October 27

This article is a date. You can help Cvillepedia by listing especially noteworthy events. See Help:Dates for more information.

Significant events that happened (or will happen) on October 27.

Events

1895 – The Great Fire started at 10:15 a.m. on this Sunday. The University of Virginia Rotunda and its adjoining structures burned. Two-thirds of the University Library's collection was destroyed.^[1] ^[2]
1949 – The Young Men's Business Club considers resolution calling for the ban of Albemarle County students from Charlottesville schools ^[3]
1949 – The Exchange Club meets and opts to plan for a city-wide festival next year ^[4]
1952 – The Charlottesville Businessman's Association was formed to help solve parking and traffic problems in downtown Charlottesville. ^[5]
1960 – Black high school students protest at the Barracks Road Shopping Center and picketed Rose's after being refused service at the lunch counter. They leave after thirty minutes after the manager and treasurer of the Thomas Jefferson Corporation convince them they are on private property and not a city street. The students are accompanied by several adults such as NAACP president Eugene Williams, the Reverend James Hamilton of Mount Zion Baptist Church, and Sarah Patton Boyle. ^[6]
1960 – The local chapter of the Virginia Council on Human Relations decides to work on a pamphlet on issues facing the Black community including difficulty purchasing homes and having access to well-paying jobs. ^[7]

↑ Web. "Arise and Build!": A Centennial Commemoration of the 1895 Rotunda Fire, University of Virginia Library, retrieved May 12, 2019.
↑ Web. Sunday's Big Fire - Aftermath of the University Conflagration, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, October 29, 1895, retrieved October 29, 2022. Print. October 29, 1895 page 1.
↑ Web. Ban on County Children Asked, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, October 28, 1949, retrieved October 27, 2022. Print. October 28, 1949 page 3.
↑ Web. City-Wide Festival Next Fall is Goal of Exchange Club, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, October 28, 1949, retrieved October 27, 2022. Print. October 28, 1949 page 2.
↑ Web. Businessmen Prepare Attack on Parking, Traffic Problems, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, October 28, 1949, retrieved October 27, 2022. Print. October 28, 1949 page 1.
↑ Web. Negro Students Picket Rose's, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, October 28, 1960, retrieved October 27, 2022. Print. October 28, 1960 page 3.
↑ Web. Pamphlet to Report Negro Life, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, October 28, 1960, retrieved October 27, 2022. Print. October 28, 1960 page 3.