Woodford Sutherland killed after training flight when his parked P-51 was hit by another
Akro Agate Company ceased production
Clair Bee ended his college coaching career at Long Island University after the point-shaving scandals that devastated college basketball
Florence Blanchfield received the International Red Cross's Florence Nightingale Medal
Harry Atlee Burdette and Fred Clifford Painter first to be put to death via electric chair in West Virginia
Charleston Memorial Hospital dedicated with 129 beds
Air Force ROTC program was established at Davis & Elkins College
Fiestaware colors forest green, rose, chartreuse, and grey were introduced
Floodwall in Point Pleasant was completed
Ruel Foster wrote William Faulkner: A Critical Appraisal
Tony Brown graduated from Garnet High School
Gunner Gatski earned All-Pro honors in football
Ella Holroyd retired from Concord College
Ray Wetzel died in a car accident
Elizabeth Kee took her place in the House of Representatives, replacing her late husband, John Kee
Maryat Lee wrote and produced the street play Dope!
The federal navigation system on the Little Kanawha River was turned over to the state
Kanawha County Democratic boss Homer Hanna Sr. and Governor Patteson picked William Marland as candidate for governor
Catherine Marshall wrote A Man Called Peter
J. Kemp McLaughlin led the squadron on active duty in the Korean War
Okey Mills married Netie Mae Neely
Waterford Park (later Mountaineer Race Track) opened
Ruth Ann Musick and others founded the West Virginia Folklore Journal
Karl Myers compiled a second poetry collection, Cross and Crown
College assumed its current name, Potomac State College of West Virginia University
Benjamin Rosenbloom retired from practicing law
K. Duane Hurley became president of Salem College
Sam Shaw became editor of the Moundsville Daily Echo
Hulett Smith became chairman of Beckley's Democratic executive committee.
The Paw Paw Tunnel was shut down
The first coaxial cable television system started carrying programming of WSAZ to Welch
Bishop Swint asked Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus to help establish a Catholic college of liberal arts in West Virginia (now Wheeling Jesuit University)
Hurry-up Yost was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame
