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1908 8/29/1908 Jazz pianist Alton Stricklin is born in Antioch, Texas.
1908 10/5/1908 Josh Logan, noted Broadway Director and producer, is born in Texarkana.
1908 10/29/1908 The town of Cleburne, Texas orders any dog shot if the owner fails to provide it with a muzzle.
1908 11/20/1908 Howard R. Hughes Sr. applies for a patent for his rock bit, a drill bit that changes the oil patch in a dramatic way.
1908 11/27/1908 Former Texas Ranger Frank Hamer completes his first month as city marshal of Navasota, taming a lawless town.
1909 5/27/1909 Major league baseball player and manager, Michael "Pinky" Higgins, is born in Red Oak.
1909 6/4/1909 Lone Star Gas files for a charter to become the first natural gas distributor in Texas.
1909 9/12/1909 Country singer and tavern owner Kenneth Threadgill is born in Peniel, Texas
1910 1/6/1910 The Texas Rangers consists of only 25 men, all of them deployed either from Harlingen, Ysleta, Austin, or Amarillo. Yet in 1909 they thwarted a presidential assassination attempt.
1910 2/10/1910 D. L. McDonald, the father of irrigation on the Texas High Plains, locates water near Hereford.
1910 7/20/1910 Jack Johnson recognized as heavyweight boxing champion of the world.
1910 12/12/1910 Toonerville Trolley streetcar begins operating from downtown Houston to Bellaire.
1911 1/3/1911 The Slanton water well comes in, assisting the transformation of semi-arid West Texas into a breadbasket for the nation.
1911 4/7/1911 Actress Sarah Bernhardt plays Galveston in her farewell performance.
1911 4/24/1911 Magnolia Petroleum Company, the precursor to Mobil Oil Company, is founded.
1911 5/10/1911 Lt. George Kelly is the first military pilot to die in a plane crash, which happens in San Antonio.
1911 5/21/1911 Dictator Porfirio Diaz resigns, bringing brief calm to revolution-torn Mexico.
1911 6/2/1911 The personification of the Prohibitionist Movement, Carrie Nation dies at Leavenworth, Kansas, at age 64.
1911 7/7/1911 Alphonso Steele, last survivor of San Jacinto, dies at his grandson's home near Kosse in Limestone County.
1911 7/8/1911 The last surviving Battle of San Jacinto veteran Alfonso Steele dies.
1911 7/28/1911 Alphonso Steele, the last patriot of the battle of San Jacinto, died at the age of 94.
1911 11/4/1911 Col. Edward House of Houston meets Woodrow Wilson, and soon becomes his aide and confidant.
1911 12/14/1911 The Waco School Board recommends that the custom of schoolchildren giving gifts to their teacher be stopped.
1912 3/8/1912 Gov. Preston Smith is born in Corn Hill, in Williamson County.
1912 3/15/1912 Lightnin' Hopkins, of blues music fame, is born in Centerville, in Leon County.
1912 5/18/1912 The second battleship "Texas" is launched. Retired near the San Jacinto monument, it is the first battleship to become a permanent museum ship.
1912 8/13/1912 Noted professional golfer, Ben Hogan, is born in Dublin, Texas, in Erath County.
1912 11/1/1912 The last cattle of the XIT ranch are sold; this ranch was 3 million acres in the 1880s, the world's largest fenced ranch, which operated from 1885 to 1912.