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1985 Event - Exploratory well at Ranger Tx, explodes spilling 6.3 m gallons of oil

1985 Event - Discovery ferried back to Kennedy Space Center via Bergstrom AFB, Tx

1983 Event - 5 killed in a fire at a Ramada Inn in Fort Worth, Tx

1982 Event - "Best Little Whorehouse in Tx" opens at Eugene O'Neill New York City for 63 perf

1979 Event - On a flight to Austin, TX, Daniel Okrent sketches out the first

1977 Birthday - Lindsay Lee, born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, tennis star, 1995 Futures-Woodlands TX

1966 Death - Ruth Gates, Denton TX, actress (Aunt Jenny-Mama), dies at 79

1962 Birthday - Duffy James Joseph Waldorf, Jr., born in Los Angeles, California, PGA golfer, 1995 LaCantera Tx

1958 Event - 1st 2-way moving sidewalk in service, Dallas Tx

1951 Event - World's largest gas pipeline opens (Brownsville Tx, to 134th St, New York City)

1941 Event - 1st commercial extraction of magnesium from seawater, Freeport, TX

1929 Event - 1st group hospital insurance plan offered (Dallas Tx)

1929 Event - Dr. Annie Webb Blanton forms Delta Kappa Gamma Society in Austin Tx

1920 Event - WTAW of College Station, Tx, broadcast 1st football play-by-play

1911 Birthday - Mitch Miller, born in Rochester, New York, sing along with Mitch, Yellow Rose of Tx

1865 Event - President Johnson proclaims an end to "insurrection" in Tx

1863 Event - Battle of Sabine Pass TX: 47 Texas volunteers repel Federal forces

1862 Event - General John Hunt Morgan and his raiders capture Gallatin, TX









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