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One hundred seventy-four men died on April 28, 1914 during an explosion at the Eccles No. 5 Mine in Raleigh County. Nine additional miners died of injuries and afterdamp while working in the No. 6 Mine during the explosion.
Watt Powell Park opened in Charleston on April 28, 1948.
The personal library of Francis Harrison Pierpont, governor of the Restored Government of Virginia, was among the sites destroyed by Confederate forces in Fairmont on April 29, 1863.
WVU Sports Hall of Fame member Fielding Harris âHurry-Upâ Yost was born April 30, 1871 in Marion County. Yost went on to be the winning coach in the first Rose Bowl game, leading the Michigan Wolverines to a perfect record and a 49-0 shellacking of Stanford in 1901.
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