The Brookston Almanac

Gasparilla Pirate Invasion Festival begins (Tampa, Florida)

Bartender’s Cup
Weatherman’s Day
Primrose Day
Wyrd’s Day (Celtic Goddess of Fortune Telling)
Lailatul Quadr (Night of Power)
St. Agatha’s Day (patron of Malta, nurses, jewelers, bell makers, bell ringers, wet nurses; against fire, breast cancer)
Chama Cha Mapinduzi Day (aka CCM; Tanzania)
Japanese Martyr Day
Bob Marley Day (Jamaica)
Disaster Day
National Weatherperson’s Day
St. Avitus’ Day
Mexico Constitution Day
CCM Day (Tanzania)
National Chocolate Fondue Day

William Burroughs
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Hank Aaron
Robert Peel
John Jeffries
Roger Williams
Debra Jo Fondren (Pb 9/77)
Yuko Aoki
Rev. John Witherspoon
Bob Marley
Hiram S. Maxim
Dwight Moody
Roger Staubach
Al Kooper
Belle Starr
Roseanne Katan (Pb 9/78)
Charlotte Rampling
Robert Hofstadter
Adlai Stevenson
Johan Most
William Miller
Christopher Guest
Barbara Hershey
Andrew Greeley
John Carradine
Red Buttons
Craig Morton
Mark Chipman

Disney’s Peter Pan premiered (1953)
Peep Show Machine patented
Reader’s Digest 1st published (1922)
1st Adding Machine for sale
Patty Hearst kidnapped (1974)
Fish debuted (1977)
Interstate Commerce Act passed
1st Gas Company opened
Parking Meter 1st installed in London (1958)
Spain captured Minorca from British (1782)
Ethyl “antiknock” gasoline 1st available (1923)
Slow Motion photography patented
Unknown Mozart Symphny discovered in Denmark (1983)
Toto’s Africa reached No. 1 (1983)
Satellite TV debuted in UK (1989)
Redshift of Quasars discovered (1963)
Third Punic War, longest war in history ended (after 2,131 years; 1985)
State of Emergency declared at Berkely due to Vietnam War protests (1969)
Luggage Inspection by US airlines became mandatory (1972)
1st Newspaper west of the Mississippi published (Oregon 1846)
Woodrow Bussey filed a lawsuit against Coors Brewing for not warning him that Coors beer was an intoxicating beverage (1979)
Samuel Smith Taddy Porter 1st imported to U.S. (1981)
Bend Brewing opened (Oregon; 1995)
Tokachi Beer Factory opened (Japan; 1997)