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- 1782 – Thomas Jefferson recorded the death of his wife, Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, in an entry in one his notebooks: "My dear wife died this day at 11:45 a.m."
- 1887 – Judge Egbert R. Watson, a personal friend of former president James Monroe, passed away at his home on Park Street.
- 1904 – Fannie McCue is buried this Tuesday afternoon. (The following day, her husband, Sam McCue, will be arrested for her murder.)
- 1954 – The mercury hit 107 degrees in the official thermometer at the University of Virginia’s Leander McCormick Observatory, equaling the highest reading taken there in more than 50 years the observatory has been keeping temperature records.
- 1996 – Tropical Storm Fran hits the areas and heavy winds and rainfall caused much damage, prompting a declaration of emergency.