Article Archive

November

1

Like joins like as Belle Starr marries horse thief Jim Reed
(1866)

Blues queen born in Houston
(1898)

Burnet County powers up
(1939)

2

Voters ratify Better Schools Amendment
(1920)

Spanish diplomat dies of head injury
(1779)

Cowboy poet goes home
(1940)

3

Cotton Palace attendance peaks
(1923)

Braniff Airlines incorporates
(1930)

High bridge sees its dawn over the Sunset Route
(1891)

4

Texans engage Mexican force in battle of Lipantitlán
(1835)

Texas lumberman born
(1836)

Cowboy poet goes home
(1940)

5

Border between Texas and Louisiana declared Neutral Ground
(1806)

Bentsens move to Texas
(1918)

Johnny Horton dies
(1960)

6

Forerunner of Daughters of the Republic of Texas founded
(1891)

Silver-tongued orator murdered in Rio Grande City
(1906)

Castaways begin amazing journey
(1528)

7

The Consultation takes a step toward the Texas Declaration of Independence
(1835)

Two key Texas amendments passed
(1972)

San Antonio lawman and folk painter expires
(1902)

8

Cavalry column discovers German sisters in Cheyenne camp
(1874)

Ferguson Forum begins publication
(1917)

The circus comes to town!
(1852)

9

Texas Institute of Letters holds first meeting
(1936)

Pioneer Texas inventor born in New York
(1801)

Oblate missionary begins final tour
(1872)

10

The President's Ranch Trail is dedicated to LBJ
(1967)

Mexican War memoirist and rogue dies
(1908)

Battle of Stone Houses
(1837)

11

First Austin women's literary club established
(1890)

East Texas church draws Daniel Parker's ire
(1843)

World War I ends
(1918)

Beales Colony leaves for Texas
(1833)

12

William Stallings becomes the first county agricultural agent in Texas
(1906)

Texas Federation of Music Clubs organized
(1915)

Muleshoe Ranch brand registered
(1860)

Diplomat and agriculturalist dies
(1844)

13

First black SWC football player is born in Groesbeck
(1947)

"Chipita" sentenced to death
(1863)

Texas preacher speaks of evils of intemperance
(1855)

Karen Silkwood dies in mysterious crash
(1974)

14

Historic World War II pipelines sold
(1947)

Former congressman dies in Lufkin
(1972)

Cuero paper uncovers land fraud
(1954)

15

Santa Anna's policies lead to abortive invasion of Tampico
(1835)

Woman cattle rancher born in San Antonio
(1901)

"Great Captain" of the rangers retires
(1906)

Lorenzo de Zavala dies
(1836)

16

Colorful lawman Jess Sweeten dies in Athens
(1980)

Republic of Texas signs its last Indian treaty
(1845)

South Texas Chamber of Commerce formed
(1926)

17

Tick fever helps end cattle-trailing era despite ranchers' efforts
(1884)

Texas cattlemen propose National Trail
(1884)

Ohioans come to the aid of Texas with "Twin Sisters"
(1835)

Delta Drilling Company founded
(1931)

18

National Women's Conference begins in Houston
(1977)

Charles Morgan introduces steamship service to Texas
(1837)

Cavalry column launched against Panhandle Indians
(1868)

Wharton promoted to brigadier general
(1862)

19

Mormons arrive in Texas
(1845)

World War I Medal of Honor winner dies
(1979)

Houston joins church
(1854)

20

Alleged attack on Fort Ringgold draws machine-gun fire
(1899)

Secretary of State recommends republic grant copyrights
(1837)

Texas heroes at Tarawa
(1943)

Texas writer confronts SMU isolationists
(1941)

21

Thin Gravy, christened with milk, becomes Truman
(1945)

Hispanic women's organization founded
(1987)

Robertson party sets out from Tennessee to explore Leftwich grant
(1825)

McMurry College charter signed
(1921)

22

President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas
(1963)

Stephen F. Austin hires builder
(1821)

Austin College incorporated
(1849)

"Father of Houston Heights" dies
(1933)

23

Houston surgeon performs first successful coronary artery bypass
(1964)

Park with seventy-foot-high sand dunes opens to public
(1957)

Self-styled Baron de Bastrop born in Dutch Guiana
(1759)

Sid Richardson Collection of Western Art opens in Fort Worth
(1982)

24

Boles Home opens its doors
(1924)

Antisocialist newspaper publisher born in Ohio
(1878)

Republic of Texas authorizes Texas Rangers
(1835)

"King of Ragtime" born
(1868)

25

Edward House meets presidential candidate Woodrow Wilson
(1911)

Texas gives up nonexistent New Mexico counties
(1850)

Last recorded flight to Johnson's Ranch
(1943)

First Texas Navy created
(1835)

26

Texans win Grass Fight
(1835)

Philandering tycoon finds new El Dorado in East Texas
(1930)

Legislature replaces Alton (pop. 1) as Denton County seat
(1850)

Kuykendall family enters Texas
(1821)

27

Hispanic Texan earns Medal of Honor
(1944)

Distinguished Texas conductor dies on his birthday
(1976)

Texas Presbytery organized at Sumner Bacon's home
(1837)

Economy Furniture strike begins in Austin
(1968)

28

Screwmen protest hiring of African Americans
(1882)

Texas home for Confederate veterans chartered
(1884)

Gideon Lincecum dies
(1874)

Military historian Slam Marshall joins the army
(1917)

29

A founder of Methodism in Texas crosses into the republic
(1838)

Newspaper publisher authorized to outfit privateers
(1835)

Eugene Routh resigns as editor of the Baptist Standard
(1927)

Spanish military tribunal convicts cartographer
(1811)

30

Texas general dies with his men in disastrous battle
(1864)

Time magazine celebrates ecumenical "love in Corpus Christi"
(1935)

Memoirist John H. Jenkins killed in gunfight
(1890)

Sam Houston welcomes Mobile Grays to Texas
(1835)

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