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Charles August Albert Dellschau (4 June 1830 Brandenburg, Prussia – 20 April 1923 Houston, Texas) was a Prussian-American who gained posthumous fame after the discovery of his large scrapbooks that contained drawings, collages and watercolors of airplanes and airships. He has been classified as one of the first visionary artists. [1]
The famous opening line of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's (anonymous) novel, Paul Clifford, published this year, begins: "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the ...
March 26, 1830 – The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York. April 6, 1830 – Joseph Smith and 5 others organize the Church of Christ (later renamed the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints), the first formally organized church of the Latter Day Saint movement, in northwestern New York.
Houston: A History. Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-73020-9. Muir, Andrew Forest (July 1960). "Railroads Come to Houston 1857–1861". The Southwestern Historical Quarterly. 64 (1): 42– 63. JSTOR 30240901. Platt, Harold L. (1983). City Building in the New South: The Growth of Public Services in Houston, Texas, 1830-1915.
City Building in the New South: The Growth of Public Services in Houston, Texas, 1830-1910 is a 1983 non-fiction book by Harold L. Platt, published by Temple University Press. It is the second book of the publisher's "Technology and Urban Growth" series, which debuted in 1980. [ 1 ]
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April 5, 1986 - City takes part in celebration of Texas' Sesquicentennial, 25th Anniversary of NASA, and the Houston International Festival with Rendez-vous Houston concert. At the time it is the largest outdoor concert in history and is entered into the Guinness Book of World Records.