The Brookston Almanac

Iditarod (dogsled race) begins

I Want You To Be Happy Day
Town Meeting Day
Aegir (Celtic Sea Festival)
Free Pass Day
Marriage of the March Nymphs (Fairy)
Hina Matsuri (Doll’s Festival; Japan)
Liberation Day (Bulgaria)
Unity Day (Sudan)
St. Ailred’s Day
Anniversary of the Throne Day (Morocco)
Peach Blossom Day (Japan)
Malawi Martyr’s Day
Bonza Bottler Day
St. Cunegund (patron of Luxembourg, Lithuania)
National Mulled Wine Day
Den Na Nez Avismost’ya (Bulgaria)
St. Winnal’s Day
National Anthem Day
Stop the Epidemic of Police Violence Day
Heart-Accelerating Sodium-Enriched Cold Cuts Day
St. Guignole (patron against impotence, infertility)
Ocean Beach Kite Festival (@)

Jay R. Brooks (1959)
Cyrano de Bergerac
Jean Harlow
Alexander Graham Bell
Zoroaster
Akira Fubuki
George Pullman
Norman Bethune
Jean Harlow
William Frawley
Hope Marie Carlton (Pb 7/85)
James Doohan
Victoria Nika Zdrok (Pb 10/94)
Ona Zee
Jacqueline Sheen (Pb 7/90)
Alan Ginsburg
Fatima Whitbread
William Godwin
Herschel Walker
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Fontaine Fox
William Green
Joe Stydahar
Calvin Williams
Arnold Newman
Guy Rose
Bruno Bozzetto
Monte Ward
David Faustino
Willie Keeler
Lionel Martin
Tim Kazurinsky
Mary Page Keller
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Matthew Bunker Ridgway
Thomas Otway
Junior Parker
Darnell Williams
Martin Ritt
Willie Chambers
Robert Walker
Umi Ryuuzaki (Rayearth Magic Knights)
Princess Lee Radziwell

Ponce de Leon set sail looking for the Fountain of Youth
US Forest Service established
Gregorian Time began
Time Magazine 1st published (1923)
Florida became the 27th state (1845)
Missouri Compromise passed (1820)
100th Night at West Point
Star-Spangled Banner proclaimed US National Anthem
District of Columbia created (1791)
King Kong premiered
1st Jet crashed
Harry Nilsson’s Without You released
Sound of Music premiered
Bizet’s Carmen premiered (1875)
1st Child Labor Law passed
Angel & the Badman premiered
1st Covered Theatre opened
Stagecoach premiered
Lucille Ball sued Desi Arnez for divorce (1960)
1st I.R.S. Tax imposed
Birth of a Nation premiered
National Academy of Sciences established
Bachman’s Warbler declared extinct
Royal Pennsylvania Gazette 1st published
Serfdom abolished in Russia
Cause of Syphillis discovered (1905)
US Army imported camels for use in southwest dessert (1855)
Janet Jackson’s Escapade reached No. 1 (1990)
US Congress appropriated money to buy camels (1855)
St. Lawrence County, New York founded (1882)
US Double Eagle $20 & $1 gold pieces authorized
Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata published (1802)
Rodney King beaten by Los Angeles policemen (1991)
Suicide bomber killed 18 people (Jerusalem; 1996)
Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled terminally ill patients have the “right to die” (1996)
US voids and nullifies every indian treaty ever made with the passing of the Indian Appropriation Act (1871)
W.C. Fields’ A Fatal Glass of Beer premiered (1933)
Pennsylvania Brewing/Penn Brewery opened (Pennsylvania; 1986)
McGuire’s Irish Pub & Brewery opened (Florida; 1989)
Beaver Street Brewery & Whistle Stop Cafe opened (Arizona; 1994)
Brewhouse Club opened (Argentina; 2000)