The Brookston Almanac

American Art Week
National Card & Letter Writing Week
French Conversation Week
National Fig Week
World Communication Week
National Notary Public Week

Rebenlichter (Switzerland)

New York City Marathon
RAC London to Brighton Veteran Car Run (UK)

World Community Day
Recreation Day (Australia)
Gunpowder Day
Feast of No Return
St. Elizabeth’s Day (patron of pregnant women)
Guy Fawkes’ Day (UK)
Pope Day
Arbor Day (Western Samoa)
National Doughnut Day

Will Durant
Vivien Leigh
Rob Widmer (1956)
Washington Allston
Roy Rogers
Tatum O’Neal
Sam Shepard
Paul Simon
Cindy Brooks (Pb 4/85)
Washington Allston
Raymond Loewy
Elke Sommer
Charles II (1661)
Thomas Kyd
Bill Walton
Ida Tarbell
John Haldane
Art Garfunkel
Paul Sabatier
Bryan Adams
Joel McCrea
Eugene Debs
Patricia Kuhl
Ray Conniff
Lloyd Anthony Moseby
Earle “Greasy” Neale
Chris Robinson
John Cleves Symmes
Walter Stanley
Earle “Greasy” Neale
Bill Pickel
Ike Turner
Lloyd Moseby
Mantovani

Professor Brown invented the Flux Capacitor (in Back to the Future; 1955)
Automobile patented (1895)
1st Crossword Puzzle Book published
Gunpowder Plot (1605; UK)
Susan B. Anthony illegally votes (1872)
Guys & Dolls premiered
1st Stereo radio broadcast
British Board of Film Censors appointed (1912)
Cyprus annexed to Great Britain (1914)
1st flight coast-to-coast (US: 1911)
Battle of Inkerman (Crimean War; 1854)
Chinese Boy Emperor, Pu-yi, expelled from Forbidden City (1924)
1st Photo taken of US President (former Pres. John Quincy Adams; 1848)
Gulliver washed up on Lilliput shore
New York Weekly Journal 1st published (1773)
USSR tanks crushed Hungarian revolt (1956)
1st Woman sailed around the world alone (1987)
Mick Jagger and Bianca divorced (1980)
1st Oldsmobile drove from Detroit to New York City (1901)
Redwood cross-section with 1,021 annual rings arrived at Muir Woods (1930)
Mogul leader Akbar defeated Afghan general Hemu at 2nd Battle of Panipat (1526)
President Lincoln put General Ambrose Burnside in charge of Union Army (1862)
Rudolph Valentino married actress Jean Acker and was locked out on his wedding night (1919)
Brasserie d’Alger opened (Algeria; 1906)
Whidbey Island Brewing opened (Washington; 1992)
Port City Brewery opened (Alabama; 1993)