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13 February 13, 1939 (Monday) 14 February ... The following events occurred in February 1939: February 1, ... jazz pianist, in Houston, Texas (d. 2014) February 2 ...
Texas Renaissance Festival Westheimer Street Festival (no longer held biannually since October 17, 2004; the replacement festival, WestFest Compressed, was held in October 2005) One-time events
2010 – A bomb explodes in the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India, killing 17 and injuring 60 more. 2011 – For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla , an American Indian tribe , are able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park , restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855.
May 13–14, 2015 - Clear Lake Area May 13, pre-Memorial Day Flood Devastating storms floods the south sector of the city. Within a nine-hour span from the night of May 13, 2015, to the morning of May 14, numerous homes in the region flooded and one man died.
Cockrell Butterfly Area, Houston Museum of Natural Science Space Center Houston is the official visitors’ center of NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center.Space Center Houston includes many interactive exhibits—including Moon rocks and a Space Shuttle simulator—in addition to special presentations that tell the story of NASA's crewed space flight program.
A woman carries out a shooting at Lakewood Church, Houston, Texas, United States. She is shot and killed by an off-duty Houston police officer. (The Washington Post) A drive-by spree shooting in California, United States kills four people and injures a 13-year-old. All three suspects have been arrested and unharmed.
The Bayou City Art Festival (formerly the Westheimer Colony Art Festival) is an arts festival held biannually by the Art Colony Association in Houston, Texas. The festival is held in Memorial Park in the spring and in Downtown Houston in the fall. The Art Colony Association originated in 1971, when it was known as the Westheimer Colony Association.
From 1983 to 1996, Houston was the site of the annual Comix Fair, a smaller-scale convention primarily focused on comic books. On August 7–8, 1993, the University of Houston hosted the first annual "Houston Comic Book Festival", with official guests Chris Claremont, Matt Wagner, Kelley Jones, Joe St. Pierre, Evan Dorkin, and Mike Leeke.