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Also: First settlers arrive at Hord’s Ridge
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Looks to establish trading post in three-forks region of North Texas
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Likely named after Vice President George Mifflin Dallas
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Established by Dr. John Cole and his family
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James Latimer and William Wallace purchase the Texas Times, published in Paris, Texas, and move it to Dallas to become the Dallas Herald
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Beating out Hord’s Ridge and Cedar Springs
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Victor Prosper Considerant establishes a socialist utopian colony in present-day West Dallas
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Also: Samuel Pryor was elected the first mayor along with a Marshal, a treasurer-recorder, and six aldermen
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Becomes second elected mayor of Dallas; also: La Reunion dissolves and most of its settlers move to Dallas
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Celebrated at the home of Maxime Guillot, a French immigrant and carriage maker, with a priest and two other Catholics
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Also: Patrick Jennings, Samuel Smith and a man known as Old Cato are blamed for starting a large fire and hanged near the river bottoms
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Built by William Miller’s slaves in present-day Oak Cliff
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Also: Freedmen's Towns begin to appear north, east and south of Dallas; Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company (MKT) begins operation
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Born from the former Confederacy but forced to disband by the late 1870s; also: First Baptist Church of Dallas established; National Exchange Bank (later Mercantile National Bank) founded
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Also: Sanger brothers arrive from Corsicana to open their first store; first telegraph line reaches Dallas; construction begins on new county courthouse
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Also: First streetcars, pulled by Mexican mules, begin service; Panic of 1873 begins
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Also: Dallas hosts its first Mardi Gras parade
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Declared mentally unfit and dies in an Austin insane asylum
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First recorded use of the word "saucer" to describe an unidentified flying object. “It went as rapidly as it had come and was soon lost to sight in the heavenly skies.”
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Also: Mayor Thurmond removed by city council in a vote of no confidence
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First public park in Dallas; Also: Telegraph and Telephone Company opens Dallas exchange with 40 telephone subscribers
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First to bring electricity to North Texas; Also: Robert E. Cowart shoots and kills Judge Thurmond
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600 gallons-per-minute pumper serves growing downtown area
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Also: Dallas YMCA founded
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Also: Hord's Ridge becomes Oak Cliff
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Also: Dallas Times Herald founded; Dallas Club opens on Commerce and Poydras Streets
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Also: Volk Bros department store opens
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Also: Belo Mansion, Dallas Brewing Co. and Linz Building open; East Dallas annexed into Dallas; artist Frank Reaugh moves to Dallas where his pastels of Texas prairie and cattle would become iconic
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Formed to promote river traffic on the Trinity
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Numerous business fail, including five local banks
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Also: Plessy v. Ferguson case establishes doctrine of "separate but equal"
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Constructs a 5-story building at the northwest corner of Houston and Elm St that would eventually become the Texas School Book Depository (now Dallas County Administration Building)
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Orders Phaeton from St. Louis, arriving on the Texas Midland complete with driver; Also: Herbert Marcus arrives in Dallas to work for Sanger Brothers; Kaliph Day celebrated in the streets of Dallas
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Also: first W.A. Green dept. store opens; Texas and Oklahoma football teams play the first game of what becomes a yearly tradition
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Also: Investors form the Trinity Portland Cement Company to manufacture cement north of the former La Reunion site
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Later known as West End Marketplace, now Factory Six03; Also: Southern Rock Island Plow Company rebuilds its structure on Elm and Houston St after a fire caused by lightning; Cullum & Boren opens at 1509 Elm
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Expands City of Dallas size by one third.
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Also: Wilson Building and Majestic Hotel (now Ambassador) open; population of Richardson: 147
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Also: Columbian Club is established by Dallas Jewish community in the Cedars; world's first 100-mile auto race hosted at Fair Park
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Also: Scottish Rite Cathedral opens; John S. Armstrong establishes Highland Park; Frogtown becomes city's red light district; John Patrick Murphy builds a home at 2516 Maple Avenue that would later become the Hotel St. Germain
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Also: Hotel Southland opens on Main near Murphy St.
