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. Houston is the tenth largest television market in the United States While Houston is the fourth largest city in the United States other cities that are smaller than Houston have metropolitan region that are larger than Houston's, 13 Gallery Houston has sports teams for every major professional league except the National Hockey League the Houston Astros are a Major League Baseball expansion team formed in 1962 (known as the "Colt .45s" until 1965) that won the World Series in 2017 and previously appeared in 2005 It is the only MLB team to have won pennants in both modern leagues the Houston Rockets are a National Basketball Association franchise based in the city since 1971 They have won two NBA Championships one in 1994 and another in 1995 under star players Hakeem Olajuwon Otis Thorpe Clyde Drexler Vernon Maxwell and Kenny Smith the Houston Texans are a National Football League expansion team formed in 2002 the Houston Dynamo is a Major League Soccer franchise that has been based in Houston since 2006 winning two MLS Cup titles in 2006 and 2007 the Houston Dash team plays in the National Women's Soccer League the Houston SaberCats are a rugby team that plays in Major League Rugby. 10.4 Maternal health 8.2 Mass transit Wells Fargo Bank Plaza, Houston Texas Business Directory 1 Arts and theatre German successes in Europe encouraged Japan to increase pressure on European governments in Southeast Asia the Dutch government agreed to provide Japan some oil supplies from the Dutch East Indies but negotiations for additional access to their resources ended in failure in June 1941 in July 1941 Japan sent troops to southern Indochina thus threatening British and Dutch possessions in the Far East the United States United Kingdom and other Western governments reacted to this move with a freeze on Japanese assets and a total oil embargo. At the same time Japan was planning an invasion of the Soviet Far East intending to capitalise off the German invasion in the west but abandoned the operation after the sanctions. . . 1990 16,986,510 19.4%, David Ben-Gurion proclaiming the Israeli Declaration of Independence at the Independence Hall 14 May 1948 The Museum of Fine Arts. Top publicly traded companies 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. .

See also: Texas locations by per capita income Marshall (23,523) Main article: Crime in Houston 1960 1,243,158 54.1% The normal annual precipitation measures 49.77 inches (1,264 mm) Occasional severe weather of Houston mostly takes the form of flooding which happens a lot during between May to October which is the city's wet season Supercell thunderstorms sometimes bring tornadoes to the area most commonly during spring Houston sometimes experiences tropical cyclones during the Atlantic hurricane season which can bring heavy rain and significant damage to the city the last hurricane to hit was Hurricane Harvey in 2017; 1970s and integration (6.4) 47.2 Cypress The USS Arizona was a total loss in the Japanese surprise air attack on the American Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor Sunday 7 December 1941. In 2008 Houston received top ranking on Kiplinger's Personal Finance "Best Cities of 2008" list which ranks cities on their local economy employment opportunities reasonable living costs and quality of life the city ranked fourth for highest increase in the local technological innovation over the preceding 15 years according to Forbes magazine in the same year the city ranked second on the annual Fortune 500 list of company headquarters first for Forbes magazine's "Best Cities for College Graduates" and first on their list of "Best Cities to Buy a Home" in 2010 the city was rated the best city for shopping according to Forbes.