The Brookston Almanac

Spaghetti Bridge Building Contest (British Columbia, Canada)

Blessing of the Bock
Panic Day
St. Catherine of Bologna’s Day (patron of artists)
Absolute Total Nihilists Bang Clang Day (Los Angeles)
Rockhound Days begin
Jonquil Festival
40 Saints Day
St. Dominic Savio’s Day (patron of choirboys, juvenile delinquents)
Festival of Primal Ooze
St. Pacian’s Day
Baron Bliss Day (Belize)
St. Frances of Rome’s Day (patron of motorists, widows)
National Crabmeat Day
St. Gregory of Nyssa’s Day
Wellness Permission League’s Panic Day
Second Day of No Interest to Fairies (Fairy)

Modest Mussorgsky
Samuel Barber
Bobby Fischer
Juliet Binoche
Mickey Spillane
Granville Redmond
Amerigo Vespucci
Edward Stone
Alan Ladd
David Hume Kennerly
Taras Shevchenko
Leland Stanford
Bill Beaumont
Andre Courreges
Raul Julia
Linda Fiorentino
Howard Aiken
Finn Carter
Paul Robeson
William Corbett
Yuri Gagarin
Trish Van Devere
Bert Campaneris
Joe Franklin
Eddie Foy
Mickey Gilley
Will Geer
Brian Bosworth
Vyacheslav Molotov
Benito Santiago
Franz Joseph Gall
Joyce Van Patten
Emmanuel Lewis
Jeffrey Osborne

Beatles won 4 Grammys
Queen’s A Night At the Opera released
Dog 1st sent in space
Battle of the Monitor and Merrimac (1862)
1st V-8 Engine built
French Foreign Legion founded (1831)
Artificial Teeth patented
Frankie Avalon’s Venus reached No. 1 (1959)
Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine married (1796)
Kissing in public made punishable by death (Naples; 1562)
Tokyo bombed by 343 Superfortresses (WW2; 1945)
Joseph Stalin’s daughter, Svetlana, defected to the West (1967)
REO Speedwagon’s Can’t Fight This Feeling reached No. 1 (1985)
Barbara Hummel, his wife, died (1995; according to 1997 film, The Rock)
Notorious B.I.G. murdered (1997)
A man who 3 days earlier was told on the Jenny Jones TV show that another man was in love with him, murdered that man (1995)
In an effort to avoid growing anti-German sentiment, Star Brewing’s Kaiser Beer renamed “Stag Beer” (Illinois; 1907)
New Jersey became the 46th and last state to ratify the 18th Amendment (1922)
Table Rock Brewpub & Grill opened (Idaho; 1991)