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1960 7/14/1960 First Cowboys football training camp opens in Forest Grove, Oregon.
1960 9/11/1960 Houston Oilers play first game in opening year of AFL.
1961 6/25/1961 Miriam "Ma" Ferguson dies at 86 years.
1961 7/29/1961 Cowboy songwriter and hill country native, Oscar Fox, dies at age 82.
1961 9/9/1961 Meteorite hits Grayson County, crashing into a building in Bells.
1961 9/10/1961 Hurricane Carla hits the upper Texas coast.
1961 9/15/1961 Hurricane Carla kills 34, being the first category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic basin.
1961 11/16/1961 Sam Rayburn, U.S. Congressman for 48 years, dies at age 79; he is buried near Bonham, Texas in Fannin County.
1962 4/10/1962 When the Houston Colt .45s' 11 -2 win over the Chicago Cubs Major League baseball arrives in Texas.
1962 9/17/1962 Lake Hawkins and Lake Winnsboro dams are completed, increasing flood control.
1963 1/14/1963 The Treaty of El Chamizal finally settles the border dispute between Mexico and Texas.
1963 6/1/1963 When Texas A&M allows women to enroll; the "Maggie" is born.
1963 11/22/1963 President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in a parade through Dallas, Texas.
1963 11/24/1963 Lee Harvey Oswald is shot in a Dallas prison by Jack Ruby.
1964 3/14/1964 Jack Ruby convicted of murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, and sentenced to death.
1964 7/31/1964 Country and Western singer Jim Reeves (from Carthage) is killed in a plane crash.
1964 9/18/1964 J. Frank Dobie, well-known Texas folklorist and author, dies at his home in Austin.
1964 11/23/1964 Dr. Michael DeBakey performs first successful coronary bypass surgery in Houston with a vein graft.
1965 1/4/1965 The Sam Rayburn office building, the most expensive office structure in the world today at $88 million, opens.
1965 3/7/1965 Natural Bridge Caverns near San Antonio are discovered.
1965 3/29/1965 Sam Rayburn Reservoir fills with water from the Angelina River.
1965 4/9/1965 The Astrodome opens in Houston, with the Houston Astros playing the New York Yankees as the Dome's first game.
1965 6/3/1965 Astronaut Ed White of San Antonio becomes the first American to walk in space.
1966 8/1/1966 From the University of Texas Tower, Charles Whitman kills 17 people and wounds 31 more in a deadly shooting spree.
1966 12/8/1966 The Battleship Texas fails to be chosen for the movie "The Sand Pebbles."
1967 9/20/1967 Giant hurricane 'Beulah' hits the Texas coast, killing 38 people.
1968 4/8/1968 Lady Bird Johnson dedicates Padre Island National Seashore, the longest seashore in the National Parks system.
1968 4/29/1968 In Dallas delegates to the United Methodist Church are in strong support of the church's participation in the Consultation on Church Union. It is expected that this Consultation will create a 25 million member United Methodist Church.
1968 5/3/1968 Surgeon Dr. Denton Cooley performs first human artificial heart transplant in U.S. at Houston's St. Luke's Hospital.