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Also: Elks Arch erected at Main & Akard in honor of Elks Lodge Convention; Cement City incorporates
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Also: Turtle Creek Pump Station opens; city purchases Marsalis Park and Oak Lawn Park; first interurban car arrives in Dallas from Denison; first Fair Park replica of the Alamo opens to the public
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Also: Allen Brooks lynched by angry mob; city zoo relocates to Fair Park from City Park; construction of White Rock Lake begins in response to citywide water shortage; population of Cement City: 503
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Also: Butler Brothers Building opens; Magnolia sales & distribution center (now Magnolia Station Lofts) opens; Southern Methodist University established; White Rock Lake completed
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Also: City zoo relocates to Marsalis Park; Summit Play Park (now Pike Park) opens; Washington Theater, Adolphus Hotel, Southwestern Life Insurance Building open
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Also: Queen Theatre (later Leo Theatre, now 1501 Elm), Busch Building (now Kirby Building), Dallas City Hall (now Municipal Building), Old Mill Theatre (later Rialto Theatre, now LTV Tower), Hippodrome Theatre, White Swan Foods Co (now House of Blues), McKinney Avenue Baptist Church (later Hard Rock Cafe, now One Uptown) open.
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Also: Monroe Shops (interurban maintenance facility) open; city purchases Lake Cliff Park from Charles Mangold for $55,000
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Also: Hall Street Negro Park (now Griggs Park) opens; Henry D. Lindsley elected mayor; inspired by "The Birth of a Nation", second Klan emerges in the South and spreads to urban centers throughout the nation
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Future mayor and Klan member R.L. Thornton establishes Mercantile National Bank; Knights of Pythias Temple, first large commercial building designed by a black architect (William Sidney Pittman), opens
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Also: Hotel Jefferson opens; Texas Electric Railway interurban service begins; Dallas Power & Light founded
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Also: Siren atop the Adolphus Hotel announces the end of the Great War
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Out of fear that structural failure would occur; Also: Frank W. Wozencraft elected mayor, youngest in city's history at age 26
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Also: Boedeker Ice Cream Plant (now Cedars Union) opens; WRR radio begins broadcasting; State Fair attendance exceeds 1 million for the first time
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Also: New Majestic Theater, Palace Theater (now Thanksgiving Tower) open; only five residences remain in the Harwood Historic district around City Hall; 789 members of Ku Klux Klan No. 66 march through Main and Elm; Alex Johnson, a black bellhop at the Adolphus, is branded with the letters KKK using acid
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Also: Melba Theater (later Capri, now Pacific Place), Capitol Theater (now Tower Garage), Fox Theater (now 1401 Elm), Booker T. Washington High School and North Dallas High School open; radio station WFAA begins transmitting; Busch Building renamed the Kirby Building
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Also: Klan Day at the State Fair of Texas attracts an estimated 160,000 Klansmen; Dallas Klan establishes Hope Cottage, an orphanage in North Dallas
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Also: Thomas Building (now surface parking) and Melrose Hotel open; Elmwood Addition suburb opens south of Oak Cliff; Gardner Park (later Burnett Field) established; 1,000 Klan members march through Oak Cliff
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Also: Conrad Hilton (later White Plaza, now Hotel Indigo), Republic National Bank Building (now The Davis Building), Dallas Athletic Club (now 1700 Pacific), Scott Hotel (later Hotel Lawrence, now La Quinta) open; Beckley Club suburb and Sunset High School open in Oak Cliff; Hope Cottage renamed "Klanhaven"; "Little Mexico" established by Mexican immigrants; Dallas Negro Chamber of Commerce founded; first multi-level parking garage opens; Cotton mogul Sheppard King's estate on Turtle Creek opens
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Also: 9-year-old boy drowns from flooding in Mill Creek; Sanger Hotel built on the site of Alex Sanger mansion
