Virginia History Timeline (Part 3)

Events 201 - 300 of 321

• 1864-07-28 Second day of the Battle of Deep Bottom Run, Virginia
• 1864-07-29 American Civil War: Battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia, 3rd and last day
• 1864-08-13 Battle of Deep Bottom, Virginia (Strawberry Plains) & Fussell's Mill, Virginia

• 1864-08-14 Second day of the Second Battle of Deep Bottom, Virginia: Federal assault
• 1864-08-16 Federal assault on 4th day of battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia
• 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, Union forces attempt to destroy Weldon Railroad Confederate supply route (successful 21 Ausgust)
• 1864-08-21 Battle at Globe Tavern, Virginia, ends after 2500 casualties
• 1864-08-21 Battle of Summit Point, Virginia
• 1864-09-03 Battle of Berryville, Virginia, Confederate forces retreat in face of Union strength
• 1864-09-16 US Civil War: Battle of Coggin's Point, Virginia (Hampton-Rosser Cattle Raid)
• 1864-09-18 Battle of Martinsburg, Virginia
• 1864-09-19 Third Battle of Winchester, Virginia [Opequon], large bloody battle with the Union army defeating Confederate force with over 9,000 casualties
• 1864-09-22 Battle of Fisher's Hill, Virginia - Confederate General Jubal Early Retreats to Brown's Gap after advance by Union army under General Philip Sheridan
• 1864-09-28 -30) Battle of Fort Harrison Virginia (Chaffin's Farm New Market Heights)
• 1864-09-29 Battle of Chaffin's Farm and New Market Heights in Henrico County, Virginia

• 1864-09-30 Battle of Preble's Farm Virginia (Poplar Springs Church)
• 1864-10-02 Battle of Saltville, Virginia
• 1864-10-07 -Oct 13th) Battle of Darbytown Road, Virginia
• 1864-10-13 Battle at Darbytown Road, Virginia (337 casualties)
• 1864-10-19 Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, Union beats back Confederate attackers
• 1864-10-27 Second Battle of Fair Oaks, Virginia near Richmond
• 1864-10-28 Second Battle at Fair Oaks, Virginia, ends with 1554 casualties
• 1864-12-15 Raid on Stoneman: Abingdon & Glade Springs, Virginia
• 1864-12-24 Battle of Gordonsville, Virginia
• 1865-01-02 Welterweight Con Orem & heavyweight Hugh O'Neill brawl for 185 rounds before darkness ends legendary bare knuckle boxing match in Virginia City, Montana
• 1865-02-05 US Civil War: Battle of Hatcher's Run, Virginia (Armstrong's Mill, Dabney's Mill)
• 1865-03-02 Conferate General Early's army is defeated at the battle of Waynesboro, Virginia, during American Civil War
• 1865-03-29 -Apr 9th], Appomattox campaign, Virginia, 7582 killed
• 1865-03-29 Battle of Lewis's Farm [alt. Quaker Road, Gravelly Run], in Dinwiddie County, Virginia begins (Union victory)
• 1865-03-30 -4] Battle at 5 Forks, Virginia

• 1865-03-31 Battle of Boydton, Virginia (White Oaks Roads, Dinwiddie C H)

• 1865-04-02 Battle of Petersburg ends as the Army of Northern Virginia is forced to retreat under heavy fire from a general Union offensive

• 1865-04-03 Battle at Namozine Church, Virginia (Appomattox Campaign)
• 1865-04-03 Union forces occupy Confederate capital of Richmond & Petersberg, Virginia
• 1865-04-05 Battle at Amelia Springs, Jetersville Virginia (Appomattox Campaign)
• 1865-04-06 Battle of High Bridge, fought near Farmville, Virginia (Appomattox Campaign), inconclusive result (US Civil War)
• 1865-04-06 Battle of Sayler's Creek, fought near Farmville, Virginia (Appomattox Campaign), 1/4 of General Robert E. Lee's army cut off, Union victory (US Civil War)
• 1865-04-07 Battle of Farmville, Virginia

