The Brookston Almanac

Vernal Equinox
1st Day of Spring
Earth Day
Bock Beer Day
National Agriculture Day
Ostara (Wiccan)
Proposal Day
Snowman Burning
Master Gardener Day

Global Understanding Day
International Astrology Day
Ancient Babylonian New Year
End of the World Day (Iran)
Memory Day
Aries zodiac sign begins
Children’s Poetry Day
Namibia Independence Day
Fragrance Day
Marzanna (Spring Festival; Poland)
Bird Day (Iowa)
National Teen-Agers Day
Single Parent Day
Festival of Washerwomen (France)
Noruz (Iran)
St. Enda’s Day
Ching Ming Festival (China)
Feast of Naw-Ruz (Baha’i New Year @)
Back Badge Day
Astrology Day
National Tree Planting Day (Lesotho)
California Strawberry Day
Iranian New Year
St. Benedict’s Day (patron of speleologists)
National French Bread Day
Heroes’ Day (South Africa)
St. Serapion of Thmuis’ Day
Elimination of Racial Discrimination Day (UN)

Johann Sebastian Bach
Modest Mussorgsky
Florenz Ziegfield
Timothy Dalton
Hans Hoffmann
Samantha Leah Dorman (Pb 9/91)
Roger Hodgson
Francis Lewis
Son House
Phyliss McGinley
Mr. T
Jennifer Jackson (Pb 4/89)
Matthew Broderick
Sampson Salter (1692)
Pierre Celis (1925)
Frederick Taylor
Benito Juarez
Kathleen Widdoes
Peter Brook
Al Freeman Jr.
Peter Brook
James Jesse Strang
Mort Lindsey
Conrad Lozano
Russell Thompkins Jr.
Cynthia Geary
Jonas “Joker” Berggren
Paul Tortelier
James Coco
Ed Broadbent
Jay Walter Hilgenberg
Helena Antonaccio (Pb 6/69)
Mary Gross
John D. Rockefeller III

Beatles played their 1st gig at the Cavern
Holy City of Tara Founded by Tea and Tephi (Ireland)
1st US Zoo opened
Hatfield-McCoy feud ended
1st UN Naval Officer commissioned
Blackboard Jungle premiered
1st Old Soldier’s Home opened
Beatles’ She Love You reached No. 1 (1964)
France’s Napoleonic Code in effect (1804)
Shauna Grant (Colleen Applegate) committed suicide (1984)
UK National Health Service announced (1946)
Alcatraz Prison closed (1963)
Elliot Gould & Barbra Streisand married (1963)
1st Air Passenger Plane flew over Paris (1908)
Leland McKenzie fell down an elevator shaft & died (on L.A. Law; 1991)
New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman renamed a Route 295 rest stop after Howard Stern, fulfulling a campaign promise (1995)
The final group of Mayflower passengers disembarked, having spent the winter aboard (1621)
Wiliam Miller claimed the world would end on this day in 1843 . . then 1844
Master Brewers Association of the United States founded (1887)