Balloons Around the World Day ---------------------------------------------Guardian Angels Day(Think I'm just stuck with Henry)-------------------------------------------------International Day of Non-Violence(lots of luck)-------------------------------------------------------National Fried Scallops Day----------------------------------National Pumpkin Seed Day----------------------------------------------Random Acts of Poetry Day( there once was a girl from France...................)-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------World Day for Farmed Animals------------------------------------------------------------------- 1835 Battle of Gonzales The first military engagement of the Texas War of Independence, (Hey Pedro..............) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1890 Happy Birthday Groucho Marx American comedian, actor ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1803 Samuel Adams American politician, 4th Governor of Massachusetts, dies today ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------BC Aristotle dies of indigestion 322(what did he eat?)-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1470 – Wars of the Roses: King Edward IV of England escapes to Flanders, only to return the following March to reclaim his throne.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1535 – Jacques Cartier discovers the present site of Montreal.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1780 – American Revolutionary War: John André, a British Army officer, is hanged as a spy by the Continental Army.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1864 – American Civil War: Confederates defeat a Union attack on Saltville, Virginia. A "massacre" of wounded Union prisoners ensues.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1851 – Happy Birthday Ferdinand Foch, French field marshal and theorist--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1869 – Happy Birthday Mahatma Gandhi, Indian freedom fighter, activist and philosopher---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1897 – Happy Birthday Bud Abbott, American comedian-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------