The Brookston Almanac

Fasnacht (Switzerland)

Town Meeting Day (Vermont)

Narcissus Day
Bursting Day (Ireland)
Festival of Mars (Old Roman God of War)
Binche Festival (Belgium)
French Academy Woman’s Day
Magellan Day (Guam)
St. Fridolin’s Day (patron of optometrists)
Ghana Independence Day
St. Martian’s Day
Paczki Day
March Goblins’ Galumphing Gala and Display (Fairy)
Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas
National Frozen Food Day
St. Chrodegang’s Day
Stoneware Pottery Appreciation Day
National Chocolate Cheesecake Day

Michelangelo Buonarroti
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Moira Kelly
Cyrano de Bergerac
Rob Reiner
Michelle Leahy
Will Eisner
Lorin Maazel
Ensign Pavel Chekov
L. Gordon Cooper
Disck Fosbury
Philip Henry Sheridan
Wes Montgomery
Lou Costello
Cher Butler (Pb 8/85)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
David Gilmour
Bob Wills
Aqualad
Ring Lardner
Oscar Straus
Robert “Lefty” Grove
Willie Stargell
Shaquille O’Neal
Kiri Te Kanawa
Mary Wilson
Octavio “Cookie” Rojas
Thomas Masaryk
Ed McMahon
Anna Claypoole Peale
Sarah Caldwell
Jimmy Conzelman
Kiki Dee
Conrad Windisch (1825)
Valentina Tereshkova-Nikolaeva
Christopher S. Bond
Alan Greenspan
William Webster
Tom Arnold
Amy Pietz
Doug Dillard Jr.
Skip Ewing
Marion Barry

American Chemical Society founded
Oreo Cookies 1st for sale (Hoboken, NJ; 1912)
Aspirin patented (1899)
1st College Orchestra performed
Frozen Food 1st for sale
1st Electric Power Plant opened
USFL established
Alamo fell (1836)
Voyager I flew past Jupiter (1979)
1st Steel Ship built
FDR ordered all banks to close (1933)
Guam discovered (1521)
Verdi’s La Traviata premiered (1853)
Fall of the Alamo (1836)
1st Car driven in Detroit (1896)
Beatles’ Hey Jude went gold
Nguyen Van Phred became Vietnam Envoy to UN (Doonesbury)
Larry Flynt, publisher of Hustler, shot and paralyzed (1978)
Temptations’ My Girl reached No. 1 (1965)
Channel Ferry overturned, drowning 200 (1987)
Dred Scot decision invalidated Missouri Compromise (1857)
A man was told on the Jenny Jones TV show that another man was in love with him (1995)
Hammer & Nail Brewers opened (Connecticut; 1996)
Union Station First City Brewery & Grill opened (Minnesota; 1997)
Port Angeles Brewing opened (Washington; 1998)