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Also: Gulf States Building (now Third Rail Lofts), Neiman Marcus addition and Maple Terrace open; Southland Ice Co. opens the first convenience store (later 7-Eleven) on 12th Street in Oak Cliff; Charles Lindbergh arrives at Love Field Airport in the "Spirit of St. Louis", airport opens for civilian use; City Council names a street after Lindbergh; Prince of Hamburgers opens on Lemmon Ave
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Also: Industrial Dallas, Inc. formed to promote favorable business climate of Dallas; "Coney Island" style amusement park proposed for White Rock Lake, igniting controversy
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Also: Lake Dallas (now Lake Lewisville) completed; Dallas ceases use of White Rock Lake for water supply; survey finds that Dallas contains 31 buildings 10-20 stories high and 1 over 20 stories
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Also: Volk Brothers Building (now Comerica Bank) and Cotton Bowl Stadium open; Columbian Club destroyed in fire; Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow meet in West Dallas for the first time; White Rock Lake Bath House opens; Geophysical Services Inc. (later Texas Instruments) founded; 508 Park opens as the Warner Brothers Exchange Building for films and records
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Also: Lone Star Gas Co., Highland Park Village and Texas Theatre open; Kiest Park opens on land donated by Edwin John Kiest, publisher of the Dallas Times Herald; City Manager form of government established
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Also: Washington Theater is demolished; Texas and Oklahoma game moves to Cotton Bowl at Fair Park; Bonnie Parker leaves home in Dallas to begin a life of crime with Clyde Barrow
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Later known as Continental Viaduct, now Ronald Kirk Pedestrian Bridge; also: City of Dallas begins burying Mill Creek from East Dallas through City Park
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Killed by police in Louisiana on May 23; Also: Final horse race at Fair Park takes place; Sportatorium built on Cadiz and Industrial
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Also: First federal WPA project in Dallas commences
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Also: FDR dedicates statue of Robert E. Lee at Oak Lawn Park (later Lee Park, now Oak Lawn Park)
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Also: First Cotton Bowl Classic game held at Cotton Bowl Stadium; R.L. Thornton establishes the Dallas Citizens Council
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Also: Hilton Hotel becomes White Plaza
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Also: Abe Weinstein's Colony Club opens
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Also: Dealey Plaza opens; National Exchange Bank building at Main and Poydras demolished
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Also: Masonic Temple and Telenews Theater open; City Council changes name of Lindbergh Drive to Skillman Street after reports that he is a Nazi sympathizer; Pearl Harbor attacked
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Only Dallas high-rise completed during WWII
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Also: UT Southwestern Medical School is established; Mayor Woodall Rodgers commissions new city master plan titled "Your Dallas of Tomorrow”
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Also: First of 300 German POWs arrive at Winfrey Point on White Rock Lake
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Also: Ebby Halliday Realtors founded; WWII ends
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Also: Dallas Parks Department regains control of White Rock Lake from the Army; oilman Rogers Lacy commissions Frank Lloyd Wright to design an 826-room hotel on Commerce across from Neiman Marcus
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Also: Comet Coaster at Fair Park opens; Mayfair Department Store opens at 141 Elm; construction begins on Central Expressway; plans for Frank Lloyd Wright hotel dropped
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Also: Mercantile Continental Building opens; Angus Wynne's Wynnewood Shopping Village opens east of Elmwood in Oak Cliff
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Also: WFAA-TV and and KRLD-TV begin broadcasting; Cotton Bowl expanded to 75,504 seats
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Also: First segment of Central Expressway opens; "Papa" Campisi opens Campisi's in former Egyptian Lounge on Mockingbird Ln.
