Grandparents Day

West Virginia crime rate became the lowest in the nation

George Crumb's Ancient Voices of Children won the Koussevitzky and UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers awards

The old Fesenmeier Brewery was closed

Clyde Ware filmed No Drums, No Bugles

David Lindsay caught a 9lbs 12oz smallmouth bass

Marie Boette published Singa Hipsy Doodle and Other Folk Songs of West Virginia

Davis Grubb wrote The Barefoot Man

Chuck Howley was named Most Valuable Player in Super Bowl V, the only player on a losing team ever to win this award

John Knowles wrote Paragon

Dora Ruth Parks retired

Ownership of the Linger Chair Factory went back to James G. Linger

Bob Addis set a Guinness World Record for "stalagmite sitting"

Muriel Dressler published first collection of poetry, Appalachia, My Land

Public kindergartens were mandated

The federal Endangered Species act was passed

Reynolds Memorial Hospital was given to the community

Pete Everest retired from the Air Force

Clyde Ware filmed When the Line Goes Through

Denise Giardina received a B.A. from West Virginia Wesleyan

Tom Screven helped launch the Hearth and Fair magazine

The Overseas National Airway changed the name of the Greene Line to the Delta Queen Steamboat Co.

Hal Greer retired from basketball

Research was published tracing the origin of some West Virginia Guinea families to specific biracial and triracial unions

A study of the Hammons family resulted in a double recording from the Library of Congress and a Rounder Records release