Article Archive

January

1

Texas governor shocks nation, appoints all-woman court
(1925)

Confederates attack Union forces in Galveston
(1863)

Farmer sows tent colony
(1906)

2

Western crooner Tex Ritter succumbs in country-music capital
(1974)

Roger Miller born
(1936)

Bonnie sculptor born
(1890)

3

General Kiddoo nixes Contract Law
(1867)

Another bad day for A. J. Dorn
(1884)

Orphans get new home
(1874)

Presidio County established
(1850)

4

Landscape artist Ida Weisselberg Hadra born in Castroville
(1861)

Texas radio station sets country music standard
(1923)

Versatile writer dies
(1992)

Black cowboy Bose Ikard dies
(1929)

5

Cooke County hamlet springs back after Indian raid
(1865)

First telegraph company in Texas chartered
(1854)

Naval fleet commander relieved on eve of World War II
(1941)

Pioneer Texas scientist born in Germany
(1818)

6

Revista Católica relocates to El Paso
(1918)

Viceroy appoints Coronado to find Seven Cities of Cíbola
(1540)

Final bell rings for boxing promoter
(1929)

Actor Guinn Williams Jr. dies
(1962)

7

Big Brazos bridge opens in Waco
(1870)

James Moreau Brown buys future site of Ashton Villa
(1859)

Nazareth Academy opens
(1867)

8

Youthful Confederate spy executed at Little Rock by Union soldiers
(1864)

Legislature makes fence cutting a felony
(1884)

Kickapoos rout Confederates in battle of Dove Creek
(1865)

Prima ballerina Nana Gollner born
(1919)

9

Frontier icon Crockett loses election, heads for Alamo
(1836)

Anson Jones commits suicide
(1858)

Texas Academy of Science organized
(1892)

Frank X. Tolbert dies
(1984)

10

Houston honors philanthropist
(1964)

Spindletop oilfield discovered
(1901)

Texas aviation leaders die in plane crash
(1954)

Black physician and civil rights leader born in Waskom
(1894)

11

Confederate Navy sinks Yankee ship
(1863)

First Trinity County seat incorporates
(1862)

Black veteran honored for war bond sales
(1945)

Texas troops captured at Arkansas Post
(1863)

12

Ambitious French colonization scheme fizzles
(1841)

Unionist paper closes down
(1861)

Vigilantes hang horse thief in Denison
(1874)

Crusading El Paso newspaper folds
(1886)

13

Rival cities cooperate to open gigantic airport
(1974)

English noble dies in drunken debauch
(1885)

Future scalp hunter enlists in army
(1847)

"Red Fox of the Big Thicket" arrested for the first time
(1939)

14

War effort proceeds as huge Texas base is activated
(1942)

Alianza Hispano-Americana founded
(1894)

Governor urges Texans to make sacrifices
(1865)

Former governor Alan Shivers dies
(1985)

15

Governor grasps at federal straw to stay in office
(1874)

Company chartered to build road from Houston to Austin
(1841)

Confederate veterans create orphanage
(1867)

Texas Memorial Museum opens
(1939)

16

A Prussian lens on South Tejas
(1860)

Church organized in Swedish community
(1897)

Prussian mapmaker retires from General Land Office
(1899)

Historian Joe B. Frantz born
(1917)

17

A Connecticut Yankee in Texas
(1821)

First appearance of Popeye
(1929)

Barbara Jordan dies
(1996)

Mexican Federalists declare independence at Laredo convention
(1840)

18

Texas historian and author born in Cincinnati
(1817)

Populist farmer elected president of Texas Farmers' Alliance
(1887)

Scandal purges body politic
(1971)

Marshall University chartered
(1842)

19

Mosqueda robs railroad, becomes hero
(1891)

Waterloo approved as new capital of Texas
(1839)

German school chartered in Austin
(1858)

Huge state park opened to public
(1991)

20

Heroism of the "Texas Division"
(1944)

Professor begins distinguished career at Southwestern University
(1879)

Cofounder of Irish colony murdered
(1853)

First issue of San Antonio Light published
(1881)

21

Charitable foundation begins bumpy journey
(1960)

"Know-Nothings" abandon secrecy, meet in Austin
(1856)

Mason County courthouse burns
(1877)

Sid Richardson Hall dedicated
(1971)

22

Supreme Court legalizes abortion
(1973)

State supreme court rules new school funding system unconstitutional
(1991)

Fifty Cent Act repealed
(1883)

First steamboat reaches Houston
(1837)

23

Confederates hang former Texas senator as traitor
(1863)

Domingo Terán de los Ríos appointed first governor of Texas
(1691)

Ill-fated Spanish mission established
(1762)

24

Famous former slave dies at the hands of Indians
(1871)

"Tri-Cities" finally unite as Baytown
(1948)

Reformist Freedmen's Bureau superintendent replaced
(1867)

25

Lone Star heraldry
(1839)

Death of "Cattle King" touches off family financial scandal
(1919)

Isleño leader dies
(1779)

First church meeting in Texas
(1834)

26

Murphy earns Medal of Honor
(1945)

First piece of McDade pottery produced
(1893)

Republic passes homestead law, sets aside land for education
(1839)

Republic of Texas charters Houston and Brazos Rail Road
(1839)

27

Episcopalians organize in Texas
(1839)

Record-setting sharpshooter dies in San Antonio
(1945)

San Jacinto fife player advertises his services as a music teacher
(1838)

Baseball legend Bibb Falk born in Austin
(1899)

28

Catastrophic explosion kills Texas astronaut and her colleagues
(1986)

Italian hero of San Jacinto arrives in Texas
(1836)

"Murder steer": Fine Gilliland kills Fort Davis cattleman
(1891)

First air-conditioned building west of the Mississippi?
(1912)

29

Texas votes to secede
(1861)

Great Panhandle Indian Scare
(1891)

Abolitionist receives controversial empresario contract
(1844)

Rangers ambush Apaches at Hueco Tanks
(1881)

30

United States consul arrives in Matamoros
(1862)

Englishman and future critic arrives in Texas
(1840)

Carl Venth, violinist and composer dies
(1938)

Lightnin' Hopkins dies
(1982)

31

Brewmeister opens hotel and future landmark
(1859)

Grand jury indicts governor over disputed election results
(1872)

Bullish town settles down
(1899)

Pecan shellers strike in San Antonio
(1938)

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