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Significant events that happened (or will happen) on November 12.

Events

• 1901 – University of Virginia students hold mass meeting to protest the arrest of their classmates over the previous weekend. Faculty chairman P.B. Barringer led the event and said: "Ordinarily, cases of this kind do not interest me seriously for the students can very rarely violate a city ordinance without infringing the moral law, but the seeming tendency to aggression on the part of the city police of late, deserves more than a passing notice...To suddenly clothe a man with power, even a good man, is to seriously strain his poise and character, while to give a man, half a fool, a uniform, a badge, a 'billy," "is to seriously detract from both his intelligence and his moral sense."
• 1925 – First United Methodist Church held first services in its new building
• 1936 – Virginia Highway Users Association holds convention at the Monticello Hotel
• 1953 – Albemarle Board of Supervisors and Albemarle Planning Commission hold a joint meeting to discuss a request from Commissioners for the Board to work toward repeal of a state law requiring a referendum before a zoning ordinance is adopted.

• 1963 – Governor Albertis S. Harrison Jr. allows two General Assembly committees to review his proposal for a replacement for the poll tax requirement to vote in federal elections. This is in advance of a special session that would be held a week later. At the time, a federal Constitutional amendment to ban the poll tax was nearing ratification.
• 1963 – Albemarle School Superintendent Paul H. Cale addresses a nine person committee charged with studying future building needs for the county. County officials did not have information about the future of Burley High School which was still a school for Black pupils for both Albemarle and Charlottesville. That was the subject of a lawsuit. Dr. Lorin A. Thompson, director of the University of Virginia's Bureau of Population and Economic Research, stated that a shared school system might be a better solution.
• 2019 – Charlottesville Planning Commission votes 6-0 to recommend deferral of form-based code for Strategic Investment Area

Deaths

• 1980 – Tillie Washington dies in Albemarle County. Working variously as a cleaner and farmer throughout his life, Washington had his portrait photograph prominently included within the Holsinger Studio Collection.