Now reached No. 1 (1976)
62 members of Lebanese parliament signed agreement to share equally power between Muslims & Christians (1989)
UK, UK, USSR, and France agree to end German occupation and allow West Germay to join NATO (1954)
Lion, Inc. (brewers of Gibbons beers) bought Stegmeier Brewing, Pennsylvania (1974)
Wasatch Brewing opened (Utah; 1986)
Vetters Alt-Heidelberg Brauhaus opened (Germany; 1987)