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I would like to suggest adding a new feature to the Main Page to occupy the lower left - blank area - to be titled: "On this day in history..." . I wrote a simple code and added events. Could you insert the following code after "Remember – you can't break Cvillepedia...": ~ Jmh6d (talk) 17:18, 6 March 2024 (EST)

On this day in history...

April 16: 1861 – Civil War: Company A, "The Monticello Guard," enlisted. 1865 – While in Washington, D.C., two days after President Lincoln was killed by John Wilkes Booth, Ben Ficklin was arrested on suspicion of involvement in the assassination. A telegraph operator had reported Ficklin to the authorities, saying the 37-year-old ex-Confederate presented “the appearance of a refined pirate.” Ficklin was never tried, and was released after spending a couple of months in prison. 1936 – Death claimed Dr. Arthur J. Weed, noted physicist and instrument maker. Dr. Weed, who was 75 years old, was a member of the faculty of the University of Virginia, having resigned from the United States Weather Bureau in 1920 to come to the university. An authority on earthquakes, Dr. Weed was the inventor of the Weed Strong Motion Seismograph, until the 1960's generally used in the study of earthquakes.