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Happy Birthday, Ann Richards!
Post dateSeptember 2, 2016

Happy Birthday, Ann Richards!

On the first day of September, 1933, Robert Willis and Mildred Warren of Lakeview,...
Happy Birthday, H. Ross Perot!
Post dateJune 27, 2016

Happy Birthday, H. Ross Perot!

Henry Ross Perot was born June 27, 1930 in Texarkana, Texas. He became a...
Happy Birthday, Mission San Juan Bautista!
Post dateJune 24, 2016

Happy Birthday, Mission San Juan Bautista!

Mission San Juan Bautista, the “Mother of Texas Missions”, was founded on the feast...
Happy Birthday, “Babe” Didrickson Zaharias!
Post dateJune 22, 2016

Happy Birthday, “Babe” Didrickson Zaharias!

The Didricksons of Port Arthur, Texas named their new baby girl Mildred Ella, but...
Happy Birthday, Red Adair!
Post dateJune 17, 2016

Happy Birthday, Red Adair!

Paul Neal “Red” Adair was born June 18, 1915 and lived to be 89...
Post dateMay 20, 2016

Happy Birthday, Paul J. Meyer and T. Boone Pickens!

Two well-known Texas philanthropists were born one day apart in the same year–Paul J....
Happy Birthday, Willie Nelson!
Post dateApril 29, 2016

Happy Birthday, Willie Nelson!

You might say Willie Nelson was a boy who was born in the middle...
Happy Birthday, Carol Burnett!
Post dateApril 25, 2016

Happy Birthday, Carol Burnett!

In the depths of the Great Depression on April 26, 1933, a baby girl was...
Happy Birthday, Roy Orbison!
Post dateApril 22, 2016

Happy Birthday, Roy Orbison!

When Roy Kelton Orbison entered his small corner of the world in Vernon Texas...
Happy Birthday, Erastus “Deaf” Smith!
Post dateApril 18, 2016

Happy Birthday, Erastus “Deaf” Smith!

For a quiet man, Erastus “Deaf” Smith‘s name sure pops up a lot! I’ve...

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