John Hendricks

Start of coking operations on Browns Island began again after explosion

George Snyder graduated from Marshall University

Dennis P. Prisk became the fourth president of the College of Graduate Studies

Bob Vorel started publishing the Blues Revue Quarterly

Columbia Gas was forced into bankruptcy

The Glen Ferris Inn was placed on the National Register of Historic Places

The Goldenseal Book of the West Virginia Mine Wars was published

John Ailes died

Don Blankenship became president and chief operating officer of Massey Coal Services

Henry Louis Gates edited Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and the African-American Experience

Mountains and Music was published by the University of Illinois Press

A golf course was added to the Hawks Nest State Park

Homer Hickam published his first novel, Back to the Moon

William Hoffman published Doors

William Hoffman won the Dashiell Hammett Prize for Tidewater Blood

The 42-megawatt facility on the Ohio River at Belleville began producing electricity

Century Aluminum divided and sold part of the operation to Pechiney Rolled Products

Charles James III sold the James Produce Company

First National Bank of Keystone was closed by federal agencies

Keith Mailard published Gloria

Jedediah Purdy published For Common Things

Melvin Lentz and Paul Cogar cut an 8x8 yellow poplar log through two times in 5.08 seconds using a crosscut saw

Ellie Mannette received a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts

Mount Olive Prison began operating above capacity

City of Morgantown agreed to lease the Tibbs Run Reservoir property to West Virginia Botanic Garden