Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This page was last edited on 7 December 2023, at 22:28 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
1936 – Beauxart Gardens housing for urban poor created near Beaumont (approximate date). 1943 – June: Beaumont race riot of 1943. [13] 1943–1944 – Beaumont served as a stand-in for Paris, France for Royal Air Force airmen cadets flying on frequent training missions from their base in Terrell, Texas. [14] 1950 – Population: 94,014. [6]
Shiva's Headband (or Shiva's Head Band), was an American psychedelic rock band, formed in Austin, Texas, United States, in 1967. [1] Original members included fiddler Spencer Perskin and his wife Susan, keyboardist Shawn Siegel, guitarists Kenny Parker and Bob Tom Reed and drummer Jerry Barnett. [ 2 ]
Harry James, trumpet player and band leader who played in the Beaumont High School band while still in junior high [19] John Holmes Jenkins , 1958 – Texas historian and author [ 20 ] Alan J. Magill , 1972 – leader of Gates Foundation program to eradicate malaria until death in 2015 [ 21 ]
Fair Park Coliseum was a 7,200-seat, covered, open-sided, multi-purpose arena in Beaumont, Texas.It hosted local sporting events and concerts. It was opened in 1978. At the time of its opening the Fair Park Coliseum was the primary concert venue in the Beaumont area; within a decade, however, demand for concert tickets proved so high that the much larger Montagne Center was built in 1984, only ...
The Texas Ninth Court of Appeals is located in the Jefferson County Courthouse in Beaumont. [152] The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) operates the Beaumont District Parole Office in Beaumont. [153] The Texas Department of Corrections operates three facilities of various custody types in unincorporated areas of Jefferson County, with ...
Texas in the United States. The U.S. state of Texas has long been a center for musical innovation and is the birthplace of many notable musicians. Texans have pioneered developments in Tejano and Conjunto music, Rock 'n Roll, Western swing, jazz, Piano, punk rock, country, hip-hop, electronic music, gothic industrial music, religious music, mariachi, psychedelic rock, zydeco and the blues.
Simmons’ career with Lamar began in 1970 when he joined the faculty as an instructor and director of the marching band. [8] He rose through the ranks, later serving as director of bands and as chair of the Department of Music and Theatre before his appointment as dean. Dr. Simmons took office September 1, 1999 as the 10th president of Lamar ...