The Brookston Almanac

Dangerous Dan’s Annual Coffee Cup Washing

Feast of Athena/Minerva
St. Joseph’s Day (patron of Austria, Belgium, Canada, carpenters, fathers, house hunting, Mexico, Peru, Vietnam, workers; for a happy death; against communism, doubt)
National Agriculture Day
Swallows Day (traditional return to Capistrano)
Dia de San Giuseppe (Italy)
Poultry Day
Mojoday (aka Dr. Van Van Mojo’s Day; Discordian)
Eyvind Kinnrifi (Norse)
Chariot Races on the Field of Mars (Old Roman)
Zimber-Quattor’s Revenge Week begins (Fairy)
Goddess Month of Moura ends
Canberra Day (Australia)
National Chocolate Caramel Day

Nikolai Gogol
Vivian Hsu
David Livingstone
Sheldon Duncan
Alfred P. Ryder
William Jennings Bryan
Ursula Andress
David McCallum
Bruce Willis
Ornette Coleman
Georges de la Tour
Philip Roth
Irving Wallace
Wyatt Earp
Patrick McGoohan
Charles M. Russell
Lisa Baker (Pb 11/66)
Joseph Albers
William Bradford
Richard Francis Burton
Thomas McKean
Earl Warren
Tobias Smollett
Ricky Wilson
Moms Mabley
Clarence “Frogman” Henry
Ray Deter (1957)
Paul Atkinson
Walter Haworth
Joe “Iron Man” McGinnity
William Bradford
Glenn Close
Robin Pacquing
John J. Sirica
Edith Nourse Rogers
Joseph Schaller (1812)
Lynda Bird Johnson
Courtney Pine
Brent Scowcroft
Adolf Eichmann

Massachusetts Bay Colony founded
1st Recorded Eclipse of the Sun (721 BCE)
League of Nations not ratified by US (1920)
Royal Wedding premiered
Alka Seltzer 1st for sale (1931)
1st US Bank Robbery (NYC; 1831)
Rio Bravo premiered
Standard Time Act passed (1918)
Battle of Falkland Islands began
Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov premiered (1913)
Santa Clara University founded
1st Planetarium in UK opened (1958)
Elvis Presley bought Graceland (1957)
Final episode of Mary Tyler Moore aired (1977)
Evangelist Jim Bakker resigned in disgrace (1987)
MonkeyCam debuted on Late Night with David Letterman (1993)
Abbaye de Leffe founded (Belgium; 1240)