The Brookston Almanac

Alchemy Day
Vietnam Veteran’s Day
Festival of Smoke and Mirrors
Memorial Day (Madagascar)
Boganda Day (Central African Republic)
Swedish Colonial Day (Delaware)
Day of Redress (Fairy)
Runic half-month of Beorc ends
Delaware Swedish Colonial Day
St. Woolos’ Day
National Lemon Chiffon Cake Day
Youth Day (Tawain)
WHIM Conference (Western Humor & Interdisciplinary Irony Membership)
Borrowed Days begin (calendar legend held that March stole 3 days from April)

William Walton
Eric Idle
John Tyler
Edward Burra
Jack Butler Yeats
Elle MacPherson
Spike Lee
Elihu Thomson
Marina Sirtis
Jill Goodacre
E. Power Biggs
Oscar Meyer
Bud Cort
Pearl Bailey
John McLaughlin
Edwin Lutyens
Karen Ann Quinlan
Counsellor Troi (2336)
Arthur O’Connell
Cy Young
Vangelis
Walt Frasier
Howard Lindsay
Nancy Kwan
Denny McLain
Emlen Tunnell
Ales Hrdlicka
Earl Campbell
Kurt Thomas
Billy Carter
Edwin Drake
Larry Pressler
Norman Tebbit
Lou Henry Hoover
Man O’ War
Samwise
Eugene McCarthy

Royal Albert Hall opened (1871)
Coca-Cola invented (1886)
1st Bookmobile Day (David Letterman)
Fog Disposal Unit 1st tested
Louvre Pyramid inaugurated (1989)
1st Music Society formed
Lil’ Abner married Daisy May (1952)
1st Comic Relief benefit concert held (1986)
Knights of Columbus founded (1882)
Last US Troops left Vietnam (1973)
1st Automobile went 200 mph
Battle of Towton, Yorkshire (1461)
Lt. Calley scapegoated for My Lai Massacre
Niagra Falls stopped flowing (1848)
1st Swedish immigrants arrived in US (1638)
UK Women got the vote (1929)
King & I premiered on Broadway
1st Commercial space launch (1989)
Idi Amin deposed (1979)
John Partridge “Death” Hoax perpetrated by Jonathan Swift (1708)
LaBelle’s Lady Marmalade reached No. 1 (1975)
23rd Amendment (DC residents granted right to vote; 1961)
Marquis de Sade freed by demand of the people (1790)
Blood, Sweat & Tears’ Child is Father to the Man released
Original Johnny Carson Show ended on CBS (1956)
Committee on Assassinations Report issued by US House of Representatives stating JFK assassination was result of conspiracy (1979)
George Maw Johnson patented a process for the manufacture of ferruginous beers (1882)
Wisconsin Brewers Association founded (1899)