1709 - An expedition Antonio de San Buenaventura y Olivares and Isidro Félix de Espinosa reached the location of the future city of San Antonio.
1896 - Aviation pioneer Ira Clarence Eaker was born in Field Creek, Texas. In 1930, he flew the first transcontinental flight that depended entirely on aerial refueling.
1902 - In El Paso, the first council of the Knights of Columbus in Texas was founded.
1958 - Van Cliburn of Kilgore, TX, earned 1st prize in the Soviet Union's Tchaikovsky International Piano Contest in Moscow. He was the first American to win the award.
| 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 |
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