- 1910 — After the death of his father, Charles T. Jeffery incorporates the previously privately held Thomas B. Jeffery Company as a US$3 million public firm.
- 1949 — Preston Tucker and six other Tucker executives are indicted for fraud.
- 2003 — Production of the eleventh-generation Ford F-150 starts at Norfolk Assembly; the first F-150 is equipped with Ford's 100 millionth V8 engine
