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1952 8/14/1952 The first leg of the Gulf Freeway is dedicated, connecting Houston and Galveston.
1952 11/8/1952 In a post-election sale, a Henderson store is accepting armadillos and jackrabbits in trade for household items. At the store the animals are worth up to $25 and must be delivered in edible condition.
1953 5/11/1953 A large tornado tears through Waco, killing 114 and causing $39 million in damage.
1953 5/22/1953 President Dwight Eisenhower signs the Tidelands Bill, extending Texas' rights to its offshore oil.
1954 4/9/1954 The first Texas color television broadcast goes out over the air in Fort Worth.
1954 10/3/1954 Musician, singer and songwriter, Stevie Ray Vaughan, is born.
1955 3/29/1955 Football player Earl Campbell is born in Tyler, Smith County.
1956 5/25/1956 Texas-born president Dwight D. Eisenhower visits Baylor University in Waco to deliver an address at their commencement exercises, and to receive an honorary doctor of law degree.
1956 7/5/1956 Slats Rodgers, Texas' first licensed pilot, and also first to have his license revoked, dies.
1956 8/30/1956 Mob prevents enrollment of African-American students at Mansfield High School, which also involved the Texas Rangers to maintain order.
1956 9/27/1956 Mildred "Babe" Zaharias, known as America's greatest woman athlete at that time, dies in Galveston.
1956 10/23/1956 Dallas fires its $35,000 year 'Rainmaker' in the midst of one of the worst droughts on record.
1956 12/1/1956 Runner Bobby Morrow of San Benito wins three gold medals at the 1956 Olympics.
1957 4/2/1957 Ralph Yarborough is elected to the U.S. Senate.
1957 6/6/1957 Attorney General Will Wilson raids Galveston to close down gambling.
1957 6/27/1957 The strongest storm ever recorded until that time in the Atlantic basin, Hurricane Audrey kills 526 people in Texas and Louisiana.
1957 8/14/1957 President of Austin Woman Suffrage Association and Texas Secretary of State Jane McCallum dies.
1958 4/14/1958 Texas pianist Van Cliburn wins the International Piano Competition in Moscow.
1958 7/24/1958 Jack Kilby draws up the idea for the silicon chip at Texas Instruments in Dallas.
1958 7/29/1958 President Dwight Eisenhower signs National Aeronautics & Space Act creating NASA, to create space technology.
1959 2/3/1959 Buddy Holly, who is Lubbock's contribution to 'Rock and Roll,' dies in a plane crash at Clear Lake, Iowa.
1959 4/4/1959 About 300 small craft join in the "Saltwater Trail", a 20-mile trip up Buffalo Bayou to the foot of Main Street in Houston, in a wild five-mile-long water caravan.
1959 5/6/1959 Texas Instruments filed its request for patent of integrated circuit, invented by Jack S. Kilby.
1959 12/19/1959 Walter Williams, the last surviving veteran of the Civil War, dies at age 117.
1959 12/27/1959 Tom Landry hired as Dallas football coach at behest of Tex Schramm.
1960 1/28/1960 Clint Murchison and Bedford Wynne, two Dallas millionaires, receive a franchise for an NFL team which they name the "Cowboys."
1960 2/8/1960 Noted football player Eric Dickerson is born in Sealy.