The Brookston Almanac

National Homebrew Day [ website ]
Kentucky Derby Day (Louisville, Kentucky)
Lampshade Saturday
Old Dover Days begin (Delaware)

Enlightenment of the Buddha
National Homebrew Day
International No Diet Day
Beverage Day
Eyvind Kelve (Norse)
Feast of the Fiery Flying Roll
Shepherd’s and Herdsman’s Day (Bulgaria)
Nurses’ Day
Sixth Day of May (Fairy)
St. Ava’s Day (patron of children learning to walk)
National Crepe Suzette Day

T.H. White
Sigmund Freud
Orson Welles
John McCutcheon
Robert E. Peary
Aram Khachaturian
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Willie Mays
Martin Robinson Delany
Rudolph Valentino
Willie Mays
Phoebe Ann Coffin
Daniel Gerber
George Clooney
Louis von Schwanenfluegel (1848)
John Penn
William Daniel Leahy
Gaston Leroux
Maximilien Robespierre
Lori Singer
Grove Karl Gilbert
Dana Hill
Rabindranath Tagore
Stewart Granger
Herbie Cox
Max Ophlus
Emmanuel Celler
Bob Seger
Toots Shor
Weeb Ewbank
Roma Downey
Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Luigi Villoresi
Richard C. Shelby
Tony Blair
Mark Bryan
Henry II

Peter Minuit bought Manhattan (1626)
Sack of Rome (1527)
Refrigerator invented
Lock patented
Mile 1st run in under 4 minutes (1954)
Zonker retired from tanning (Doonesbury)
W.P.A. established (1935)
Hindenburg dirigible exploded (1937)
Crazy Horse surrendered, giving up Nebraska (1877)
Babe Ruth hit his 1st Home Run (1915)
1st International Boxing Match held (1733)
Yale Lock patented (1851)
Battle of Wounded Knee (1973)
Arkansas seceded from the Union (1861)
1st Shots fired in Cod War (1959)
FCC gave TV Channel 1 to the US military
Hitler Diaries announced as fakes (1983)
Elizabeth Taylor married Nicky Hilton (1950)
Works Progress Administration created (1935)
Chinese Exclusion Act passed (1882)
1st Postage Stamp issued (UK Black Penny; 1840)
David Duchovny & Tea Leoni married (1997)
Mindy 1st kissed Mork (on Mork & Mindy; 1980)
US Supreme Court established the ludicrous “separate but equal” doctrine in transportation (1896)
Refrigeration invented (1859)
Milwaukee Brewers Association founded (1896)
T-Bonz Gill & Grill brewpub opened (South Carolina; 1995)
Potrero Brewing opened (California; 1999)
California Brewing opened (California; 2000)