National Cherry Turnover Day ( I'll eat to that ) --------------------------------------------------------National Red Wine Day--------------------------------Willing To Lend A Hand Wednesday---------------------------------------------Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy was born near Tula. 1828----------------------------------------------------------------- - 1810 – Battle of Grand Port: The French accept the surrender of a British Navy fleet. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - 1830 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's new Tom Thumb steam locomotive races a horse-drawn car, presaging steam's role in U.S. railroads. - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - 1861 – American Civil War: Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in the Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries which lasts for two days. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - 1862 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of Second Manassas. The battle ends on August 30. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - 1898 – Caleb Bradham's beverage "Brad's Drink" is renamed "Pepsi-Cola". - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - 1774 – Happy Birthday-Elizabeth Ann Seton, American nun and saint, co-founded the Sisters of Charity Federation in the Vincentian-Setonian Tradition - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - 1899 – Happy Birthday-Charles Boyer, French-American actor, singer, and producer - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -