The Brookston Almanac

Halloween
Samhain Eve (Druid)
Old Celtic New Year’s Eve
Festival of Inner Worlds
Goddess Month of Cailleach/Samhain begins
Homemakers Day
Increase Your Psychic Powers Day
Beggar’s Night
National UNICEF Day
Youth Honor Day (Iowa, Massachusetts)
Antigua Independence Day
National Magic Day
Reformation Day
Trick or Treat Night
Duck Apple Night (Liverpool, UK)
Apple and Candle Night (Wales)
Thump-the-Door Night (Isle of Man)
St. Quentin’s Day (patron of bombardiers, locksmiths, porters; against coughs, sneezes)
Feast to Pomona (Roman Empire)
National Caramel Apple Day
Dookie Apple Night (Newcastle, UK)
St. Wolfgang’s Day (patron of carpenters, shepherds; against apoplexy, gout, hemorrhages, stomach trouble, wolves)

John Keats
Benoit Fourneyron
Frank Shorter
Jane Pauley
Cal Hubbard
Itzhak Perlman
David Ogden Stiers
John Candy
Michael Collins
Dan Rather
Eddie Charlton
Dave McNally
Gerhard Domagk
Dale Evans
Juliette Gordon Low
Robin Moore
Annabella Lwin
Ed “The Creeper” Stroud
Richard Hunt
Meindert Hobbema
Joseph Swan
Melinda Dillon
Larry Mullen
John Evelyn
Deidre Hall
Tom Paxton
Lee Grant
Michael Landon
Barbara Bel Geddes
Ethel Waters
Wilbur “Pete” Henry
Mickey Rivers
Bill Fralic
Larry Mullen Jr.
Roy Romer
Chaing Kai-Shek
Kinky Friedman
Preston Pegram
Mary Reiver

Nevada became 36th state (1864)
Protestant Reformation began (1517)
Monty Python’s 4th season debuted
1st Pacemaker installed (1958)
Columbia University founded (1754)
Battle of Britain ended (WW 2; 1940)
Mount Rushmore completed (1941)
Supremes’ Baby Love reached No. 1 (1964)
Pneumatic Tire patented (1888)
Harry Houdini died after punch in the stomach (1926)
Stalin’s body removed from public display (1961)
Indira Gandhi assassinated (1984)
Sistine Chapel 1st opened to the public (1512)
James Joyce finished Ulysses (1921)
Dixie Dugan comic strip began (1929)
IRA Bomb exploded on top of London’s Post Office Tower (1971)
Boris Pasternak expelled from Soviet Writers’ Union for Dr. Zhivago (1958)
Mug-House Riots, rival factions of Hanover & Jacobites both met at the same tavern (1715)
After a 65-year dispute, Du Bois Brewing must stop selling Du Bois Budweiser Beer (1971)
Dixie Brewing opened (Louisiana; 1907)
Buffalo Brewpub opened (New York; 1986)
Wilmington Brewing opened (North Carolina; 1994)
Ouray Brewing opened (Colordao; 1995)
Cedar River Brewing opened (Washington; 1996)