Colors antique gold, turf green (avocado) mango red and original red were introduced in fiestaware
Francis Ford Coppola filmed The Rain People
The Overseas National Airway acquired the Greene Line packet service
Alberta Pierson Hannum wrote memoir, Look Back with Love: A Recollection of the Blue Ridge
Logan Grade School was constructed on Hatfield Island
The federal government recognized pneumoconiosis, black lung, as an occupational disease
William Hoffman wrote The Dark Mountains
Legislature enacted a new Municipal Code that modernized regulation of cities and towns
Ivor Boiarsky helped pass a reorganization of the higher education system
Island Creek Coal Company was sold to Armand Hammer of Occidental Petroleum Company
John Knowles wrote Phineas: Six Stories
Howard B. Lee wrote Bloodletting in Appalachia
Maryat Lee published Four Men and a Monster
State legislation was passed to allow the Library Commission to make direct grants for operating expenses to libraries complying with its administrative rules
James G. Linger sold the Linger Chair factory to the Upshur County Chair and Craft Cooperative
Hobert Skidmore died
Bloch Brothers Tobacco Company stopped painting new barn signs
Jack Maurice became editor-in-chief of the Charleston Daily Mail
The Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College began as a branch of Marshall University
Greasy Neale was inducted into the National Football League Hall of Fame
Treasure Mountain Festival was inaugurated
The U.S. Navy began operating a major communications center at Sugar Grove
An 18-hole golf course opened at Pipestem Resort State Park
Public television stations began broadcasting
The American Public Health Association conferred its Presidential Award on Donald Rasmussen for exceptional service in the fight against black lung
The nursing school at St. Joseph's Hospital in Parkersburg closed
A new dormitory was completed at the state police academy
A P.E. Building was built at Morris Harvey College (now University of Charleston)
Adjutant General Department estimated West Virginia suffered an estimated 2.75 death rate per 10,000 citizens due to the Vietnam War
WCHS-FM went on the air
Robert B. Erwin was name director of the West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey
West Virginia Pulp & Paper Company changed its name to Westvaco
Harness racing at Wheeling Downs resumed
The Luther Elkins Petroglyph was studied
Warren McGraw was elected to the House of Delegates
Frankie Yankovic was one of the first two people inducted into the International Polka Association Hall Of Fame in Chicago
Virginia Mae Brown was named chairman of the ICC, the first woman to head an independent administrative agency of the federal government
Nick Saban graduated from Monongah High School
Clyde Ware's first novel, The Innocents was published
