Template:On this day/April 17

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.

April 17:

• 1861 – Civil War: Delegates to the Virginia Convention of 1861 voted eighty-eight to fifty-five to ratify the Ordinance of Secession and secede from the Union.
• 2017 – James Willy Jones is recognized by Charlottesville City Council for being the first African-American member of the Charlottesville Police Department.