I'm in cemeteries today............   :) International Day of Charity------------------------------------National Be Late for Something Day-------------------------------------------National Cheese Pizza Day ( I'll eat to that )---------------------------------------------------- 1836 Sam Houston is Elected President of Texas ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1847 Happy Birthday Jesse James  ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1638 Happy Birthday Louis XIV of France --------------------------------------------------------------- 1877 Happy Birthday Crazy Horse, another of the first Home Security Leaders. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1st Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia 1774-------------------------------------------------------------------Battle of Virginia Capes French defeat Britain trapping Cornwallis at Yorktown. 1781-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1666 – Great Fire of London ends: Ten thousand buildings, including Old St Paul's Cathedral, are destroyed, but only six people are known to have died.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1697 – War of the Grand Alliance : A French warship commanded by Captain Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville defeated an English squadron at the Battle of Hudson's Bay.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1698 – In an effort to Westernize his nobility, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards for all men except the clergy and peasantry.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1793 – French Revolution: The French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1812 – War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Wayne begins when Chief Winamac's forces attack two soldiers returning from the fort's outhouses.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1862 – American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia crosses the Potomac River at White's Ford in the Maryland Campaign.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1877 – American Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1735 – Happy Birthday Johann Christian Bach, German-English viol player and composer--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1899 – Happy Birthday Helen Creighton, Canadian author and educator --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1877 – Crazy Horse, American tribal leader dies today---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1898 – Sarah Emma Edmonds, Canadian-American nurse, soldier, and spy dies today-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------