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"The great hurrican" destroys much of Galvastin and kills 6,000 people there
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- Oil found by mining engineer Capt. A.F. Lucas at Spindletop near Beaumont catapults Texas into the petroleum age.
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Texas establishes a poll tax
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- Texans votes for US senator in the Democratic primary, although the Texas legislature retains ultimate appointment authority, primary voters can express their preferences.
- Texans votes for US senator in the Democratic primary, although the Texas legislature retains ultimate appointment authority, primary voters can express their preferences.
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- Lt. Benjamin D. Foulois makes first military air flight in a Wright brothers plane at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio.
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Mexican civil war spills across the border, as refugees seek safety, combatants seek each other, and Texas settlements are raided for supplies by all sides in the fighting. Pancho Villa and his followers are active along the border during some of this time.
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Texas voters able to directly elect US senators.
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texas woman win right to vote
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Large-scale agricultural irrigation begins in the High Plains.
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The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) is founded in Corpus Christi.
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The Daisy Bradford #3 well, drilled near Turnertown in Rusk County by wildcatter C.M. (Dad) Joiner, blows in, heralding the discovery of the huge East Texas Oil Field
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Two years after federal prohibition was repealed, Texas voters ratify the repeal of the state's prohibition law.
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U.S. Supreme Court orders integration of texas law schools
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- Integrated circuit, developed by Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments, Dallas, is successfully tested, ushering in the semiconductor and electronics age.
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Texas contition is amended out law poll tax
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Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong transmits the first words from the surface of the moon: "Houston, the Eagle has landed."
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Effort to write a new constitution fails
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Texas supreme court orders equal school funds
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The no pass no play rule is part of an education-reform package enacted by texas legislature
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Demorcrat Ann Richards became the first woman Governor of texas in her own right
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Henry cisnercs is appointed U.S. secrteary of having and urban development
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sesquicentennial of texas statehood is celebrated
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Texas is named second most visited state in united states
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F-5 tornado hits Jarrell
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Former Texas Gov. George W.Bush electeed as President of United States
