The Brookston Almanac

National Honesty Day
Beltane (Celtic)
Raisin Day
Maitag Vorabend (May Day Eve; Switzerland)
National Sense of Smell Day [ website ]
Vappu Day (Finland)
UHF Day
St. St. James the Great’s Day (Eastern)
Fairy Queen’s Birthday (Netherlands; Fairy)
Walpurgisnacht (aka Walpurgis Night; Europe)
Salus (Festival of the Dead; Portugal, Spain)
Night of Demons
St. Wolfhard’s Day (patron of saddlers; against gallstones) Feast of Valborg (Sweden)
St. Pius V’s Day
National Oatmeal Cookie Day
Roodmas (re: X-Files; Witch’s Sabbath)
St. Adjutor’s Day (patron of swimmers, yachtsmen; against drowning)

Edouard Manet
Alice B. Toklas
Franz Lehar
Paul Carrack
Jane Campion
Deanna Brooks (Pb 5/98)
William Lilly
Jill Clayburgh
Gale Sayers
Robert Shaw
Daniel Thompson
Jaroslav Hasek
Perry King
Karl Friedrich Gauss
Eve Arden
Isiah Thomas
Hosea Ballou
Jaroslav Hasek
Willie Nelson
Gary Collins
Cloris Leachman
Lawton Chiles
Bea Wain
Rev. Gary Davis
Sheldon Harnick
Burt Young
Tom Pesak
Daniel Bradford (1950)
Bobby Vee
Merrill Osmond
Julianna, former Queen of the Netherlands
King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden

Birth Control Pill patented
Vietnam War ended (1975)
Life Jacket 1st used
Moscow founded
Louisiana became the 18th state (1812)
1st US National Holiday declared (1889)
Washington inaugurated as 1st US President (1789)
New York World’s Fair opened
Casey Jones’ train, the Cannonball Express, derailed (1900)
TV 1st Publicly broadcast (NBC; 1939)
Charlie Parker recorded his 1st record (1941)
Dial Weighing Machine patented (1772)
X-15 1st flew
Dial Washing Machine patented
1st Modern Submarine built
Rusty Nail sank (Doonesbury)
Palm Beach County, Florida founded (1909)
Willie Mays hit 4 home runs (1961)
Bob Dylan’s 1st Tour began (1965)
Saigon fell to communists (1975)
US purchased Louisiana & New Orleans from France (1803)
Republic of Hawaii ceded itself to US (1900)
St. Louis Exposition opened (1904)
Last Cosby Show aired (1992)
1st Land Rover exhibited (1948)
Mohawks made peace with the French (1622)
Bringing Up Father comic strip began (1918)
Young Rascals’ Good Lovin’ reached No. 1 (1965)
Egypt reopened Suez Canal (1957)
Frankie Lymon died of heorin overdose (1968)
Official G.E. Handshake Logo introduced on David Letterman (1986)
G.E. Voodoo Doll introduced on David Letterman (1991)
Spain appointed Chistopher Columbus “Admiral of the Ocean Sea” (1492)
Ellen Degeneres became the 1st network TV star to have her character come out of the closet (1997)
Muhammed Ali stripped of Heavyweight Boxing Title for refusing to kill people in Vietnam (1967)
Hitler commited suicide (probably; 1945)
During L.A. Riots, Katey Sagal’s push-up bra & Madonna’s bustier were stolen from Frederick’s (1992)
Anhesuer-Busch’s Wurzburger Hofbrau introduced to test markets (1976)
Cedar Brewing made their 100th batch of beer, Centenni-Ale (Iowa; 1997)
El Toro Brewing opened (California; 1994)
CJ’s Brewpub opened (Washington; 1995)
Firehouse Brewing opened (Florida; 1996)
Tree Brewing opened (Canada; 1996)

