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- 1836 - The Allen Brothers, John Kirby, and Augustus
Chapman co-founded Houston.
- June 5, 1837 - The city gets a city charter from the Congress
of the Republic of Texas. It became the provisional capital
of Texas.
- 1839 - The capital of the Republic moves to Austin. The dispute
over where the state records should go would cause a conflict.
- 1900s - Oil is discovered in Texas. A new industry will start.
- 1902 - President Theodore Roosevelt approves a one-million dollar
fund for the construction of the Houston Ship Channel.
- 1904 - Houston Lyceum and Carnegie Library opens, later known
as Houston Public Library.
- 1912 - The Rice Institute opens, later known as Rice University.
- 1914 - President Woodrow Wilson opens the Houston Ship Channel
74 years after the digging had started.
- 1920s - The Texas oil boom causes people to move into the city,
causing its first growth spurt.
- 1927 - Houston Junior College opens its doors as part of Houston
Independent School District.
- 1934 - Houston Junior College becomes a four-year institution
and changes its name to the University of Houston.
- 1937 - Houston Municipal Airport, which would later become William
P. Hobby Airport, is opened.
- 1939 - The University of Houston moves to its permanent location,
southeast of Downtown.
- 1945 - The University of Houston separates from HISD and becomes
a private university.
- 1948 - The Gulf Freeway opens as U.S. Highway 75 and signals
the beginning of freeway construction in the city.
- 1959 - Sharpstown Mall opens and is the first indoor air-conditioned
mall in the world.
- 1963 - The University of Houston ends its status as a private
institution and becomes a state university by entering into
the Texas State System of Higher Education after a long battle
with opponents from other state universities blocking the change.
- 1963 - The Manned Spacecraft Center, which would become the
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center opens on land donated by Rice
University.
- 1963 - The Humble Building is completed, the tallest building
west of the Mississippi River at the time.
- April 9, 1965 - The Astrodome opens. At the same time, the Houston
Colt .45s are rechristened as the Houston Astros.
- 1969 - Houston Intercontinental Airport, currently George Bush
Intercontinental Airport, is opened to the public.
- July 20, 1969 - "Houston" becomes the first word spoken
from the moon, by astronaut Neil Armstrong of the Apollo 11
mission.
- 1970s - The Arab Oil Embargo causes demand for Texas oil to
boom. People from the "Rust Belt" states such as New
York and Pennsylvania move into Houston.
- 1977 - The University of Houston celebrates its 50th anniversary
as the Texas Legislature establishes the University of Houston
System, a state system of higher education that includes three
- other universities.
1978 - The headquarters of Continental Airlines move to Houston
after buying out Texas International.
- 1978-1980 - Traffic signal signage at major intersections were
improved. Houston is the first in the nation to modernize their
signage, which is still done to this present day.
- 1979 - a portion of the master-planned community of "Clear
Lake City" that is in Houston's extraterritorial jurisdiction
(ETJ) and an area east of Missouri City in Fort Bend County
are annexed into the corporate limits of Houston.
- 1980s - The end of the Embargo causes the Houston growth bubble
to burst.
- 1981 - Kathryn J. Whitmire is elected as the first woman mayor.
She would appoint Lee P. Brown as the first African American
police chief.
- 1982 - Texas Commerce Bank Tower is completed in Downtown Houston,
making it the tallest building west of the Mississippi until
the late 1980's, and presently the tallest five-sided building
in the world.
- 1985 - The University of Houston changes its name to the University
of Houston-University Park to separate its identity and confusion
with the other three universities within the UH System.
- April 5, 1986 - City takes part in celebration of Texas' Sesquicentennial,
25th Anniversary of NASA, and the Houston International Festival
with Rendez-vous Houston concert. At the time it is the largest
outdoor concert in history, and is entered into the Guinness
Book of World Records.
- June 1, 1987 - The former Shamrock Hilton hotel is demolished
as part of the Texas Medical Center expansion efforts despite
protests from historical preservationists.
- 1988 - The University of Houston-University Park reverts its
name back to the University of Houston after much controversy
with the name change in 1985 in order to separate its identity
and confusion with the other three universities in the UH System.
- July 9-11, 1990 - Houston hosts the 16th G7 Summit
- April 1993 - The Westheimer Colony Art Festival is held on a
stretch of Calhoun Road (now St. Joseph Parkway) in Downtown
Houston; it was the first time the art festival was not held
in the Montrose. After 1996, the festival was renamed the Bayou
City Art Festival.
- 1996 - The master-planned community of Kingwood is annexed by
the city of Houston.
- November 1997 - Former Houston Police Chief Lee P. Brown is
elected as Houston's first African American mayor; at the same
time, Annise Parker is the first openly gay or lesbian city
council member.
- May 6-May 7, 2000 - After 27 years of holding the Westheimer
Street Festival in the Montrose, the festival was held in Eleanor
Tinsley Park west of Downtown Houston. Promoters of the festival
were denied a street closure permit back in January 2000 under
a revised festival ordinance where public hearings are held.
Attendance figures declined.
- November 2001 - Enron is found to have accounting scandals.
The company goes bankrupt.
- 2002 - The University of Houston celebrates its 75th anniversary
with an enrollment of 34,443 that fall semester. At the same
time, the University of Houston System celebrates its 25th anniversary
with an enrollment of over 54,000.
- November 5, 2002 - Houston City Controller Sylvia R. Garcia
(in her third term) successfully campaigns for Harris County
Commissioner Precinct 2, making her the first Hispanic female
to hold office in the Harris County Commissioners Court. After
Garcia's victory, the Houston City Council appoints Judy Gray
Johnson to fill her unexpired term until the November 2003 elections.
- May 2003 - For the first time, the Houston Art Car Parade is
not held on the same weekend with the Houston International
Festival.
- June 28-June 29, 2003 - The Westheimer Street Festival staged
their homecoming on Westheimer during Gay Pride Weekend after
promoters decided to move the festival back to the Montrose
because of it declining attendance when the festival was on
Allen Parkway since May 2000.
- Fall 2003 - Halliburton's headquarters move from Dallas to Houston.
- December 6, 2003 - Annise Parker defeats fellow council member
Bruce Tatro to become Houston's first openly lesbian city controller.
Both Parker and Tatro are term-limited in their current seats.
- January 1, 2004 - METRORail is opened to the public at 1 p.m.
CST - this marks the reintroduction of rail service since June
1940.
- July 30, 2004 - The Houston City Council unanimously votes for
a change in the curbside parking ordinance where Saturday metered
parking is enforced. The original proposal for paid curbside
parking between 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. was not popular with Downtown-area
restaurant owners. The ordinance took effect on October 22,
2004.
- 2004 - Houston hosts the Super Bowl as well as the MLB All-Star
Game.
- 2004 - Citgo's headquarters move from Tulsa to Houston.
- December 24, 2004 - Freak snowstorm hits, causing record Christmas
snowfall in the region.
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