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! The Astrodome hosted the 1989 NBA All-Star Game Attendance was 44,735 and Karl Malone won MVP honors. 1950s Texas drought, Houston's current Chinatown and the Mahatma Gandhi District are two major ethnic enclaves reflecting Houston's multicultural makeup Restaurants bakeries traditional-clothing boutiques and specialty shops can be found in both areas, 1940 384,514 31.5% Other technological and engineering feats achieved during or as a result of the war include the world's first programmable computers (Z3 Colossus and ENIAC) guided missiles and modern rockets the Manhattan Project's development of nuclear weapons operations research and the development of artificial harbours and oil pipelines under the English Channel.[citation needed] Penicillin was first mass-produced and used during the war (see Stabilization and mass production of penicillin). Thomas Mitchell Campbell born in Rusk Cherokee County A few professional sports teams are located in East Texas the East Texas Pump Jacks located in Kilgore play baseball in the Texas Collegiate League Additionally the East Texas Storm a semiprofessional football team located in Tyler competes in the Lone Star Minor League. Typically northern parts of East Texas tend to support the professional teams from the Dallas/Fort Worth area (Dallas Cowboys Dallas Mavericks Texas Rangers Dallas Stars) while southern parts of East Texas tend to support professional teams from the Houston area (Houston Texans Houston Rockets Houston Astros); Main article: Religion in Houston The Kuomintang (KMT) party in China launched a unification campaign against regional warlords and nominally unified China in the mid-1920s but was soon embroiled in a civil war against its former Chinese Communist Party allies and new regional warlords in 1931 an increasingly militaristic Empire of Japan which had long sought influence in China as the first step of what its government saw as the country's right to rule Asia used the Mukden Incident as a pretext to launch an invasion of Manchuria and establish the puppet state of Manchukuo. ; In August 2017 Houston experienced record flooding as a result of Hurricane Harvey the damages due to flash flooding are estimated at or above $50 billion making it one of the worst and costliest natural disasters in the United States Relief efforts are currently underway and are expected to last for years to come.
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