1835 – Mexican loyalist Antonio Menchaca wrote to Governor Leona Vicario informing him that Texans in Nacogdoches were determined to oppose Antonio López de Santa Anna and planned to “disarm all the Mexicans so that they cannot help defend the Government.”
1860 – In Marion County, seven of 24 defendants were found guilty of killing three men on October 24, 1868. The defendants were accused of dragging the five men out of the Jefferson jail and killing three of them. The jailed men, all Republicans, had been arrested the night before after a gun fight with local Democrats.
1877 – Texas Rangers captured Texas outlaw Wes Hardin in near Pensacola, FL.
1917 – The Houston Riot of 1917 began.
1927 – Mary Able was born in Bremond, TX. She founded her own flight school and became the 5th woman in the world with a Lear jet flight rating.
1937 – Texan Carl Joseph Crane made the world’s first fully automated plane landing.
1984 – In Dallas, TX, President Reagan did interviews with George Skelton for the Los Angeles Times and Hugh S. Sidey for TIME Magazine.
1984 – In Dallas, TX, President Reagan attended the Republican National Hispanic Assembly luncheon.
1984 – In Dallas, TX, President Reagan unveiled his “Morning in America” campaign strategy at the Republican Convention.
2013 – In Texas, a military court found Major Nidal Hasan guilty on all charges related to his 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood that killed 13 and injured 30.