The Brookston Almanac

Recreation Day (Australia, Tasmania)
Black Solidarity Day (Yale University)

United Americas Day
Saxophone Day
Festival of Total Submission
Marooned Without a Compass Day
St. Leonard’s Day (patron of prisoners, blacksmiths, porters, horses, locksmiths, coal miners, greengrocers; against robbery)
Dominican Republic Independence Day
National Nachos Day
St. Paul of Constantinople’s Day (Eastern)
Chad Independence Day
Gustavas Adolphus Day (Sweden)
National Notary Public Day
Potting Shed Investitures (garden fairies; Fairy)
St. Illtyd’s Day
Do Tater Tots Ever Grow Up? Day

Noah
John Philip Sousa
Sally Field
James A. Naismith
Adolphe Sax
James Gregory
Ignace Paderewski
Robert Musil
Teri Peterson (PB 7/80)
William Leishman
Everett Shinn
Mike Nichols
Walter Johnson
Lori Singer
John Alcock
Edsel Ford
Angela Summers
Fibber McGee
Gustavas Adolphus
Maria Shriver
James Jones
Glenn Frey
Ray Conniff
Lance Kerwin
Wild Man Fischer
Ray Perkins
Mark Haynes
Carlo Abarth
John Candelaria
Heinrich Himmler

1st College Football game (Rutgers beat Princeton)
Disney’s Peter Pan premiered
Iran-Contra Scandal began (1986)
Mexico proclaimed independence from Spain (1813)
1st Electric Sign Flasher lit up
Electric Shaver patented
Kiwanis Club established
Battle of Lutzen (Sweden)
Meet the Press debuted (1947)
Sex Pistols’ 1st concert (lasts 10 minutes; 1975)
Phil Donohue Show debuted
I, Claudius debuted (1977)
RAF’s 1st monoplane, Hawker Hurricane, flew (1935)
Henry VI crowned King of England (1429)
Pearl Jam’s album Vs. reached No. 1 (1993)
Kariba High Dam construction began (Zambezi River; 1956)
Red Ryder comic strip began (1938)
Discovery of King Tut’s tomb announced (1922)
USSR President Boris Yeltsin disbanded the Communist Party (1991)
Spanish explorers 1st reached Santa Clara Valley near present-day Palo Alto
Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes’ Up Where We Belong reached No. 1 (1981)
Patna Railroad Station TV screens on the platforms accidently showed a pornographic movie instead of railway times (India; 1987)
Monmouth, Oregon finally voted to allow the sale of beer & wine, making it the last town on the west coast to do so after Prohibition (2002)
Stella Artois 1st brewed as a Christmas beer (1926)
Asahi Breweries opened (Japan; 1889)
Elk Grove Brewing opened (California; 1995)