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Also: Fidelity Union Life (now Mosaic Apartments) opens; West Dallas is annexed by City of Dallas; Zoo Bar opens at 1600 Commerce; first Crystal Charity Ball held; Big Tex debuts at the State Fair of Texas; White Rock Bathing Beach opens for last time
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Also: Leo Theater closes; R.L. Thornton begins first of four terms as mayor of Dallas; State Fair midway opens to all races except for two rides in which blacks and whites could potentially touch
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Also: Former Republic National Bank building renamed The Davis Building; Brown v. Board of Education decision declares segregation in public schools unconstitutional
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Also: Leo Theater demolished; Piccadilly Cafeteria and Meadows Building open; black community protests continued segregation at fairgrounds
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Also: Central Expressway expands to Richardson; Elvis Presley performs at Cotton Bowl Stadium; University of Dallas opens; final Dallas streetcar runs from Oak Cliff to car barn at Peak and Elm, ending service citywide; Oak Cliff votes itself "dry"
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Also: Dallas-Fort Worth Turnpike, Dallas Federal Savings and Loan (now 1505 Elm) and Dallas Memorial Auditorium open; Capitol Theater begins showing Spanish-language films, then closes; Coco Chanel arrives in Dallas to accept the Neiman Marcus Award for Distinguished Service in the Field of Fashion; Dallas Market Center founded
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Also: 211 N Ervay opens; Mercantile Continental Building expands; Jack Kilby creates the world's first integrated circuit at a Dallas laboratory in September
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Also: Fire destroys Rialto Theater; Capitol Theater demolished; Hartford Building opens; I-35 construction cuts Dallas Zoo from the heart of Oak Cliff
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Also: Dallas Cowboys begin playing at Cotton Bowl Stadium; Trinity levees raised to present height; Jack Ruby opens the Carousel Club; Strand (formerly Hippodrome), Rialto and Capitol Theaters demolished for parking
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Also: "State Fair", starring Ann Margaret, films in Fair Park; The Frito Company and H.W. Lay & Company merge to become Frito-Lay, Inc., headquartered in Dallas; Confederate Memorial relocated from Old City Park to Pioneer Cemetery for construction of R.L. Thornton Expressway; Theatre Three established; FAA refuses to invest in separate Dallas and Fort Worth airports, prompting discussions for a jointly owned airport
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Also: Bronco Bowl opens; Fox Burlesque theater demolished; H. Ross Perot founds Electronic Data Systems (EDS); construction of Cary Plaza (now Fairmont Hotel) halted
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Also: Mary Kay Cosmetics founded; Hotel Southland demolished; Adair's Saloon opens on Cedar Springs Rd.; President Kennedy visits Fort Worth and Dallas; eyewitnesses place officer J.D. Tippit at Austin’s Barbecue in the Elmwood neighborhood; Lee H. Oswald murders Tippit and is arrested inside the Texas Theatre; Jack Ruby shoots Oswald in basement of City Hall (Municipal Building); Ruby asks to meet with Campisi family while in police custody
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Also: Fire consumes The Golden Pheasant on Commerce St, killing 4; Piccadilly Cafeteria is picketed for 28 days for refusing to desegregate its lunch counter; 1600 Pacific (LTV Tower) and Republic Center Tower 2 open; Burnett Field closes; Southwestern Life Insurance moves to a new building on Ross Ave designed by George Dahl; Civil Rights Act ends segregation
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Also: First National Bank (now The Drever), Sanger-Harris flagship store and Mayflower Building (411 N Akard) open; I-35 is completed from Dallas to Oklahoma border; Hotel Travis (formerly Sanger Hotel) demolished for new City Hall; Stone Place Pedestrianway opens as city's first pedestrian mall
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Also: Manor House (first downtown residential high-rise) and El Centro College open in CBD; The Quadrangle opens in Oak Lawn; historic Millermore home in Oak Cliff threatened with demolition; Dallas and Fort Worth purchase land for a new airport that is equidistant from both cities; Fairmont buys half-finished Cary Plaza and completes the project as twin hotel towers; Cullum & Boren opens "store in a garden" at 1609 Bryan
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Also: Harvey Milk arrives in Dallas to work at the Mercantile Continental Building for Bache & Co.; DISD announces that it is fully desegregated; Tower Garage opens on site of Capitol Theater
