The Brookston Almanac

Day of Hathor (Egyptian Goddess of Drunkenness)
New Year of the Trees (Palestine)
Handwriting Day
Lichtenstein Foundation Day
National Pie Day
One-Tooth Rhee Landing Day
Goddess Month of Bridhe begins
St. Ildephonsus’ Day
Grandmother’s Day (Bulgaria)
Measure Your Feet Day
Birthday of the Grand Duchess (Luxembourg)
Ragwort Dance (Pixies only)
Quebec International Bonspiel (Curling Tournament @)
St. Emerentiana’s Day (patron against stomachaches)
National Rhubarb Pie Day
One-Tooth Rhee Landing Day

Bob Fosse
Edouard Manet
John Hancock
Stendahl
Jerry Kramer
Lorraine Michaels (Pb 4/81)
Sergei Eisenstein
Paul Langevin
Joseph Hewes
Stewart Potter
Rutger Hauer
Sergei Eisenstein
Django Reinhardt
George McManus
Antonio Gramsci
Sondra Gatewood
Bob Paisley
Princess Caroline
Ernie Kovacs
Bill Gibb
Jeanne Moreau
Randolph Scott
Gil Gerard
Sharon Tate
Pat Haden
Tom Carper
Franklin Pangborn
David Douglas Duncan
Bob Steele
Richard Dean Anderson
Bill Cunningham
Earl Falconer
Dan Dureya
Frank R. Lautenberg
Chita Rivera
Bonkers
Leopold Schmidt (1846)
Charlie Papazian (1949)
Brian Reccow (1970)

USS Pueblo seized by North Korea
Lichtenstein founded (1719)
US Poll-taxes declared illegal by passage of 24th Amendment (1964)
Terry Kath accidently shot himself
Sinbad the Sailor premiered
Georgetown University founded (1789)
Deepest Ocean Dive
X-Rays discovered (1896)
Roots debuted (1977)
1st Woman Doctor in US qualified (1849)
British captured Tripoli (WW 2; 1943)
Shanxi Earthquake killed 830,000 (China; 1556)
Envelope Making Machine patented
Royal Exchange opened (London; 1571)
1st Archery Club formed
Volvo P1800 1st shown (1960)
Petula Clark’s Downtown reached No. 1 (1965)
Barney Miller debuted
John Wesley Harding’s 1st recording session (1986)
London and India 1st linked by telegraph (1908)
Iraq destroyed Kuwait oil fields, causing the world’s largest oil spill (1991)
1400 Varieties of European Grapevines arrived in Sonoma Valley, California (1862)
T. Paul’s Beer Co. opened (Oklahoma; 1995)