1877

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Births

  • April 2Yan Huiqing is born in Shanghai. A diplomat and politician who successively worked under the Qing dynasty, the Republic of China, and the People's Republic of China (most-notably serving as the acting president of the ROC in 1926), Huiqing studied political science at the University of Virginia and became the first international student to graduate with a bachelor's degree from the university. Yen House, one of the constituent residential buildings of UVA's International Residential College, was renamed after Huiqing in 2017.
  • August 1Eugene Dickerson (1877-1955) born today in Charlottesville. An African-American, he became a surgeon. [1] [2]

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town of Charlottesville, ca. 1877

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