The Brookston Almanac

Season of Discord begins (Discordian)
Ides of March
Everything You Think Is Wrong Day
Dumbstruck Day (Fairy)
Rhea (Greek Goddess of the Earth)
Open Minded Husband’s Day
Rude Awakenings Day
True Confessions Day
Hilaria (Old Roman Spring Festival begins)
Gambling Day
Marduck’s Festival (Ancient Mesopotamia)
Feast of Esther
Lifeboat Day
St. Clement Hofbauer’s Day
Planting Ceremony of the Kikuyu (Kenya)
Buzzards’ Day (Ohio)
St. Matrona’s Day (patron against dysentery)
Canberra Day (Australia)
Thanksgiving (Honduras)
St. Louis de Marillac’s Day (patron of orphans, social workers, widows)
National Pears Helene Day
Turkey Vultures return to Ohio (@)

Harry James
Bobcat Goldwaith
Lightin’ Hopkins
Andrew Jackson
Edvard Strauss
Donna Smith (Pb 3/85)
Augusta Gregory
Carey MacDonald
Ry Cooder
Alan Bean
William Lamb
Nicolas Lacaille
J.J. Roberts
Wallace Irwin
Mary Stratton
Liberty Bailey
Nancy Cameron (Pb 1/74)
Judd Hirsch
Sly Stone
Mike Love
Terry Cummings
Mickey Hatcher
Dolores Del Monte (Pb 3/54)
Norm Van Brocklin
Bobby Bonds
George Brent
Ron Barchet (1963)
Robert Meinrad Juerze (1847)
Dee Snider
Terrance Trent d’Arby
Federico Pena
Jimmy Swaggart

Oxygen discovered
Julius Caesar assassinated (44 BCE)
Maine became the 23rd state (1820)
1st Glider tested
Watts Riot (1966)
1st Blood Bank opened (1937)
My Fair Lady premiered
Escalator patented
Three’s Company debuted (1977)
B.A. punched General Ludlum (Doonesbury)
New London Bridge opened
American Legion founded (1919)
Battle of Guilford
Eight Is Enough debuted (1977)
Selfirdge’s department store opened (London; 1909)
My Lai Massacre, Vietnam (1968)
Red Brigades kidnapped Aldo Mora, former Italian Prime Minister (1978)
Oneida County, New York founded (1798)
Nicholas II of Russia abdicated (1917)
Elizabeth Taylor married Richard Burton for the 1st time (1964)
1st Cardinal posted in US at St. Patrick’s (NYC; 1875)
Washington’s Farewell Address to his troops
Chris Elliot’s 1st appearance on Late Night with David Letterman (1982)
Hitler proclaimed the Third Reich, banning newpapers & kosher food (1933)
Paul Shaffer accidently became the 1st person to say “fuck” on TV during an SNL skit (1980)
Cincinnati Red Stockings became 1st pro baseball team (1869)
Florida man waved at UFO & was hit by beam of light casuing him lose conscienciousness for several hours (1965)
English Chancellor of the Exchequer abolished the tax on beer (1830)
Prescott Brewing opened (Arizona; 1994)
Red Rock Brewing opened (Utah; 1994)
Johnstown Brewing opened (Pennsylvania; 1995)
Matthew Vassar’s Brewhouse opened (New York; 1995)
Alamogordo Brewing opened (New Mexico; 1996)
Glenwood Canyon Brewing opened (Colorado; 1996)
Olde Peninsula Brewpub opened (Michigan; 1996)
Stingray Brewery opened (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands; 1996)
Angel City Brewing opened (California; 1997)