The Brookston Almanac

World Community Day
Arbor Day (Western Samoa)

Housewife’s Day
St. Hubert’s Day (patron of hunters, mathematicians, foresters, furriers, makers of precision Instruments, Belgium; against dog bites, rabies)
Culture Day (Japan)
Andorra Independence Day
Sandwich Day
Panama Independence Day
Isis Cult Feast (Ancient Rome)
St. Malachy’s Day (The “Irish Nostradamus”; Celtic)
Dominica Independence Day
St. Pirminius’ Day (patron against snakebites. poisoning)
Chili Cook-Off
Micronesia Independence Day
St. Winifred’s Day
Meiji Setsu (Japan)
Parsley Scattering Season ends (Fairy)
Give Someone a Dollar Today Day
St. Martin de Porres’ Day (patron of hairdressers, persons of mixed race, public-health workers, race relations, TV in Peru)

Dennis Miller
Karl Baedeker
William Cullen Bryant
Bob Feller
Vincenzo Bellini
Adam Ant
Kimberly Evenson (Pb 9/84)
Edward D. White
James Renwick
Lulu
Edward Emmers
John Montague, Earl of Sandwich
Charles J. Vopicka (1857)
Lois Mailou Jones
Stephen Austin
Charles Bronson
Michael Dukakis
Bronko Nagurski
Roseanne Barr
Steve Landesberg
James Reston
Phil Simms
Monica Vitti
Ken Holtzman
Bob Welch
Phil Simms
Greg Townsend
Andre Malraux
Terence McNally
Dolph Lundgren
Larry Holmes
Ken Berry
Alfredo Stroessner

Sandwich invented (1718)
Treasure Island published
1st Dog in space (1957)
US Supreme Court declared Native Americans to be “aliens” (1883)
Frozen Bread for sale
Wizard of Oz debuted on TV (1956)
Opium War began (China; 1839)
Chevrolet Motors incorporated (1911)
Different Strokes debuted (1979)
1st Truth-in-packaging law requiring food ingredients to be listed established (1966)
Bank of Italy changed its name to Bank of America
Yeat Preparation patented
“Dewey Defeats Truman” read the Chicago Daily Tribune’s premature headline
1st National Auto Show held
North Sea oil pipeline opened (1975)
Idaho became 1st US state to grant women the vote (1896)
Billy Ocean’s Caribbean Queen reached No. 1 (1984)
Photographing of prisoners made compulsory (UK; 1870)
Abruzzi, Italy wiped out by an earthquake, killing 15,000 (1706)
Massachusetts offers £20 bounty for scalps of indian boys & girls under 12 (1755)
Koo Stark awarded 1/2 million in libel damages from Sunday People (1988)
2 French Agents plead guilty to sinking Greepeace ship Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand (1985)
Northgate Brewery registered “Canterbury Pale Ale” (England; 1883)
Snowy Mountain Brewing (Colorado; 1994)
Wallhall Brauhaus (Germany; 1995)
Gilded Otter Brewing (New York; 1998)