The Brookston Almanac

Red Flannel Days (Michigan)
American Education Week
National Eating Disorders Week
National Chemistry Week
National Notary Public Week
National Split Pea Soup Week
World Mutual Services Week
National Children’s Book Week
Key Club International Week
National Osteopathic Medicine Week
International Week of Science and Peace (UN)
National Rediologic Technology Week
National Ammo Week (begins Saturday) [ website ]

Volkstrauertag (Memorial Day; Germany)

Tree Festival (Tunisia)
New York City Marathon
La Quintane (France)
Remembrance Day or Sunday (fka Poppy Day)

Order of Fools
Indian Summer Festival
Exotic Dancer’s Day
Republic Day (Austria)
Israel Independence Day
St. Emillion’s Day (patron of Spain, finding lost objects)
Old Teutonic Yule Festival
Feast of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini (patron of hospital administrators)
Runic half-month of Hagal ends
St. Lebuin’s Day (patron of the dying)
Remembrance Day (UK)
St. Josaphat’s Day (patron of Ukraine)
Feast of St. Martin of Tours (Eastern)
St. Nilus the Ascetic’s Day
National Pizza with the Works Except Anchovies Day

Edvard Munch
Alexander Borodin
Bjork Gudmundsdottir
Grace Kelly
Auguste Rodin
Harry Blackmun
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Booker T. Jones
Neil Young
Juana Ines de La Cruz
Louis Brandeis
Sun Yat-Sen
Nadia Comaneci
Baha’u'llah (Baha’i)
Alphonse “Tuffy” Leemans
Ken Houston
Steve Bartkowski
Kim Hunter
Roland Barthes
Jack Oakie
Bruce Bochte
Greg Gagne
Stephanie Powers
Joseph Coors (1917)
Charles Manson

1st Air Raid in US (by rival beer factories)
Brotherhood of Fools founded (1381)
University of Pennsylvania founded (1749)
1st Drive-in Bank opened (1946)
Autobank established
1st Flying Trapeze Act flew
Hovercraft patented
Chloroform 1st demonstrated (1847)
Johnny Rivers’ Poor Side of Town reached No. 1 (1966)
1st Appearance of the Lizard (Spiderman Comics)
Joan of Arc premiered
Disney’s Song of the South premiered (1946)
Oldest known photosynthetic plant fossils formed (Sagan calendar)
1st ATM Machine opened
Madonna’s Like a Virgin releasd (1984)
Oldsmobile became part of GM (1908)
San Francisco’s Bay Bridge opened (1936)
1st Flight from UK to Australia began (1919)
Danish King of England, Canute II, died (1035)
John Bunyan arrested for preaching without a licenese (1660)
French trapeze artists Jules Leotard debuted (1859)
Rudolph Valentino in The Shiek premiered (1921)
1st Sit-Down Strike held (Hormel Packing Co., Austin, Minnesota; 1933)
German battleship Tirpitz sank in Norwegian fjord (1944)
Magic Johnson announced he was HIV-positive (1991)
Japanese Emperor sentenced to death after World War 2 (1948)
Iraq gave Kuwait 13 days to take up Iraqi identity cards (1990)
200,000 Paris schoolchildren rioted for better education (1990)
Zonker talked about Hashish in a sandbox, sparking a lot of criticism (Doonesbury; 1982)
West Indies cricket captain Viv Richards scored his 100th century (1988)
A-B incorporated, adopting the new name Anheuser-Busch, Inc. (1919)
1st US Brewers Association convention held; Frederick Lauer elected 1st President (1862)
Kumazawa Brewing opened (Japan; 1996)
New Berlin Brewing opened (Ohio; 1996)