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Also: Tower Theatre closes; One Main Place opens; Braniff Airlines opens the "Terminal of the Future" at Dallas Love Field; St. Paul's Sanitarium demolished; Fair Housing Act makes redlining illegal; City Council OKs plan to expand Fair Park by acquiring 50 acres of land from mostly minority residents
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Construction of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport begins; Holiday Inn (now Crowne Plaza) and Loews Theater (first new downtown theater in 30 years) open; 32-acre Griffin Square, including a 913-ft-tall circular office tower, announced to the public
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Also: Palace Theater is demolished; JFK Memorial is dedicated; One Main Place developer W. T. Overton murdered, halting plans for Two Main Place
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First gay-owned business in what would become the city's LGBT district; Also: inspired by the Slurpee machine at 7-Eleven, Mariano Martinez invents the frozen margarita machine; Southwest Airlines begins scheduled flights out of Love Field
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Also: Spaghetti Warehouse opens in the West End and The Grape opens on Greenville Ave; Southwestern Life Insurance Building is demolished; 1200 Main Tower (now Metropolitan condominiums) opens; first gay rights march takes place through downtown; first Candlelight holiday celebration at Old City Park
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Also: Bryan Tower, I-345, Jefferson Viaduct and Dallas Convention Center open; Majestic Theatre and Volk’s department store close; more structures arrive at Dallas Heritage Village including Worth Hotel and Train Depot; Swiss Avenue becomes the first historic district in Dallas
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Also: Renaissance Tower opens; first Cattle Baron's Ball held; Fair Park-area homeowners settle or lose appeals in fight against eminent domain; Dallas Federal Savings (1505 Elm) sells to Dresser Industries for HQ; Akard Street Pedestrianway opens between Commerce and Young; Dallas is 3rd, behind New York and Chicago, in convention business
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Also: First Chili’s opens on Greenville Ave; downtown daytime population reaches 300,000 workers; Gene Street opens Black-eyed Pea on Cedar Springs Rd; Red Bird Mall opens in south Oak Cliff; Julius Schepps Park established; Jefferson Hotel is demolished
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Also: DISD begins its desegregation-era busing plan for grades four through eight; Booker T. Washington HS becomes an arts magnet school; City Park becomes Old City Park and hosts the official U.S. Bicentennial celebration for the city
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Also: KXAS-TV airs first live intercontinental satellite report from London to Dallas/Fort Worth
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Also: Dallas City Hall, Reunion Tower and Anatole Hotel open; Union Station is renovated; Belo Mansion is restored & expanded; Boston consultants Carr-Lynch recommend that Dallas relocate its major arts institutions from different parts of the city to the northeast corner of downtown; Dallas Architectural Club, Mayfair Hotel and Medical Arts buildings are demolished; first Texxas Jam concert takes place at Cotton Bowl Stadium
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Also: One Dallas Centre (later Patriot Tower, now One Dallas Center) and Enserch Plaza (now Lone Star Gas Lofts) open; American Airlines moves its HQ from New York to a temporary facility in Grand Prairie; Rosewood Property Company converts Sheppard King estate into The Mansion on Turtle Creek; Baker Hotel sold to SBC Corporation and closes; Dorsey Building (now McDonald's) demolished
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Also: Plaza of the Americas, Diamond Shamrock Tower (later KPMG Centre), Reunion Arena and Republic Center Tower III open; City Council votes to abandon Live Oak between Elm and Pacific, closing 5-way intersection; American Exchange National Bank (original First National Bank) is demolished; Kress store and Copper Cow close; JR's Bar & Grill, Round-Up Saloon open on Cedar Springs Rd; deregulation of Savings & Loans begins; Dallas Population: 904,078
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Also: Kress Building and P.C. Cobb Stadium are demolished; USS Dallas, a nuclear submarine named after the city, is commissioned
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Also: Dave & Buster's opens first store at Walnut Hill and N Stemmons; City of Dallas acquires "Lost Copy" of the Declaration of Independence to display at Central Library
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Also: Thanksgiving Tower, Pacific Place, Lincoln Plaza (now Ross Tower), Olympia & York Tower (now Harwood Center), San Jacinto Tower (now 2100 Ross), ARCO Tower (now Energy Plaza) and J. Erik Jonsson Central Library open; Sasaki Plan for Arts District is adopted by city council; region votes to create DART and a 1% sales tax to fund it
