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1929 8/12/1929 Country and western singer Buck Owens is born in Sherman, Texas.
1929 10/15/1929 Two Rio Grande Valley nurserymen develop the Ruby Red grapefruit, which was the first citrus patent granted in the U.S.
1929 10/29/1929 "Black Tuesday". . . The stock market crashed and America was thrust head-long into the Great Depression.
1929 12/8/1929 Noted Texan singer and songwriter, Buck Owens, is born.
1930 5/6/1930 The weather bureau marked this day as the worst single day for tornadoes in Texas history.
1930 6/27/1930 Henry Ross Perot, billionaire and presidential candidate, is born.
1930 7/30/1930 The last public hanging [before introduction of electric chair] in Texas, murderer Roy Mitchell who killed six, takes place in Waco.
1930 10/3/1930 The Daisy Bradford No. 3 well strikes oil, and the giant East Texas oil field is begun in Rusk County.
1930 10/26/1930 In the first football game held at the Dallas Cotton Bowl SMU defeats Indiana.
1930 11/26/1930 H. L. Hunt purchases the Daisy Bradford oil well from "Dad" Joiner.
1930 12/9/1930 Andrew "Rube" Foster, founder of the Negro National League, known as 'Father of African-American Baseball' dies.
1931 1/5/1931 Dancer and choreographer Alvin Ailey is born in Rogers, Bell County.
1931 6/5/1931 David Browning Jr., an Olympic diving champion from University of Texas, is born in Boston, Massachusetts.
1931 6/23/1931 Texan Wiley Post starts his solo flight around the world in less than eight days.
1931 7/27/1931 Oklahoma Governor Bill Murray sends the National Guard to seal off the entrance to Texas by way of the Red River Bridge.
1931 8/19/1931 Famed racing jockey Willie Shoemaker is born in Fabens, Texas.
1931 10/25/1931 The famed Huntsville Texas prison rodeo is born, which was both a rodeo and an annual celebration event.
1931 11/17/1931 Delta Drilling Company, founded in Longview, became one of the largest land-based, private, contract drilling firms in the world.
1931 12/13/1931 George Strake's Conroe Oil Field blows in, putting Conroe on the map.
1932 4/1/1932 Actress Debbie Reynolds is born in El Paso.
1932 4/2/1932 African-American rodeo star and Wild West Show performer Bill Pickett dies.
1933 1/9/1933 Outlaw gang led by Bonnie and Clyde holds Texas State Motorcycle Policeman, Thomas Persell. hostage on way to Joplin, Mo.
1933 2/5/1933 Citizens of Pharr have requested their city council to pass an ordinance making it illegal to stage coyote chases within the city limits.
1933 2/8/1933 Record low temperature of -23 degrees ties previous record in Seminole, Texas.
1933 4/26/1933 Comedian and actress Carol Burnett is born in San Antonio.
1933 4/30/1933 Country western star, Willie Nelson, is born in Abbott, Hill County, Texas.
1933 7/22/1933 A record-breaking rainstorm hit Freeport, and moved slowly across east Texas,
1933 7/28/1933 W. E. Morris is the first Texas farmer to be paid for plowing under his cotton crop.
1934 1/16/1934 Clyde Barrow breaks into Eastham prison farm to rescue his friend Raymond Hamilton, serving 266 years sentence.
1934 4/18/1934 The first washateria in the United States opens in Fort Worth.