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1902 4/7/1902 Texas Fuel Company (which becameTexaco) is formed in Beaumont.
1902 7/31/1902 Frontier merchant of buffalo hides Charles Rath dies in Stonewall County.
1902 10/16/1902 Carry Nation comes to the University of Texas to drive out the demon rum.
1902 10/27/1902 Galveston begins construction of the city's 10-mile Seawall.
1903 5/12/1903 The "Eyes of Texas" song is sung for the first time at a minstrel show, performed at the University of Texas.
1903 6/8/1903 Ralph Yarborough, United States Senator from Texas from 1957 to 1971, is born. 1903 11/9/1903 John Nance Garner(also known as "Cactus Jack") walks into Congress for the first time. It would be thirty years later that he becomes FDR's vice-president.
1903 11/12/1903 The State Court of Criminal Appeals rules that the law which prohibits horse racing is constitutional.
1904 3/4/1904 Batson-Old oilfield in Harris County reaches peak production with 150,000 barrels of Gulf Coast oil.
1904 3/26/1904 The Bryan city council in a called session grants H.B. Dorsey a franchise to erect electric light wires and poles on Main Street, for the purpose of furnishing lights, fans, and other electrical appliances to the townspeople.
1905 1/8/1905 The Humble Oil Field is discovered, soon after the Spindletop discovery.
1905 1/12/1905 Singer and film actor Tex Ritter is born in Panola County.
1905 8/20/1905 Jack Teagarden, outstanding trombone player of the Big Band Era, is born in Vernon.
1905 9/19/1905 Leon Jaworski is born in Waco. He becomes president of the American Bar Association and the Watergate chief prosecutor.
1905 12/24/1905 Howard R. Hughes, Jr. is born in Houston, Texas
1906 1/12/1906 Popular country music star and actor, Tex Ritter is born in Murvaul, Texas.
1906 5/2/1906 Henry Bullock, who becomes the first African-American professor of arts and sciences at the University of Texas, is born in North Carolina.
1906 8/13/1906 African-American Buffalo soldiers of the 25th U.S. Infantry at Fort Brown allegedly attack citizens of Brownsville.
1906 8/21/1906 Capt. Bill McDonald of the Rangers crushes a race riot in Brownsville.
1906 11/15/1906 John A. Brooks resigns commission as captain of Texas Rangers after 23 years.
1907 4/27/1907 Tornadoes kill seven in Hemming, Texas, making Hemming a ghost town.
1907 6/29/1907 Sculptress Elisabet Ney dies, and is buried at Liendo Plantation near Hempstead.
1907 7/8/1907 The town of Post, founded by C.W. Post of "Post Toasties" fame, becomes the seat of Garza County.
1907 8/7/1907 Outstanding Longhom football coach (1947-1950) Blair Cherry is born in Kerens.
1907 9/8/1907 The world-famous upscale Neiman-Marcus store opens in Dallas.
1907 9/29/1907 Movie star Gene Autry is born in Tioga.
1907 12/2/1907 Town of Peck changes its name to Tomball, honoring the man, Thomas Ball, who got the railroad rerouted through the town.
1908 2/7/1908 Fred Gipson, who wrote "Old Yeller" and other children's books, is born in Mason.
1908 3/23/1908 Movie actress Joan Crawford is born in San Antonio, Texas
1908 8/27/1908 Lyndon Baines Johnson, who would become the 36th U.S. president, is born near Stonewall, Texas.