Feast of the Secret Masters
Holocaust Day (Israel)
Runic half-month of Lagu (flowing water) begins
St. Catherine of Siena’s Day (patron of Italy; against fire)
Fish Cleaning Night (David Letterman)
Greenery Day (Japan)
St. Robert’s Day
National Shrimp Scampi Day
St. Hugh of Cluny’s Day
Marriage of Father Divine To His Spotless Virgin Bride
St. Peter Martyr’s Day
Milk-Curdling Sunday (Gremlins; not always a Sunday)

Duke Ellington
Jerry Seinfeld
Oliver Ellsworth
Uma Thurman
Lorado Taft
Malcolm Sargent
Thomas Beechum
Jules Poincare
William Randolph Hearst
Michelle Pfeiffer
Daniel Day-Lewis
Andre Agassi
Frank Auerbach
Tommy James
Klauss Voorman
Donald Mills
Tom Ewell
Celeste Holm
Fred Zinnemann
Melanie
Rudolf Schwarz
Luis Aparicio
Kate Mulgrew
Matthew Vassar (1792)
Rachel Williams
Mike Hogan
Tad Dorgan
George Allen
Celeste Holm
Eve Plumb
Phil King
Carnie Wilson
Danny Davis
Lonnie Donegan
Keith Baxter
Lane Smith
Zubin Mehta
Rod McKuen
Carl Gardner
Jim Hart
Duane Allen
Zane Carney
James Bonamy
Harold Urey
Duke of Wellington
Alexander I
Emperor Hirohito of Japan

Arbor Day
Bird Day

Kiss-Your-Mate Day
Floralia (Old Roman Goddess of Flowers)
National Day of Mourning (Canada)
Great Poetry Reading Day
Costume Day
Nabonassar New Year
Runic half-month of Man ends
Texas Wildflower Day
St. Peter Chanel’s Day (patron of Oceania)
Fireman’s Fun Festival
Chicken-Tickling Day (Leprechauns; Fairy)
Santa Fe Trail Day
Worker’s Memorial Day
National Blueberry Pie Day
St. Vitalis and Valeria’s Day

James Monroe
Kurt Godel
Harper Lee
Emile Bernard
Monique Noel (Pb 5/89)
Ann-Margret
Jan Oort
Carolyn Jones
Jay Leno
Mifflin Wistler Gibbs
Lionel Barrymore
Mary McDonnell
Kim Gordon
Charles Sturt
Kenneth Kaunda
Marcia Strassman
Robert Anderson
Frank “Dreamy” Scanlan
Jinky the Fruit Bat
Rowland Evans
Barry Louis Larkin
Francis Baily
Tobias Asser
Chris Young
Melissa Joan Hart
Ernst F. Baruth (1842)
Tom Ciccateri (1956)
Too Short
Big Gipp
Edward IV
James A. Baker III
Saddam Hussein

Crew of the HMS Bounty mutineed (1789)
1st Abortion Clinic opened
Maryland became the 7th state (1788)
1st Parachute Jump
Captain Cook landed at Botany Bay (1770)
1st Animated Electric Sign built
Blondie’s Heart of Glass reached No. 1 (1979)
Rush-Bagot Treaty made Great Lakes neutral waters (1818)
Dim-out in force along US Atlantic Coast (WW2; 1942)
1st Killer Whale born in captivity
Japan given self-government after WW2 (1953)
1st Woman conducted Royal Opera House (1988)
German Baader-Meinhof Terrorists sentenced to life imprisonment (1977)
Mussolini executed (1945)
Guernica massacre took place (Spain; 1937)
Aloha Airlines jet survived having its roof blown off (1988)
Jason Lee founded Methodist Mission in Oregon Territory, spending $250,000 over 11 years to convert not one person (1834)
Beer became legal in North Carolina after Prohibition (1933)
Owen O’Leary’s Brewery opened (Massachusetts; 1996)
Stone Iwamoto Co. opened (Japan; 1997)
Nikko Brewing opened (Japan; 1999)
Flying Bison Brewing opened (New York; 2000)

Take Our Daughters to Work Day