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Mid-October 1994 – The remnants of Hurricane Rosa cause severe flooding in Texas. [64] In some locations the flood is considered a 100-year event, peaking at 29.40 in (747 mm) in Cypress. [64] The floods kill 22 people and cause $700 million in damages. [64]
The newly organized Texian Army, determined to put a decisive end to Mexican control over Texas, began marching towards San Antonio de Bexar on October 13, 1835. [2] Days earlier, General Martín Perfecto de Cos, brother-in-law of the Mexican president, had arrived in Bexar to take command of all the Mexican forces in Texas. [3]
El Paso will be the first Texas city to have a good view of the solar eclipse at about 10:40 a.m., according to National Eclipse. The rest of the Lone Star State will follow: The rest of the Lone ...
The event occurs around Easter each year, with the 2025 event scheduled for April 16–22. The event location is in dry bushland near Jilakin Lake and Rock and is referred to as Jilakin Rock City. Each year a swan-shaped wooden effigy has been built and burned at the culmination of the event. Attendance is regularly over 3000 people.
Controversy about the event has continued in the 21st century. Gainesville, a city of 16,000, was named in 2012 by Rand McNally as "the most patriotic small town in America". That year, the Cooke County Heritage Society planned an October event in Gainesville to mark the 150th anniversary of the Great Hanging as part of Civil War history.
The 2024 Skate America was the first event of the 2024–25 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating: a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Credit Union of Texas Event Center in Allen, Texas, from October 18–20. [1] Medals were awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance.
Tanya Tucker performs Oct. 14 during the recent Austin City Limits Music Festival. Tucker, who also was in town for Two Step Inn, will play the new Cattle Country Music Festival in 2024. April 12 ...
After testing various Halloween-based seasonal events throughout the 1970s to mid-1980s, Six Flags, then owned by Bally Manufacturing, created an all-new Halloween event for AstroWorld in 1986 that they named Six Flags Fright Nights. [3] [5] In 1987, the event began to be expanded to Six Flags' other properties.