Connie Smith

West Virginia Moon won first prize for painting in West Virginia Centennial Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture

Bill Campbell won U.S. Amateur Championship

Small group of miners at Montgomery formed the Black Lung Association

Alderson-Broaddus College (now University) established the first baccalaureate physician assistant program in the country

Work began at Hungington Museum of Art on a wing designed by Walter Gropius

Greenbrier Valley Airport, Lewisburg, built

Another 36 acres was added to Bear Rock Lakes

Interstate 81 was completed

UMWA President Tommy Boyle supported a campaign for black lung recognition at the state level

A bombing rocked the physical education building and administration at Bluefield State College (now University), briefly closing the school

Ivor Boiarsky was elected speaker of the House of Delegates

J. Lawrence Smith wrote The Potomac Naturalist

Butch Miles was inducted into West Virginia Music Hall of Fame

William "Billy" Cox was inducted into the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame

Tommy Thompson was inducted into the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame

"Diamond Teeth" Mary McClain was inducted into the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame