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- 1781 – Thomas Jefferson’s term as Governor ended but the Assembly had not yet had an opportunity to choose a replacement. In the confusion and disruption of normal government activity, the Assembly was unable to elect a new Governor, and so the state remained leaderless for almost a week.
- 1800 – Nicholas Trist, lawyer, diplomat, planter, and businessman, was born in Charlottesville. He negotiated the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 at the end of the Mexican–American War.
- 1913 – Alice Jackson, the first African American to apply to the University of Virginia, was born in Richmond.
- 1917 – Charles E. Moran, Clerk of the Corporation Court, named Miss Lizzie A. Flannagan as his Deputy - the first women appointed under the authority given by statue adopted at the 1916 session of the Virginia Legislature.