The Brookston Almanac

Flower Month
American Bike Month
Mental Health Month
Correct Posture Month
Foot Health Month
National Allergy/Asthma Month
National Asparagus Month
National Egg Month
National Photo Month
National Salad Month
Good Carkeeping Month
National High Blood Pressure Month
National Physical Fitness & Sports Month
National Radio Month
Older Americans Month
Touring Theatre Month
National Arthritis Month
Better Sleep Month
National Barbeque Month
Senior Citizens Month
Stroke Awareness Month
Date Your Mate Month
Family Support Month
Freedom Shrine Month
Fungal Infection Awareness Month
May Is Better Hearing Month
National Hamburger Month
National Senior Travel Month
National Sight-Saving Month
National Strawberry Month
React Month
National Tuberous Sclerosis Awareness Month
Personal History Awareness Month
Revise Your Work Schedule Month
Steelmark Month
Project Safe Baby Month
Asian/Pacific-American Heritage Month

6th Day of Shivan, 9th Jewish month (not including the intercalary month); Shavuot
Early May; Tinjaua (Romania)
4th moon of Chinese calendar; Cheung Chau Bun Festival (Hong Kong)
Saturday near 1st Quarter Moon between mid-April & mid-May; Astronomy Day
Late May; Mayoring Day (aka Hot Penny Toss Day; Rye, Sussex, UK)
Late May or early June but before students’ final exams; Juvenalia (Poland)
Sometime between mid-may & 30th; Vlaggetjesdag (Flag Day; Netherlands)
Sometime in May, June, or July (every 4 years); World Cup Soccer

Cartoon Art Appreciation Week
National Family Week
Be Kind To Animals Week
National Bathroom Reading Week
Heritage Week (Utah)
National Music Week
Carpet Care Improvement Week
National Volunteer Week
Childcare Awareness Week
National Photo Week
Pen Friends Week International
National Self-Help Book Week
Public Service Recognition Week

Labour Day (UK, Zambia)
Fishin’ Day (Seymour, Texas)

May Day (Celtic, 6th Station)
Lei Day (Hawaii)
Bealtaine (aka Beltane; Old Ireland)
Festival of the Hare
Americanism Day (Pennsylvania)
Walpurgisnacht (Norse, Germanic)
Law Day
International Labor Day
Traditional Fertility Festival
Loyalty Day
Maytine Faeries Appearance (Ireland @)
World Labor Day
Floralia (Goddess of Flowers; Old Roman)
Race of the Old Men Day (Archova, Greece)
St. Brioc’s Day (patron of purse makers)
Mother Goose Day
Riding of the Bounds (Berwick-Upon-Tweed, UK)
St. Joseph Worker’s Day (Vatican City)
Kallemooi (Holland)
Faint-Hearted Fairies May (or May Not) Ball (Fairy)
St. Peregrine Laziosi’s Day (patron against cancer)
Amtrak Day
Dipping Day
St. Tamenend’s Day (aka Tammany’s Day)
Chimney Sweep’s Day
St. Efsio’s Feast (Italy)
Play of St. Evermaar (Belgium)
Santacruzan (Philippine Girls’ Festival)
Repentence Day (Scotland)
Senior Citizens Day (Massachusetts)
Moving Day
National Chocolate Parfait Day
St. Joseph the Worker’s Day
Plant A Flower Day
Save the Rhino Day
Labor Day (Zambia)
St. Asaph’s Day
National Anxiety Disorders Screening Day
Pack Rag Day
St. Walburga’s Day
International Workers Day
St. Marculf’s Day (patron against scrofula)

