Template:On this day/January 25

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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 25:

  • 1715Thomas Walker, Jr. is born.
  • 1819 – The General Assembly charters the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Following Thomas Jefferson’s prescription, and unlike most colleges of the time, it will have no religious affiliation and no clergy among its faculty.
  • 1900 – The Board of Directors of the Consolidated Ice and Electric Company meet and approve the enlargement of the power plant.
  • 1905 – City Council meets to hear a committee report on expanding the city's water supply.
  • 2020Gene Corrigan, former University of Virginia athletic director, died.