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Vice President Al Gore, the Democratic Party candidate, performed strongly in South Texas, which is composed of a heavy Latino population, and the city of El Paso. Three counties in East Texas voted for Gore by narrow margins: Jefferson, Morris, and Newton. This was the worst performance for a Democrat in East Texas since the 1984 election.
Convective outlook from the Storm Prediction Center highlighting a moderate risk of severe weather over North Texas on March 28. Early on March 28, an upper-level low tracked eastward into the Southern United States along with its associated shortwave trough, sending the subtropical jet through Texas and bringing along with it strong west-northwesterly winds in the upper-levels of the troposphere.
November 1 – Richard K. Webel, American landscape architect (b. 1900) November 5 – Jimmie Davis, American musician and politician (b. 1899) November 6 – L. Sprague de Camp, writer (b. 1907) November 14 – Robert Trout, American journalist (b. 1908) November 16 DJ Screw, American disc jockey (b. 1971) Joe C., American rapper and hype man ...
2008 — Hurricane Ike kills 100 people along the Texas coast, produces $31 billion in damage, and contributes to rising oil prices. 2008 — U.S. oil prices hit a record $147 per barrel in the wake of—among other factors—international tensions and the falling U.S. dollar vs. the Euro .
This is a list of the individual Texas year pages. In 1845, the United States annexed the Republic of Texas as the 28th U.S. state , establishing the State of Texas. [ 1 ]
The 2000 United States Senate election in Texas took place on November 7, 2000. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison won re-election to a second full term. As of 2025, this is the last time Travis County voted Republican in a statewide election and the last time a Republican won every county in the Texas Triangle in a ...
June 19, 1865 - Juneteenth is an American holiday that commemorates the June 19, 1865 announcement of the abolition of slavery in the U.S. state of Texas. [ 13 ] 1892 - First annual road race of the Magnolia Cycling Club was held on shelled roads in the Houston Heights .