The Brookston Almanac

Commonwealth Day (Canada & UK; f.k.a. Empire Day)

Martyrdom of Hypatia
Girl Scout Day
Moshoeshoe’s Day (Lesotho)
Huddling for Fairies of the Third Flight (Fairy)
St. Gregory the Great’s Day
Alfred Hitchcock Day
Mauritius Independence Day
St. Fina’s Day
National Baked Scallops Day

Jack Kerouac
Edward Albee
Simon Newcomb
Jane Delano
Ron Jeremy
Kemal Ataturk
Clement Studebaker
Gabriele D’Annunzio
Debra Jensen (Pb 1/78)
Mstislav Rostropovich
Barbara Feldon
George Berkeley
Charles Boycott
Paul Kantner
Wally Schirra Jr.
Henry the Navigator
Al Jarreau
Paul Kantner
Gordon MacRae
John Aubrey
Henry Perkin
Vaslav Nijinsky
Andrew Young
Jane Appleton Pierce
Daryl Strawberry
Sandra Edwards (Pb 3/57)
James Taylor
Kent Conrad
Graham Coxon
Dale Murphy
John D. Waihee III
Marlon Jackson
Liza Minelli

1st Library opened
Gregorian Chants named
1st Fireside Chat given (1933)
Girl Scouts founded (1912)
Destruction of the Ring (Hobbit)
Chelsea Hosptial founded (1682)
Anne Frank died in a concentartion camp (1945)
1st Magazine article written about dope smoking (1938)
Dennis the Menace debuted
US Post Office established (1789)
1st Uniformed Police Force started
Tutu 1st worn
Canberra made capital of Australia (1913)
Germany annexed Austria (1938)
1st Parachute jump from a plane
Paul McCartney married Linda Eastman (1969)
John Wanamaker’s, 1st department store, opened (Philadelphia; 1877)
1st Exhibition of Cubist Art (Paris; 1909)
Lithuania declared independence from USSR (1990)
John Lennon and Harry Nilsson kicked out of an L.A. bar
1st Automobile accident involving 2 cars both equiped with air bags (1990)
Pointcast Network opened (1997)
Bristol magistrates fixed the price of beer, punishing violators with forfeiture (England; 1283)
Cooke Brewing bought Union Brewing (Chicago, Illinois; 1885)
Otter Creek Brewing opened (Vermont; 1991)
Panther City Brewery & Cafe opened (Texas; 1996)