The Brookston Almanac

Three Mile Island overheated (1979)
Washing Machine patented
Tarzan the Apeman premiered
Mexican War began (1846)
Battle of Berwick-on-Tweed (1296)
April Fools Day premiered
Run Silent, Run Deep premiered
Virginia Woolf commited suicide (1941)
Paris declared “Commune of the People” (1871)
Douglas Fairbanks & Mary Pickford married (1920
1st Seaplane flew (1910)
Hair premiered on Broadway (1968)
Roman Emperor Pertinax assassinated (193 CE)
Blondie’s Rapture reached No. 1 (1981)
P.T. Barnum & James A. Bailey formed a circus partnership (1881)
Both Oxford & Cambridge varsity race boats sank (1912)
Douglas Fairbanks & Mary Pickford married (1920)
Julia Roberts and Lyle Lovett separated (1995)
The Avengers debuted in the US (1966)
Computer program “Laila” translated into Norwegian (1990; Sophie’s World)
Zhang, Tiananmen Square activist, granted political asylum by US Gov’t (1990)
David Morris of Munroe Falls, Ohio saw a glowing cone-shaped UFO in a nearby field and then accidently ran over a stocky, spacesuited midget on the road (1967)
Anheuser-Busch yeast department formed and product introduced (1927)
Breckenridge Brewery opened (Colorado; 1996)
According to Des Pascha Comutus, written in 243 CE, Jesus Christ’ birthday was 28 March until changed in 336 CE by Rome