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24 Dec 2009 04:24
Dec. 24, 2009 1905 Famed aviator, film producer and billionaire Howard Hughes is born in Houston. -
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23 Dec 2009 11:08
Dec. 23, 2009 William S. Fisher, commander of the Mier expedition, and a force of Texans cross the Rio Grande, invading Mexico at Mier. The initial invasion faced no opposition, but most of the Texans were taken prisoner in a subsequent battle with Mexican troops. Some were later executed by the Mexican government. -
21 Dec 2009 23:20
Dec. 22, 2009 1842 A force of more than 300 Texans and a small group of Texas Rangers take up positions near Mier on the Rio Grande as part of the Mier expedition, a plan to invade Mexico in retaliation for intrusions into independent Texas. -
21 Dec 2009 05:15
Dec. 21, 2009 1826 The Declaration of Independence of the republic of Fredonia is signed at the Old Stone Fort in Nacogdoches. This so-called Fredonian Rebellion is an attempt by impresario Haden Edwards to separate his colony from Mexico. The rebels flee when approached by Mexican troops. -
20 Dec 2009 13:12
Dec. 20, 2009 1835 Philip Dimmitt hoists what has been called the first Texas flag of independence. The flag featured a bloody arm holding a bloody sword on a white field. -
19 Dec 2009 06:04
Dec. 19, 2009 1842 The Somervell expedition, a group of Texas troops sent to invade Mexico in retaliation for Mexican intrusions into Texas, fails and is disbanded by leader Alexander Somervell. Some troops ignore the order and continue into Mexico as part of the failed Mier expedition. -
18 Dec 2009 14:17
Dec. 18, 2009 1860 Texas Rangers, commanded by Lawrence Sullivan Ross, attack a Comanche hunting camp at Mule Creek and recapture Cynthia Ann Parker almost 25 years after her abduction from Fort Parker. -
16 Dec 2009 22:17
Dec. 17, 2009 1827 Early Texas colonists dissolve the Old Station settlement, a receiving point for settlers bound for DeWittÂ’s colony, at the order of the Mexican government. -
16 Dec 2009 01:50
Dec. 16, 2009 1881 The Texas & Pacific Railway, which had been laying tracks westward across Texas since the early 1870s, reaches Sierra Blanca in West Texas, 92 miles east of El Paso. A connection there with the Southern Pacific forms a continuous rail line to the West Coast. -
13 Dec 2009 04:47
Dec. 13, 2009 2000 The first of two major winter storms in December 2000 hits North Texas, knocking out power to 235,000 people and causing $156 million in damage.
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