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1912 12/22/1912 Claudia Alta Taylor, the future Lady Bird Johnson, is born in Karnack, Harrison County, Texas.
1913 1/21/1913 Thomas Munson, who helped the French save their wine industry, dies in Denison, Grayson County.
1913 2/14/1913 The legislature passes a resolution recognizing Johanna Troutman as the "Betsy Ross" of Texas.
1913 4/7/1913 Sam Rayburn, United States Representative from Texas, takes his oath of office which begins a career of 48 years of continuous service to the nation.
1913 8/21/1913 Texas folklorist and humorist John Henry Faulk is born in Austin.
1913 9/24/1913 'The Daily Texan', the Austin U. of Texas newspaper, becomes the first daily college newspaper in the South.
1913 12/1/1913 Mary Martin, star of Broadway's "Peter Pan" and "South Pacific," and mother of "Dallas" Star Hagman, is born in Weatherford, Parker County.
1914 1/11/1914 Bandit Pancho Villa drives 4,500 Mexican Federal soldiers and civilians across the Rio Grande river to take refuge in Presidio, Texas.
1914 2/9/1914 Country and Western singer, Ernest Tubb, is born in Ellis County, Texas.
1914 3/17/1914 Noted TCU football great, Sammy Baugh, is born.
1914 10/18/1914 Joe Routt, the first All-American football player from Texas A&M, is born in Chappell Hill, Washington County.
1914 12/8/1914 Southwest Conference is formed, as part of the NCAA Division I, and lasts until 1996.
1915 1/30/1915 Rice and Baylor play basketball in the initial competition of the fledgling Southwest Conference.
1915 5/7/1915 The sinking of the Lusitania: World War I is at hand, andTexas will send thousands overseas to die in the fighting.
1915 8/6/1915 University of Houston president Philip Hoffman is born in Kobe, Japan.
1915 8/8/1915 Mexican raiders attack the Norias Division ranch headquarters of King Ranch, killing seven, and prompting increased protection from border raids.
1915 8/25/1915 Galveston hurricane kills 275 people, causes $50 million in damage (equivalent to a billion dollars by today's standards).
1915 9/22/1915 Southern Methodist University holds its first class.
1915 11/23/1915 An Aggie prank creates "Bevo," the University of Texas mascot.
1916 3/9/1916 Pancho Villa raid on Columbus, New Mexico triggers the Pershing Punitive Expedition, which operates out of Fort Bliss, which makes Fort Bliss a major outpost in the Mexican-American War.
1916 3/15/1916 Famous Jazz and Swing trumpeter and big band leader, Harry James, is born.
1917 2/27/1917 Governor John Connally is born in Floresville February 27, and will become Texas governor and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
1917 4/5/1917 Airfield Kelly Field in San Antonio opens in order to reduce airplane accidents.
1917 6/21/1917 The Humble Oil Company is incorporated
1917 7/18/1917 The 36th Infantry Division at Camp Bowie mobilized for WW I; it was made up of an Army National Guard Division from Texas and Oklahoma.
1917 8/5/1917 The Simms-Sinclair No. 11 Sweet gushes in, and becomes Goose Creek Oil Field's biggest producer.