Dante Aligheri
Terry Southern
Joseph Heller
Benjamin Henry Latrobe
George Innes
Joseph Addison
Steve Cauthen
George Innes
Jack Paar
Tawni Cable (Pb 6/89)
Mary “Mother” Jones
Scott Carpenter
Danielle Darrieux
Sonny James
Carrie Stevens (Pb 6/97)
Little Walter
Bobbie Ann Mason
Philippus Paracelsus
Leo Sowerby
Archie Williams
Henry Demarest Lloyd
Kate Smith
D’Arcy
Glenn Ford
Lynnda Kimball (Pb 1/75)
Steve Cauthen
Doug Barr
Mark Clark
Rita Coolidge
Dan O’Herlihy
Judy Collins
Cliff Battles
Alice Eastwood
Ollie Matson
Dan O’Herlihy
Chuck Bednarik
Tim McGraw
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Order of the Illuminati founded (1776)
Milky Way Galaxy created (Sagan calendar)
Smokey the Bear retired
1st Cocktail Bar opened
England & Scotland became Great Britain (1707)
1st National Christmas Tree dedicated
Citizen Kane premiered in New York (1941)
Pogo comic strip began (1949)
Battle of Berlin
1st Plowing Contest held
Amtrak Service began
Legoland Family Park opened (Denmark; 1968)
1st Jewelled Watch-Movement made
Gary Powers’ U-2 shot down over USSR (1960)
Word “Jazz” 1st printed in newpaper (1916)
1st Advertisment in US (1704)
Empire State Building opened (1931)
1st Adhesive Stamps made
Bayer Aspirin 1st for sale
1st Wagon Train left for California
Battle of Chencellorsville
1st Postcard printed
Creature From the Black Lagoon premiered
1st US Trade Union formed (1794)
Elvis Presely and Priscilla Beaulieu married (1967)
Panny Black stamps 1st for sale (UK; 1840)
Mother Jones gave her last speech, at age 100 (1893)
Tamagotchi, the virtual pet, 1st for sale in the US (1997)
Crystal Palace Great Exhibition opened (1851)
US Navy destroyed Spanish Fleet (1898)
Emperor Haile Selassie fled Ethiopa (1936)
Coca-Cola 1st served at a World’s Fair (1893)
Buster Brown comic strip began (1902)
Pinchot Tree dedicated at Muir Woods, California (1910)
Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson moved from New York to Beautiful Downtown Burbank (1972)
UN Convention held on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (1995)
Frank Gifford caught on videotape in a hotel room with flight attendant Suzen Johnson (1997)
Dabussy’s Afternoon of a Faun premiered with Nijinsky choreography (1922)
Herman’s Hermits’ Mrs. Brown You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter reached No. 1 (1965)
Adolph Coors purchased a partnership in a bottling company in Denver, Colorado (1872)
1st beer bottles for sale from First National Brewing (McKees Rock, Pennsylvania; 1906)

Worcester Brewing opened (Massachusetts; 1899)
Santa Cruz Brewing opened (California; 1986)
Royal Beer Co. (Tonga; 1987)
Cherryland Brewing opened (Wisconsin; 1988)
Frankenmuth Brewery opened (Michigan; 1988)
Cambridge Brewing (Massachusetts; 1989)
Durango Brewing opened (Colorado; 1990)
Mill Bakery, Brewery & Eatery opened (Florida; 1990)
Roslyn Brewing opened (Washington; 1990)
Walnut Brewery opened (Colorado; 1990)
Pacific Beach Brewhouse opened (California; 1991)
Celis Brewery opened (Texas; 1992)
Rohrbach Brewing opened (New York; 1992)
Holy Cow! Casino, Cafe & Brewery opened (Nevada; 1993)
Middlesex Brewing opened (Massachusetts; 1993)
Pikes Park Brewery opened (Colorado; 1993)
Il Vicino Wood Oven Pizza brewery opened (New Mexico; 1994)
Passageway Brewing (England; 1994)
Shipyard Brewery opened (Maine; 1994)
A1A Aleworks (Florida; 1995)
Cape Cod Brew House opened (Massachusetts; 1995)
Eldorado Canyon Brewing opened (Colorado; 1995)
F&M Breweries (Canada; 1995)
Fife Brewing (Scotland; 1995)
Great Baraboo Brewing (Michigan; 1995)
Joe’s Mill Hill Saloon (New Jersey; 1995)
Lexington Brewing (Kentucky; 1995)
Maine Coast Brewing opened (Maine; 1995)
Newport Beach Brewing (California; 1995)
Paddy’s Pub & Brewery (Canada; 1995)
Sheepscot Valley Brewing (Maine; 1995)
Star Garnet Brewing (Idaho; 1995)
Terrific Pacific Brewery & Grill (California; 1995)
TwoRows Restaurant & Brewery (Dallas, Texas; 1995)
Valley Forge Brewing (Pennsylvania; 1995)
Williamsville Brewery (Virginia; 1995)
Captains City Brewery (Washington; 1996)
Hamanako Brewing (Japan; 1996)
Narrow Gauge Brewing (Maine; 1996)
New Knoxville Brewing (Tennessee; 1996)
Slab City Brewing (Wisconsin; 1996)
Beer and Meal Maplip (Japan; 1997)
Deja Brew (Massachusetts; 1997)
Franconia Brewing (Pennsylvania; 1997)
Heartland Brewery (Missouri; 1997)
Main Street Brewery (California; 1997)
New Harvest Brewery (Missouri; 1997)
One-Eyed Jack Brewing (Illinois; 1997)
Raccoon River Brewing (Iowa; 1997)
Roanoke Railhouse Brewery & Restaurant/Railroad Brewing (Virginia; 1997)
Troegs Brewing (Pennsylvania; 1997)
Uptown Brewpub (Rhode Island; 1997)
Grand Teton Brewing (Idaho; 1998)
Great Adirondack Brewing (New York; 1998)
Red Lodge Ales/H&H Brewing (Montana; 1998)
Sapporo Beer Nagoya Beer Gardem Koyden (Japan; 1998)
Edermunder Brauscheune (Germany; 2000)
Longwood Brewpub (Canada; 2000)
O’Fallon Brewery (Missouri; 2000)
Ojai Brewpub (California; 2000)
Pictish Brewing (England; 2000)
Upper Mississippi Brewing (Iowa; 2000)