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1934 5/23/1934 Lawmen ambush bank robbers, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, who die violently in a hail of gunfire.
1934 7/25/1934 A hurricane hits near Seadrift in Calhoun County killing 19 and causing damage of about four and a half million dollars, approximately 85% of which is crop damage.
1935 4/14/1935 During a great dust storm, song-writer and folk singer Woody Guthrie pens "So Long, It's Been Good to Know You."
1935 8/10/1935 Texas Department of Public Safety is established by state legislature.
1935 8/31/1935 Baseball star Frank Robinson is born in Beaumont.
1935 9/26/1935 American writer of western fiction, Andy Adams, dies.
1936 2/21/1936 Texas congresswoman Barbara Jordan is born in Houston.
1936 4/23/1936 Singer, song-writer Roy Orbison is born in Vernon.
1936 6/6/1936 Texas Centennial Exposition opens in Dallas, running June - November.
1936 8/12/1936 The temperature hits 120 degrees Fahrenheit in Seymour, Texas, the hottest reading ever recorded in the state.
1936 9/7/1936 Musician Buddy Holly is born in Lubbock, Texas.
1936 9/23/1936 First XIT Association is formed in Amarillo.
1937 3/18/1937 A natural gas explosion in a school at New London, Texas claims the life of almost 300 students and teachers.
1937 4/10/1937 Lyndon Johnson wins his first election to the U.S. House.
1937 6/15/1937 Country and Western singer Waylon Jennings is born in Littlefield, Lamb County.
1937 6/27/1937 Kris Kristofferson is born in Brownsville.
1937 12/31/1937 114,000 acre Aransas National Wildlife Refuge is established along the Gulf Coast.
1938 4/10/1938 Football great Don Meredith is born.
1938 7/14/1938 Howard Hughes and crew of four circles the globe in less than four days.
1938 7/19/1938 Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan of Galveston flies "by mistake" to Ireland.
1938 8/22/1938 Sam Robertson, who fought with Pershing and won a Medal of Honor in World War I, dies in Brownsville.
1938 12/30/1938 San Antonio Mayor Charles Quin indicted for misapplication of funds by Bexar County Grand Jury.
1939 2/9/1939 Herschel "Tex" Evans, tenor saxophonist for Count Basie Orchestra, dies
1939 4/3/1939 Approximately 300 University of Texas students storm the governor's mansion in Austin during campus selection celebrations; they are hoping to throw Governor W. Lee O'Daniel in the Texas Memorial fountain.
1939 4/20/1939 Two days of ceremonies begin at the base of the 567 foot San Jacinto monument to dedicate the San Jacinto Museum of History.
1939 10/2/1939 Rex Reed, a writer and film critic, is born in Fort Worth.
1940 3/14/1940 34 people killed, 15 injured when a train and a truck of migrant workers collides outside of McAllen.
1941 6/2/1941 Andrew Jackson Houston, Sam Houston's youngest son, is appointed to serve out the term of Morris Sheppard in the U.S. Senate.
1941 6/20/1941 German U-203, which participated in 11 wolf-packs, fails in its torpedo attack on the U.S.