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1917 8/23/1917 20 people are killed in the Camp Logan race riots, when 156 African-American soldiers clash with Houston Police.
1917 8/25/1917 Governor Jim ("Pa") Ferguson resigns after being impeached.
1917 9/1/1917 The law firm of Vinson and Elkins is formed in Houston, which today has offices around the world.
1917 10/21/1917 The "Roaring Ranger" Oil Field blows in at Ranger, opening the door to oil fields in West Texas
1917 12/3/1917 Judge Seth Shepherd, who secured the return of the original manuscript of the Texas Declaration of Independence, which was discovered in the national archives in Washington, D.C., dies.
1918 2/28/1918 Texas ratifies the federal Prohibition Amendment.
1918 5/6/1918 William Jennings Bryan predicts that national prohibition will be effective within two years of his prediction.
1918 11/11/1918 World War I ends; when "the war to end all wars" comes to a close, as Germany signs an armistice agreement.
1918 12/14/1918 Leonard Brothers department store opens in Fort Worth.
1919 5/24/1919 Texas adds a Prohibition amendment to its Texas Constitution.
1919 5/31/1919 First wedding performed in an aircraft while flying over Houston.
1919 7/11/1919 Longview experiences Race Riot, one of several across the U.S.
1919 9/14/1919 Hurricane ruins Spohn Hospital in Corpus Christi, killing 5.
1919 10/19/1919 League of Women Voters is organized in San Antonio.
1920 1/12/1920 Civil rights leader James Farmer is born in Marshall in Harrison County.
1920 3/12/1920 1,600 dockworkers strike, creating victory for open-shop advocates.
1920 6/14/1920 Sul Ross State Normal College in Alpine opens with 77 students.
1921 1/14/1921 Photographer Erwin E. Smith advertises his portfolio, "Pictures of the West," in Scribner's Magazine, a project begun that was never completed.
1921 4/11/1921 Majestic Theatre opens in downtown Dallas, with seating of 2,800.
1921 6/15/1921 Bessie Coleman becomes first African American woman to hold international pilot's license
1921 11/11/1921 A Texas A&M vs. University of Texas football game is the first football game ever to be broadcast play-by-play.
1922 3/22/1922 Oilman James Abercrombie invents the oil well Type MO blowout preventer, reducing deep well gas pressure.
1923 4/23/1923 Dolph Briscoe, 41st Governor of Texas, is born in Uvalde.
1923 5/28/1923 The Santa Rita No. 1 gusher comes in, which begins the University of Texas oil fortune.
1923 7/6/1923 Dr Pepper incorporates, as "distinctively different" drink.
1923 7/30/1923 Roy Mitchell is hanged in Waco, which was the last legal public hanging in Texas and the U.S.
1923 9/29/1923 "Bum" Phillips, famous as head coach of NFL Houston Oilers, is born.
1923 11/8/1923 Hubert Knickerbocker of Yoakum witnesses Hitler's beer hall takeover, and begins a writing career that leads to winning the Pulitzer Prize.
1924 2/8/1924 The electric chair [ "Old Sparky"] at Huntsville State Prison receives its first occupants.