2011 Event Pope Benedict XVI announces the launch of a new Vatican website, news.va; he also performs the first tweet ever made by a pope 1996 Event 2nd Presidents Golf Cup: U.S. beats International team 16 -15 at Robert Jones Va 1994 Event 1st Presidents Golf Cup: U.S. beats International team 20-12 at Robert Jones Va 1986 Event 1st black lt Governor since reconstruction sworn in (Douglas Wilder of Va) 1985 Event NASA launches Intelsat VA 1985 Event NASA launches Intelsat VA 1968 Event Gunpowder stocks at a sporting-goods store explode, killing 43 (Va) 1962 Event Savannah, world's 1st nuclear-powered ship, completes maiden voyage from Yorktown, Va, to Savannah, Ga 1961 Event 1st all-solid-propellant rocket put in orbit, Wallops Island, Va 1957 Event 1st military nuclear power plant dedicated, Fort Belvoir Va 1954 Event USS Forrestal christened in Newport News, Va 1949 Event 31st PGA Championship: Sam Snead at Hermitage CC Richmond VA 1941 Event 1st highway post office makes 1st trip, Wash, DC-Harrisonburg, VA 1918 Event Army chaplain school organizes at Ft. Monroe Va 1910 Event 1st airplane flight from deck of a ship, Norfolk, Va 1908 Event Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hour airplane flight, Fort Myer, Va 1904 Birthday Buzurg Alavi, Persian author, Panjah va sih nafar, Namal'ha 1869 Event Black candidate for lt governor of Va, Dr. J H Harris, defeated 1865 Event Battle of Quaker Road, VA 1864 Event Raid on Stoneman: Abingdon and Glade Springs, VA 1864 Event Raid at Stoneman: Knoxville, Tennessee to Saltville, VA 1864 Event Siege of Petersburg, VA 1864 Event Battle of Waynesboro and New Market Heights VA 1864 Event Sheridan sets up camp in Harrisonburg VA 1864 Event Battle of Summit Point, VA 1864 Event Battle of Deep Bottom Virginia (Strawberry Plains) and Fussell's Mill VA 1864 Event Battle of North Anna, Va, 1st of 3 days of fighting 1864 Event Battle of Bermuda Hundred, VA 1864 Event Civil War skirmish at Kelly's Ford, Va 1863 Event Battle of Payne's Farm, VA 1863 Event Battle of Rappahannock Station and Kelly's Ford, VA 1863 Event Battle of Buckland Mills, VA 1863 Event 2nd battle at Winchester Va, ends in Federal defeat; 1350 casualities 1863 Event Battle of Grand Gulf MS and Dinwiddie Court House VA 1862 Event Battle of Dumfries, VA 1862 Event Battle of Dumfries, VA 1862 Event Battle of Leetown and Thoroughfare Gap, VA 1862 Event Battle of Harpers Ferry VA 1862 Event Battle of Thoroughfare Gap VA 1862 Event Battle of Catlett's Station VA 1862 Death Turner Ashby, General, killed near Harrisonburg VA, dies at 33 1862 Event Valley Campaign: Federals repulsed at Battle of McDowell Va 1862 Event Shenandoah Valley campaign, Jackson's Battle of Woodstock, VA 1862 Event Battle of Manassas Junction, VA 1861 Event Battle of Dranesville, VA 1861 Event Battle of Carnifex Ferry VA, 170 casualities 1859 Event John Brown leads 20 in raid on federal arsenal, Harper's Ferry, Va 1857 Event James Gibbs, Va, patents chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine 1831 Death Nat Turner, former slave, led a violent insurrection, hanged in VA 1816 Event James Monroe (VA), elected 5th president, defeating Federalist Rufus King 1794 Event Dr. Jessee Bennet of Edom Va, performs 1st successful Cesarean section operation on his wife 1781 Event British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burns Richmond, Va 1693 Event Royal charter granted College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va 1665 Event "Ye Bare and Ye Cubb" is 1st play, performed in North America (Acomac, Va) 1652 Event John Johnson, a free black, is granted 550 acres in Northampton, Va 1651 Event Anthony Johnson, a free black, receives grant of 250 acres in Va 1619 Event America's 1st Thanksgiving Day (Va) 1608 Event John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Va 1607 Event English colonists (John Smith) lands near James River in VA 1607 Event 1st British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry, Va 1606 Event Virginia Company settlers leave London to establish Jamestown Va
