Historical Events Of Dallas, Texas

The reason that one of the great cities of the world is situated in the middle of the prairie is not clear. Most great cities have obvious natural advantages - harbors, especially - and Dallas has no obvious advantages. However, it is on a natural N-S migratory route and the fact that the Dallas sits on the relatively fresh Trinity, flanked by the larger but undrinkably saline Red and Brazos rivers gave the Dallas-Fort Worth advantage over other natural sites of habitation in the region, and advantage that was readily magnified by shrewd city fathers.

1841 - Dallas is founded.

1873 - Two railroads intersect in Dallas, assuring its economic future.

1903 - Dallas annexes town of Oak Cliff on the south side of the Trinity River , expanding its size by a third.

October 19 , 1917 - Love Field is created.

1922 - The Magnolia Building opens. Its trademark Neon Pegasus that would be erected in 1934 would come to be one of the city's most recognizable landmarks and representative of the city itself.

1927 - Love Field is opened for civilian use.

1927 - The world's first Convenience Store is opened in Dallas by the Southland Ice Company, which will eventually become 7-Eleven .

1930 - C.M. Joiner strikes Oil 100 miles (160 km) northeast of Dallas. Dallas became a center of commerce for the Texas oil trade.

1930 - Bonnie And Clyde meet in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas and begin their crime spree across Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana.

1934 - The criminal duo Bonnie And Clyde are buried in Dallas after being killed by police in Louisiana.

1958 - While working for Texas Instruments , Jack Kilby created the world's first Integrated Circuit at a Dallas laboratory in September, sparking an electronics revolution that changed the world and created a global market now worth more than $1 trillion a year.

November 22 , 1963 - President John F. Kennedy was Assassinated in a motorcade traveling west on Elm Street in Dealey Plaza . This event is memorialized by the nearby Kennedy Memorial and by the Sixth Floor Museum in the former school book depository at the corner of Elm and Houston.

1974 - Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport opens.

1976 - Thanks-Giving Square is completed in downtown Dallas.

1978 - ''Dallas'' the TV series debuts with a CBS Mini-series filmed entirely in Dallas. The internationally popular show runs for 13 years.

1979 - US Congress passes the Wright Amendment, restricting passenger air service out of Love Field Airport.

1981 - USS ''Dallas'' , a nuclear submarine named after the city, is commissioned.

1984 - Dallas hosts the 1984 Republican National Convention

1996 - Dallas Area Rapid Transit begins operating the first light rail system in Texas (and the Southwest).

1997 - Congress passes the Shelby Amendment, which eases some of the Wright Amendment restrictions on Love Field Airport.

2000 - Dallas Area Rapid Transit opens the first full-service subway station in Texas (and the Southwest).

''See also: Dallas, Texas ''

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