• 1867-04-24 Black demonstrators stage ride-ins on Richmond, Virginia streetcars
• 1869-07-06 Black candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, Dr J. H. Harris defeated
• 1869-12-10 The first American chapter of Kappa Sigma is founded at the University of Virginia.
• 1870-01-27 After accepting 15th amendment, Virginia is readmitted to the Union
• 1883-11-03 Race riots kill 4 blacks in Danville Virginia
• 1888-02-02 Frank Sprague opens the first successful U.S. electric street railway system, the Richmond Union Passenger Railway, in Richmond, Virginia
• 1889-04-03 Savings Bank of Order of True Reformers opens in Richmond, Virginia
• 1897-09-21 NY Sun runs famous "Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus" editorial
• 1907-04-26 Jamestown, Virginia Tercentenary Exposition opens

• 1910-11-14 1st airplane flight from deck of a ship, Norfolk, Virginia
• 1918-02-09 US Army chaplain school organizes at Ft Monroe, Virginia
• 1922-02-21 Airship "Rome" explodes at Hampton Roads, Virginia; 34 die
• 1926-11-27 Restoration of Williamsburg, Virginia, begins
• 1928-11-12 British steamer "Vestris", sailing from NYC to Uruguay, capsizes and sinks off Hampton Roads, Virginia, kills 111, including many women and children
• 1930-01-23 George Washington Birthplace National Monument, Virginia established

• 1931-05-27 1st full scale wind tunnel for testing airplane at Langley Field, Virginia
• 1932-02-27 Explosion in coal mine Boissevain, Virginia, USA leaves 38 dead
• 1941-02-10 1st highway post office makes 1st trip, Washington, D.C. to Harrisonburg, Virginia

• 1941-12-22 1942 NFL Draft: Bill Dudley from University of Virginia first pick by Pittsburgh Steelers

• 1947-07-29 Gas leak explodes in a beauty parlor, killing ten women in Harrisonburg, Virginia
• 1954-07-15 110°F (43°C) at Balcony Falls, Virginia (state record)

• 1955-08-15 Hurricane Connie dissipates after killing 77 in the US eastern seaboard and mid-atlantic states
• 1956-08-05 WCYB TV channel 5 in Bristol-Kingsport, Virginia (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1957-04-26 Jamestown, Virginia 350th Anniversary Festival opens
• 1957-04-29 1st military nuclear power plant dedicated at Fort Belvoir, Virginia

• 1960-01-18 Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashes in Virginia, killing all 50 people on-board
• 1961-02-16 1st all-solid-propellant rocket put in orbit, Wallops Island, Virginia
• 1961-11-08 Imperial Airlines Flight 201/8, a Lockheed Constellation aircraft, crashes near Richmond, Virginia, 77 die

• 1963-04-28 17th Tony Awards: "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (play) and "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" (musical) win

• 1969-08-20 69 cm rainfall in Nelson County, Virginia (state record)

• 1973-10-27 Alabama sets offensive record (828 yds), beats Virginia Tech 77-6
• 1974-12-01 Boeing 727 crashes in Upperville, Virginia, killing 92
• 1977-03-08 Henry L Marsh III elected mayor of Richmond, Virginia
• 1977-06-25 Roy C. Sullivan of Virginia is struck by lightning for 7th time!
• 1978-04-27 Cooling tower collapses at a coal-fired power plant at Willow Island, West Virginia, kills 51
• 1980-01-21 Les Henson, Virginia Tech, makes 89' 3" basketball field goal
• 1981-03-12 Walter R T Witschey installs world's largest sundial in Richmond, Virginia
• 1981-12-28 1st 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
• 1983-07-05 Woman gives birth to baby 84 days after brain death (Roanoke, Virginia)
• 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)
• 1985-04-30 NFL Draft: Virginia Tech defensive end Bruce Smith first pick by Buffalo Bills
• 1986-01-11 Douglas Wilder of Virginia, 1st African American Lieutenant Governor since reconstruction sworn in
• 1989-11-08 Douglas Wilder wins election for Governor of Virginia, 1st African-American elected to the office in any state
• 1990-01-13 Douglas Wilder, 1st elected African American Governor inaugurated (Virginia)
• 1993-01-25 Five people were shot outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia resulting in two murders.

