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1941 8/4/1941 W. Lee O'Daniel resigns his Texas Governor's post to become a U.S. senator, and Lt. Governor Coke Stevenson replaces him as governor.
1941 10/24/1941 Longtime Texas state treasurer (1931-1941) Charlie Lockhart resigns.
1941 12/7/1941 The bombing of Pearl Harbor thrusts the U.S. into World War II.
1942 2/5/1942 Famous football quarterback Rodger Staubach is born
1942 4/24/1942 A World War II bond quota of more than $18 million is set for Texas, along with gasoline rationing.
1942 5/16/1942 Oveta Culp Hobby is sworn in as head of the WAACs -(Women's Army Auxiliary Corps).
1942 7/8/1942 Politician Phil Gramm is born at Fort Benning, Ga. the son of an Army sergeant stationed there.
1943 1/19/1943 Singer Janis Joplin is born in Port Arthur.
1943 2/18/1943 World War II hero, Dolly Shea, graduates from US Army Air Force flight nurse school in Kentucky. She was the only nurse from Texas killed in direct enemy action.
1943 2/24/1943 Texas League suspends baseball games for three seasons during World War II.
1943 6/16/1943 The National Guard is called out to stop a race riot in Beaumont, which kills two.
1943 7/12/1943 Baylor College of Medicine opens in former Sears, Roebuck store in Houston until Cullen Building was completed.
1943 7/14/1943 Broadway singer and actor Jules Bledsoe of Waco dies in Hollywood.
1943 9/7/1943 Fire in Gulf Hotel in Houston claims 55 lives.
1943 9/9/1943 As the war wears on, the 36th Division invades Italy.
1944 11/27/1944 Macario Garcia, a Mexican national who lived in Sugar Land, wins the Medal of Honor for actions in WWII in Germany.
1944 6/67/1944 From England the Allies invade Normandy.
1945 1/26/1945 Audie Murphy is awarded the Medal of Honor for his courageous fighting.
1945 3/26/1945 Battleship Texas takes part in battle of Okinawa in W W II. She is the last surviving dreadnaught battleships, being originally launched in 1912.
1945 5/8/1945 V. E. Day, World War II is over in Europe.
1945 7/17/1945 Clara Driscoll, whose philanthropy protected the grounds of the Alamo from being sold for a hotel site, dies in Corpus Christi.
1945 8/6/1945 A Texan, Captain Kermit K. Beahan, scouts out a clear spot over Hiroshima, as the first atomic bomb is dropped.
1945 8/14/1945 The Texas "Lost Battalion" is liberated after 42 months of cruel captivity, after helping POWs build the bridge on the River Kwai.
1945 9/2/1945 Admiral Chester Nimitz of Fredericksburg, Texas accepts the Japanese surrender on the USS Missouri, to end World War II.
1945 11/21/1945 Town of Thin Gravy changes name to Truman, honoring the President. This community was later absorbed into Mesquite.
1946 2/26/1946 Civil Rights activist Herman Sweatt applies for admission to University of Texas Law School, confronting the then-existing Jim Crow laws.
1946 4/5/1946 The state of Texas wins first place in its group in the 1945 National Traffic Safety contest; awards to the contest winners are to be made by President Truman.
1946 5/17/1946 'Texas Monthly' publisher Michael R. Levy is born.
1946 6/21/1946 10 die in Baker Hotel explosion and fire in Dallas.