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Sunday, September 20, 2026 Good Morning! On this day in 1835, Mexican Gen. Martín Perfecto de Cós landed 500 soldiers at the port of Copano and marched inland toward San … Continue reading Sunday, September 20, 2026
Saturday, September 19, 2026 Good morning! On this day in 1942, Del Valle Army Air Base was activated. It was renamed Bergstrom Field the following year for the first Austinite killed in … Continue reading Saturday, September 19, 2026
Friday, September 18, 2026 Good morning! On this day in 1842, 38 Texans rode up to the Alamo to bait Gen. Adrián Woll’s cavalry into a chase. The pursuit ran … Continue reading Friday, September 18, 2026
Thursday, September 17, 2026 Good morning! On this day in 1910, Crosby County voters chose Crosbyton over Emma as their county seat, 198 to 120. It took a court fight to … Continue reading Thursday, September 17, 2026
Wednesday, September 16, 2026 Good morning! On this day in 1922, anti-Klan Democrats met in Dallas and picked Houston lawyer George Peddy to challenge the Ku Klux Klan-backed Democratic candidate for … Continue reading Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Tuesday, September 15, 2026 Good morning! On this day in 1883, the University of Texas opened in Austin with eight professors and 221 students. Some classes still met in the temporary … Continue reading Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Monday, September 14, 2026 Good Morning! On this day in 1908, John Worth Cloud was born. Cloud wrote The Legend of Old Stone Ranch, the official epic poem of Texas. 📣 … Continue reading Monday, September 14, 2026
Sunday, September 13, 2026 Good Morning! On this day in 1963, Mary Kay Ash opened Beauty by Mary Kay in a small Dallas storefront with $5,000 in savings and her … Continue reading Sunday, September 13, 2026
Saturday, September 12, 2026 Good morning! On this day in 1866, Lyne Taliaferro Barret drilled Texas’ first producing oil well to a depth of 106 feet near Oil Springs in … Continue reading Saturday, September 12, 2026
Friday, September 11, 2026 Twenty-five years ago today, terrorists hijacked four commercial jets and killed 2,977 people at the World Trade Center, at the Pentagon, and near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. That night, … Continue reading Friday, September 11, 2026
