This Day in Virginia History

This Day in Virginia History (2nd Ed.)

Daily highlights from the history of the Commonwealth and from the lives of Virginia's most interesting people

The only book that gives you a Virginia-related historical event for all 365 days of the year!

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Description of the book:

This book not only includes those events that happened within the Commonwealth, it also includes those events involving people who were born in Virginia as they traveled and lived their lives outside of the Commonwealth. Accordingly, this book includes not only the many historical events associated with such famous Virginia places as Jamestown, Williamsburg, Yorktown, Manassas, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Richmond, it also includes many of the interesting and/or historical events in the lives of Virginia-born people as they traveled and influenced events outside of Virginia.

The list of such Virginians is very long.

Presidents: George Washington Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor and Woodrow Wilson.

Supreme Court Justices: John Marshall, Lewis F. Powell, Phillip Barbour, Peter V. Daniel and John Blair

Generals & Military Leaders: “Light Horse” Harry Lee, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Winfield Scott, Robert E. Lee, “Stonewall” Jackson, JEB Stuart, Jubal Early, A.P. Hill, Fitzhugh Lee, George Pickett, (Union General) George Thomas, John S. Mosby, Matthew Ridgeway and “Chesty” Puller.

Explorers: Meriwether Lewis and William Clark (Lewis & Clark expedition), George Rogers Clark, Stephen F. Austin, Sam Houston, Polar Explorer Richard Byrd, and NASA Astronaut David Brown.

Writers: “Sadie” Delany, Ellen Glasgow, Earl Hamner, William F. Jenkins, William Styron, John Paul Vann and Booker T. Washington.

Sports Stars: Arthur Ashe, Tiki Barber, Roosevelt Brown, Plaxico Burress, Chandler Harper, Allen Iverson, Rudi Johnson, Moses Malone, Bruce Smith, Sam Snead, Fran Tarkenton, Lawrence Taylor and Michael Vick.

Performers & Entertainers: Pearl Bailey, Warren Beatty, Tommy Boyce, Sandra Bullock, Charlie Byrd, A.P. Carter, June Carter Cash, Roy Clark, Patsy Cline, Joseph Cotton, Ella Fitzgerald, “Peanuts” Holland, Bruce Hornsby, Shirley MacLaine, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, George C. Scott, George Randolph Scott, Statler Brothers, “Dub” Taylor, Phil Vassar and “Toby” Wing.

Journalists: Katie Couric, Max Robinson and Donald Ford Whitehead.

Spies: Belle Boyd and Elizabeth Van Lew.

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