Texas State Historical Association

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Texas State Historical Association
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Apr 21
On this day in 1836, Texas forces won the battle of San Jacinto, the concluding military event of the Texas Revolution. Facing General Santa Anna's Mexican army encamped in what is now southeastern Harris County, General Sam Houston disposed his forces in battle order.
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Apr 12
On this day in 1836, Mexican forces under General Santa Anna captured Thompson's Ferry, on the Brazos River between San Felipe and Fort Bend. As Sam Houston's army retreated eastward, a rear-guard at San Felipe and at Fort Bend sought to block the forces from crossing the Brazos.
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Apr 10
On this day in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson dedicated the Gary Job Corps Training Center. Following the passage of the Federal Economic Opportunity Act, 1964, the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity began awarding contracts to establish centers for vocational training.
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Apr 9
On this day in 1965, the Houston Astros played the New York Yankees in exhibition baseball in the Astrodome, the first event in the new domed stadium. The Astrodome, the first fully air-conditioned, enclosed, multipurpose sports stadium in the world, was approved in 1958.
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Apr 8
On this day in 1893, ten Texas women, mostly members of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, issued a call for a statewide woman suffrage convention. The Texas Equal Rights Association, the first such statewide organization, was chartered at the ensuing convention in Dallas.