Matthew Reese

Thomas Miller graduated from University of Virginia

John Forbes Nash wrote his dissertation

John Norman graduated from Harvard

Discrimination against blacks in state's public places continued, according to West Virginia Human Rights Commission, including in the coal mines.

West Virginia purchased an additional 44 acres

A flood claimed 22 lives in West Virginia

A 65-site campground opened at Blackwater Falls State Park

The Army Corps of Engineers completed a dam on Elk River at Sutton

Marshall College became a university

Charleston's Davis Child Shelter orphanage closed

W. E. "Ned" Chilton III became publisher of the Charleston Gazette

Accident classified as a "disaster" changed from when 5 died to 3 or more

Bruce Crawford retired from the West Virginia Advertising Company

Reported 90% of West Virginia crimes were nonviolent

Phyllis Curtin made her Metropolitan Opera debut

Julia Davis wrote Legacy of Love

Douglass High School closed in Huntington

Joanne Dru was featured on Guestward Ho!

Ann Flagg moved to Chicago

Grafton National Cemetery reached its capacity of 2,119 graves

Charles Haden began practicing law with his father in a firm, Haden & Haden

Elizabeth Hallanan became a member and chairman of the Public Service Commission

Charles Hodel was named the Charleston Gazette's "man of the year"

Joseph Hodges was appointed coadjutor bishop with the right of succession to Archbishop John Swint of the Diocese of Wheeling

The gate house at the Huntington State Hospital entrance was removed

The coal seam at Kaymoor was worked out

Sam Mallison published Let's Set a Spell

Kyle McCormick left the position of state historian

Howard Gray passed presidency of the Meadow River Lumber Company to his son

Morgantown Glassware Guild made a line of elegant stemware for the White House for the Kennedy administration

Milan Puskar started Mylan Pharmaceuticals

Okey Patteson married Dorothy R. "Bebe" (Reuter) Warden.

The Omar riverboat was given to West Virginia

Eleanor Roosevelt began serving as U.S. representative to the United Nations

St. Francis Nursing School in Charleston closed

David Selby appeared in Honey in the Rock

The Salvation Army sold the Sunrise mansions and grounds to the Sunrise Foundation

The New River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship was established

Cyrus Vance was named general counsel for the Department of Defense

Charleston baseball joined the AAA International League

The Hinton Jaycees turned the water ski show into a full festival

WSAZ was sold out-of-state

Leonard C. Nelson became president of West Virginia Institute of Technology

Billy Cox met James "Jimi" Hendrix at the service club in Fort Campbell

Chris Sarandon received a bachelor's degree in theater from WVU

Appalachian Volunteers in West Virginia began with a summer project

Thurmond was the setting for the movie Matewan

Brad Smith graduated from Marshall University

Jennifer Garner moved to New York City

Charles "Chuck" Chambers was nominated by President Clinton as federal judge for southern district of West Virginia

John Lilly succeeded Ken Sullivan as editor of Goldenseal

Allen Loughry began working as a senior assistant in the Attorney General’s office