LBJ Library
5/22/1971: LBJ Library dedicated in Austin
On this day in 1971, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum was dedicated on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. It was the nation's fifth presidential library and the first to be located on a university campus. It serves as a center for scholarly research and as a historical museum. Scholarly interest in the LBJ Library centers on its unusually rich archives of manuscripts and audiovisual records. More than 30 million pages of ma...
Queen Elizabeth in Houston
5/22/1991: Queen Elizabeth visits historic black church in Houston
On this day in 1991, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom visited Antioch Church, the first black Baptist church in Houston. Antioch Missionary Baptist Church was organized in 1866. John Henry Yates, a former slave and a leading figure in Houston's black community during Reconstruction, was the first preacher.
https://www. tshaonline.org/handbook/e ntries/yates-john-henry-j ack
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There is science behind why this happens.
https://www.u satoday.com/story/news/he alth/2019/08/02/hot-car-d eaths-why-they-keep-happe ning-and-how-stop-them/18 61389001/
Science behind the syndrome
David Diamond, a professor of psychology at the University of South Florida, has worked closely with KidsAndCars.org. He focuses on cognitive neuroscience, including the neurobiology of "Forgotten Baby Syndrome."
He has a theory on how caring, competent parents can forget their children in the car.
Diam...
Physical Therapy Association
5/21/1930: Texas Physical Therapy Association organized
On this day in 1930, ten physical therapists organized the Texas Physical Therapy Association as a state chapter of the American Physical Therapy Association. Physical therapists, practitioners of a specialized health-care service performed for the rehabilitation of those disabled by pain or loss of motor function, had been active in Texas since the 1920s. Because Texas was such a large state, the new association soon d...
Harrold, Texas
5/20/1885: North Texas settlement drew life from the railroad
On this day in 1885, Harrold, a railroad town in east central Wilbarger County, was officially platted. The settlement had been known as Cottonwood in the early 1880s, when it had a stage station and a store near China Creek. In 1884 the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway, building from the east, reached the area. The community was renamed to honor promoter Ephraim Harrold, who owned the nearby Bar-X Ranch. As the western termi...
Amarillo
5/20/1893: New Amarillo becomes Potter county seat
On this day in 1893, the second incarnation of the town of Amarillo was selected as the seat of Potter County. The first Amarillo was established by J. T. Berry in April 1887. He chose a well-watered site along the right-of-way of the Fort Worth and Denver City Railroad, which had begun building across the Panhandle. On August 30, 1887, Berry's townsite was elected seat of Potter County. The railroad arrived shortly after the county election, a...
