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06/13/2018

06/01/2018

Today is Friday, June 1, 2018

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1881 - Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone Company opened the first operational telephone system in Dallas with 40 subscribers.

1969 - Near Stonewall, the Lyndon B. Johnson State Historical Park opened to the public.

1972 - The first Kerrville Folk Festival opened in the Kerrville Municipal Auditorium.

05/25/2018

Today in

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1896 - The Texas Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy met for the first time.

The United Daughters of the Confederacy is an American hereditary association of Southern women established in 1894. The stated purposes of the organization includes the commemoration of Confederate soldiers and the funding of the er****on of memorials to these men. The organization's treatment of the Confederacy, along with its promotion of the Lost Cause movement, is viewed by some as white supremacy.

05/25/2018

Texas Quote

All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.
- Sam Houston

05/23/2018

Texas Quote

Always marry a woman from Texas. No how matter how tough things get, she's seen tougher.
- Dan Rather

05/23/2018

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Today in
Texas History

1871 - The Texas legislature directed the governor to appoint a superintendent with a four-year term to administer the Texas Bureau of Immigration. The bureau had "the purpose of promoting and protecting immigration."

1934 - In Bienville Parish, LA, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were ambushed and killed by Texas Rangers. The bank robbers were riding in a stolen Ford Deluxe.
The real Bonnie Parker, half of ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ with Clyde Barrow, was one of America's most famous outlaws in the 1930s, robbing banks and small businesses. Their 21-month crime spree spanned Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Missouri, where they killed at least 13 people and escaped from the police before they were killed at a roadblock near Gibsland, Louisiana, on May 23, 1934.

05/21/2018

You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas.
- Davy Crocket after losing the 1835 race for Tennessee's seat to the U.S. legislature.

05/18/2018

You are invited to come enjoy another great bike night. There will be live music as well as prize give aways! All donations go to restoration of the Hico city park!

05/18/2018

Today is Friday, May 18, 2018
Today in

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1902 - In Goliad, TX, a tornado killed 114 people.

1912 - The USS Texas was christened.

1978 - "The Buddy Holly Story" had its world premiere in Dallas, TX.

05/18/2018

Big Red was created in 1937 by Grover C. Thomsen and R.H. Roark in Waco, Texas and was originally known as Sun Tang Red Cream Soda.