History, News and Stories of Houston, Texas, USA

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• 1836 - August 30 - The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen
  
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• 1854 - Houston
  Houston a city capital of Harris county, Texas, situated on Buffalo bayou, 45 miles by water from its entrance into Galveston bay, 82 miles N. W.... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1895 - Houston
  Houston, a city of Texas, capital of Harris co., is on Buffalo Bayou, 49 miles by rail N.W. of Galveston, 164 miles E.S.E. of Austin, and 152 miles... Read MORE...
  
  
•   February 15, 1895 - Houston TX received 22 inches of snow.
  
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  February 15, 1895
  
•   1896 - BOILER EXPLODES Disaster in a Texas Newspaper Office - Three Lives Lost
  Houston, Tex., June 30 - Shortly after three o'clock Monday afternoon the boiler in the office of the Daily Age exploded, killing Engineer Henry... Read MORE...
  
  
•   1912 - HOUSTON, TEX., SWEPT BY DISASTROUS FIRE. DESTROYS MANUFACTURING AND RESIDENCE SECTION. STRONG GALE SWEEPS FIRE OVER CITY WIPING OUT FIFTEEN FACTORIES AND NEARLY THREE HUNDRED HOMES.
  (By Associated Press.)
  Houston, Tex., Feb. 21. - A fire which broke out here at an early hour today, swept by a 35 mile an hour wind, burned a mile... Read MORE...
  
  
•   1912 - April 1 - A tornado with incredible velocity ripped into downtown Houston, TX, breaking the water table and giving the city its first natural waterspout.
  
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  April 1, 1912
  
• 1916
  Houston, a city of Texas, the second city (in 1900) in population of the state, an important railroad centre, and capital of Harris co., is on... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1917 - August 23 - Race riot in Houston Texas (2 blacks & 11 whites killed)
  
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•   1935 - December 7 - Severe flooding hit parts of the Houston, TX, area. Eight persons were killed as one hundred city blocks were inundated.
  
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  December 7, 1935
  
•   1943 - September 7 – Gulf Hotel fire: A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston, Texas, kills 55.
  
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  September 7, 1943
  
• 1953 - May 25 - 1st non-commercial educational television station-Houston, Texas
  
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• 1965 - Texas has the first domed stadium in the country. The structure was built in Houston and opened in April 1965.
  
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• 1983 - Hurricane Alicia
  August 18, 1983
  Hurricane Alicia makes landfall at Galveston Island, Texas, unleashing 23 small tornadoes. The storm kills 21 people, leaves Houston ... Read MORE...