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. The made-for-TV movie Murder at the World Series was filmed here about a fictional 1977 World Series between the Astros vs Oakland Athletics, On May 30 1922 George Hermann a millionaire donated land to the city that later became the Hermann Park September of the same year saw the start of the Houston Zoo the zoo was started when Houston schoolchildren bought two ostriches the zoo was later moved from Sam Houston Park to Hermann Park September 26 saw the first international-bound ship in the port During the Roaring Twenties more specifically 1927 the state highway to Houston was built Bus and truck operations also fell into swing Houston Junior College opened its doors that same year which later became the University of Houston August 1929 saw the entry of the first Sears into Houston Then Black Tuesday threw a devastating blow to the economy of the entire United States Houston's growth was much smaller but the city still grew Mexican Americans no longer found it as easy to obtain jobs yet several were successful by catering to the Anglo market in the city.

Beginning around the mid-20th century Texas began to transform from a rural and agricultural state to one that was urban and industrialized the state's population grew quickly during this period with large levels of migration from outside the state. As a part of the Sun Belt Texas experienced strong economic growth particularly during the 1970s and early 1980s. Texas's economy diversified lessening its reliance on the petroleum industry by 1990 Hispanics overtook blacks to become the largest minority group in the state, According to the U.S Census Bureau the county has a total area of 1,777 square miles (4,600 km2) of which 1,703 square miles (4,410 km2) is land and 74 square miles (190 km2) (4.2%) is covered by water. Both its total area and land area are larger than the state of Rhode Island. 1980s Baytown Airport in unincorporated east Harris County north of Baytown. Conquest Nazi Germany was responsible for the Holocaust (killing approximately 6 million Jews) as well as for killing 2.7 million ethnic Poles and 4 million others who were deemed "unworthy of life" (including the disabled and mentally ill Soviet prisoners of war Romani homosexuals Freemasons and Jehovah's Witnesses) as part of a programme of deliberate extermination in effect becoming a "genocidal state". Soviet POWs were kept in especially unbearable conditions and 3.6 million Soviet POWs out of 5.7 died in Nazi camps during the war in addition to concentration camps death camps were created in Nazi Germany to exterminate people at an industrial scale Nazi Germany extensively used forced labourers; about 12 million Europeans from German occupied countries were abducted and used as a slave work force in German industry agriculture and war economy. The multi-purpose stadium designed to facilitate both football and baseball is nearly circular and uses movable lower seating areas it also ushered in the era of other fully domed stadiums such as the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans as well as the now-demolished Pontiac Silverdome near Detroit Hubert H Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis Kingdome in Seattle and RCA Dome in Indianapolis. . Jim Hogg born in Rusk Cherokee County, Anna Rohleder of Forbes said "Among Houston's wealthy denizens social life centers on charity events and the arts.", In the East the intended gains of Lebensraum were never attained as fluctuating front-lines and Soviet scorched earth policies denied resources to the German invaders. Unlike in the West the Nazi racial policy encouraged extreme brutality against what it considered to be the "inferior people" of Slavic descent; most German advances were thus followed by mass executions. Although resistance groups formed in most occupied territories they did not significantly hamper German operations in either the East or the West until late 1943. La Porte Houston The Laura the first steamship ever to visit Houston arrived in January 1837 on January 1 1837 the town comprised twelve residents and one log cabin; four months later there were 1,500 people and 100 houses the city was granted incorporation by the state legislature on June 5 1837 and was made as the temporary capital of Texas at this time drunkenness dueling brawling prostitution and profanity began to become a problem in early Houston.