Template:On this day/July 27

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 27:

• 1927 – John West died. Born a slave in Charlottesville and freed at the end of the civil war, he became a prominent businessman and civic leader.
• 2005 – The Charlottesville Pavilion amphitheater opens, featuring a distinctive white roof that some derided as a “lobster trap” or a “Conestoga wagon.”
• 2013 – Country music singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn brought her show to the Downtown Charlottesville Pavilion - Albemarle County resident Sissy Spacek, who played Loretta in the 1980 film, Coal Miner’s Daughter, was on hand as her daughter, Schuyler Fisk, was the opening act.