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Birthdays 201 - 300 of 453

• 1918-12-22 William Kennedy, American baseball player, born in Alexandria, Virginia (d. 1995)
• 1919-06-12 Uta Hagen, German-American actress and theatre practitioner (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), born in Göttingen, Germany (d. 2004)
• 1919-10-18 Camilla Williams, American operatic soprano, born in Danville, Virginia (d. 2012)
• 1920-08-01 Henrietta Lacks [Loretta Pleasant], African-American tobacco farmer whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, extensively used in medical research since the 1950s (1st immortalised cell line), born in Roanoke, Virginia (d. 1951)
• 1921-05-04 Virginia "Patsy" Garrett, American singer (Fred Waring's Pleasure Time), and actress (Nanny & the Professor), born in Atlantic City, New Jersey (d. 2015)
• 1921-05-09 Daniel Berrigan, American Jesuit priest and peace activist (Vietnam War), born in Virginia, Minnesota (d. 2016)
• 1921-05-12 (Otis W.) "Joe" Maphis, American session and country music guitarist ("Dim Lights"), born in Suffolk, Virginia (d. 1986)
• 1921-12-24 Bill Dudley, American College/Pro Football HOF halfback (Uni of Virginia; NFL MVP 1946; 4×First-team All-Pro; NFL rushing leader 1942, 46; Pittsburgh Steelers, Detroit Lions, Washington Redskins), born in Bluefield, Virginia (d. 2010)
• 1922-05-29 Joe Weatherly, American auto racer (NASCAR Sprint Cup champion 1962-63), born in Norfolk, Virginia (d. 1964)
• 1922-06-04 Samuel Lee Gravely Jr., American naval officer, First African American fleet commander, born in Richmond, Virginia (d. 2004)
• 1922-09-24 Theresa Merritt [Hines], American singer and actress (The Wiz; That's My Mama), born in Newport News, Virginia (d. 1998)
• 1922-12-08 John B. McKay, American test pilot (X-15), born in Portsmouth, Virginia (d. 1975)
• 1923-06-06 V. C. Andrews, American author (Flowers in the Attic), born in Portsmouth, Virginia (d. 1986)
• 1923-07-10 Earl Hamner Jr., American creator and narrator of TV show "The Waltons", born in Schuyler, Virginia (d. 2016)
• 1923-09-23 Samuel V. Wilson, American ex-director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and former Army lieutenant general, born in Rice, Virginia (d. 2017)
• 1924-03-08 Judy Johnson [Betty Bonney], American singer (Your Show of Shows; "How Little We Know"), born in Bridgeport, Connecticut [1]

• 1924-04-12 Curtis Turner, American auto racer (184 NASCAR races over 17 years, 17 wins), born in Floyd, Virginia (d. 1970)
• 1924-04-20 Paul Van Buren, American theologist (Theological Explorations), born in Norfolk, Virginia (d. 1998)
• 1925-05-23 Malcolm "Mac" Wiseman, American bluegrass singer, born in Crimora, Virginia (d. 2019)
• 1925-06-06 Al Grey, American jazz trombonist (Count Basie Orchestra; Snap Your Fingers), born in Aldie, Virginia (d. 2000)
• 1925-06-11 William Styron, American novelist (Confess of Nat Turner, Sophie's Choice), born in Newport News, Virginia (d. 2006)
• 1925-07-18 Glen Wood, American auto racer, team owner (Wood Bros Racing), born in Stuart, Virginia (d. 2019)
• 1925-08-14 Russell Baker, American columnist, author and humorist (NY Times), born in Loudoun County, Virginia (d. 2019)
• 1925-09-16 Charlie Byrd, American jazz and bossa nova guitarist (Desfinado), born in Suffolk, Virginia (d. 1999)

• 1926-08-14 Alice Adams, American author (Beautiful Girl), born in Fredericksburg, Virginia (d. 1999)
• 1926-09-09 Jake Carey, American actor (Rock Rock Rock!, Go, Johnny, Go!), born in Pulaski, Virginia (d. 1997)
• 1927-02-25 Ralph Stanley, American bluegrass musician, born in Dickenson County, Virginia (d. 2016)
• 1927-03-05 Jack Cassidy, American stage and screen actor (Shangri-La; The Eiger Sanction: She Loves Me; Columbo), and Grammy Award-winning singer, born in Richmond Hill, Virginia (d. 1976)
• 1927-07-10 William Smithers, American actor (Witness; Peyton Place Attack!), born in Richmond, Virginia
• 1927-09-20 Clarice Taylor, American actress (Nurse Bailey-Nurse), born in Buckingham County, Virginia (d. 2011)