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Also: Majestic Theatre is restored & reopened; First City Center (now 1700 Pacific), Woodall Rodgers Freeway and The Palm restaurant open; Rolex Building is the first building in new Harwood District; Stephan Pyles opens Routh Street Cafe; 60 Klan members march through Main Street; American Airlines moves to its permanent HQ in Fort Worth; Adair's relocates from Cedar Springs Rd. to Deep Ellum
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Also: DMA moves to the Arts District; Starck Club and One Bell Plaza (now One AT&T Plaza) open; Republican National Convention hosted at the Dallas Convention Center; developer Jim Lake begins buying properties in what will become the Bishop Arts District in Oak Cliff
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Also: Chase Tower, LTV Center (now Trammel Crow Center), Belo Building (now 400 Record) and Infomart open; Selena Quintanilla performs at the State Fair of Texas; Texas Star opens in Fair Park; Lincoln Property Company demolishes Esquire Theater; Walt Disney Company conducts a feasibility study for "Texposition" in the Cityplace area; Cine Central 3 (formerly Loews Theater) opens; Club Clearview opens in Deep Ellum
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Also: Dallas Alley opens in the West End; Fountain Place & The Crescent open; LTV Corporation files for bankruptcy (largest in U.S. history); Comet Coaster at Fair Park closes; Russell “Rusty” Fenton opens Uncle Julio's on Lemmon Ave, replacing The Unicorn bar; 36 arrested in raid at Starck Club
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Also: Joske’s, formerly Titche's, closes; DART begins developing massive light-rail system; Annette Strauss becomes the first female mayor of Dallas; Momentum Place (Comerica Tower) opens; J.C. Penney announces plans to move HQ from New York to Plano; Hilton Corp. sells Statler Hilton to a Hong Kong investment group
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Also: Santa Fe Building No. 3 is demolished; Delta Flight 1141 crashes upon takeoff from DFW Airport, killing 14 of the 108 people on board; Born on the Fourth of July filmed in Oak Cliff; Dream Cafe opens in the Quadrangle; DPD officer Officer John Glenn murdered by vagrant on Commerce St on a Saturday morning; final Texxas Jam concert at Cotton Bowl Stadium
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Also: MATA streetcar begins service in newly rebranded "Uptown" area of Oak Lawn; Starck Club and Sanger-Harris close; Feds seize 20 subsidiaries of MCorp, formerly Mercantile National Bank
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Also: Oak Cliff native Stevie Ray Vaughan dies in a helicopter crash
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Also: Dallas Morning News purchases and ends publication of Dallas Times Herald; Meridian Apartments (now Post Meridian) open in "Uptown"; Club One opens in Deep Ellum, one of 57 bars and nightclubs in the flourishing district; “Dallas” TV show ends; Queen Elizabeth II visits Dallas with a stay at the Adolphus; Statler Hilton renamed Dallas Grand Hotel; Van Halen performs a free concert in the West End for crowds of up to 40,000 people
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Also: Tillman's Corner opens in Bishop Arts District
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Also: Final office tenants leave Mercantile National Bank, leaving the historic commercial building vacant; Union Pacific Railroad donates abandoned MKT lines to City of Dallas; West End Cinema and Target Cityplace open
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Also: Crozier Tech closes; only 200 residents live inside the boundaries of the CBD
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Also: Downtown TIF is established; first segment of Trinity Railway Express opens; Olla Podrida market closes
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Also: Jefferson North End opens; Titche-Goettinger Building converted to 1900 Elm Lofts; Shelby Amendment begins easing flight restrictions on Love Field; Erykah Badu releases Baduizm, reaching triple Platinum status
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Also: Southland Center reopens as Adam’s Mark Hotel; White Rock Lake dredged at a cost of $9M
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Also: Wilson and Kirby are converted to apartments; Magnolia Hotel opens
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Also: Pegasus sign atop Magnolia Building is restored; West End Cinema 10 closes; Katy Trail and Cityplace DART station (first subway in the Southwest) open; Mark Cuban buys majority stake in Dallas Mavericks; city abandons Poydras St. to McDonald’s Corp for a drive-thru; Austin's BBQ closes
