1881 - The Laredo Times was founded. In 1926, the paper became the first English-language paper on the border to include a Spanish section.
1920 - In Alpine, in Brewster County, Sul Ross State Normal College began operations. The school later became known as Sul Ross State University.
1958 - Elvis Presley returned to Fort Hood, TX, for ten weeks of advanced tank training.
1983 - Five people were killed in a wing of a Ramada Inn in Fort Worth, TX. The fire began in stacked rolls of carpet and padding, the fumes that ensued were toxic.
2002 - In Lubbock, TX, a power failure ended a Britney Spears concert after only two songs.
| Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the slop pails of the other 49 states. - Alistair Cooke |
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