The Brookston Almanac

Spring Month
National Beer Month (Pennsylvania)
Academy Awards Month
Frozen Food Month
Humorists Are Artists Month
National Furniture Refinishing Month
American Red Cross Month
Mental Retardation Month
National Nutrition Month
National Flour Month
National Peanut Month
Philatelic Literature Month
Youth Art Month
Cataract Awareness Month
National Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Month
National Craft Month
National Hobby Month
National Professional Social Work Month
National Women’s History Month
Rosacea Awareness Month
Music in Our Schools Month
National Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Month
National Feminine Empowerment Month
National Noodle Month
National “On-Hold” Month, National Sauce Month
Poison Prevention Awareness Month
National “Talk With Your Teen About Sex” Month

9th Day of bright 1/2 of Chaitra, 1st Hindu month (@ Mar/Apr); Ram Navami
10th Day of bright 1/2 of Chaitra, 1st Hindu month (@ Mar/Apr); Meenakshi Kalyana
12th Day of Rabi I, 3rd Islamic month; Maulid al-Nabi
14th Day of NIsan, 7th Jewish month (not including the intercalary month); Passover begins
1st Day of 1st month of Ibo calendar, set as vernal equinox; Ibu Afo Festival (Nigeria)
Full Moon Day of 3rd lunar month; Macha Puja Day (Thailand)
15th Day of 1st Moon of lunar calendar; Lantern Festival and Tourism Day (Taiwan)
19th Day of 2nd Moon of lunar calendar; Birthday of Kuan Yin, Goddess of Mercy (Taiwan)
Sometime in March; International Leisure Suit Convention

Matronalia (Old Roman Marriage Festival)
Chalanda Marz (Switzerland)
St. David’s Day (patron of poets, Wales)
Hollow Earth Day
Whuppity Scoorie Day (Lanark Lanarkshire, Scotland)
Labour Day (Tasmania)
St. SWithbert’s Day (patron against angina)
Heroes’ Day (Paraguay)
Pinzon Day (Bayona, Spain)
Old Roman New Year’s Day
National Fruit Compote Day
Purgatory Banquet (Italy)
Water-Drawing Festival begins (Japan)
National Pig Day
Rice Festival (Thailand)
International Day of the Seal
Elves, Woodworkers, and Mechanics’ Day (Fairy)
Samiljol Independence Movement Day (Korea)

Sandro Botticelli
Fredric Chopin
Glenn Miller
Moses (1560 BCE)
Karen Knezevich
David Niven
Ron Howard
Harry Belafonte
Nina Hartley
Dmitri Mitropoulos
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Ralph Ellison (1914)
Herb Alpert
Robert Conrad
Catherine Bach
Roger Daltrey
Judith Rossner
Richard “Purdy” Wilbur
Oskar Kokoschka
Dinah Shore
Rudolf Diesel
Joan Hackett
Ralph J. Gleason
Pete Rozelle
Alan Thicke
Deke Slayton
Robert Clary
Harry Caray
Myrle Evers (1933)
Dirk Benedict
Robert Bork
John B. Breaux
Cascellius of Rome (1st Dentist; 40 CE)

1st Book published in English
Ohio became the 17th state (1803)
Yellowstone National Park, 1st US National Park, established
Nebraska became the 37th state (1867)
Peace Corp established (1961)
Articles of Confederation ratified (1777)
1st State abolished slavery (Pennsylvania; 1780)
Nostradamus’ Book of Centuries published (1555)
Bikini Atoll destroyed by 1st Hydrogen Bomb test (1954)
Lindbergh baby kidnapped
1st Typewriter Manual published
Magellan discovered Guam
1st US Census authorized (1790)
Bank of England became public (1946)
Oswego County, New York founded (1816)
1st Person parachuted from an airplane (1912)
Chicago’s You’ve Made Me So Very Happy released
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn premiered
Essex County, New York founded (1799)
Weather Underground bombed US Capitol building (1971)
US Civil Rights Act passed (1875)
Last Emperor of China coronnated (1934)
Charlie Chaplin’s coffin stolen (1978)
L.B.J. saw light at the end of the tunnel
Wabash County, Indiana founded (1835)
Christian Moerlein sold his first keg of beer (Ohio; 1854)
16 Baltimore breweries banded together to form the Maryland Brewing Co. (1899)
The Decapitator, a combination bottle opened & corkscrew, patented (1910)
Iceland repealed their Prohibition, which began in 1915 (1989)

