The Gulf is considered aseismic; however mild tremors have been recorded throughout history (usually 5.0 or less on the Richter magnitude scale) Earthquakes may be caused by interactions between sediment loading on the sea floor and adjustment by the crust. The city of Houston has a strong mayoral form of municipal government. Houston is a home rule city and all municipal elections in the Texas are nonpartisan the city's elected officials are the mayor city controller and 16 members of the Houston City Council the current mayor of Houston is Sylvester Turner a Democrat elected on a nonpartisan ballot Houston's mayor serves as the city's chief administrator executive officer and official representative and is responsible for the general management of the city and for seeing that all laws and ordinances are enforced. Political history When the United States purchased Louisiana from France in 1803 American authorities insisted the agreement also included Texas the boundary between New Spain and the United States was finally set at the Sabine River in 1819 at what is now the border between Texas and Louisiana. Eager for new land many United States settlers refused to recognize the agreement Several filibusters raised armies to invade the area west of the Sabine River in 1821 the Mexican War of Independence included the Texas territory which became part of Mexico. Due to its low population Mexico made the area part of the state of Coahuila y Tejas, Houston Texas Business Directory. Frustrated at the lack of progress and feeling the pinch of the American-British-Dutch sanctions Japan prepared for war on 20 November a new government under Hideki Tojo presented an interim proposal as its final offer it called for the end of American aid to China and for lifting the embargo on the supply of oil and other resources to Japan in exchange Japan promised not to launch any attacks in Southeast Asia and to withdraw its forces from southern Indochina the American counter-proposal of 26 November required that Japan evacuate all of China without conditions and conclude non-aggression pacts with all Pacific powers. That meant Japan was essentially forced to choose between abandoning its ambitions in China or seizing the natural resources it needed in the Dutch East Indies by force; the Japanese military did not consider the former an option and many officers considered the oil embargo an unspoken declaration of war, On July 30 1942 the Robert E Lee captained by William C Heath was torpedoed by the German submarine U-166 She was sailing southeast of the entrance to the Mississippi River when the explosion destroyed the #3 hold vented through the B and C decks and damaged the engines the radio compartment and the steering gear After the attack she was under escort by the USS PC-566 captained by LCDR Herbert G Claudius en route to New Orleans the USS PC-566 began dropping depth charges on a sonar contact sinking the U-166 the badly damaged Robert E Lee first listed to port then to starboard and finally sank within about 15 minutes of the attack One officer nine crewmen and 15 passengers were lost Ironically the passengers aboard the Robert E Lee were primarily survivors of previous torpedo attacks by German U-boats the wreck's precise location was discovered during the C & C Marine survey that located the U-166, Media Post-war border changes in Central Europe and creation of the Eastern Bloc. Houston has been called the Lightning Capital of Texas as its density of lightning strikes is higher than it is in other parts of the state This area of unusually high lightning activity stretches from Houston eastward into Southwest Louisiana Much of this can be explained by the natural occurrence of thunderstorms in the region which form almost daily during the wet season However the unusual clustering of lightning around the developed areas of Houston the Golden Triangle and Lake Charles Louisiana have led many researchers to believe that some combination of urban heat islands and air pollution are responsible for increasing the number of lightning strikes beyond even the already-high natural levels.
Harris County operates its own public library system the Harris County Public Library, Skyline in 1971 after completion of One Shell Plaza, Texas in 1718 Guillaume de L'Isle map approximate state area highlighted northern boundary was indefinite. . See also: Former professional sports teams in Houston The Soviet Union lost around 27 million people during the war 8.7 million military and 19 million civilian deaths a quarter of the people in the Soviet Union were wounded or killed. Germany sustained 5.3 million military losses mostly on the Eastern Front and during the final battles in Germany. The Museum of East Texas opened in Lufkin in 1976 under the name Lufkin Historical and Creative Arts Center, President Woodrow Wilson opened the deep-water Port of Houston in 1914 seven years after digging began by 1930 Houston had become Texas' most populous city and Harris County the most populous county in 1940 the U.S Census Bureau reported Houston's population as 77.5% white and 22.4% black, 9.2 Municipal Fire/EMS Services Houston is home to 337 parks including Hermann Park Terry Hershey Park Lake Houston Park Memorial Park Tranquility Park Sesquicentennial Park Discovery Green Buffalo Bayou Park and Sam Houston Park Within Hermann Park are the Houston Zoo and the Houston Museum of Natural Science Sam Houston Park contains restored and reconstructed homes which were originally built between 1823 and 1905 a proposal has been made to open the city's first botanic garden at Herman Brown Park.
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