This Day In Texas History - May 28
Posted: Tue May 28, 2019 10:45 am
1861 - Mission Concepción in San Antonio was solemnly reopened as a training center for postulants and novices of the Marianist order. Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción de Acuña Mission was originally established in East Texas in 1716 and moved to its present site in San Antonio in 1731. The four San Antonio missions were partially secularized in 1794, a process that was completed with Mexican independence in 1823. In 1841 the Republic of Texas conveyed the title of ownership of the Concepción church and land to the Catholic Church, represented by Bishop J. M. Odin. Andrew M. Edel, a French Marianist, conditionally purchased the ninety-acre property in 1855 as a farming project to support St. Mary's Institute, a boys' school he had founded. Concepción is now part of San Antonio Missions National Historical Park.
1910 - Blues guitarist and singer, T-Bone Walker was born in Linden in Cass County. He was a tremendous influence on BB King, and a giant in the early days of the Blues.
1923 - Santa Rita No. 1 came in. It was located on University of Texas land in Reagan County. Early in the morning the well sprayed oil over the top of the derrick and covered a 250-yard area around the site. Santa Rita attracted the attention of scouts from major oil companies and proved that the Permian Basin was indeed rich in oil. In 1940 the Santa Rita pump was moved from its original site to the University of Texas campus in Austin. Its presence commemorates a time of transformation for both the University of Texas and Texas A&M University, which shared oil royalties on state university land.
1924 - The U.S. Congress established the United States Border Patrol as part of the Immigration Bureau, an arm of the Department of Labor. Its duties included the prevention of smuggling and the arrest of illegal entrants into the United States. During Prohibition smuggling absorbed most of the attention of the border patrol, as bootleggers avoided the bridges and slipped their forbidden cargo across the Rio Grande by way of pack mules. In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt united the Bureau of Immigration and the Bureau of Naturalization into the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and in 1940 the patrol moved out of the Department of Labor to the Department of Justice.From 1942 to 1964, the border patrol recruited Mexican nationals, called braceros, authorizing them to visit the United States for specific periods of time as legal agricultural workers. In 1954, however, as illegal immigration along the Mexican border soared, the patrol inaugurated Operation Wetback, a large repatriation project. The 1980s and 1990s saw an influx of thousands of immigrants, both legal and illegal, from Mexico and Central America to the Rio Grande Valley.
1955 - Elvis Presley performed live in Fort Worth, TX. The show was played live on radio's "Big D Jamboree."
1971 - Audie Leon Murphy, war hero, Hollywood actor, and songwriter, was born near Kingston, Texas on June 20, 1924. He enlisted in the United States Army at Greenville, Texas, in June 1942, around the date of his eighteenth birthday. After basic infantry training at Camp Wolters, Texas, and advanced training at Fort Meade, Maryland, he was assigned to North Africa as a private in Company B, Fifteenth Infantry Regiment, Third Infantry Division. He later served as the commander of Company B. During his World War II career Murphy received thirty-three awards, citations, and decorations and won a battlefield promotion to second lieutenant. He received every medal that the United States gives for valor, two of them twice. At the time of his death Murphy was the most decorated combat soldier in United States history. Murphy was killed in an airplane crash on May 28, 1971, near Christiansburg, Virginia
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1973 - Helium millionare, Stanley March 3 (he never liked the more prentious "III") invited a San Francisco art collective named The Ant Farm, to create his famed "Cadillac Ranch" near the remnants of old Route 66 in the Texas Panhandle, west of Amarillo. On this date in 1974, the artwork was completed. The work of art is composed of ten half-buried cadillacs (1948 to 1963 models) equally spaced into the ground, all facing West, and placed at the same angle of the pyramid at Cheops, Egypt. The art work has since become a mecca for roadside tourists from all over the world.
1910 - Blues guitarist and singer, T-Bone Walker was born in Linden in Cass County. He was a tremendous influence on BB King, and a giant in the early days of the Blues.
1923 - Santa Rita No. 1 came in. It was located on University of Texas land in Reagan County. Early in the morning the well sprayed oil over the top of the derrick and covered a 250-yard area around the site. Santa Rita attracted the attention of scouts from major oil companies and proved that the Permian Basin was indeed rich in oil. In 1940 the Santa Rita pump was moved from its original site to the University of Texas campus in Austin. Its presence commemorates a time of transformation for both the University of Texas and Texas A&M University, which shared oil royalties on state university land.
1924 - The U.S. Congress established the United States Border Patrol as part of the Immigration Bureau, an arm of the Department of Labor. Its duties included the prevention of smuggling and the arrest of illegal entrants into the United States. During Prohibition smuggling absorbed most of the attention of the border patrol, as bootleggers avoided the bridges and slipped their forbidden cargo across the Rio Grande by way of pack mules. In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt united the Bureau of Immigration and the Bureau of Naturalization into the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and in 1940 the patrol moved out of the Department of Labor to the Department of Justice.From 1942 to 1964, the border patrol recruited Mexican nationals, called braceros, authorizing them to visit the United States for specific periods of time as legal agricultural workers. In 1954, however, as illegal immigration along the Mexican border soared, the patrol inaugurated Operation Wetback, a large repatriation project. The 1980s and 1990s saw an influx of thousands of immigrants, both legal and illegal, from Mexico and Central America to the Rio Grande Valley.
1955 - Elvis Presley performed live in Fort Worth, TX. The show was played live on radio's "Big D Jamboree."
1971 - Audie Leon Murphy, war hero, Hollywood actor, and songwriter, was born near Kingston, Texas on June 20, 1924. He enlisted in the United States Army at Greenville, Texas, in June 1942, around the date of his eighteenth birthday. After basic infantry training at Camp Wolters, Texas, and advanced training at Fort Meade, Maryland, he was assigned to North Africa as a private in Company B, Fifteenth Infantry Regiment, Third Infantry Division. He later served as the commander of Company B. During his World War II career Murphy received thirty-three awards, citations, and decorations and won a battlefield promotion to second lieutenant. He received every medal that the United States gives for valor, two of them twice. At the time of his death Murphy was the most decorated combat soldier in United States history. Murphy was killed in an airplane crash on May 28, 1971, near Christiansburg, Virginia
[ https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fmu13 ]
1973 - Helium millionare, Stanley March 3 (he never liked the more prentious "III") invited a San Francisco art collective named The Ant Farm, to create his famed "Cadillac Ranch" near the remnants of old Route 66 in the Texas Panhandle, west of Amarillo. On this date in 1974, the artwork was completed. The work of art is composed of ten half-buried cadillacs (1948 to 1963 models) equally spaced into the ground, all facing West, and placed at the same angle of the pyramid at Cheops, Egypt. The art work has since become a mecca for roadside tourists from all over the world.