The Brookston Almanac

National Run-For-Your-Life Day
St. Moses’ Day (patron of Saracens)
National Hangover Awareness Day
Daniel Boone Escape Day
No Talk Day
Grenada Independence Day
Ice Worm Squirm (@)
National Fettuccine Alfredo Day

Charles Dickens
Aleister Crowley
Thomas More
Sinclair Lewis
Chris Rock (1964)
Henry Fuseli
Eubie Blake
James Spader
Alfred Adler
Frederick Douglass
John Deere
Michele Drake (Pb 5/79)
Gay Talese
Ashley Allen (Pb 8/92)
Michael Jordan
Alfred Adler
Dona J. Spier (Pb 3/84)
James Augustus Henry Murray
John Hickenlooper (1962)
Jeff O’Neil (1974)
Ashton Kutcher (1978)
Buster Crabbe
George Putnam
Oscar Brand
Dan Quisenberry
Jason Gedrick
Herb Kohl
Zsa Zsa Gabor

Dead Sea Scrolls discovered (1947)
Beatles arrived in US (1964)
When Worlds Collide premiered
Badfinger’s Come and Get It released
Witness For the Prosecution premiered
Disney’s Pinocchio premiered (1940)
1st Educational Magazine published Ballet 1st performed in US (1827)
Saratoga County, New York founded (1791)
Fellowship left Lorien (Hobbit)
“Baby Doc” Duvalier fled Haiti (1986)
Shocking Blue’s Venus reached No. 1 (1970)
Women won the right to vote in Switzerland (1991)
IRA bombed No. 10 Downing Street (1991)
Vietnam split into two countries (1950)
Rain of Sardines (Ipswich, Australia; 1989)
Lockhorns comic strip began (1926)
Tuscaloosa County, Alabama founded (1818)
1st Astronaut walked in space untethered (1984)
Henry Clay makes his “I’d rather be right than President” remark (1839)
Paul Simon’s 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover reached No. 1 (1976)
Son of Edward I became the 1st English Prince of Wales (1301)
USSR Central Committee voted to ends its monopoly of power (1990)
Drunken visitor at the British Museum smashed the Portland Vase into 200 pieces (1845)
Cedar Brewing opened (Iowa; 1996)
Williamantic Brewing opened (Connecticut; 1997)