1983 - In Dallas, TX, President Reagan addressed the 64th annual American Farm Bureau Federation at the Dallas Convention Center.
1983 - In Dallas, TX, President Reagan visited the North Texas Food Bank.
1871 - José Antonio Navarro died. He was a leading Mexican participant in the Texas Revolution and one of three Mexican signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence.
1939 - Legendary Big Thicket outlaw Thomas "Red" Jefferson Golemon was arrested for the first time.
1840 - Edwin Waller was elected as the first mayor of Austin.
1974 - The airport now known as Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport officially opened.
1997 - Willie Lewis died. He was a renowned black jazz clarinetist and bandleader. He was born in Cleburne, Texas, and grew up in Dallas.
| I am forced to conclude that God made Texas on his day off, for pure entertainment, just to prove that all that diversity could be crammed into one section of earth by a really top hand. - Mary Lasswell |
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