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Also: American Airlines Center, West Village (Cityplace West) and Mockingbird Station (first modern TOD in Texas) open; Planet Hollywood closes in the West End; Dallas Grand Hotel closes; 1505 Elm sold for first office-to-condo conversion in Dallas
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Also: Hotel ZaZa and first MATA streetcar expansion open; Hatties opens in the Bishop Arts District; final two Dallas Alley bars, Alley Cats and Oxygen, close; Stone Place Mall reopens as Stone Street Gardens
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Also: Davis Building is converted to loft apartments; Hart Furniture Bldg is renovated; Latino Cultural Center and WFAA Plaza open; Sportatorium demolished
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Also: Lupe Valdez wins election to become first female, Hispanic and LGBT Dallas County Sheriff; Dallas County "turns blue", becoming majority Democratic
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Also: Dallas Holocaust Museum moves to the West End from North Dallas; Belmont Hotel reopens in West Dallas; Baby Doe’s on Goat Hill closes and is demolished; Old City Park renamed "Dallas Heritage Village"; 1200 Main converted to 283 residences; Forest City Enterprises announces plans to convert the vacant Mercantile Bank into 225 apartments; Prince of Hamburgers on Lemmon Ave demolished
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Also: West End Marketplace closes; MKT depot is demolished; Arcadia Theater is destroyed in a fire; W Dallas Victory Hotel opens; a compromise is reached for partial repeal of the Wright Amendment; IHG purchases White Plaza Hotel and reopens it as Hotel Indigo
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Also: Joule Hotel opens; Republic Center Tower 1 is converted to Gables Republic; Metropolitan, Mosaic, Third Rail Lofts open; Adam’s Mark becomes Sheraton; White Swan is converted to House of Blues; Deep Ellum Tunnel is demolished; Old Red restoration completed along with new bell tower
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Also: Trinity Audubon Center opens; Hewlett-Packard Co. buys EDS for $13.9 billion; Eno's Pizza opens in Bishop Arts District
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Also: Mercantile Bank is converted to Mercantile Place; Santa Fe No. 4 is converted to Aloft Dallas Hotel; Main Street Garden, AT&T Performing Arts Center (Winspear Opera House, Wyly Theater) and Cowboys (now AT&T) Stadium open; city privatizes Dallas Zoo, ceding control to Dallas Zoological Society
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Also: Final office tenants leave 1401 Elm; Cotton Bowl Classic moves to Cowboys (AT&T) Stadium in Arlington; Giants of the Savannah exhibit opens at Dallas Zoo
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Also: Historic ice storm paralyzes city; Omni Dallas Hotel opens
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Also: City Performance Hall, Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge and Belo Garden open; downtown CBD population is 7,000 residents; Thomas Building is demolished; DALLAS television series rebooted; Big Tex destroyed in fire caused by electrical short
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Also: Dallas observes the 50th anniversary of JFK assassination; Age of Steam Museum leaves Fair Park for a new home in Frisco after a dispute with the City of Dallas; TENOVERSIX opens on Main Street; city privatizes Dallas Farmers Market; Mayor Rawlings assembles Fair Park Task Force to examine the future of Fair Park
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Also: One Dallas Center apartments open; DART expands service to DFW Airport; Continental Pedestrian Bridge opens; Toyota announces that it will move its North American HQ to Plano; Dallas becomes site of the first case of the Ebola Virus in the United States
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Also: Hall Arts Center, LTV Tower Apartments, New Parkland Hospital and Westin Dallas Downtown open; Downtown CBD population: 8,200
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Also: McKinney & Olive, Dallas Streetcar phase 2 and Mayflower Apartments open; Mayor Rawlings announces $50M gift to kickstart Trinity River park, largest donation in city's history
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Also: The Statler Residendes, Margaret McDermott Bridge, SkyHouse Victory Place, The Ascent, Katy Station, PWC Tower at Park District all open; Dallas voters approve $1B bond program; plans for Trinity Parkway scrapped; The Palm restaurant closes; downtown CBD population: 10.7K residents
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Also: 1900 Pacific (Corrigan Tower) residences, Cambria Hotel, Courtyard Marriott open; Dallas Morning News relocates to former library; Doug's Gym closes
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Also: Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum opens; Spaghetti Warehouse closes
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