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July 12 The Sixth Cavalry engages the Kiowas in the battle of the Little Wichita.
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January 2 Boxing promoter "Tex" Rickard is born in Kansas City.
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April 17 Texas A&M is created.
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November 28 A labor-union-called "holiday" on the Galveston docks protesting black laborers begins a segregation battle that lasts for years.
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May 16 The state capitol is dedicated. the state capital changed from houston to austin
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November 7 The Texas Hereford Association is organized in San Antonio.
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January 30 Louis Jordan is born in Fredericksburg. He becomes an All-American football player and the first officer killed in World War I.
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February 14 A rare Gulf Coast snowstorm dumps up to 20 inches of snow on the Houston-Galveston area.
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September 15 A stunt to wreck two trains near Waco results in the death of two spectators
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December 30 Homer Norton is born in Alabama. He becomes the leading football coach in Texas A&M history
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1899 - Texas experiences its coldest winter on record huge cold winter
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Sept. 8 - The "Great Hurricane," destroys much of Galveston and kills 6,000 people there.
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January 10 The Lucas Gusher hits at Spindletop; America enters the Oil Age.
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1942 April 24 A war bond quota of more than $18 million is set for Texas
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August 6 A Texan scouts out a clear spot over Hiroshima, and the first atomic bomb is dropped.
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June 6 Attorney General Will Wilson raids Galveston to close down gambling.
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West Texas's Buddy Holly dies with other rock music performers in an Iowa plane crash.
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December 19 Walter Williams, last surviving veteran of the Civil War, dies at age 117.
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Two Dallas millionaires, Clint Murchison and Bedford Wynne, receive a franchise for an NFL team they name the "Cowboys."
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January 14 The border dispute between Mexico and Texas is finally settled with the Treaty of El Chamizal.
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June 1 Texas A&M allows women to enroll; the "Maggie" is born.
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November 22 President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas.
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Country and Western singer Jim Reeves of Carthage is killed in a plane crash.
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April 9 The Astrodome opens in Houston.
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Charles Whitman kills 17 people in a shooting spree from the University of Texas Tower.
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A giant hurricane named Beulah hits the coast
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Apollo II lands on the moon.
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The Sharpstown Bank stock scandal breaks.
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Alicia, the most expensive hurricane in U.S. history, hits Galveston and Houston.