Pontiac Brewing opened (Michigan; 1900)
Triple Rock Brewery opened (California; 1986)
Mon Village Brewery opened (Quebec, Canada; 1987)
Les Brasseurs G.M.T. brewery opened (Quebec, Canada; 1988)
Butterfield Brewing opened (California; 1989)
Indianapolis Brewing opened (Indiana; 1989)
Pavichevich Brewing /Acme Brewing opened (Illinois; 1989)
North Yorkshire Brewing opened (England; 1990)
Conners Brewery opened (Ontario, Canada; 1991)
Bardo Rodeo brewery opened (Virginia; 1993)
Republic Brewery opened (Marshall Islands; 1993)
Atlantic Coast Brewing opened (Massachusetts; 1994)
Avery Brewing opened (Colorado; 1994)
Boardwalk Bistro brewery opened (Texas; 1994)
Covany Brewing opened (California; 1994)
Great Falls Brewing / No Tomatoes Restaurant & Brewery opened (Maine; 1987)
Lowell Brewing opened (Massachusetts; 1994)
Spring Garden Brewing opened (North Carolina; 1994)
Uinta Brewing opened (Utah; 1994)
Alley Kat Brewing opened (Canada; 1995)
Boundary Bay Brewing opened (Washington; 1995)
Hoffbrau Steak & Brewery opened (Texas; 1995)
Hub City Brewery opened (Texas; 1995)
Medicine Bow Brewing opened (Wyoming; 1995)
Newport Beach Brewing opened (California; 1995)
Sutter Brewing opened (California; 1995)
Tommyknocker Brewery & Pub opened (Colorado; 1995)
Baja Brewing opened (California; 1996)
Bar Harbor Brewing opened (Washington; 1996)
Brauhaus Schloss opened (Maryland; 1996)
Charlie & Jake’s Brewery & BBQ opened (Florida; 1996)
Coasters brewery opened (Florida; 1996)
Cottage Brewery opened (Canada; 1996)
Ice Harbor Brewing opened (Washington; 1996)
Rough Draft Brewing opened (South Dakota; 1996)
San Rafael Brewing opened (California; 1996)
Woodstock Inn & Brewing opened (New York; 1996)
Black River Bistro & Brewing opened (Michigan; 1997)
Brutopia brewery opened (Canada; 1997)
Circle City Beer Works opened (Indiana; 1997)
Dirty Dawg Brewing opened (Pennsylvania; 1997)
Flying Bison Brewing opened (New York; 1997)
Great Providence Brewing opened (Rhode Island; 1997)
Harbor Brewing opened (New York; 1997)
High Desert Brewing opened (New Mexico; 1997)
Island Brewing & Pizza opened (California; 1997)
Lovejoy’s Brewpub opened (Texas; 1997)
Magnotta Brewery opened (Canada; 1997)
Old Hampton Brewers opened (New York; 1997)
Sanibel Brewpub opened (Florida; 1997)
Shady Island Brewing opened (Canada; 1997)
Southern Oregon & Pacific Brewing opened (Oregon; 1997)
Tom’s River Brewing opened (New Jersey; 1997)
Wolf Creek Brewing opened (California; 1997)
Worcester Street Brewing opened (Maryland; 1997)
Cafe Charles Brewing opened (New York; 1998)
Central Coast Brewing opened (California; 1998)
Founders Brewing opened (Michigan; 1998)
Lighthouse Brewing opened (Canada; 1998)
Palau Brewing opened (Philippines; 1998)
White Water Brewing opened (California; 1998)
BJ’s Pizza Grill & Brewery opened (California; 1999)
Coast Brewing opened (Mississippi; 1999)
Hook & Ladder Brewing opened (California; 1999)
Oakdale Brewing opened (California; 1999)
Arran Brewery opened (Scotland; 2000)
Bluebell Brewery opened (England; 2000)
Driftwood Brewery opened (England; 2000)
Zea Rotisserie & Brewery opened (Louisiana; 2000)
Heritage Ales brewery opened (England; 2001)
Mount Tallac Brewing opened (California; 2001)