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In 1969, he won the Texas Gamblers Convention in Reno, Nevada; it was there that the idea for the World Series of Poker was conceived. [2] At the time, Addington was already a self-made millionaire [ 1 ] who played poker primarily for fun; for him, the game was more about personal challenge.
Cleto Rodríguez, a Mexican-American, was born and lived in San Marcos, Texas until his parents died when he was nine years old. After the death of his parents he was sent to live with relatives in San Antonio, Texas. As a boy he worked for the Gunter Hotel as a newsboy.
When David was ten, his family moved to San Antonio, Texas.At the encouragement of a new friend he began playing football at the Pop Warner level. After his junior season of varsity high school football in 2003, David was selected as a Unanimous First-Team All Area Class 5A defensive back by The San Antonio Express-News.
Jeff Wentworth, state senator from San Antonio; unseated in 2012 by Donna Campbell; John H. Wood Jr., federal judge in San Antonio until 1979, when he was assassinated by convicted murderer-for-hire Charles Harrelson, father of actor Woody Harrelson; John C. Woods, executioner of the Nuremberg Trials; master sergeant in United States Army
Gary Barnes, 83, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Dallas Cowboys, Chicago Bears), complications from Parkinson's disease. [356] Klaus Bugdahl, 88, German road and track cyclist. [357] (death announced on this date) Ursula Cantieni, 75, Swiss-German actress (Die Fallers – Die SWR Schwarzwaldserie). [358]
Karla Faye Tucker (November 18, 1959 – February 3, 1998) was an American woman sentenced to death for killing two people with a pickaxe during a burglary. [2] She was the first woman to be executed in the United States since Velma Barfield in 1984 in North Carolina, and the first in Texas since Chipita Rodriguez in 1863. [3]
Prosecutors and Arlington police said that Antonio Garcia shot and killed Cedric Dawkins on New Year’s Day 2020. A Tarrant County jury at Garcia’s trial this month disagreed.
San Antonio's first public hospital, The Robert B. Green Memorial Hospital, opened in 1917 on the west side of what is now downtown San Antonio. The hospital suffered from inconsistent funding over the years, so in 1955, voters approved the creation of a hospital district and a property tax to provide a stable funding source for it.