ed Healy, the comic genius behind “The Three Stooges,” kissed his wife and three-day old baby good-night on Dec. 20, 1937, and headed for his favorite Hollywood haunts to celebrate the birth of his first child. The name on the future comedian’s birth certificate was “Ernest Lea Nash” or “Clarence Le...

irabeau Buonaparte Lamar, second president of the Texas Republic, dropped dead of a heart attack at his Richmond home on Dec. 18, 1859. When he stepped down as the Lone Star chief executive in December 1842, Lamar was a physical and emotional wreck.   Not only had his grand plan of setting the new n...

ive dozen Europeans from the slums of New York City set foot in Texas on Dec. 12, 1833 on their way to a promised paradise on the Rio Grande. John Charles Beales was an English expatriate, who moved to Mexico in 1804. A physician by profession, he was a late entrant in the race for Texas real estate...

minute before midnight on Nov. 29, 1930, the condemned cop killer finished a letter to his widow-to-be, glanced at the nervous chaplain and asked with a wry smile, “What return address shall I put on this?” Jess J. Maple was not a career criminal. In fact, the 36-year-old Indiana native had a clean ...

inutes after the fatal shooting of President Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, Dallas police found a trio of unusually well-dressed tramps in a boxcar behind the “grassy knoll” and marched them single-file through Dealey Plaza. Photographers snapped several pictures of the passing parade.   In the ensuing y...

im Bowie went looking for underground riches in 1831 but found instead a bunch of belligerent Indians on Nov. 20. “The Lost Bowie Mine” was not always lost nor was it always named after the famous frontiersman. In 1753 Spaniards searching for a place to put a mission in present-day Llano County lear...

oncerned over Texas’ increasingly cozy relationship with the British, the U.S. Secretary of State informed the Lone Star minister on Nov. 10, 1843 that Washington was ready to reopen annexation talks. Instead of telling Abel P. Upshur that it was about time, Isaac Van Zandt played it cool by simply ...

. Whitfield Davidson was elected lieutenant governor on Nov. 7, 1922, but the second highest office in the Lone Star State turned out not to be a short-cut to the top rung on the political ladder. The twenty-eighth lieutenant governor of Texas has a lot of company in the history books.   Of the 44 m...

n Oct. 28, 1962, New York Giants quarterback Y.A. Tittle equaled the National Football League (NFL) record for touchdown passes in a single game by throwing seven against the Washington Redskins. But “The Bald Eagle,” as Tittle was fondly known, was not the first Texan to join one of pro football’s ...

small company of Texas rebels rode out of Goliad on Oct. 24, 1835 with orders to attack the government garrison at Fort Lipantitlan. As conceived by Capt. Philip Dimitt during the early days of the independence uprising, the Lipantitlan Expedition had two important objectives: the rescue of a couple...