November 23
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Significant events that happened (or will happen) on November 23.
Events
- 1905 – University of Virginia students hold a mass meeting in Madison Hall to discuss the cooperative bookstore movement. The idea was to sell books as cheaply as possible. [1]
- 1919 – A unit of the Virginia National Guard from Charlottesville is dispatched to Big Stone Gap to assist with "disturbance in Coal Fields". Fifty-two men from the First Company, First Provisional Regiment, were sent to the area and more followed the next day. [2]
- 1930 – A meeting of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform met in Crozet [3]
- 1936 – The Virginia Commissioner of Public Welfare, Arthur W. James, addresses the Council of Social Agencies and lauds Albemarle and Charlottesville for working together to provide assistance by coordinating local, state, and federal resources. [4]
- 1944 – Young Men's Business Club endorses a yes vote in December 12 referendum on a $500,000 bond issue to construct a dam on the Moormans River [5]
Births
Deaths
- 1902 – Walter W. Massey, second son of John E. Massey, is killed when the wagon he was driving was struck by a passenger train. He was deaf and did not hear the train coming. [6]
References
- ↑ Web. Mass Meeting of Students, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, November 24, 1905, retrieved November 24, 2022.
- ↑ Web. Local Company Called Out - Ordered to Wise County for Service, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, November 24, 1919, retrieved November 24, 2022. Print. November 24, 1919 page 1.
- ↑ Web. Prohibition Reform, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, November 24, 1930, retrieved November 24, 2022. Print. November 24, 1930 page 10.
- ↑ Web. Welfare Work is Praised by James, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, November 24, 1936, retrieved November 24, 2022. Print. November 24, 1936 page 3.
- ↑ Web. Club Endorses Water Proposal, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, November 24, 1944, retrieved November 24, 2022. Print. November 24, 1944 page 3.
- ↑ Web. Killed By Passenger Train, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, November 24, 1902, retrieved November 24, 2022. Print. November 24, 1902 page 1.
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