The Brookston Almanac

Cavalcata Sarda (Sardinia)
Palio Dei Balestrieri (Italy; Crossbow Contest)
Mad Sunday (Isle of Man)

Rural Life Sunday
Soil Stewardship Sunday
Rogation Sunday

Indianapolis 500 Race

Whale Day
Feast of Zerowork
American Film Festival (@)
St. Bernard of Montjoux’s Day (patron of mountain climbers, skiers)
Azerbaijan National Day
Day of the Pin-Hiding and Button-Losing (Fairy)
Runic half-month of Ing ends
National Hamburger Day
Slugs return from Capistrano

Ian Fleming
Solomon
Morgan Fox (Pb 12/90)
Billy Vera
Thomas Moore
Susie Diane Owens (Pb 3/88)
William Pitt (the Younger)
Leisa Sheridan (Pb 7/93)
Jim Thorpe
T-Bone Walker
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Carroll Baker
Jean Louis Agassiz
Patrick White
Lynn Johnston
Barry Commoner
Rudolph Guilani
Louis Agassiz
Jerry West
Sojourner Truth
Gladys Knight
Joseph Guillotin
Kirk Gibson
Dionne Quintuplets
Carroll Baker
John Fogerty
Patti Reynolds (Pb 9/65)
Walker Percy
Kylie Minogue
Beth Howland
Victoria Cunningham (Pb 4/75)
Roland Gift
Edward Seaga
Sandra Locke
General P.G.T. Beauregard
Madeline Le Rouix
Gary Stewart
Chubb Rock
Gloria Root (Pb 12/69)
Warren Giles
George I

Sir Edmund Hilary planted flags on Mt. Everest (1953)
Two Hour Work Day 1st advocated (1955)
1st All-Color Talking Film premiered
US Border Patrol established
Paris Commune collapsed (1871)
1st Book Club established
Golden Gate Bridge opened (1937)
Finnish teenager flew his Cessna to Moscow, buzzing the Kremlin as a prank (1987)
1st All-women crew finished around-the-world yacht race (1990)
US launched 2 monkeys into space (1959)
Sierra Club founded (1892)
Flashdance reached No. 1 (1983)
1st Sermon in a Jewish service in America (1773)
Belgium surrendered to Germany (WW2; 1940)
Indian Removal Act enacted (1830)
Last day of school in film Dazed and Confused (1976)
1st Photos taken of Shroud of Turin (1898)
Indian Removal Act passed, moving all Native Americans west of the Mississippi River (1830)
1st World Weighlifting Championship held (1891)
IRA Gunmen accidently shot dead 2 Australian tourists in Amsterdam, mistaking them for British soldiers (1990)
Meister Brau began selling Lite Beer (1967)