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Houston was discovered by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen in 1836 near the banks of the Buffalo Bayou, but it was first established as a city in 1837.
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A great gusher erupted in the oil well at Spindletop by a mining engineer named Capt. A.F. Lucas
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President Woodrow Wilson opens the Houston Ship Channel, which is a part of the Port of Houston.
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Houston's NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong is the first man on the moon, which draws attention to the city
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The Arab Oil Crisis causes a demand for oil in Texas and more jobs, and brings in people from New York and Pennsylvania.
