Template:On this day/January 12

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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.

January 12:

  • 1803 – US Senate approves Thomas Jefferson's nomination of James Monroe and Robert Livingstone to negotiate purchase of New Orleans from France.
  • 1895 – The Charlottesville City & Suburban Railway Company began operating Charlottesville's first electric streetcar; more than 2,000 fares were collected in the first two days of regular operation. The city's population was just over 6,000.
  • 1901 – Engineer William Herbert McCartney is killed in the wreck of a Chesapeake and Ohio train in the Alberene branch of the James River Division in Albemarle Count.
  • 2024 – Ground is broken for Piedmont Housing Alliance's Hickory Hope apartments at Southwood that will feature 121 dwelling units.
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