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August 18, 1983 - Hurricane Alicia hits Houston and Galveston. September, 1983 - Nine inches of rain flood the southern Downtown Houston. October, 1984 - A thunderstorm in north Harris County floods over 200 structures. August 1–October 18, 1989 - Hurricane Chantal and Hurricane Jerry make landfall within a short time-span.
HOUSTON - City Gear hosts its annual Cutz 4 Kids Back-to-School event on Sunday. The event happened at the City Gear store at 3636 Old Spanish Trail. It was open to the public, with no purchase ...
The stadium opened on August 24, 2002, with a preseason game between the Miami Dolphins and Houston Texans which the Dolphins won 24–3. [16] The stadium hosted its first regular season NFL football game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Houston Texans on September 8, 2002. [17] The first rodeo was held in the stadium in February 2003. [14]
Houston Gay Pride Parade. Houston Greek Festival. Houston International Festival (I-Fest) Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Houston Marathon. Juneteenth. Shell Houston Open. Texas Renaissance Festival. Westheimer Street Festival (no longer held biannually since October 17, 2004; the replacement festival, WestFest Compressed, was held in October ...
History of Texas. The city of Houston in the U.S. state of Texas was founded in 1837 after Augustus and John Allen had acquired land to establish a new town at the junction of Buffalo and White Oak bayous in 1836. Houston served as the temporary capital of the Republic of Texas. Meanwhile, the town developed as a regional transportation and ...
Several African-American-owned newspapers are published in Houston. Allan Turner of the Houston Chronicle said that the papers "are both journalistic throwbacks — papers whose content directly reflects their owners' views — and cutting-edge, hyper-local publications targeting the concerns of the city's roughly half-million African-Americans."
Space Center Houston is a science museum that serves as the official visitor center of NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. It was designated a Smithsonian Affiliate museum in 2014. The organization is owned by NASA, and operated under a contract by the nonprofit Manned Spaceflight Education Foundation, a 501 (c) (3) organization.
The Houston Chronicle is the largest daily newspaper in Houston, Texas, United States. As of April 2016, it is the third-largest newspaper by Sunday circulation in the United States, behind only The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. With the 1995 buyout of its longtime rival the Houston Post, the Chronicle became Houston's newspaper of ...