1996 2nd Presidents Golf Cup: U.S. beats International team 16 -15 at Robert Jones Va
1994 1st Presidents Golf Cup: U.S. beats International team 20-12 at Robert Jones Va
1986 1st black lt Governor since reconstruction sworn in (Douglas Wilder of Va)
1985 NASA launches Intelsat VA
1985 NASA launches Intelsat VA
1968 Gunpowder stocks at a sporting-goods store explode, killing 43 (Va)
1962 Savannah, world's 1st nuclear-powered ship, completes maiden voyage from Yorktown, Va, to Savannah, Ga
1961 1st all-solid-propellant rocket put in orbit, Wallops Island, Va
1957 1st military nuclear power plant dedicated, Fort Belvoir Va
1954 USS Forrestal christened in Newport News, Va
1949 31st PGA Championship: Sam Snead at Hermitage CC Richmond VA
1941 1st highway post office makes 1st trip, Wash, DC-Harrisonburg, VA
1918 Army chaplain school organizes at Ft. Monroe Va
1910 1st airplane flight from deck of a ship, Norfolk, Va
1908 Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hr airplane flight, Fort Myer, Va
1904 Buzurg Alavi, Persian author, Panjah va sih nafar, Namal'ha
1869 Black candidate for lt governor of Va, Dr. J H Harris, defeated
1865 CSA President Jefferson Davis flees Confederate capital of Richmond, VA
1865 Battle of Quaker Road, VA
1864 Battle of Gordonsville, VA
1864 Raid on Stoneman: Abingdon and Glade Springs, VA
1864 Raid at Stoneman: Knoxville, Tennessee to Saltville, VA
1864 Siege of Petersburg, VA
1864 Battle of Waynesboro and New Market Heights VA
1864 Sheridan sets up camp in Harrisonburg VA
1864 Battle of Summit Point, VA
1864 Battle of Deep Bottom Virginia (Strawberry Plains) and Fussell's Mill VA
1864 Capt Mendell begins building 640m long ponton bridge over James R Va
1864 Battle of North Anna, Va, 1st of 3 days of fighting
1864 Battle of Bermuda Hundred, VA
1864 Civil War skirmish at Kelly's Ford, Va
1863 Battle of Payne's Farm, VA
1863 Battle of Rappahannock Station and Kelly's Ford, VA
1863 Battle of Buckland Mills, VA
1863 2nd battle at Winchester Va, ends in Federal defeat; 1350 casualities
1863 Battle of Grand Gulf MS and Dinwiddie Court House VA
1862 Battle of Dumfries, VA
1862 Battle of Dumfries, VA
1862 Battle of Leetown and Thoroughfare Gap, VA
1862 Battle of Harpers Ferry VA
1862 Battle of Thoroughfare Gap VA
1862 Battle of Catlett's Station VA
1862 Turner Ashby, General, killed near Harrisonburg VA, dies at 33
1862 Valley Campaign: Federals repulsed at Battle of McDowell Va
1862 Shenandoah Valley campaign, Jackson's Battle of Woodstock, VA
1862 Battle of Manassas Junction, VA
1861 Battle of Dranesville, VA
1861 Battle of Carnifex Ferry VA, 170 casualities
1859 John Brown leads 20 in raid on federal arsenal, Harper's Ferry, Va
1857 James Gibbs, Va, patents chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine
1831 Nat Turner, former slave, led a violent insurrection, hanged in VA
1816 James Monroe (VA), elected 5th pres, defeating Federalist Rufus King
1794 Dr. Jessee Bennet of Edom Va, performs 1st successful Cesarean section operation on his wife
1781 British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burns Richmond, Va
1776 Richard Lee (VA) moves Decl of Independence in Continental Congress
1693 Royal charter granted College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va
1665 "Ye Bare and Ye Cubb" is 1st play, performed in North America (Acomac, Va)
1652 John Johnson, a free black, is granted 550 acres in Northampton, Va
1651 Anthony Johnson, a free black, receives grant of 250 acres in Va
1619 America's 1st Thanksgiving Day (Va)
1608 John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Va
1607 English colonists (John Smith) lands near James River in VA
1607 1st British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry, Va
1606 Virginia Company settlers leave London to establish Jamestown Va
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