The Brookston Almanac

Pacing the Bounds (Switzerland)

Memorial Day
Spring Bank Holiday (UK)
Decoration Day
Confederate Memorial Day (Virginia)

Rogation Days (aka Gang Days)

End of the Middle Ages Day
Restoration Day
Ascension of Baha’u'llah (Baha’i)
Luilak (Lazy Bones Day; Belgium)
Bobby Ack Day (Ulverston, UK)
Nettle Day
Runic half-month of Odal (home, possession) begins
Ambarvailia (Old Roman Purification Festival to Ceres)
Oak Apple Day (aka Royal Oak Day; UK)
St. Bona’s Day (patron of flight attendants)
Royal Hospital Founder’s Day (UK)
Yak Bob Day (Westmoreland, UK)
Shick-Shack Day (aka Shitsack Day, Shik-Shak Day)
National Coq Au Vin Day

T.H. White
Patrick Henry
John F. Kennedy
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Tony Magee (1960)
Isaac Albeniz
Joseph von Sternberg
Lisa Whelchel
Paul Ehrlich
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Danny Elfman
Bob Hope
Ebenezer Butterick
Chan Kinchla
Annette Bening
Melanie Brown
Al Unser Sr.
Oswald Spengler
Felix Rohatyn
Beatrice Lillie
Anthony Geary
Fay Vincent
Eric Davis
Johnny “Blue Moon” Odom
Shay Knuth (Pb 9/69)
Gary Brooker
Rebbie Jackson
Herb Shriner
Lisa Whelchel
Kevin Conway
Playa Poncho
La Toya Jackson
Charles II

Theory of Relativity 1st tested
Wisconsin became the 30th state (1848)
Top of Mt. Everest 1st reached (1953)
Rhode Island became the 13th state (1790)
Charles II of England restored to the throne
Vertigo premiered
Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring premiered (1913)
Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells released
Escalator patented
Battle of Legnano (1167)
Rhode Island became the 13th state (1790)
Flag of the US President adopted (1916)
Longest Scarf completed (20 miles, 13 feet; 1988)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas published
1st Arms Reduction Pact between US & USSR signed (1972)
Empress of Ireland lost at sea (1914)
Bing Crosby recorded White Christmas (1942)
Hollow Earth theory 1st published
Pope 1st visited England (1982)
Bonus March on Washington, DC (1932)
Rolling Stones’ Brown Sugar reached No. 1 (1971)
“Virginia Plan” proposed at Constitutional Convention (1787)
Nazi troops captured Ypres, Belgium and Lille, France (WW2; 1940)
39 Killed in riot between fans of Liverpool & Juventus at European Cup Final (1985)
Byzantine Empire ended when Constantinople fell to the Turks (1453)
Ricky Nelson’s Travelin’ Man reached No. 1 (1961)
Cedar Point Park time capsule was buried (until 2045; Sandusky, Ohio; 1995)
41 Killed in soccer riot at European Cup Final during Liverpool v. Juventus (Belgium; 1985)
Boris Yeltsin elected to Supreme Soviet (1989)
Abraham Lincoln warned “you can fool some of the people some of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time” (1856)
Illinois Brewing opened (New Mexico; 1884)
Blind Tiger Brewery opened (Kansas; 1995)
Sam Adams Brewery opened (Ohio; 1997)