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Kentucky, North Carolina and Texas report their first cases of monkeypox.
2022-06-24

Texas reports 14,648 new cases in the last 24 hours, a new single-day record since the beginning of the pandemic.
2020-11-25

Texas surpasses 20,000 total confirmed deaths from COVID-19 and becomes the state with the second-highest number of reported deaths in the United States, behind only New York.
2020-11-16

Scientists at the Spring, Texas, Arch Mission Foundation confirm that tardigrades in a cryptobiotic state were added to the payload of the failed SpaceIL "Beresheet" lander that crashed on the Moon on 11 April 2019, and may have survived the crash.
2019-08-6

Stone tools are found in Texas dating back 15,000 years, being the oldest evidence of humans in North America.
2018-10-24

The Obama Administration and the International Rescue Committee ask a federal judge to reject attempts by Texas to block Syrian refugees from resettling in the state. Later, the Texas Attorney General withdraws the state’s December 2, 2015 request for a temporary restraining order.
2015-12-4

Record breaking rain causes flooding in the American states of Oklahoma and Texas with Oklahoma City recording record rainfall levels for the month of May.
2015-05-23

Eddie Ray Routh is found guilty of the 2013 murder of United States Navy SEALs' sniper Chris Kyle and Kyle's friend Chad Littlefield in Texas. Routh is automatically sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.
2015-02-24

Four firemen are killed and five others injured fighting a fire in Houston, Texas, U.S.
2013-05-31

Former United States Navy SEAL Chris Kyle and another man are killed at a shooting range near Glen Rose, Somervell County, Texas. [https:--www.nytimes.com-2013-02-04-us-chris-kyle-american-sniper-author-reported-killed.html?_r=0 "(The New York Times)"]
2013-02-2