Template:On this day/January 25

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Copy the 3-5 most noteworthy events from the corresponding date page. Please change to past tense and bold the key article. You may also include a relevant photo, sized between 100-140px wide and aligned right.

January 25:

  • 1715 – Thomas Walker, Jr. is born; physician, planter, explorer, and later guardian of Thomas Jefferson.
  • 1819 – The General Assembly charters the University of Virginia in Charlottesville as a nonsectarian institution without clergy, following TJ’s vision.
  • 1900 – The Board of Directors of the Consolidated Ice and Electric Company meet and approve the enlargement of the power plant.
  • 1905 – City Council meets to hear a committee report on expanding the city's water supply.
  • 1935 – Gertrude Stein visited the University of Virginia to deliver a lecture as part of her American tour, accompanied by Alice B. Toklas.
  • 2020 – Gene Corrigan, former University of Virginia athletic director, dies.
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