Article Archive

September

1

Huge law firm founded in Houston
(1917)

Benavides crosses Rio Grande in pursuit of Mexican "Unionists"
(1863)

Founding director of Barker Texas History Center retires
(1969)

2

Republic of Texas makes treaty with North Texas Indians
(1838)

Texan signs peace treaty with Japan
(1945)

"Wolf of the Washita" born in Tennessee
(1840)

Surveyor shoots lawyer in Austin colony feud
(1830)

3

San Antonio piano teacher composes polka
(1847)

Last surviving signer of Texas Declaration of Independence dies
(1895)

Pioneer Methodist ministers hold camp meeting on Caney Creek
(1834)

4

Black students attempt to enroll in white school
(1950)

Fort Sam hospital renamed in honor of military physician
(1942)

Former floating Texas capitol sold
(1839)

5

Sam Houston elected first president of the Republic of Texas
(1836)

Future port developer weds future state legislator
(1905)

Infamous outlaw sentenced to death
(1877)

6

Texan's sacrifice in Korea earns Medal of Honor
(1952)

Constitutional convention meets in Austin
(1875)

Jaybirds order black leaders out of Fort Bend County
(1888)

7

Houston Ship Channel is deepened
(1914)

Soldiers charged with setting fires and looting in Brenham
(1866)

Hill County cotton mill begins production
(1901)

8

Hurricane devastates Galveston
(1900)

Port Arthur and Orange County connected by bridge
(1938)

Frank Baldwin captures mysterious "white Indian" Tehan
(1874)

9

Meteorite hits Grayson County
(1961)

East Dallas incorporated
(1882)

Terry's Texas Rangers mustered into Confederate service
(1861)

10

Spanish colonizer of South Texas dies in Mexico City
(1770)

Spanish regulations changes frontier line in Texas
(1772)

Washerwoman buys valuable Dallas property
(1869)

11

Irredentist forces from Mexico try to take back Texas
(1842)

Spanish-language dramatic company attracts large audiences
(1891)

Ottine Swamp designated state park
(1933)

12

Country singer born in country town
(1909)

Early colony holds first election
(1844)

First producing oil well in Texas comes in
(1866)

13

Philanthropist Alexander Sanger dies
(1925)

Fence-cutting war reaches Mabel Day's ranch
(1883)

Abolitionist minister lynched in Fort Worth
(1860)

14

Robert Neighbors assassinated at Fort Belknap
(1859)

Mexican-American civil-rights conference meets in Laredo
(1911)

Hospital destroyed in hurricane
(1919)

15

Promotional stunt in non-existent town kills three people
(1896)

Revolutionary journalist attacks Mexico from Texas
(1891)

Mexico frees slaves
(1829)

16

Diez y Seis de Septiembre
(1810)

Mexico releases remaining Texas captives from Perote Prison
(1844)

Independent Democrats oppose KKK
(1922)

17

Army officer paints watercolor of Kiowa Chief
(1845)

Wood County dams completed
(1962)

Emma loses out to Crosbyton as county seat
(1910)

18

French Expedition fizzles in El Paso
(1850)

Sam Houston and other dignitaries dedicate Monument Hill cemetery
(1848)

Town crier of San Antonio dies
(1929)

Two Texas Medal of Honor recipients die in battle
(1944)

19

Forerunner of Bergstrom Air Force Base is activated near Austin
(1942)

Jane Long sees her filibustering husband for the last time
(1821)

Texans fight at Chickamauga
(1863)

La Grange Intelligencer publishes last issue
(1846)

20

Hurricane Beulah wracks Texas coast
(1967)

Baptist university opens in Dallas
(1905)

Texan flies in first airship?
(1865)

21

Worst bus accident in Texas history
(1989)

Future missionary ordained
(1826)

Oldest public junior college in Texas opens
(1925)

22

Nimitz Museum acquires Nimitz Hotel
(1964)

Texas passes law restricting cotton acreage
(1931)

"American Nightingale" debuts in New York
(1920)

23

Texas folklorist born
(1867)

James Perry marries into Austin family
(1824)

New Memorial Stadium scoreboard dedicated to Freddie Steinmark
(1972)

24

Benjamin Grierson marries Alice Kirk
(1854)

G&I train arrives in Port Bolivar--three years late!
(1903)

Future legal historian born in Denmark
(1854)

25

Radio broadcasting comes to South Texas
(1922)

Goodnight, Loving!
(1867)

West Texas's first professional woman artist dies
(1874)

26

Future panjandrum of the KKK is born
(1881)

Temperamental new governor arrives in San Antonio
(1736)

Famed cowboy memoirist dies
(1935)

Flamboyant railroad and town promoter dies
(1928)

27

Babe Zaharias dies of cancer
(1956)

First TV station in Texas goes on the air
(1948)

Mexico arrests pioneer merchant as a spy
(1846)

28

Cortina attacks Brownsville
(1859)

Presidio commander resumes post after arrest
(1769)

Rebel wife and diarist dies
(1917)

29

Texas native and former slave earns Medal of Honor in Union Army
(1864)

Texas exile dies in Brazil
(1867)

First Polish church in America consecrated
(1856)

30

Governor Pease resigns in protest against Reconstruction policies
(1869)

Company chartered to develop the Rio Grande valley
(1905)

Guadalupe Mountains National Park established
(1972)

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