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- 1861 – Civil War: Company A, the Monticello Guard, enlisted in Charlottesville as part of Virginia’s secession mobilization.
- 1865 – In Washington, D.C., two days after President Lincoln’s assassination by John Wilkes Booth, Ben Ficklin was arrested on suspicion of involvement; he was never tried and was released after several months in prison.
- 1936 – Dr. Arthur J. Weed, noted physicist, instrument maker, and University of Virginia faculty member, died at age 75; an authority on earthquakes, he invented the Weed Strong Motion Seismograph, widely used into the 1960s.