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coastal american Indians make knives
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Proto Indians lived in the Gault site
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Indians in Galvestion start making pottery
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Caddos start growing crops in east Texas
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Europeans arive in Texas and meet the Karankaws
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Rene Robert Cave led a group of colonist to to Matagorda bay.
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The Spanish build a mission named san francisco de los Tejas
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Martin de Alarcon establishes the San Antonia Valero Mission
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Settlers from the Canary Islands arrive in San Antonio
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Thomas Sanchez establishes the town of Laredo.
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The Marques De Rubi expedition begins
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Antonio Gil Ybarbo founds the town of Nacogdoches in East Texas
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Author Spanish priest Juan Agustin Dies
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Philip Nolan a U.S. citizen receives permission to capture wild horses in Texas
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James Long invades TX which is only guarded by Spanish forces
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Mexico wins their independence from Spain
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Spanish government lets Moses Austin build a settlement in texas
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Jared Groce plants the first cotton crop in Stephens colony
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About 3000 Anglo settlers live in Texas without permission
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Empresario Marten de Leon settles family's at the bottom of the Guadalupe river
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Mexican officials adopt the constitution of 1824. Coahuila and Texas are merged to from one state
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Indians attack the green Dewitt colony forcing everyone to live
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The Fredonian Rebellion begins when Haden Edwards declares independence from Mexico
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Stephen F. Austin recives a contract to settle a 100 more people.
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General Manueal De Mier Y Teran begins a tour of TX for the Mexican Government
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President Guerrero issues a decree ending slavery in Mexico but an exception is made for TX
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The Texas Gazette news paper starts publishing in Austins colony
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Thomas J. pilgrim organizes a Sunday school and private boys school in San Felipe
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Mexico issues a law that changes the rules on immigration and trade in TX
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The town Gonzales receives a cannon from the Mexican Government which defends the citizens against Indian Attacks
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Mary Austin has a book published
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Stepehen F Austin is arrested in Saltillo
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Edmund J. Davis is elected governor
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Texas sell 7000 bales of cotton to New Orleans
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Texas settlers attack Mexican soldiers at Gonzales, forcing them to leave
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Texans become concerned when the Mexican Government officially abolishes the constitution of 1824
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Texan troops push Mexican troops out of San Antonio, capturing the city
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Texan settlers have over 3500 land grants
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1000 Americans move to Texas each year
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The siege of the Alamo begins
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The Texas Declaration of Independence is adopted
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Texans win the battle of San Jacinto ending the Texas Revolution
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Sam Houston become the first popularly elected president ofthe Republic of Texas
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The first official Texas flag is adopted by the Texas Congress
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The Texas government begins work in Houston, the new capital
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U.S. send a diplomat to texas
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Texans elect Marabeau as president
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Velasco citizens hold a horse race on the coast near town.
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William H. Wharton is elected to the Texas Senate
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repeated attacks and discrimination force more than 100 tejas families to flee Nacogdoches
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France is the first European nation to recognize Texas as a Country
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1850 new residents in the Capital Austin
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the first collage chartered by the republic Rutersville college is founded
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Galveston College opens its doors to 5 students
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Texans elect Sam again
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William publishes a book about Texas
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The president sends Texas navy to Yucatan coast
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director of a french colonization company brings 14 settlers to texas
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General Adrian Woll and 1400 Mexicans soilders capture San Antonio
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Creek council leads to peace between Texans and several Texas and several Texas Indian groups
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Sam Houston sends troops into east Texas to end the war
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Prince Carl comes to Texas followed by a group of German immagrants
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Texans elect Anson Jones president of the republic
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at least 30,000 slaves in Texas
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Texas gets annexed by the U.S
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U.S admits Texas to the union
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Sam Houston and Tomas j. Rusk become the first Texans to be U.S. senate
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Fighting breaks out between US forces and Mexican troops at Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma
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TX signs a peace treaty with the Penateka Comanches
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Gorge t. wood is elected as the new governor of Texas
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Samuel H Walker dies in combat during a conflict in Mexico
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A state census reports the state's population at more than 142,000
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Democratic party takes full control of the government
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Texans gets the right to vote
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The TX population reaches 200,000 people
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Melinda Rankin describes the state of TX in her book
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Work begins on port Isabels light house
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US Army troops abandon Fort Worth after settlers move farther west beyond the fort.
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The track was finally laid for the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos, and CO railway
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the American or know nothing party becomes active in texas
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the governor's mansion is built
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Slaves in CO county acquire weapons and plan a rebellion but the plot is discovered before it can begin
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Butterfield Overland uses stagecoach for mail and people delivery
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Sam Houston easily defeats incumbent Hardin Runnels in the election for TX govenor.
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A series of clashes occurs between TX rangers and Mex Americans near Brownsville
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TX produces record crop of more than 400,000 bales of cotton
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Troops leave San Antonio for New Mexico planning to capture the Southwest for the Confederacy.
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Texans vote, by more than 3 to 1 to secede form the US
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the Texas Regiment i established the Texas
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Colonel Christopher Carson leads an attack against the plains Indians in the Texas panhandle
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Union forces captured Galveston
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President Lincoln Issues the Emancipation Proclimation
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Union's attempts to invade TX is turned back at Sabine Pass
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Union Troops Capture Brownsville
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George t. Ruby was elected as a delegate to the national Convention
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the Texas cattle population increased during the civil war
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In a battle near Mansfield, Louisianna, confederate forces stop a Union invasion of northeastern TX.
