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I would like to suggest adding a new feature to the Main Page to occupy the lower left - blank area - to be titled: "On this day in history..." . I wrote a simple code and added events. Could you insert the following code after "Remember – you can't break Cvillepedia...": ~ Jmh6d (talk) 17:18, 6 March 2024 (EST)

On this day in history...

April 24: 1791 – The first meeting of the first Masonic Lodge ever organized in Charlottesville was held. Door to Virtue Lodge, No. 44, Albemarle County, Virginia was in active operation until June 2, 1801. While Thomas Jefferson's son-in-law Governor of Virginia Thomas M. Randolph, his favorite grandson Thomas Jefferson Randolph, and nephews Peter and Samuel Carr were all members of Door to Virtue Lodge No. 44, there is no record of him being initiated into any lodge, nor are there any references to Masonic membership in his personal papers. 1867 – A meeting was called at the Delevan Hotel by a "large number of colored men, who invited speakers of both races to interchange political opinions." Speeches were made by William F. Gordon and Col. T. J. Randolph, who represented the whites, and by Fairfax Taylor and Rev. Nicholas Richmond, who represented the blacks. 1901 – Hon. John E. Massey passed away at his winter residence on Park Street. For a quarter of a century he had been a notable figure in Virginia politics, having served as the lieutenant governor of Virginia (1886–1890) and a member of the General Assembly (1873­–1879).