The Brookston Almanac

Armed Forces Day
The Preakness
Blessing of the Fleet begins (Bayou La Batre, Alabama)
International Jumping Frog Jubilee begins (Calaveras County, Missouri)
Great Monterey Squid Festival begins (Monterey, California)
World’s Largest Pancake Breakfast served by IHOP (Springfield, Massachusetts)

I Am An American Day
Malcolm X Day (Washington, DC)
My Other Mother’s Day

Beating of the Bounds (Old England)
Mjollnir (Old Germany; Celebration of Thor’s Hammer)
Eliza Doolittle Day
St. Bernadino of Siena’s Day (patron of adverstising, publicity agents; against horseness)
MPR Day (Zaire)
Lafayette Day Massachusetts)
Maritime Day
Flower Day
Love Feast Under the Gospel Elm (Wicken, UK)
Cameroon Constitution Day
Festival of the Chirping Crickets (Florence, Italy)
Mecklenburg Day (North Carolina)
Dainty-Four Remembrance Day (Fairy)
Wisakha Bucha Day (Thailand)
National Quiche Lorraine Day
Weights and Measures Day
Birthday of the Tathagata Buddha (Guatama)
St. Ethelbert’s Day (patron against thieves)
Rhubarb Festival (Intercourse, Pennsylvania @)
Taurus zodiac sign ends

Henri Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
Christopher Columbus
Henrik Ibsen
James Stewart
Honore de Balzac
William Thornton
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
Sigrid Undset
Emile Berliner
Laurence Olivier
Judy Ashworth (1942)
William Hewlett
Nick Heywood
Eimi Mori
Dolly Madison
Jane Wiedlin
William Fargo
Joe Cocker
Cher
Sara Louisa Oberholtzer
Frederic Passy
Sigrid Undset
Constance Towers
Bud Grant
Moshe Dayan
John N. McKernan
Bronson Pinchot
Anthony Zerbe
Dave Thomas
Stephen Girard
Joyce Nizzari (Pb 12/58)
Warren Cohn
Tom Gorman
Ron Reagan Jr.
Mindy Cohn
George Gobel

Nicea I eccumenical council began (325 CE)
Fountain Pen patented (1830)
1st Speeding Ticket issued
International Bureau of Weights and Measures established (1875)
Levi’s Blue Jeans with riveted pockets patented (1873)
1st Non-Intercourse Law enacted
Charles Lindbergh began 1st transatlantic solo flight (1927)
US Income Tax declared unconstitutional (1895)
1st Hydrogen Bomb dropped from the air (Bikini Atoll; 1956)
France restored slavery and the slave trade (1802)
Amelia Earhart began transatlantic solo flight by a woman (1932)
Queen Victoria laid the cornerstone for the Albert Hall (1867)
Fourierist Phalanx Commune established (Wisconsin; 1844)
1st Iron Boat floated
Moccasins patented (1825)
Last episode of Cheers aired (1993)
Homestead Act signed by Lincoln (1862)
1st Recorded Earthquake
Motor Voter Bill signed (1993)
Quebec voted not to cecede from Canada (1980)
St. Gothard’s Tunnel opened (Switzerland)
Last run of the Orient Express (1961)
US makes 1st land grant for education law (1785)
Shakespeare’s Sonnets 1st published (1609)
World expected to end as Halley’s comet returned (1910)
Let It Be premiered (1970)
1st Chelsea Flower Show held (1939)
Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve played the Parkside, Boston (1996)
Christopher Columbus died (1506)
UK passed the Quebec Act (1774)
Last US troops left Cuba (1902)
Roman Emperor Cola di Rienzo attempted to restore the Republic (1347)
North Carolina seceded from the Union (1861)
1st Miss India crowned Miss Universe (1994)
Crete invaded by Nazi Germany (WW2; 1941)
Spanish Armada set sail to go to war with England (1588)
Bill Haley’s Rock Around the Clock released (1954)
Conservative British MP Harvey Proctor admited using rent boys (1987)
Treaty of Paris restored Gascony to the UK (11 Years War; 1303)
Vasco da Gama arrived at Calicut, India, completing his voyage around Africa (1498)
Pan American Airways began 1st scheduled commercial service across Atlantic Ocean (1939)
Connie Chung fired as co-anchor of CBS News (1995)
Marriage of Angus and Laura, Somerset, UK (1st wedding in Four Weddings and a Funeral)
Chicago pop band bassist and singer Peter Cetera beaten up by 3 men at a Chicago Cubs game because he had long hair (1971)
Treaty of Jeddah signed, resulting in UK’s recognition of Saudi Arabia’s independence (1927)
Cruiseliner Egypt collided with steamship Seine and sank off Ushant, losing 90 lives and 1 million sterling in gold and silver (1922)
Philadelphia Lager Beer Brewers Association reorganized (1880)
Max Stenz, of Lake Tahoe’s Carson Brewing, died (1929)
1st Mountain Brewers Beer Fest held (1995)
Pike’s Peak Brewery opened (Colorado; 1993)
Treaty Grounds Brewpub opened (Idaho; 1994)
Glacier Brewhouse opened (Alaska; 1996)