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- 1932 – Roosevelt "Rosie" Brown born in Charlottesville, he became one of the premier offensive linemen in U.S. pro football and later coach (d. 2004).
- 1952 – Robert Frost, the distinguished American poet, was scheduled to speak at the University of Virginia in Cabell Hall on this evening at 8:30 o’clock.
- 1959 – John Ferris Bell, a funeral director and mortician who founded J.F. Bell Funeral Home in Charlottesville in 1917, died. The Bell funeral home is the oldest African-American owned business in Charlottesville.
- 1960 – Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Lyndon B. Johnson appears in Charlottesville as part of a five-day train trip through southern states.