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The Astrodome Held Several Motorsports Events Throughout Its Lifetime The AMA Grand National Championship Held Events Starting In 1968 And Running For 18 Years Utilizing The Short Track And TT Steeplechase Track Configurations In Their Visits The AMA Supercross Championship Held Its First Ever Indoor Supercross At The Astrodome In 1974 Won By Jim Pomeroy In The Mid-1980s The Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group Held Several Stadium Off-Road Racing Series Events Showcasing Such Drivers As Ivan Stewart Robby Gordon And Walker Evans Beginning In The Early 1980s Both TNT Motorsports And The United States Hot Rod Association Held Events Showcasing Mud Bogging Truck And Tractor Pulling And Monster Trucks In The Astrodome After A Buy-out Of TNT Motorsports The USHRA Continued Holding Events That Would Later Transform Into The Current Monster Jam Events
German SS soldiers from the Dirlewanger Brigade tasked with suppressing the Warsaw Uprising against Nazi occupation August 1944 3 Groundwater Agriculture and mining Mission Bend (mostly in Fort Bend County)! . .
In 1821 the Mexican War for Independence severed the control that Spain had exercised on its North American territories and the new country of Mexico was formed from much of the lands that had comprised New Spain including Spanish Texas the 1824 Constitution of Mexico joined Texas with Coahuila to form the state of Coahuila y Tejas the Congress did allow Texas the option of forming its own state "as soon as it feels capable of doing so.". . Houston has an international flavor and is home to several multicultural arts organizations including: MECA (Multicultural Education and Counseling through the Arts) Kuumba House Dance Theatre and Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say! . Soon Houstonians were prompted to put an end to their problems; so they wanted to make a Chamber of Commerce just for the city a bill had been introduced on November 26 1838 in Congress that would establish this entity President Mirabeau B Lamar signed the act into law on January 28 1840 This move could not have come sooner as the city was suffering from financial problems and numerous yellow fever outbreaks including an 1839 outbreak that killed about 12 percent of its population Also on January 14 1839 the capital had been moved to Austin known as Waterloo at the time on April 4 1840 John Carlos hosted a meeting to establish the Houston Chamber of Commerce at the City Exchange building E.S Perkins presided as its first president in addition to Perkins and Carlos the charter members admitted were: Henry R Allen T Francis Brewer Jacob De Cordova J Temple Doswell George Gazley Dewitt C Harris J Hart Charles J Hedenburg Thomas M League Charles Kesler Charles A Morris E Osborne and John W Pitkin Undergrowth and snags had been the greatest obstacle to navigating Buffalo Bayou; yet by 1840 there was an accumulation of sunken ships This was the principle concern of the new Houston Chamber of Commerce the city of Houston and Harris County responded by allocating taxpayer money for bayou clearance and on March 1 1841 the first wreck was pulled out the bayou under this program.
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