1905 - Willie Lewis was born in Cleburne, Texas. He was a jazz clarinetist and became the first black expatriot jazz bandleader in Europe.
1933 - Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were in a car accident on a rural road in north Texas. The third-degree burns suffered by Parker resulted in a pronounced limp for the rest of her life.
1940 - At the University of Texas at Austin, the first annual meeting of Lone Star Boys' State program took place.
| I don't want to look like Connecticut, no offense, I don't want to look like Oklahoma, I don't want to look like California. I want to be uniquely Texas. And that's not to diss anybody else. - Rick Perry |
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