My calendar says it's Be An Angel Day, Tooth Fairy Day, Bao Day, Eat a Peach Day, and Take Your Cat to the Vet Day. Do a good deed, eat a peach, order some bao for lunch, and haul the cat in for a checkup — just maybe don't tell the cat about the tooth fairy angle; it'll only raise questions. (Eat a Peach... that was a great album!)

Today In History:
1642: King Charles I raises his royal standard at Nottingham, formally opening the English Civil War.
1791: Enslaved people in the French colony of Saint-Domingue rise up in a massive uprising, launching the Haitian Revolution — the only successful slave revolt in history to establish an independent nation.
1849: Austria launches the first air raid in recorded history, sending unmanned, bomb-carrying balloons against Venice.
1851: The schooner yacht America wins a race around England's Isle of Wight, a victory that eventually gives its name to the America's Cup.
1864: Twelve nations adopt the First Geneva Convention, establishing the first international rules for the humane treatment of wounded soldiers.
1902: The Cadillac Motor Car Company is founded in Detroit.
1911: A painter arrives at the Louvre to sketch the wall where the Mona Lisa hangs and discovers it's gone, revealing the theft that had occurred the day before.
1922: Irish revolutionary leader Michael Collins is ambushed and killed in County Cork during the Irish Civil War.
1985: British Airtours Flight 28M catches fire on the runway at Manchester Airport, killing 55 people before the plane can be fully evacuated.
1996: President Bill Clinton signs sweeping welfare reform legislation, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, into law.

Birthdays Today include Ray Bradbury, author, screenwriter (Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles); Tori Amos, singer-songwriter ("Cornflake Girl" ); Valerie Harper, actor (Rhoda); and Cory Gardner, politician, former U.S. senator.

If today's your birthday, too, happy birthday... hope it's a great one for you.