• 1927-12-22 Peggy Castle, American actress (Lily Merrill-Lawman), born in Appalachia, Virginia (d. 1973)
• 1928-01-12 Ruth Brown, American actress and singer sometimes known as the "Queen of R&B" ("So Long"; "Teardrops From My Eyes"), born in Portsmouth, Virginia (d. 2006)
• 1928-03-09 Keely Smith [Dorothy Keely], American jazz and pop singer (w/ husband Louis Prima -"That Old Black Magic"; "I Wish You Love"), born in Norfolk, Virginia (d. 2017)

• 1928-08-07 Herbert H. Bateman, American politician (Rep-R-Virginia), born in Elizabeth City, North Carolina (d. 2000)
• 1929-02-25 Tommy Newsom, American saxophonist and bandleader (Tonight Show), born in Portsmouth, Virginia (d. 2007)

• 1929-07-09 Jesse McReynolds, American singer and mandolinist (Grand Ole Opry), born in Coeburn, Virginia (d. 2023) [1]
• 1929-08-24 Willie Winfield, American doo-wop singer (Harptones - "Life Is But A Dream"; “A Sunday Kind of Love”), born in Surrey, Virginia (d. 2021)
• 1930-08-18 Liviu Librescu, Romanian-American professor (sacificed his life to save students during Virginia Tech massacre), born in Ploiești, Romania (d. 2007)
• 1930-08-31 Owen B. Pickett, American politician (Rep-D-Virginia 1987-2001), born in Richmond, Virginia (d. 2010)
• 1930-09-17 David Huddleston, American actor (Big Lebowski), born in Vinton, Virginia (d. 2016)
• 1931-01-17 Douglas Wilder, American lawyer and politician, Governor of Virginia (1990-94), 1st African American Governor since Reconstruction, born in Richmond, Virginia
• 1931-03-02 Tom Wolfe, American journalist and author (The Right Stuff), born in Richmond, Virginia (d. 2018)

• 1932-09-02 Walter Davis Jr., American hard bop pianist (Davis Cup, Illumination), born in Richmond, Virginia (d. 1990)

• 1932-10-20 "Rosey" Roosevelt Brown, American NFL hall of fame tackle (NY Giants), born in Charlottesville, Virginia (d. 2004)
• 1933-04-15 Roy Clark, American country and bluegrass singer, guitarist, and banjo player (Hee Haw; The Tonight Show), born in Meherrin, Virginia (d. 2018)
• 1934-03-07 Willard Scott, American weather forecaster (Today Show), born in Alexandria, Virginia (d. 2021)

• 1935-02-11 Gene Vincent [Vincent Eugene Craddock], American rock guitarist and vocalist ("Be-Bop-A-Lula"), born in Norfolk, Virginia (d. 1971)
• 1936-03-12 Lloyd Dobbins, newscaster (NBC News Overnight), born in Newport News, Virginia
• 1936-03-17 Robert Daniel, American Republican Congressman for Virginia (1972-1983), born in Richmond, Virginia (d. 2012)
• 1936-08-23 Henry Lee Lucas, American drifter and serial killer, born in Blacksburg, Virginia (d. 2001)
• 1936-12-13 J. C. Martin, American baseball player, born in Axton, Virginia
• 1936-12-23 Bobby Ross, NFL coach (San Diego Chargers), born in Richmond, Virginia

• 1937-04-07 Charlie Thomas, American pop singer (The Drifters, 1958-67 - "Sweets For My Sweet"; "Save The Last Dance For Me"), born in Lynchburg, Virginia (d. 2023)
• 1937-10-11 R. H. W. Dillard, American poet (The Day I Stopped Dreaming About Barbara Steele and Other Poems), born in Roanoke, Virginia
• 1937-12-16 Joyce Bulifant, American actress (The Mary Tyler Moore Show - "Marie Slaughter"), born in Newport News, Virginia

