Template:On this day/April 13

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April 13:

  • 1743 – Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (1801-09), born at Shadwell. This date has been celebrated at the University of Virginia as Founder’s Day, since the University’s first academic session (1825). In lieu of celebrating Jefferson's legacy, Charlottesville Council voted unanimously to recognize March 3 as “Liberation and Freedom Day.”
  • 1858 – After eight years of difficult construction, trains began using the Blue Ridge Tunnel, also known as the Crozet Tunnel, the longest in the US at the time of construction
  • 1885 – In the Public Hall of the Rotunda Annex, University of Virginia faculty and guests gathered to dedicate the new observatory which was made possible by a gift from Leander McCormick, from the McCormick family of mechanical reaper fame
  • 1887 – The Jeffersonian Republican announced that the town of Charlottesville "will have its own street railway"
  • 1943 – FDR dedicates the Jefferson Memorial in honor of former President Thomas Jefferson
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