Mountaineer Casino

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

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

Robert Graetz Jr. married Jeannie Ellis

A baccalaureate degree in Bible was added at Ohio Valley College (now University)

William Price McNeel became editor of the Pocahontas Times

Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel began construction of continuous caster

State ex rel. Board of Education v. Rockefeller changed the financing of public schools

Union Carbide headquarters moved to Danbury, Connecticut

The elecro-metallurgical plant at Alloy was sold to the Elkem Company

Legislature gave the governor the authority to appoint the director of the West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey

Jim Comstock sold the West Virginia Hillbilly to South Charleston Publishing Company

Mike Shott became general manager of WHIS radio

Meredith Sue Willis wrote Higher Ground

Margaret Workman was appointed to an unexpired term on the Kanawha Circuit Court by Governor Rockefeller

WVMR began broadcasting on 1370 AM

Roger Howdyshell bought Marble King

John Sayles and Maggie Renzie arrived in West Virginia to produce a film about the Matewan Massacre

Kathy Mattea got a record contract with Mercury Records

Willow Glen "McKinley's Palace" was added to the National Register of Historic Places

No known granny-midwives were practicing in West Virginia

State Supreme Court ruled on La Rue v La Rue, which created the concept of equitable distribution of marital assets

Main Street Morgantown was organized

West Virginia Public Broadcasting's Mountain Stage began as a radio show hosted by Larry Groce and George Daugherty

The "Big John" dragline scoop came to the Hobet 21 surface mine in Boone and Lincoln counties

The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake was published by Atlantic Monthly Press/Little Brown

Silver Creek ski area opened

The major northern and southern branches of American Presbyterianism reunited

Ronald Ohl became president of Salem College

The Seneca Glass Company closed

Ada "Bricktop" Smith published her autobiography

Michael Smith recorded his first album, the Michael W. Smith Project

Silver Creek ski area opened down the mountain from Snowshoe

Tobacco was the second most valuable farm crop in West Virginia

Stephen and Deborah Starks continued publication of the Beacon Journal under the name West Virginia Beacon Digest

A continuous-care and kidney dialysis center was dedicated at Wheeling Hospital

Additional repairs were made to the Wheeling Suspension Bridge

Winterplace ski area opened

WSAZ music changed from program format to country music

The Diamond department store closed

"Diamond Teeth" Mary McClain appeared in the documentary Free Show Tonight

Marc Harshman's first book of poetry, Turning Out the Stones, was published

The Charleston Gazette-Mail named Buck Harless West Virginian of the Year

George Daugherty and Larry Groce hosted Mountain Stage

Weirton Steel became the nation's largest employee-owned company with implementation of Employee Stock Ownership Plan

The Hinton Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places

The distribution operations of Consolidated Gas Supply became Hope Gas and the interstate gas transmission operations became Consolidated Natural Gas Transmission

The David W. Harris Riverfront Park opened in Huntington

St. Colman Church and cemetery were placed on the National Register of Historic Places

Supreme Court Ruling Allen v. West Virginia Human Rights Commission ordered state officials to ensure prompt consideration of human rights complaints

Maryat Lee moved the EcoTheater to Lewisburg

Catherine Marshall's novel Julie was published posthumously

Jack Maurice retired from the Charleston Daily Mail

Irene McKinney published a collection of poetry, The Wasps at the Blue Hexagon

The Metropolitan Theater in Morgantown was placed on the National Register of Historic Places

A devastating flood in Mingo County caused the loss of many homes and business

Walter Dean Myers graduated from Empire State College

Medal of Honor recipient Major General Charles Rogers retired from the military

The Glenville State College Pioneer Center was renamed the Heflin Center in honor of the president

A 1,000-vehicle parking lot and visitor complex was built outside the lower town at Harpers Ferry

West Virginia was reapportioned from four congressional districts to three following the 1990 census

The Hatfield-McCoy Trail Coalition was formed

Harold Hayslett's article "Shaping Blocks for Cello Sides" was published in The Journal of the Violin Society of America

Jordache Enterprises purchased Heck's for $1 and assumption of large debts

The Itmann Company Store was placed on the National Register of Historic Places

Pare Lorentz was awarded the first Lifetime Achievement Award by the West Virginia Division of Culture and History

Melvin Lentz cut through a 20-inch ponderosa pine in 19.76 seconds with a one-person crosscut saw

Reported 128,168 manufactured homes in West Virginia

The B&O Shop in Martinsburg closed

The Martinsburg Evening Journal changed from an afternoon to a morning newspaper and changed its name to Morning Journal

Kathy Mattea was named the Country Music Association's Female Vocalist of the Year

Arch A. Moore Jr. pleaded guilty to federal charges of mail fraud, tax fraud, extortion and obstruction of justice, and was imprisoned

Vicky Bullett played professional basketball in Italy until 1997 and was a four-time all-star in the Italian League.

U.S. 48 redesignated as I-68

Study concluded a $23 million plan for a lodge, cottages, and a golf course

Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital added a Medical Office in Parkersburg

Robert L. Smith retired as Charleston Gazette publisher

Key Centurion Bancshares purchased by Bank One

Roy Clarkson retired as professor emeritus at WVU

Clover Archeological Site was added to the National Register of Historic Places

Jim Comstock sold the West Virginia Hillbilly to Sandy McCauley

Stephen Coonts was inducted into the WVU Academy of Distinguished Alumni

Drover's Inn was placed on the National Register of Historic Places

L. A. Puopolo directed The Turning

Ruel Foster co-wrote with Bob Conner Buck: A Life Sketch of James H. Harless

Denise Giardina published The Unquiet Earth

Denise Giardina published The Unquiet Earth

Little Sleepy Glenn was inducted into the WVU Sports Hall of Fame

Charles James III moved the James Produce Company to California

Pickney Benedict published Wrecking Yard

Mail Pouch Tobacco stopped painting signs

Ellie Mannette arrived in Morgantown

The William Penn Association closed the Mount St. George facility

William Hoffman wrote Follow Me Home

"Who'll Watch the Homeplace" named Song of the Year by the International Bluegrass Music Association

A new hospital for the mentally ill was opened in Lewis County

The Libertarian Party regrouped under leadership of John K Brown

Henry Louis Gates wrote Colored People

Henry Louis Gates wrote Colored People

Pinckney Benedict published The Dogs of God

Pinckney Benedict published The Dogs of God

Luxury skyboxes were added to Mountaineer Field

John Nash was honored with the Nobel Prize in Economics for his dissertation

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor was Awarded the West Virginia Children's Book Award for Shiloh