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1946 7/6/1946 President George W. Bush is born.
1946 10/30/1946 Founder of Furr Food Stores, located in western Texas and eastern New Mexico, Crone Webster Furr, dies.
1946 11/4/1946 First Lady Laura Bush is born.
1947 1/30/1947 Baseball great Nolan Ryan is born.
1947 4/9/1947 Glazier-Higgins-Woodward Tornadoes strike West Texas and Oklahoma, killing 169 people
1947 4/16/1947 A cargo ship laden with fertilizer explodes in the harbor of Texas City, killing over 500 people.
1947 6/3/1947 Stage director and producer, Margo Jones, from Livingston, Texas, opens her Dallas Theatre-in-the-Round.
1947 7/2/1947 Luci Baines Johnson, younger daughter of LBJ, is born.
1947 11/18/1947 The Alley Theatre opens in Houston; it is one of the three oldest resident theaters in the U.S.
1948 1/4/1948 The Alford No. 1 in the Benedum field comes in, as oil is found in the Permian Basin.
1948 1/26/1948 John A. Lomax, co-founder of the Texas folklore Society, collector of cowboy songs, dies.
1948 7/9/1948 Construction begins on Sam Rayburn Veterans Administration Hospital in Bonham.
1948 8/28/1948 Lyndon Johnson successfully wins his senate race by 87 votes, thanks to Box 13 in Jim Wells County.
1948 9/27/1948 First television program in Texas which depicts U.S. President Harry Truman's visit to Fort Worth is broadcast.
1948 9/28/1948 WBAP-TV-Fort Worth, Channel 5, begins broadcasting.
1948 9/29/1948 WBAP, the first television station in Texas, begins regular broadcasting in Fort Worth.
1948 10/1/1948 The first televised football game is broadcast in Fort Worth on WBAP-TV.
1949 3/17/1949 Glenn McCarthy celebrates the grand opening of his Shamrock Hotel next to Texas Medical Center in Houston with a gala party for 50,000 guests.
1949 7/11/1949 Gov. Beauford Jester dies en route to Houston; he is the first Texas governor to die in office.
1949 8/24/1949 Herman Barnett, a Afro-American, becomes a student at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.
1949 8/29/1949 Tom C. Clark becomes Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1949 11/2/1949 The Daughters of the Republic of Texas become the custodians of the French Legation in Austin.
1951 1/30/1951 Hopalong Cassidy and his trusty horse 'Topper' appear in the downtown parade for the Houston Fat Stock Exposition.
1951 12/17/1951 "John Henry Faulk Show" debuts on WCBS; the show lasted six years.
1952 1/24/1952 Dallas Texans established, formerly the NY Yanks, had single season in Dallas.
1952 5/18/1952 Country western singer, George Strait, is born.
1952 6/12/1952 Rabbi Henry Cohen, founder of the Galveston Movement plan to settle European Jews, dies in Houston.