* June 23 – In Manassas, Virginia, Lorena Bobbitt cuts off the penis of her husband John Wayne Bobbitt.

** Southern Airlines Flight 932 crashes in Wayne County, West Virginia ; all 75 on board, including 37 players and 5 coaches from the Marshall University football team, are killed.

* Wayne County, West Virginia

* Wayne, West Virginia

* Wayne County, West Virginia

* The town of Wayne, West Virginia

* In 1987, artist Mark Cline lobbied the Waynesboro, Virginia, city council to erect a bust of " Mad " Anthony Wayne atop the city's capped landfill.

Category: Wayne County, West Virginia

Wayne County is the westernmost county located in the U. S. state of West Virginia.

Wayne County, West Virginia was originally Wayne County, Virginia, which was created from part of Cabell County in 1842.

Waynesboro, deriving its name from General Anthony Wayne, is an independent city surrounded by Augusta County in the U. S. state of Virginia.

* Wayne County, West Virginia ( south )

Huntington is a city in Cabell and Wayne counties in the U. S. state of West Virginia, along the Ohio River.

* Wayne County, West Virginia ( northeast, across the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River )

* Wayne County, West Virginia ( east )

Grantsville is home to Wayne Underwood Park, which includes a. 25 mile long walking trail, and to the annual West Virginia Wood Festival.

Ceredo is a city in Wayne County, West Virginia, along the Ohio River.

Category: Populated places in Wayne County, West Virginia

Fort Gay is a town in Wayne County, West Virginia, along the Tug Fork and Big Sandy Rivers.

Category: Populated places in Wayne County, West Virginia

Kenova is a city in Wayne County, West Virginia, at the confluence of the Ohio and Big Sandy Rivers.

In Virginia court orders led to desegregation in Charlottesville and Floyd Counties.

One recognized the Virginia government organized and led by Gov.

After his success at Chancellorsville in Virginia in May 1863, Lee led his army through the Shenandoah Valley to begin his second invasion of the North — the Gettysburg Campaign.

Lee led his army on a torturous retreat back to Virginia.

The second, began in western Pennsylvania and Virginia ( now West Virginia ), led by Thomas Campbell and his son, Alexander Campbell.

He then joins with Louise Marcus ( Virginia Madsen ), who had led a group of terrorists who try to dismantle the Shield.

Confederate troops under John B. Magruder defeat a much larger Union force led by General Ebenezer W. Pierce in Virginia.

* 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys – Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George B. McClellan.

He also led college and state actions that resulted in the formation of the new Episcopal Diocese of Virginia after the Revolution.

Though the Virginia Plan was an outline rather than a draft of a possible constitution, and though it was extensively changed during the debate ( especially by John Rutledge and James Wilson in the Committee of Detail ), its use at the convention led many to call Madison the " Father of the Constitution ".

* John Brown ( abolitionist ) ( 1800 – 1859 ), American who led an anti-slavery revolt in Harpers Ferry, Virginia in 1859

In 2009, Dan Itse, a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from Fremont, New Hampshire, led a national movement to restore the powers of the states through the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions.

This led to the U. S. Congress to enact the Public Law 81-600 which led to the Congressional approval of a local constitution drafted by a constitutional assembly elected by Puerto Rico and the renaming of the United States unincorporated territory of Puerto Rico as the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, using the same official name as the commonwealths of the U. S. states of Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Virginia, as well as that of other sovereign nation countries such as Australia.

The celebrated march of 1781 to Yorktown, Virginia that ended with the defeat of the British at the Siege of Yorktown and the Battle of the Chesapeake began in Newport, Rhode Island under the joint command of General George Washington who led American troops and the Comte de Rochambeau who led French soldiers sent by King Louis XVI.

A leader in the Enlightenment, Jefferson was a polymath who spoke five languages and was deeply interested in science, invention, architecture, religion and philosophy, interests that led him to the founding of the University of Virginia after his presidency.

Maj. Gen. Sherman would attack Atlanta and Georgia, while the Army of the Potomac, led by Maj. Gen. George Meade with Grant in camp, would attack Robert E. Lee's Army of Virginia.

A militia from several British colonies, called the Virginia Regiment, was led by then-Lieutenant colonel George Washington.

Virginian general Robert E. Lee took command of the Army of Northern Virginia in 1862, and led invasions into Union territory, ultimately becoming commander of all Confederate forces.

The Cold War led to the expansion of national defense government programs housed in offices in Northern Virginia near Washington, D. C., and correlative population growth.

In America, civil war between the Confederacy of the South and the Northern states led to massive deaths and the destruction of cities such as Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, Richmond, Virginia and Atlanta, Georgia.

* June 8 – American Civil War – Battle of Cross Keys: Confederate troops under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a U. S. Army attack on the James Peninsula that was led by General George McClellan.

* January 5 – American Revolution: Richmond, Virginia is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold.