Today in Virginia History (Part 2)
Cities in Virginia: Arlington, VA - Chesapeake - Virginia Beach
Historical Events
Results 101 - 182 of 182
1864-05-10 - Battles at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia
1864-05-10 - Skirmish at Ny River Virginia
1864-05-12 - Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia
1864-05-15 - Battle of New Market, Virginia
1864-05-16 - Last battles at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia (6,666 casualties)
1864-05-20 - Battle at Ware Bottom Church, Virginia, 1,400 killed or injured
1864-05-21 - GEN David Hunter takes command of Dept of West Virginia
1864-05-26 - -30] Skirmish along the Totopotomoy Creek, Virginia
1864-05-27 - Skirmish at Salem Church (Haw's Shop), Virginia
1864-05-30 - Cavalry fight at Old Church (Totopotomoy Creek) Virginia
1864-06-17 - 640m long ponton bridge over James River Virginia finished
1864-07-20 - Battle at Stephenson's Depot Virginia: 200 killed or injured
1864-07-28 - 2nd day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia
1864-07-29 - 3rd & last day of battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia
1864-08-14 - 2nd day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia: Federal assault
1864-08-16 - 4th day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia, Federal assault
1864-08-18 - 6th day of battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia: Confederate assault
1864-08-19 - 2nd day of battle at Globe Tavern, Virginia
1864-08-21 - Battle at Globe Tavern, Virginia, ends after 2500 casualties
1864-09-16 - Battle of Coggin's Point, Virginia (Hampton-Rosser Cattle Raid)
1864-09-19 - 3rd Battle of Winchester Virginia (Opequon, 3rd Winchester)
1864-10-13 - Battle at Darbytown Road Virginia (337 casualties)
1864-10-19 - Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, Union beats back Conf attackers
1864-10-28 - Battle at Fair Oaks, Virginia, ends after 1554 casualties
1865-03-30 - -4] Battle at 5 Forks Virginia
1865-04-01 - Battle of 5 Forks Virginia, signalling end of Lee's army
1865-04-03 - Battle at Namozine Church, Virginia (Appomattox Campaign)
1865-04-30 - -5/1] Gen Shermans "Haines's Bluff" at Snyder's Mill, Virginia
1869-12-10 - The first American chapter of Kappa Sigma is founded at the University of Virginia.
1883-11-03 - Race riots in Danville Virginia (4 blacks killed)
1891-03-21 - A Hatfield marries a McCoy, ends long feud in West Virginia it started with an accusation of pig-stealing & lasted 20 years
1897-01-23 - Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only case in United States history where the alleged testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction.
1897-03-11 - A meteorite enters the earth's atmosphere and explodes over New Martinsville, West Virginia. The debris causes damage but no human injuries are reported.
1897-09-21 - NY Sun runs famous "Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus," editorial
1919-06-28 - Harry S Truman marries Elizabeth Virginia Wallace in Independence
1921-05-03 - West Virginia imposes 1st state sales tax
1922-02-21 - Airship Rome explodes at Hampton Roads Virginia; 34 die
1924-04-28 - 119 die in Benwood West Virginia coal mine disaster
1925-08-12 - The first cast of Alpha Psi Omega, drawn from The Masquers of Fairmont College, West Virginia, is initiated.
1926-11-27 - Restoration of Williamsburg, Virginia, begins
1928-11-12 - British steamer "Vestris" capsizes & sinks off Virginia, kills 110
1932-02-27 - Explosion in coal mine Boissevain, Virginia, USA (38 dead)
1936-07-10 - 112°F (44°C) at Martinsburg, West Virginia (state record
1942-01-06 - Bob Feller, enlists in Navy & reports for duty to Norfolk Virginia
1954-07-15 - 110°F (43°C) at Balcony Falls, Virginia (state record)
1955-10-12 - -13] Hurricane Connie, kills 43 in NC, SC, Virginia & Maryland
1957-10-16 - Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip visits Williamsburg Virginia
1960-05-10 - John F Kennedy wins primary in West Virginia
1961-10-08 - US Constellation crashes at Richmond Virginia, 74 die
1962-10-13 - "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opens on Broadway, with Uta Hagen
1963-04-28 - 17th Tony Awards: "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" win
1966-06-22 - "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opens
1968-09-05 - 82nd US Womens Tennis: Virginia Wade beats Billie Jean King (64 64)
1969-08-20 - 69 cm rainfall in Nelson Co., Virginia (state record)
1969-09-07 - US amateur Womens Tennis: Margaret Court beat Virginia Wade (46 63 60)
1970-11-14 - DC-9 crashes in West Virginia, 75 killed
1973-07-31 - ABA Virginia Squires trade Julius Erving to NY Nets
1973-10-27 - Alabama sets offensive record (828 yds), beats Virginia Tech 77-6
1974-01-20 - 7th ABA All-Star Game: East 128 beats West 112 at Virginia
1974-12-01 - Boeing 727 crashes in Upperville Virginia, 92 died
1977-07-01 - 84th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Virginia Wade beats B Stove (46 63 61)
1978-04-27 - Accident at nuclear reactor Willow Island, W Virginia, kills 51
1978-09-09 - Kylene Barker (Virginia), crowned 51st Miss America 1979
1980-01-21 - Les Henson, Virginia Tech, makes 89' 3" basketball field goal
1980-06-08 - 50th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Virginia Ruzici (60 63)
1981-12-28 - The first American test-tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, is born in Norfolk, Virginia.
1982-03-24 - US sub Jacksonville collides with a Turkish freighter near Virginia
1982-12-24 - Chaminade, with a student body of only 850 students, beats #1 ranked Virginia 77-72 in a Honolulu holiday basketball classic
1983-10-01 - Denise Wallace, 18, of Virginia crowned Miss Teen of America
1985-01-22 - -30°F (-34°C), Mountain Lake Bio Station, Virginia (state record)
1989-01-02 - Notre Dame beats West Virginia for college football championship
1989-07-18 - 48 cm rainfall at Rockport, West Virginia (state record)
1989-11-08 - Douglas Wilder elected 1st US black governor (Virginia)
1990-01-13 - 1st elected US black governor inaugurated (Douglas Wilder-Virginia)
1991-03-31 - 10th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion: Tennessee beats Virginia 70-67
1993-01-25 - Five people were shot outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia resulting in two murders.
1995-05-27 - In Culpeper, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition.
1995-07-15 - Northern Virginia begins using new area code 540
2001-06-21 - A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.
2006-05-03 - Zacarias Moussaoui is sentenced to life in prison in Alexandria, Virginia.
2007-04-16 - Virginia Tech massacre: The deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. The gunman, Seung-Hui Cho, shoots 32 people to death and injures 23 others before committing suicide.
2007-09-17 - AOL, once the largest ISP in the U.S., officially announces plans to refocus the company as an advertising business and to relocate its corporate headquarters from Dulles, Virginia to New York, New York.
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