The Brookston Almanac

Reformation Sunday

Standard Time resumes; turn back your clock at 2:00 a.m.
Feast of Christ the King

Laugh Suddenly For No Reason A Lot Today Day
Hermit Day
Festival of Global Climate Change
Hide From Everyone Day
Iroquois Feast of the Dead (every 12 years)
Kampuchea Independance Day
Oatmeal Day
Second Fiddle of the Month (Fairy)
Turkey Republic Day
St. Baldus’ Day (patron of cattle; against family problems)
National Disgusting Little Pumpkin-Shaped Candies Day

Ralph Bakshi
Edmund Halley
Winona Ryder
Kevin Maguire
Richard Dreyfuss
Apollonius of Tyana
Zoot Sims
Edward Wadsworth
R.B. Kitaj
Jean Giradoux
Bela Lugosi
Denny Laine
Geraldine Brooks
Bill Mauldin
Fanny Brice
Kate Jackson
James Boswell
Dirk Kempthorne
J.T. Smith
Melba Moore
Daniel Decatur Emmett
Connie Mack
Peter Green
Jim Bibby
Randy Jackson
Jesse Lee Barfield
Michael D’Andrea Carter
Charles Swann
Joseph Goebbels

Red Cross founded (1963)
1st Corn husking contest (311)
Tanganyika and Zanzibar became Tanzania (1964)
Stock Market collapsed (1929)
1st Arab Oil Embargo began (1973)
National Organization for Women founded (1966)
1st Slot machine paid $275,000
Tomb of Genghis Kahn discovered
Ball point pens appeared for sale
Kalamazoo County, Michigan founded (1829)
1st Fire to be put out using man-made rain
Rosie Beau comic strip began (1916)
Duane Allman killed in motorcyle accident (1971)
1st Compulsory US peacetime draft began (1940)
Tomb of Genghis Khan discovered (1927)
Israeli soldiers crossed the Sinai Peninsula (1956)
1st Steam-powered warship launched (1814)
Star of India & other gems stolen from Natural History Museum, NYC (1964)
Leon Czolgosz electrocuted for assassinating US President McKinley (1901)
The Tollivers visited their son Michael in San Francisco (Tale of the City)
Lindy Chamberlain, who claimed her baby was taken by a Dingo, convicted of murder (Australia; 1982)
Geelong Brewing opened (Australia; 1989)
Copperhead Brewing opened (Canada; 1992)
Alcatraz Brewing opened (Indiana; 1995)