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This was a oil drilling area that produced 100,000 barrels a day. This gusher was originly found by anthony F. Lucas. Even though it lasted a little more than a decade it produced 72 million barrels.
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The 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.
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Lt. Benjamin D. Foulois makes the first military air flight in a Wright brothers plane at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio. The seven-and-a-half-minute flight marks the shaky beginnings of U.S. Air Force.
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Texas men and women participated in an active part in this war as nurses and soldiers. 5,170 Texans lost thier lives to the war or influeza. Over one third were influenza deaths.
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Large-scale agricultural irrigation begins in the High Plains
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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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Germany invaded Poland, World War 2 lasted until both the Germans and the Japanese had surrendered to the Allies in 1945. Texas men and women were called to duty for WWII.
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The French-owned SS Grandcamp, carrying ammonium nitrate, explodes in the Texas City harbor, followed the next morning by the explosion of the SS High Flyer. The disaster kills almost 600 and injures at least 4,000 more. The concussion is felt 75 miles away in Port Arthur, and the force creates a 15-foot tidal wave.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the first Texas-born President of the United States.
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Henry B. Gonzalez of San Antonio becomes the first Hispanic elected to the state Senate since 1848 when Jóse Antonio Navarro, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, served.
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John Tower wins a special election for U.S. Senate, becoming the first Republican senator from Texas since Reconstruction.
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After the assasination of JFK, vice president Lyndon B. Johnson succeeds to the office, becoming the 36th U.S. president
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President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas; vice president Lyndon B. Johnson succeeds to the office, becoming the 36th U.S. president.
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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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William Clements is elected the first Republican governor of Texas since Reconstruction.
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Houstonian George H.W. Bush is elected president of the United States.
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Texas Gov. George W. Bush is elected president of the United States.
