August 11
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Significant events that happened (or will happen) on August 11.
Events
- 1933 – City Manager Seth Burnley decides to postpone work to widen the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway railroad underpass on 4th Street to 22 feet wide. After a morning conference with railroad officials, the $21,000 expense was deemed to be too much. [1]
- 2000 – Value America filed to reorganize under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. In April 1999, on its first day as a publicly traded, the stock closed at $55 a share. By Thursday, the three-year-old profitless company was valued at $2.4 Billion. In 2000 stock had fallen to 72 cents.
Births
- 1883 – Mary Truehart Woodfolk is born to Sallie Kimbo and John Truehart of Albemarle County. An active member of Mount Zion First African Baptist Church, Woodfolk helped her daughters organize their own quartet known as the "Woodfolk Family Singers" and eventually became the namesake of Woodfolk Drive within the Ridge Street neighborhood.
References
- ↑ Web. 4th Street Pass Job Deferred, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, August 11, 1933, retrieved May 5, 2019.