Snowball fight

[6] In 1838, a snowball fight between students at the University of Edinburgh and local tradesmen turned violent and led to suppression by armed police and the Scottish army.

[7] During the American Civil War, on January 29, 1863, the largest military snow exchange occurred in the Rappahannock Valley in Northern Virginia.

What began as a few hundred men from Texas plotting a friendly fight against their Arkansas camp mates soon escalated into a brawl that involved 9,000 soldiers of the Army of Northern Virginia.

[8] In his memoir of the American Civil War, Samuel H. Sprott describes a snowball battle that occurred early in 1864 involving the Army of Tennessee.

The snowball fight was scheduled weeks in advance, and was helped by the fact that the University canceled all classes due to 12–16 inches of snow that fell the night before.

[12] On February 6, 2010, some 2,000 people met at Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C.[13] for a snowball fight organized over the internet after over two feet of snow fell in the region during the North American blizzards of 2010.

[15][16] The event was organized to send off Team Canada for the Showa Shinzan International Yukigassen World Championships, an annual professional snowball fighting competition.