• 1939-06-26 Chuck [Charles] Robb, American politician, 64th Governor of Virginia, born in Phoenix, Arizona
• 1939-08-21 Harold Reid, American country bass vocalist (Statler Brothers - "Bed Of Rose's"), born in Staunton, Virginia (d. 2020)
• 1939-09-29 Tommy Boyce, American songwriter (with Bobby Hart: The Monkees - "Last Train to Clarksville"; (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone"), and singer (Boyce & Hart - "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight"), born in Charlottesville, Virginia (d. 1994)
• 1939-11-10 Tommy "Bubba" Facenda, American rock and roll artist (High School U.S.A.), born in Portsmouth, Virginia

• 1940-03-27 Janis Martin, American rockabilly and country singer ("Will You Willyum"; "Drugstore Rock 'n Roll"), born in Sutherlin, Virginia (d. 2007)
• 1940-04-18 Ira von FFürstenberg, European socialite and actress (I Killed Rasputin), born in Rome, Italy
• 1942-01-11 Clarence Clemons, American rock saxophonist (Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band), born in Norfolk County, Virginia (d. 2011)
• 1942-04-03 Wayne Newton, American singer and entertainer (Daddy, Don't You Walk So Fast; Danke Schon), born in Norfolk, Virginia

• 1942-06-21 Henry S. Taylor, American writer at poet (Pulitzer 1986 for Poetry), born in Lincoln, Virginia
• 1943-02-23 Bobby Mitchell, American golfer (US Masters runner-up 1972), born in Chatham, Virginia (d. 2018)

• 1943-11-12 Jimmy "Bro" Hayes, American doo-wop bass singer (Persuasions - "Under the Boardwalk"), born in Hopewell, Virginia (d. 2017)
• 1944-04-18 Rudy Shackelford, American organist, composer, and musicologist, born in Newport News, Virginia
• 1945-05-16 James Moran, American politician (Rep-D-Virginia 1991-2005), born in Buffalo, New York
• 1945-06-05 Don Reid, American country singer (Statler Brothers - "Flowers on the Wall"), born in Staunton, Virginia
• 1945-07-09 Lewis F. Payne Jr., American politician (Rep-D-Virginia), born in Amherst, Virginia
• 1945-11-27 James Avery, American actor (Fresh Prince of Bell Air), born in Pughsville, Virginia (d. 2013)
• 1946-02-09 Jim Webb, United States Senator from Virginia
• 1946-06-03 Eddie Holman, American singer ("Hey There Lonely Girl"; "You Make My Life Complete"), born in Norfolk, Virginia
• 1946-08-01 Rick Boucher, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia), born in Abingdon, Virginia
• 1946-10-27 Leslie Byrne, American politician (Rep-D-Virginia), born in Salt Lake City, Utah
• 1947-02-09 Major Harris, American R&B singer ("Love Won't Let Me Wait"), born in Richmond, Virginia (d. 2012)
• 1947-04-30 Robert Scott, American politician, Rep-D-Virginia (1993-), born in Washington D.C.
• 1947-07-12 Richard C. McCarty, American professor of psychology, born in Portsmouth, Virginia
• 1947-07-23 Spencer Christian, American TV weatherman (Good Morning America), born in Newport News, Virginia
• 1948-01-06 Guy Gardner, US Air Force officer & astronaut (STS 27, STS 35), born in Altavista, Virginia
• 1948-02-21 Larry Ragland, American comedian (Keep on Truckin'), born in Richmond, Virginia
• 1949-07-12 Rick Hendrick, American NASCAR team owner (Hendrick Motorsports; 7 x NASCAR Cup Series titles), born in Palmer Springs, Virginia
• 1950-08-02 Kathryn Harrold, American actress (MacGruder & Loud), born in Tazewell, Virginia
• 1951-04-15 John L. Phillips, NASA astronaut, born in Fort Belvoir, Virginia
• 1951-07-26 Bobby Wadkins, American golfer (Senior Players C'ship 2006; European Open 1978), born in Richmond, Virginia
• 1951-09-18 Dee Dee Ramone [Douglas Colvin], American punk rock bassist (Ramones. 1974-89 - "I Wanna Be Sedated"), born in Fort Lee (now Fort Gregg-Adams), Virginia (d. 2002)
• 1952-01-12 Ricky Van Shelton, American country singer ("Wild-Eyed Dream"), born in Danville, Virginia

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