The Brookston Almanac

Great American Smokeout
Noveau Beaujolais wine released (France)

Hecate Night (Wicca)
St. Matthew’s Day (Eastern)
Cote-d’Or begins (Wine Festival)
National Moms and Dads Day
St. Margaret of Scotland’s Day (patron of Scotland)
National Library Button Day
St. Gertrude the Great’s Day (patron of the West Indies)
Dahomey Independence Day
National Fast Food Day
St. Edmund of Abingdon’s Day
Resident Aliens’ Day
St. Echerius’ Day
Elephant Roundup begins (Thailand)
Statia and America Day (St. Eustatius, West Indies)

George S. Kaufman
Paul Hindemith
W.C. Handy
Peter Ballantine (1791)
Tiberius
Burgess Meredith
Jean D’Alembert
George H. Gallup
Francis Danby
William de Morgan
Dick Smothers
Lisa Bonet
Dwight Gooden
Rodolphe Kreutzer
Suzie Simpson (Pb 1/92)
Elizabeth Drew
Bob Gibson
Raghib “Rocket” Ismail
Harvey Martin
Martine Van Hammel
Dwight Gooden
Jo Jo White
Chinua Achebe
Rollie “Bunions” Zeider
Derrick Hoskins
Patti Santos
Frank Bruno

1st Atheism Society established
Coke’s contour bottle introduced (1915)
Jerry Lee Lewis’ Great Balls of Fire released
1st Hydrogen Bomb made
Oklahoma became the 46th state (1907)
Battle of Ft. Mifflin
Sound of Music opened on broadway
1st Automobile went 60 mph
Bilbo reached Lonely Mountain (Hobbitt)
Gay Divorcee premiered
1st Relay Race held
Knowles Riot (Boston, Mass.; 1747)
Love Me Tender premiered
Bolshevik troops captured Moscow (1917)
Murray River discovered (Australia; 1824)
1st Federal Reserve Bank opened (1914)
Estonia demanded sovereignty from USSR (1988)
Disney’s The Rescuers Down Under premiered (1990)
British Navy blockaded Long Island Sound (War of 1812; 1813)
National Program to build air-raid shelters approved (UK; 1937)
Russian Civil War ended with Bolshevik defeating White Russians (1920)
Obscenity trial began for publication of Well of Loneliness (1928)
Highwayman Jack Sheppard hanged at Tyburn, UK (1724)
John Lennon’s Whatever Gets You Thru the Night reached No. 1 (1974)
Margaret Sanger arrested for running a birth control clinic (1916)
Toscanini made his US debut conducting Verdi’s Aida at the Met (NYC; 1908)
Oklahoma Territory consolidated with Indian Territory, ending the experiment of a separate Indian section under tribal government within US borders (1907)
Stone Double Bastard 1st released (2000)
Lift Bridge Brewing opened (Ohio; 1994)
Fisherrow Brewery opened (Scotland; 1999)