The Brookston Almanac

Tulip Time (Holland, Michigan)

National Playday for Health

Dea Dia (Goddess of the Cosmos)
Pack Rat Day
Discovery Day (Cayman Islands)
I-Am-An-American Day
Nauru Constitution Day
Constitution Day (Norway)
Las Piedras Day (Uruguay)
Fertility Rites (Phillippines)
World Telecommunications Day (UN)
St. Robert Bellarmine’s Day
National Employee Health & Fitness Day
St. Madern’s Day (patron against lameness)
Uff Da Day (North Dakota)
St. Pascal Babylon’s Day (patron of shepherds)
National Cherry Cobbler Day

Sandro Botticelli
Erik Satie
Bert Grant (1928)
Trent Reznor
Christian Lacroix
Taj Mahal
Maureen O’Sullivan
John Penn
Brigit Nielson
Dennis Hopper
Eva Peron
James Lind
Bert Jones
Archibald Cox
Hazel O’Leary
Bill Bruford
E. Benjamin Nelson
James “Cool Papa” Bell
Edward Jenner
Peter Mennin
Grace Jones
Bob Saget
Ivan Slone
Zinka Milanov
Joseph Norman Lockyer
Clarence “Ace” Parker
Sugar Ray Leonard
Ayatollah Khomeini

1st Stand Up Comic stood up
New York Stock Exchange opened (1792)
Reaper patented
1st Kentucky Derby held (1875)
Great Train Robbery ocurred
1st Tunnel built for use by autos
Grauman’s Chinese Theatre opened
1st Package Holiday taken (Thomas Cook; 1861)
Montreal founded
1st Merry-Go-Round built (Turkey; 1620)
Giant Dipper Roller Coaster opened (Santa Cruz, California; 1924)
1st Color Photograph exhibited (1961)
US Supreme Court outlawed segregation in public schools (Brown v. Board of Education; 1954)
Senate Watergate hearings began (1973)
Norwegian Constitution signed (1814)
Those Magnificent Man in Their Flying Machines premiered
Draft files napalmed in Catonsville, Maryland (1968)
Tide turned as Mafeking siege ended (Boer War; 1900)
US Speech researchers confirmed Churchill’s radio speeches faked (1990)
Hong Kong put up its own “Berlin Wall” to keep out Chinese immigrants (1962)
Bob Dylan performed at the Albert Hall (1964)
1st Person to row across the Atlantic completed the journey from Newfoundland to Ireland (1969)
Charlie Chaplin’s stolen coffin found (1978)
Vaclav Havel’s sentence commuted by Czechoslovakian government (1989)
NFL Football teams (Colts, Steelers, & Browns) agreed to join AFL to form the AFC (1969)
Whitney Houston’s Greatest Love of All reached No. 1 (1986)
Elsa Lubing became chief accountant of Cryolite Corp. (In Smilla’s Sense of Snow; 1957)
Cornerstone laid for Heineken Brewery (Amsterdam; 1867)
Brewsters Brewpub & Brasserie opened (Saskatchewan, Canada; 1989)
Sea Dog Brewing opened (Maine; 1993)
Front Waters Brewing opened (Ohio; 1996)
Mad Boar Brewhouse opened (South Carolina; 1996)