The Brookston Almanac

Tater Day
Oranges and Lemons Day
Luna (Old Roman Moon Festival)
Sacred Drama Day (Ancient Babylonia)
Transfer Day (Virgin Islands)
Malta National Day
Bunsen Burner Day
Pennsylvania Maple Festival
Soviet Georgia Independence Day
Day Everyone Says “31″ a Lot (Fairy)
National Clams on the Half Shell Day
St. Balbinus’ Day (patron against diseases of the lymph glands, scrofula)

Rene Descartes
Nikolai Gogol
Franz Joseph Haydn
Edward FitzGerald
Robert Von Bunsen
John Donne
Red Norvo
Cesar Chavez
William Morris Hunt
John La Farge
Edith “Aunt Jemima” Wilson
William Daniels
Andrew Lang
Gordie Howe
John Jakes
Ethel Harper
Henry Morgan
Judith Rossner
Andrew Marvell
Liz Claiborne
Gabe Kaplan
John Fowles
Patrick Leahy
Octavio Paz
Richard Kiley
Christopher Walken
Al Gore
Herb Alpert
Mose Maimonides
Sergei Diaghliev
Barney Frank
Rhea Perlman
Shirley Jones
Judith Rossner
Richard Chamberlain
Ed Marinaro
Leo Buscaglia
Jimmy Johnson
Patrick J. Leahy

Eiffel Tower opened (1889)
Daylight Savings Time 1st went into effect (1918)
Schumann’s Spring Symphony premiered
Mt. Rushmore authorized
1st Air Warfare casualty died
Dalai Lama fled Tibet (1951)
Tejano singing star Selena murdered (1995)
Japan opened its doors to US trade (1854)
Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon Tiki published (1950)
Oklahoma premiered on Broadway (1940)
1st Map of the US published
Newfoundland became a Canadian Province (1949)
Smilin’ Jack married in comic strip (1973)
US Virgin Islands purchased from Denmark (1917)
Milton Caiff’s Male Call with Miss Lace comic strip ended (1945)
Kenny Loggins’ Footloose reached No. 1 (1984)
Singer Selena gunned down (1995)
New Zealand farmer flew a homemade monoplane (1903)
San Francisco’s Army Street renamed Cesar Chavez (1995)
Madonna is bleeped 12 times using the word “fuck” on David Letterman (1994)
Gottlieb Daimler named his newly invented automobile after his daughter, Mercedes (1901)
2 short, gray & hairy aliens appeared on the patio of a house in Puerto Rico (1991)
Los Angeles went dry (1918)
Tin was restricted during World War 2, killing beer can production (1941)
St. Ann’s Brewery closed (Scotland; 1961)
Falstaff bought Ballantine (1972)
General Brewing, who made Lucky Lager, closed (San Francisco, California; 1978)
The SandLot Brewery at Coors Field opened (Colorado; 1995)