1836 - Sam Houston abandoned Gonzales and retreated eastward to avoid the advancing Mexican army. The exodus of settlers in the area was called the Runaway Scrape.
1890 - The John Sealy Training School for Nurses opened with eighteen students in Galveston's two-month-old John Sealy Hospital. It was the first formal nursing school in Texas,
1891 - The city of Lubbock was elected as the county seat of Lubbock County.
1898 - A group of business men in Eagle Lake chartered the Cane Belt Railroad. The railroad was needed to transport crops to market.
1922 - The Sealy and Smith Foundation for the John Sealy Hospital was chartered under the laws of Texas as a charitable corporation. The corporation was formed by Galveston entrepreneur John Hutchings Sealy and his sister, Jennie Sealy Smith.
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