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The last land battle of the war is fought at Palmito Ranch
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The Emancipation Proclamation goes into effect in TX, freeing the state's slaves.
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the Emancipation Proclamation prevented slaves in Texas
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Fort Richard is built near jacksboro
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cowboys move a herd of 1500 cows to the market which is the biggest herd in that era
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Edmund J. Davis is the last Republican to be in the office until Bill Clements
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Texas has 583 miles ofrailroad
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A public school system is created in Texas
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Clarksville got 109.4 inches of rain
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Ranchers start shipping thousands of cows after the Missouri Kansas Texas line ends there
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A group of Indians attack a group of buffalo hunters during the battle of the adobe walls
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Comanche leader Quanah Parker surrenders, ending the Red river war
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Texas adapts a new constitution
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about 2700 animals die after a stampede near the brazos
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Texas passes a law that allows them to fund railroadesvwith land grants
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Texas A&M University opens as an all-male military institution
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Texas Adopts the state Constitution that Governs the state to day
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Apache leader Victorio launches raids along the Texas and Mexican border
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the Texas Pacific Railroad meets with the southern pacific railroad making the first transcontinental railroad
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a ranch buys enough barb wire to fence off 250000 acres
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The University of TX formally opens
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The knights of labor start a huge strike against Jay Gould's railroad company
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there more than 8000 miles of railroad track
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The TX antitrust Act of 1889 passes in legislature
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the North Texas university opens in Denton
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James Hogg is the first native born man to be the governor
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Texas begin to regulate the railroads
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A leading association of farmers endorses the populist party
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drillers strike oil in corsicana
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The first football fame is played between the university of TX and TX A&M
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Teddy Roosevelt organizes and trains the Rough Riders in San Antonio
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Texas has 350,000 farms
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A hurricane hits Galveston killing some 6-8 thousand people
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Spindletop well strikes oil pronouncing 17000000 barrels
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The Spindletop oil strike spurs the growth of the Texas oil industry
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Corsicana Oilers set a baseball record by defeating the Texarkana team 51-3
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Humble strikes a lot of oil in Harris country
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The first Neiman Marcus department store opens in Dallas
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oil is discovered in goose creek in Galveston
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She becomes 1st president of League of Mexican women
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The Houston Ship Channel opens Houston becomes imp. oil refinery
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The Houston Ship Channel is completed, leading to the growth of industry in the Houston area
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Texas passes the law requiring all children to go to school
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Texas retifies the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution banning the sale and production of alcohol
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Troops sent to France to fight in WW1
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Women get the right to vote in Texas elections
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An application is filed to drill for oil on state-owned land in West Texas. Several years later the Santa Rita No. 1 strikes oil.
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Gov. William breaks a dockworkers' strike in Galveston
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Miriam is elected by TX as first female govenor
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Auto reg. reaches 1 mil
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For the first time in the state's history, the majority of Texans vote for a Republican Presidential candidate Herbert Hoover
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Some 300000 Texans are unemployed
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in Seminole during winter Texas reached record temperature at 23f and also in 1833 in Tulia
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James is elected governor of Texas
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the highest temperature in Texas was 120f
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Texas celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Texas Revolution
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Texans elect W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel as governor
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The Southern Aircraft Corporation, the first airplane manufacturer in TX is formed.
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Large numbers of Texans volunteer for military service in WWII
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The US Supreme Court declares the TX white primary unconstitutional
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Texan Audie Murphy receives the Medal of Honor for stopping a German tank attack in France
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Registration increases to over 3 mil
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Allan Shivers successfully runs for a third term as governor
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woman are allowed to be on the Texan Juries
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TX women call for an equal rights amendment to the state constitution
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TX Musician Buddy Holly killed in plane crash
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The US Supreme Court rules that TX owns Gulf coastal tidelands up to a 10.35 mile limit
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Henry B. Gonzalez elected to the U.S house of representative and John tower is elected U.S senate
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The Manned Space Center, Now the Johnson Space Center is built in Houston
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Lyndon B. Johnson becomes the new president after JFK is assassinated
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wink received 1.76 inches of rain
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Texas singer janis Joplin's career took off
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TX Instruments releases the first handheld calculator
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NASA sends Apollo 11 the moon
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Members of the Chicano moment And the Mexican American youth Form the La Raza Unida Party
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Barbra Jordan is elected to the house of Representatives
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Barbra Jordan is elected to the house of Representatives
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Barbra Jordan is the first black women from the south to be elected in the us congress
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Austin City limits goes on air
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Attempt to make a new Constitution fails
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Texas population reaches 14000000
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Texas writer Larry McMurty revives the Pulitzer Prize
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Raul Gonzalez is the first Mexican to be elected to state wide office
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Stevie Ray died in a helicopter crash
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The North American Free Trade Agreement is passed, easing trade among the US and Canada
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George W. Bush is elected new governor
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Rick Perry becomes the 47 governor of Texas
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Texas employ more than 230,000 peeps
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Republicans take control of the Texas house of representatives
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Texas becomes the leading state in wind power
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Rick Perry becomes the longest serving governor
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The A.T.N.T stratum opens
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Texas has the lowest rainfall its ever had
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texas produced 730,000,000 barrels of oil
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Texas got 36billion dollars in agriculture
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Texas had in total 244,700
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Texas Exports more than $134 billion worth of goods.
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Based on 2010 Texas Census Texas gets 4 more seats in congress