* 2007 – Virginia Tech massacre: The deadliest spree shooting in modern American history.

* Site on Enheduanna at Virginia Tech University

The tradition is often carried out at other sporting events, both professional or amateur, and even sometimes at non-sporting events where the anthem is played, throughout the Baltimore / Washington area and beyond, notably at Baltimore Ravens, Washington Capitals, Georgetown Hoyas, Maryland Terrapins, Virginia Cavaliers, Virginia Tech Hokies, West Virginia Mountaineers, Penn State Nittany Lions and Aberdeen Ironbirds games.

Counter-Strike faced controversy in April 2007 when Jack Thompson, now a disbarred attorney from Florida, predicted that the perpetrator of the Virginia Tech Massacre had been trained to kill in the game, well before Seung-Hui Cho ( the shooter ) was identified.

But after the Virginia Tech Massacre, there was significant political consensus to strengthen the protections for society and allow more leniency in determining that an individual needed to be committed against their will.

Joshua Garrison mimicked Chan's " political pseudo-documentary style " in his Virginia Tech Massacre, a controversial Halo 3 – based re-enactment and explanation of the eponymous real-life events.

After mass shootings such as the Columbine High School massacre and the Virginia Tech incident, many school administrators in the United States have created plans to protect students and staff in the event of a school shooting.

Wireless Valley is a term that was coined by Professor Ted Rappaport in 1990 when he was a faculty member at Virginia Tech, and was used to describe the Roanoke / Blacksburg Virginia region and the potential of research to create spin-out companies.

* January 18 – Seung-hui Cho, Korean-born American Virginia Tech massacre gunman ( d. 2007 )

* April 16, 2007 – The Virginia Tech Massacre killed 32 people and maimed many others before the gunman, Seung-Hui Cho, committed suicide.

** The Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College begins its first academic session ( the university is later renamed Virginia Tech ).

* The Cadet Band ( current day Highty-Tighties ) of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College ( current day Virginia Tech ) is established in the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets.

* October 1 – Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ( Virginia Tech ) opens as Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College.

Due to a lack of appreciation, competition venues, and military personnel, almost all military marching bands have disappeared from schools in the United States ; notable exceptions the Fightin ' Texas Aggie Band from Texas A & M University, the Highty-Tighties of the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets, and the Cadets of Norwich University Military College of Vermont, the oldest collegiate band in the United States and the nation's first private military academy.

His first combat assignment was to lead the 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, III Corps of the Army of Virginia during the Northern Virginia Campaign.

* Civilian Conservation Corps Legacy, Edinburg, Virginia

* Civilian Conservation Corps Museum at Pocahontas State Park, Chesterfield, Virginia

" Conserving the Youth: the Civilian Conservation Corps Experience in the Shenandoah National Park " The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography Volume: 105.

After potential special agent candidates are cleared with TS clearance and the Form SF-312 non-disclosure agreement is signed, they attend the FBI training facility located on Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia.

Upon completion of The Basic School at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, in October 1967, he was ordered to the Republic of Vietnam, where he served as a platoon and company commander with Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines.

From July 1973 until June 1974, he was a student at the Amphibious Warfare School, Marine Corps University, MCB Quantico, Virginia.

* 2006 – The National Museum of the Marine Corps is opened and dedicated by U. S. President George W. Bush and announces that Marine Corporal Jason Dunham will receive the Medal of Honor in Quantico, Virginia.

Afterwards he attended the US Marine Corps Command and Staff College in Quantico, Virginia, USA.

** Planes piloted by Major Harold Geiger and Horace Meek Hickam, students at the Air Corps Tactical School, collide in mid-air at Langley Field, Virginia.

* " Hands Across the Sea " ( dedicated to the band of the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets – the Highty-Tighties ) ( 1899 )

Richard Brooks wrote his novel whilst he was a Sergeant in the U. S. Marine Corps making training films at Quantico, Virginia and Camp Pendleton, California.

Burnside's former command, the IX Corps, was transferred to the Virginia Peninsula, a movement that prompted the Confederates to detach troops from Lee's army under Lt. Gen. James Longstreet, a decision that would be consequential in the upcoming campaign.

The armies went into winter quarters and the First Corps rejoined the Army of Northern Virginia in the spring.

After weeks of preparation, on July 30 the Federals exploded a mine in Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside's IX Corps sector, blowing a gap in the Confederate defenses of Petersburg, Virginia.

The first fatal aviation accident occurred in a Wright Model A aircraft at Fort Myer, Virginia, USA, on September 17, 1908, resulting in injury to the pilot, Orville Wright and death of the passenger, Signal Corps Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge.

Justin Timberlake was asked to take a fan to her unit's annual ball in July 2011 via YouTube, and he attended the Marine Corps Ball with her ( Kelsey De Santis ) on Sunday, November 13, 2011 in Richmond, Virginia.

In 1929, he returned to the United States and attended the Field Officers Course at the Marine Corps School in MCB Quantico, Virginia.

Dr. Hunter McGuire was Chief Surgeon of the Second " Jackson's " Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia.

It is home to one of the original six state parks of Virginia, Douthat State Park, built during Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency by the Civilian Conservation Corps.

* May 15 – American Civil War – Battle of New Market: Cadets from the Virginia Military Institute fight alongside the Confederate Army to force Union General Franz Sigel out of the Shenandoah Valley.

In line for an appointment by the Governor of Virginia to become Commandant of Cadets at Virginia Military Institute ( VMI ), he turned the opportunity down and remained in the Union Army.

Cadets from the Virginia Military Institute ( VMI ) fought alongside the Confederate Army and forced Union General Franz Sigel and his army out of the Shenandoah Valley.

* Highty-Tighties, the Regimental Band of the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets

The M1903 is also the standard parade rifle of the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets, which has over six hundred M1903s, a very small percentage of which are still fireable.

** Virginia Tech-Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets

* Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets

In addition, students at a senior military college such as The Citadel ( military college ), Norwich University, the Virginia Military Institute, the Texas A & M University Corps of Cadets, and the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets or U. S. Merchant Marine officer license candidates at any one of the six state Maritime Colleges are referred to as cadets — although they may or may not be enrolled in a formal officer commissioning program.

* Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets

The Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets ( VTCC ) is the military component of the student body at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

The Corps of Cadets has existed from the founding of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College in 1872 to the present-day institution of Virginia Tech, which is designated a senior military college by federal law.

If a cadet is enrolled in an ROTC program at Virginia Tech, they must also be enrolled in the Corps of Cadets.

The Commandant of Cadets was General James H. Lane, formerly the youngest general in the Army of Northern Virginia, who was wounded three times in combat.