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1890 5/31/1890 West Texas newspapers announce the need in Texas for government regulation of the railroads.
1890 9/6/1890 Gen. Claire Chennault, of World War II "FlyingTigers" fame in China, is born at Commerce.
1890 10/14/1890 34th US president Dwight David Eisenhower is born in Denison Texas.
1890 12/19/1890 Towns of Lubbock and Monterey, on the north side of the canyon, consolidate for Lubbock as the County Seat.
1891 1/13/1891 Chemist Louis Weisberg, who helped develop the atomic bomb, is born in Waco.
1891 1/20/1891 James S. Hogg becomes the first native-born governor of Texas.
1891 7/7/1891 Port of Velasco opens on Brazos River, bringing about a rebirth to the town.
1891 9/3/1891 Cotton pickers in three states organize union and stage strike, but are unsuccessful.
1891 10/27/1891 Pan American Railway chartered to connect Victoria, Texas and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The railway was never completed, due to lack of funds.
1892 4/22/1892 The first class graduates from the University of Texas Medical School, located in Galveston.
1892 6/28/1892 The first battleship "Texas" is launched.
1893 3/23/1893 Fort Worth Stockyards are Incorporated.
1893 5/20/1893 Amarillo, commercial center of the Panhandle, becomes Potter County seat.
1893 7/6/1893 Kearie Lee Berry is born in Denton County. He becomes a great athlete at the University of Texas, and a hero of the Bataan Death March of World War II.
1893 7/8/1893 Loving County, Texas 254th and final county, is established.
1894 3/16/1894 Killer John Wesley Hardin is given a full pardon, while serving a sentence at the Huntsville State Prison. Shortly thereafter, he pass the state bar exam.
1894 6/9/1894 Oil is discovered at Corsicana, Texas.
1895 2/8/1895 Hollywood film director King Vidor is born in Galveston.
1895 2/14/1895 A rare Gulf Coast snowstorm dumps up to 20 inches of snow on the Houston-Galveston area.
1895 7/23/1895 Silent film actress Florence Arto is born.
1895 8/19/1895 John Wesley Hardin, notorious killer, dies in a gunfight in El Paso.
1896 2/21/1896 Judge Roy Bean stages the Fitzsimmons-Maher heavyweight title fight on a sandbar in the Rio Grande River, near Langtry, Texas.
1896 3/29/1896 Robert J. Kleberg Jr., longtime manager of the King Ranch, is born in Corpus Christi.
1896 4/27/1896 Baseball great Rogers Hornsby ("the Rajah") is born in Winters, Runnels County, Texas
1896 5/15/1896 Sherman, Texas tornado kills 78 in Texas.
1896 5/25/1896
1896 9/15/1896 A stunt to wreck two trains at Crush, Texas, near Waco, explodes both trains' engine boilers and results in the death of two spectators from flying debris.
1896 12/30/1896 Homer H. Norton is born in Carrollton, Alabama. He becomes the leading football coach in Texas A&M history, 1934-1947, with an 11-0 national championship in 1939.
1897 1/15/1897 John Duval, the last survivor of Fannin's army, dies in Fort Worth.
1897 2/6/1897 The Dalton Gang, bank and train robbers, come to the end of the trail.