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*[[July 19]] – [[Robert Elliton]] dies five days after being shot by a Charlottesville police officer <ref>{{cite-progress-lindsay|title=Patrolman Adams Certified To Grand Jury for Shooting of Robert Elliton|url=http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/uva-lib:2635269/view#openLayer/uva-lib:2635270/4818.5/865/3/1/0|author=Staff Reports|pageno=1|printdate=August 2, 1929|publishdate=August 2, 1929|accessdate=August 2, 2016 from University of Virginia Library}}</ref> | |||
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Revision as of 16:17, 19 July 2021
Events
- Recipient of the French Legion of Honor, U.Va. President Edwin A. Alderman and Paul Goodloe McIntire, a businessman and philanthropist, whose generosity and name are intricately linked to the University and Charlottesville, were honored at a ceremony. Alderman was recognized for the contributions of the University and its faculty, students and alumni who aided France during World War I. McIntire was honored for a children's tuberculosis hospital he founded in France for refugees from the German-occupied north.[1]
Deaths
- July 19 – Robert Elliton dies five days after being shot by a Charlottesville police officer [2]
Images
- ↑ Web. "U.Va. Scholar and Educator Awarded France's Highest Honor in Ceremony at Carr's Hill", Jane Ford, UVAToday, The Rector And Visitors Of The University Of Virginia, September 24, 2007, retrieved May 6, 2019.
- ↑ Web. Patrolman Adams Certified To Grand Jury for Shooting of Robert Elliton, Staff Reports, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, August 2, 1929, retrieved August 2, 2016 from University of Virginia Library. Print. August 2, 1929 page 1.