Template:On this day/July 12

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.

July 12:

• 1888 – At 2:15 o'clock this morning, after leaving Orange Court House en route to Charlottesville, Virginia Midland Railroad's Train 52—"The Piedmont Airline"—was crossing the 44-foot-high, 487-foot-long trestle known as the "Fat Nancy" when it gave way, sending the train to the ground. The Wreck at the Fat Nancy was one of the largest railroad disasters in Virginia's history.
• 2019 – A new memorial honoring John Henry James, a Black man who was lynched in Albemarle County in 1898, was dedicated in Court Square Park in Charlottesville.