January 24th in 1845, the Texas Senate ratified a peace treaty that had been brokered by Sam Houston between Anglo settlers and 11 Native American tribes. This treaty was an important step towards establishing peaceful relationships and coexistence between different groups in the state.
In 2001, in Colorado Springs, CO, two fugitives, Patrick Murphy Jr. and Donald Newbury, were finally taken into custody after a 5-minute phone interview was granted with a TV station. They were the last remaining fugitives of the infamous “Texas 7,” a group of escaped prisoners who had committed a string of robberies and murders.