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September 4, 2000, was Houstonﾡﾯs hottest day on record, as well as Beyoncéﾡﾯs nineteenth birthday. Sam Houston was elected president on September 5, 1836. The city was awarded a National League baseball franchise on October 17, 1960 and on November 1, 2017, the Astros won their first World Series. On December 13, 1882, the Capitol Hotel became Houstonﾡﾯs first public building to get electricity. Tragedy struck on April 16, 1947, when a ship carrying ammonium nitrate fertilizer exploded alongside a Texas City dock. James Glassman captures every single day of the year in the prism of Houston history, from the Texas Revolution to the moon landing.
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