US Virgin Islands

By bry205

  • Denmark rejected US offer to buy St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix for $5 million

  • Virgin Islanders granted American citizenship

  • US Congress passed First Organic Act, gave political power to the local Virgin Islands government

  • First black governor, William H. Hastie, elected

  • First commercial jet landed in St. Thomas

  • Melvin Evans became first black Virgin Islander to be elected governor

  • Hurricane Hugo struck Caribbean, St. Croix hit the hardest

  • Hurricane Marilyn killed 10, caused $1.5 billion in damages

  • Dr. Donna Christian Green became first woman elected Virgin Islands’ delegate to US Congress

  • Over 5,500 residents of St. Croix signed petition asking Congress to make it its own U.S. Territory

  • Former chief of environmental protection pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges to defraud government of more than $1 million