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This article is a date listing important or significant events that happened (or will happen) on events for the year 1936
Events
- February 24 – The Daily Progress began produced a series of installments called “Charlottesville's Personalities” by featuring Dr. Lloyd John Newcomb, president of the University of Virginia.[1]
- June 9 – The Democratic party’s nominations for three positions on the city commission were victorious in the municipal 1936 election.[2]
- July 3 – Shenandoah National Park was dedicated by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. [3]
- September 1 – At the first meeting of the new council, City Manager Seth Burnley was returned to his office. He also served as the city collector, purchasing agent, and the city’s representative of the joint health board. E. V. Walker was re-elected city attorney. The entire local police department was re-elected upon the recommendation of Police Chief Maurice F. Greavers. The officers of the municipal fire department, elected by the volunteer company August 4, 1936, were unanimously appointed by the council upon the recommendation of the Fire Chief Charles H. Page. The annual appropriation of $520,489.70 for the estimated expenditure anticipated in the 1936-1937 city budget was unanimously approved by the council.[4]
Deaths
- April 16 – 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.[5][6]
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References
- ↑ Web. Charlottesville's Personalities, Staff, Daily Progress, Lee Enterprises, Feb. 24, 1936, retrieved June 12, 2022.
- ↑ Web. Democratic Nominees Triumph In THE City Commission Election, Staff, Daily Progress, Lee Enterprises, June 10, 1936, retrieved December 30, 2020.
- ↑ Web. Great Crowd at Park Dedication, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, July 3, 1936, retrieved July 2, 2021 from University of Virginia Library. Print. July 3, 1936 page 1.
- ↑ Web. Council Selects Local Personnel, Staff, Daily Progress, Lee Enterprises, Sept. 1, 1936, retrieved Feb. 2, 2021.
- ↑ Web. Inventor of ’Quake Detector Dead In Virginia, The Washington Times. (Washington D.C.), 17 April 1936, retrieved October 31, 2022.
- ↑ Web. Patron’s Choice: The Life and Times of A. J. Weed, 2022 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia, Posted on January 9, 2014, retrieved October 31, 2022.