The Brookston Almanac

American Beer Day

Covenant of Grace Day
Devil’s Night (Detroit, Michigan)
Chan Kom (Mexico)
Buy-A-Doughnut Day
Goddess Month of Hathor ends
Swaziland Independance Day
Los Angelitos (Mexico)
St. Dorothy of Montau’s Day (patron of Prussia)
National Candy Corn Day
St. Serapion of Antioch’s Day
Look in the Back of Your Refrigerator Day

John Adams
Christopher Columbus
Jan Vermeer
Christopher Wren
Erza Pound
Alfred Sisley
Harold Pinter
Ted Williams
Charles Atlas
Louis Malle
Henry Winkler
Diego Maradona
Paul Valery
Harry Hamlin
Ruth Gordon
Grace Slick
Admiral “Bull” Halsey
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Melissa Holliday (Pb 1/95)
Bill Terry
Ed Delahanty
Joe Adcock
Gordon Parks
Nestor Almedros
Dale Dawkins
Fred Friendly
Jim Perry
Dick Gautier
John S. Bowen
Bob Barnes (1956)

Time clock patented
Yeoman of the Guard established by Henry VII of England (1485)
Shostakovich 11th Symphony premiered
1st Person shown on television (1925)
Orson Welles 1st broadcast The War of the Worlds on radio (1938)
Muhammed Ali beat Sonny Liston for the Heavyweight Boxing Title (1964)
Rev. Sun Myung Moon simultaneously wed 6,516 couples (1988)
Martians destroyed Los Angeles (War of the Worlds; 1938)
1st US College admitted women (Oberlin College; 1838)
Jerry & friends got lost in the mall parking garage (on Seinfeld; 1991)
Lawrence of Arabia turned down the Order of the Bath from King George V (1918)
Men At Work’s Who Can It Be Now? reached No. 1 (1982)
World Columbian Exposition in Chicago closed (1893)
Tsar of Russia reluctantly agreed to grant the October Manifesto (1905)
Chinese boy Emperor Pu Yi granted Chinese Constitution (1911)
Polish Solidarity leader, Father Jerzy Popieluszko, found dead after being missing for 12 days (1984)
Fire destroyed the A. Getelman Brewery, Milwaukee (1877)
Fordham Brewing opened (Maryland; 1995)
Katie Bloom’s Irish Pub & Brewery opened (Texas; 1995)
Mount Airy Brewing opened (Maryland; 1995)
Prairie Rock Brewing opened (Illinois; 1995)
O’Hooley’s Pub & Brewery opened (Ohio; 1996)
Tampa Bay Brewing opened (Florida; 1996)