The Brookston Almanac

Earth Day (UN)
St. Cuthbert’s Day (patron of shepherds, seafarers, sailors)
Bock Beer Day
Alban Eilir (aka Ostara; 5th Station)
St. Joachim’s Day (Father of the Blessed Virgin)
Festival of Extraterrestrial Abductions
Tunisia Independence Day
Festival for Driving Out All Evils (Inca)
Goddess Month of Columbina begins
Iduna (Norse Bearer of Magic Apples)
Palm Beach Festival
St. John of Parma’s Day
Lajos Kossuth Day (Hungary)
National Ravioli Day
St. Martin of Braga’s Day
Namibia Independence Day
Great American Meatout
Children’s Day (US)
Pisces zodiac sign ends
Steak & Blow Job Day [ website ]
Snowman Burning (Lake Superior State College)
Pigeons return to City-County Building (Ft. Wayne, Indiana)

Henrik Ibsen
Ovid
Isaac Newton
Fred “Mr.” Rogers
Max Brand
B.F. Skinner
John De Lancie
Charles William Eliot
Holly Hunter
Mathias Keller
Ozzie Nelson
Mitsumasa Anno
Sviatislav Richter
Ray Goulding
Jean Houdon
Carl Reiner
Bobby Orr
Carl Palmer
George Caleb Bingham
William Hurt
Theresa Russell
Slim Jim Phantom
Lee Chase (1973)
Jerry Reed
Larry Elgart
Hal Linden
Ray Goulding
Ted Bessell
Friedrich Holderin
Brian Mulroney
Pat Riley
Larry Elgart
Paul Junger Witt
Vanessa Bell Calloway
John Erlichman
Napoleon II
Big Bird (Sesame Street)

Switzerland declared perpetual neutrality
1st Scale made
Uncle Tom’s Cabin published (1852)
Dutch East India Company founded (1602)
Radar 1st demonstrated (1934)
1st Radio Telephone built
Red Sonja 1st appeared (Conan #24)
South Pacific premiered
Oliver Cromwell dissolved Parliament (1653)
1st Squash Club established
Janis Joplin’s Me and Bobby McGee reached No. 1 (1971)
Patty Hearst found guilty of helping SLA (1976)
John Lennon married Yoko Ono (1969)
1st Woman executed
James Cagney died (1986)
Mrs. Peel reunited with her long, lost husband, and was replaced by Tara King (The Avengers; 1968)
Edgar Allen Poe’s Murders in the Rue Morgue, 1st Detective Story, published (1841)
Pabst became 1st brewery to use metal kegs (1935)
Samuel Smith Pale Ale 1st imported to U.S. (1979)
Lazlo’s Brewery, Restaurant & Grill (Nebraska; 1991)
Jaipur Restaurant & Brewpub opened (Nebraska; 1992)
America’s Brewing / The Roundhouse (Illinois; 1996)