# va funfact virginia richmond engineering ieee

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4 First Ladies of the United States were born in Virginia!
1 - Martha Washington
3 - Martha Jefferson
10 - Letitia Tyler
28 - Edith Wilson

Note: there are other claimed VA-born First Ladies, but they never officially held the post.

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2019-01-31

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Did you know that the Richmond Union Passenger Railway was the first successful electrical trolley system in the world? This was so significant that the IEEE named it a milestone in engineering!

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2019-01-27