The Brookston Almanac

Cartoonists Against Crime Day
St. Crispin’s Day (patron of shoemakers, glovemakers, weavers)
Ugly Pickup Truck & Ugly Pickup Queen Contest (Chadron, Nebraska) St. Crispinianus’s Day (Crispin’s twin)
Dioscuri (Shoemaker’s Day)
Punk-For-A-Day Day
Thanksgiving (Virgin Islands)
National Greasy Foods Day
Sourest Day
Munzipan Feast (Fairy)
Retrocession Day (Taiwan)
St. Gaudentius’ Day
Halloween Holiday (Ireland)
Feast of Forty Martyrs of England and Wales

Pablo Picasso
Johann Strauss
Anne Tyler
Geoffery Chaucer
Jon Anderson
Georges Bizet
Richard E. Byrd
Baron Grenville
Adam Goldberg
Thomas Babbington Macauly
Henry Norris Russell
Arshile Gorky
Brian Kerwin
Helen Reddy
Michael Douglas
Eduardo Barrios
Max Stiner
Whit Bissell
Bob Knight
Tony Franciosa
Marion Ross
Anthony Johnson
Bobby Thompson
Hanna Gray
Minnie Pearl
Lord Macaulay
Eddie Lang
Billy Barty
Bobby Bush (1953)
Chris Ericson (brewer; 1961)

Charge of the Light Brigade (1854)
Weber’s Euryanthe premiered
1st Trademark patented
Picasso’s Guernica unveiled
Erie Canal opened (1825)
Private Eye 1st published (1961)
Battle of Agincourt (100 Years War; 1415)
Teapot Dome scandal unfolded (1923)
George Washington Bridge opened (NYC)
1st Railroad timetable published (1839)
Airbrush patented
US invaded Grenada (1983)
Communist China invaded Tibet (1950)
UK’s National Theatre on London’s South Bank opened (1976)
Taiwan expelled from UN to allow Communist China to join (1971)
1st Female FBI agents completed training (1972)
October Revolution began (Russia)
Chuckles bit the dust (Mary Tyler Moore Show; 1975)
Taiwan returned to Chinese rule (1945)
Don DeLillo’s Great Jones Street published
Cyndi Lauper’s True Colors reached No. 1 (1986)
Three-Diode Amplification Diode patented (1906)
Susan Smith’s children reported kidnapped (Union City, SC; 1994)
Chuckles the Clown killed dressed in a peanut suit (on the Mary Tyler Moore Show; 1975)
Professor Sean Maguire met his future wife, missing the 6th game of the World Series (1975; in film Good Will Hunting)
Bufano Statue erected in Cathedral Grove of Muir Woods to honor the UN (1969)
Charles V, King of Spain & Holy Roman Emperor, retired to Spanish Monastery (1556)
Boiler exploded at the Pabst brewery, destroying three stories of the building (1909)
Dubuque Brewery opened (Iowa; 1824)
California & Alabama Street Brewery opened (Washington; 1991)
Yorkville Brewery opened (New York; 1994)
Field’s Brewpub opened (Oregon; 1995)
Manyunk Brewing opened (Pennsylvania; 1996)
Panama City Brewery & Cafe opened (Florida; 1996)
Red Hook New England opened (New Hampshire; 1996)
Old Mill Brewery opened (Canada; 1997)