The Brookston Almanac

Farmer’s Day
Be Nasty Day
Festival of the Earth Goddess (China)
Tij Day (Nepal)
St. John of God’s Day (patron of booksellers, hospitals, nurses, printers; against alcoholism, heart disease)
Labour Day (Victoria, Australia)
St. Felix’s Day
Tar & Feather Day
Syria Revolution Day
Working Women’s Day
National Peanut Cluster Day
St. Pontius’ Day
Day of No Interest to Fairies (Fairy)
International Women’s Day (Afghanistan, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, Nepal, USSR)

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Sophocles
Carl Philip Emmanuel Bach
Kenneth Grahame
Alan Hale Jr.
Jim Bouten
Mickey Dolenz
Aidan Quinn (1959)
Julian Lennon
Cyd Charisse
Kathy Shower (Pb 5/85)
Louise Beavers
Carl “Skoonj” Furilli
Frederick William Goudy
Joseph Lee
Ruggiero Leoncavallo
Pytor Lebedev
Otto Hahn
James Dean
Richie Allen
Lynn Redgrave
Susan Clark
Randy Meisner
David Wilkie
Sam Jaffe
Claire Trevor
Jim Bouten
Lynn Seymour
Carole Bayer Sayer
Mike Lowry
Charley Pride
Hannah Hoes Van Buren
Jim Rice
Raynoma “Mayberry Liles” Gordy Singleton
George F. Allen

Combat Troops 1st arrived in Vietnam
1st Illustrated Book published (Mirror of the World; UK; 1481)
Soap Opera Writers went on strike (1988)
Ulysses S. Grant made commander-in-chief of Northen Armies (1864)
Roberta premiered
1st Dog License issued
Malcolm X split from Nation of Islam (1964)
Caxton’s Mirror of the World translation finished (1481)
Beavis and Butthead debuted on MTV (1993)
London Gangster Ronnie Kray shot rival gangster through the head in Blind Beggar Pub (1966)
Police in India force 3,000 to stay indoors enforcing a ban on nude worship of a Hindu god (1988)
Coca-Cola’s 6-Pack Carton introduced (1923)
Train crossed the 1st suspension bridge (Niagra Falls; 1855)
China imposed martial law in Tibet after protests (1988)
International Whaling Commission outlawed harpoon use on great whales (1982)
Olivia Newton-John’s Have You Ever Been Mellow? reached No. 1 (1975)
Beer Parade premiered (1933)
Steelhead Brewing at Burlingame Station opened (California; 1995)
Third Street Ale Works opened (California; 1996)