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AROUND TEXAS HISTORY
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What Happened in Texas in June
Jun 1
The Mission San Antonio de
Valero (the Alamo) is founded
in 1718
The “Maggie”
is born in 1963
when Texas
A&M allows
women to enroll
Jun 17
A severe flood that lasts for
twelve days on the Brazos kills
nearly 300 Texans in 1899
Jun 2
Andrew Jackson Houston,
Sam’s youngest son is
appointed to serve out a term in
the US Senate in 1941
The Kilgore Oil Field is
discovered in Kilgore, Texas in
1937
Jun 3
Charles Goodnight and John
Adair form the “J.A.” Ranch,
the first in the Panhandle in
1877
Jun 18
In 1836 land based Texas
Rangers capture Mexican
ships, thereby earning the
nickname “Horse Marines”
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Jun 11
Texas discovers
the 1st major oil
field in Corsicana,
Texas in 1894
Jun 10
Ed White of San Antonio, Texas
becomes the first American to
walk in space in 1965
Jun 4
The Lone Star Gas Company
files for a charter to become the
first gas distributor in Texas in
1909
Renowned
Hispanic/Pop
singer “Freddy
Fender” was
born in San
Benito, Texas
in 1937
Jun 5
Herman
Lehmann,
German
immigrant is captured by
Apaches and adopted by them
in 1859
David Browning Jr., Olympic
diving champion from UT, is
born in Boston, Mass. In 1931
Jun 6
Fort Worth,Texas is founded in
1849
BB-35, as Flagship, begins
bombardment of Normandy
Beach during D-Day Invasion
in 1944
Attorney General Will Wilson
raids Galveston, TX to shut
down gambling in 1957
Moses Austin, dad
of SF Austin dies
in MO before he
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can start
his
Texas
colonization plan
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in 1821
Wounded Army Rangers and
POW’s brought aboard BB-35
in 1944
The Long Expedition crosses
the Sabine to declare a
“government” in Texas in 1819
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First Theater in Texas is built in
Houston
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19 Resolutions,
The Turtle Bayou
documents
leading
to the
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revolution of 1836, are adopted
in 1832
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“Ma” Wallace
Ferguson the
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1st female
governor
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elected
in TX
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was born
in Bell
County,
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Texas in
1875
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after arriving on
Jun 9 to re-supply
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1898 – “Father of black
Baptists in Texas” Israel S.
Campbell dies in La Marque,
Texas.
Jun 13
Bandits
try to rob
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the state treasury
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in Austin in 1865
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Jefferson Davis declines an
offer to be the 1st President of
Texas A&M in 1875
Jun 15
1921 – Bessie (Brave Bessie)
Coleman from Atlanta, Texas,
becomes the first black woman
licensed pilot.
Country singer and songwriter
“Waylon Jennings” was born in
Littlefield, Texas in 1937
Jun 16
The national guard is called
out to put down a race riot in
Beaumont, TX in 1943
Jun 20
Most decorated WW II Veteran
turned actor “Audie Murphy”
was born in Kingston, Texas in
1924
German submarine U-203
sights Battleship TEXAS while
she is escorting a convoy and
asks permission to fire. Berlin
denies permission to avoid
risking war with the US. 1941
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born in Tennessee in 1832
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Singer, renowned
Guitarist – ZZ top
group, “Frank Beard”
was born in Frankston,
Texas in 1949
Henry Cohen, founder
of the Galveston Plan
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Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger
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that slavery had been abolished
in 1865
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