6.3 Energy The Hobby Center 2.2 Wildlife 5.2.2 Texas politics today Houston Texas Business Directory On June 19 2013 the Astrodome was named to the National Trust for Historic Preservation's annual list of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places as well as to its portfolio. Concerts One of the largest crowds in the Astrodome's history more than 66,746 fans came on Sunday February 26 1995 to see Tejano superstar Selena and her band Los Dinos perform for a sell-out crowd during the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Selena y Los Dinos performed two consecutive times before at the Astrodome breaking previous attendance records each time This was Selena's last televised concert before she was fatally shot on March 31 1995 by her fan club president, On 27 January 1944 Soviet troops launched a major offensive that expelled German forces from the Leningrad region thereby ending the longest and most lethal siege in history the following Soviet offensive was halted on the pre-war Estonian border by the German Army Group North aided by Estonians hoping to re-establish national independence This delay slowed subsequent Soviet operations in the Baltic Sea region by late May 1944 the Soviets had liberated Crimea largely expelled Axis forces from Ukraine and made incursions into Romania which were repulsed by the Axis troops the Allied offensives in Italy had succeeded and at the expense of allowing several German divisions to retreat on 4 June Rome was captured.
. The English pronunciation with /ks/ is unetymological and based in the value of the letter x in historical Spanish orthography Alternative etymologies of the name advanced in the late 19th century connected the Spanish teja "rooftile" the plural tejas being used to designate indigenous Pueblo settlements a 1760s map by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin shows a village named Teijas on Trinity River close to the site of modern Crockett. ; . . .
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