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The Houstorian Calendar: Today in Houston History

By James Glassman

Book information

Publisher
Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Year
2019
ISBN
9781439666234, 2018960980, 9781467139878
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1466139 bytes)
Series
On This Day In
Pages
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Time added
2022-09-29 23:12:55
BIO002000Biography & AutobiographyMulti-CulturalNonfictionPHO019000PHO023100Photography

Description

September 4, 2000, was Houston's hottest day on record, as well as Beyoncé's nineteenth birthday. Sam Houston was elected president on September 5, 1836. The city was awarded a National League baseball franchise on October 17, 1960, and on November 1, 2017, the Astros won their first World Series. On December 13, 1882, the Capitol Hotel became Houston's first public building to get electricity. Tragedy struck on April 16, 1947, when a ship carrying ammonium nitrate fertilizer exploded alongside a Texas City dock. James Glassman captures every single day of the year in the prism of Houston history, from the Texas Revolution to the moon landing.

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