Timeline of Dallas

This article contains a timeline of major events in the history of Dallas, Texas (USA). It serves as an abridged supplement to the main history article for the city and its several subarticles on periods in the city's history.

19th century

• 1841 - Dallas was founded.
• 1888 - The Dallas Zoo opens, making it the second zoological garden in the country.[1]
• 1890 – Population: 38,067.[2]
• 1900 – Population: 42,638.[2]

20th century

1900s-1950s

• 1901 - Dallas Public Library opens.[3]
• 1903 - Dallas annexes town of Oak Cliff on the south side of the Trinity River, expanding its size by a third.
• 1908 - The Great Trinity River flood
• 1910 – Population: 92,104.[2]
• 1917 - October 19: U.S. military Love Field (airfield) is created.
• 1920
  • WRR radio begins broadcasting.[4]
  • Population: 158,976.[2]
• 1921 - Kirbys Pig Stand eatery in business.[5]
• 1922 - The Magnolia Building opens. Its trademark neon Pegasus that would be erected in 1934 would come to be one of the city's most recognizable landmarks and representative of the city itself.
• 1927
  • Love Field (airport) is opened for civilian use.
  • The world's first convenience store is opened in Dallas by the Southland Ice Company, which will eventually become 7-Eleven.
• 1930
  • C. M. Joiner strikes oil 100 miles (160 km) northeast of Dallas. Dallas became a center of commerce for the Texas oil trade.
  • Bonnie and Clyde meet in the West Dallas neighborhood of Dallas and begin their crime spree across Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana.
  • Population: 260,475.[2]
• 1934 - The criminal duo Bonnie and Clyde are buried in Dallas after being killed by police in Louisiana on May 23.
• 1949 - WFAA-TV and KRLD-TV (television) begin broadcasting.[6]
• 1958 - While working for Texas Instruments, Jack Kilby created the world's first integrated circuit at a Dallas laboratory in September, sparking an electronics revolution that changed the world and created a global market now worth more than $1 trillion a year.

1960s-1990s

• 1963 - November 22 - United States President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in a motorcade traveling west on Elm Street in Dealey Plaza. This event is memorialized by the nearby Kennedy Memorial and by the Sixth Floor Museum in the former Texas School Book Depository at the corner of Elm and Houston, Kennedy died at Parkland Memorial Hospital, 30 minutes after the shooting.
• 1968 - Cooper Aerobics Center in business.[7]
• 1972 - City logo design adopted.[8]
• 1974 - Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport opens.
• 1976 - Thanks-Giving Square is completed in downtown Dallas.
• 1978 - The soap opera Dallas debuts with a CBS miniseries that was filmed entirely in Dallas. The actual series was later almost all filmed in a Los Angeles studio. The internationally popular show ran for 13 years.
• 1979 - US Congress passes the Wright Amendment, restricting passenger air service out of Love Field Airport.
• 1981 - USS Dallas (SSN-700), a nuclear submarine named after the city, is commissioned.
• 1984 - Dallas hosts the 1984 Republican National Convention
• 1985
  • The 72-story Bank of America Plaza (then InterFirst Plaza) opens as the tallest building in Dallas.[9]
  • Dallas Municipal Archives established.[10]
  • Teatro Dallas (bilingual theatre) founded.[11]
• 1987 - Annette Strauss is inaugurated as the first female mayor of Dallas.[9]
• 1990 – Population: 1,006,877.[2]
• 1993 - Old 97's musical group formed.[12]
• 1994 - Dallas hosts the 1994 World Cup through the quarter-finals.
• 1996 - Dallas Area Rapid Transit begins operating the first light rail system in Texas (and the Southwest).
• 1997 - Congress passes the Shelby Amendment, which eases some of the Wright Amendment restrictions on Love Field Airport.
• 2000 - December 18 - Dallas Area Rapid Transit opens the first full-service subway station in Texas (and the American South), Cityplace Station.

21st century

• 2010 - Population: city 1,197,816; megaregion 19,728,244.[13]
• 2014 - September 7 - Dallas is the home of the first case of the Ebola Virus in the United States.
• 2016 - July 7 - A mass shooting in downtown Dallas targeting police officers during a protest results in the deaths of five officers along with the shooter, and the injuries of nine other officers and two civilians.

See also

• Timeline of Texas[14]
• Timelines of other cities in the North Texas area of Texas:[15] Arlington, Denton, Fort Worth, Garland, Irving, Plano, Wichita Falls

References

1. DallasZoo.com Archived 2001-04-08 at Archive.today - General Information. Retrieved 28 September 2006.
2. Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, U.S. Census Bureau, 1998
3. "Historical Sketches of Texas Libraries: Dallas", Handbook of Texas Libraries, Austin: Texas Library Association, 1904
4. Jack Alicoate, ed. (1939), "Standard Broadcasting Stations of the United States: Texas", Radio Annual, New York: Radio Daily, OCLC 2459636
5. Becky Mercuri (2009). "Timeline". American Sandwich. Gibbs Smith. ISBN 978-1-4236-1192-9.
6. Charles A. Alicoate, ed. (1960), "Television Stations: Texas", Radio Annual and Television Year Book, New York: Radio Daily Corp., OCLC 10512206
7. Patrick Robertson (2011). Robertson's Book of Firsts. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-60819-738-5.
8. "City of Dallas considers scrapping its 43-year-old 'D' logo", Dallas Morning News, August 30, 2015
9. Dallas Historical Society - Dallas History Timeline - 1980s Archived 2006-05-22 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 3 May 2006.
10. Municipal Archives, City of Dallas, retrieved August 30, 2015
11. Charles M. Tatum, ed. (2014). Encyclopedia of Latino Culture. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-4408-0099-3.
12. "Greatest Dallasites of All Time", D Magazine, September 2016
13. "Megaregions: Texas Triangle". America 2050. USA: Regional Plan Association. Retrieved September 12, 2016.
14. Federal Writers' Project (1940), "Chronology", Texas: A Guide to the Lone Star State, American Guide Series, New York: Hastings House – via Hathi Trust
15. "NCTCOG Members". Arlington: North Central Texas Council of Governments. Retrieved April 7, 2017.

Bibliography

• Directory of Greater Dallas. Dallas: Worley. 1909.
• "Dallas". Texas State Gazetteer and Business Directory. Detroit: R.L. Polk & Co. 1914.
• David G. McComb (2015). "Railroad Towns: Dallas". The City in Texas: a History. University of Texas Press. pp. 121+. ISBN 978-0-292-76746-1.

External links

• "Historical Maps of Texas Cities: Dallas". Perry–Castañeda Library Map Collection. University of Texas at Austin.
• Humanities and Social Sciences Division. "Resources for Local History and Genealogy by State: Texas". Bibliographies and Guides. Washington DC: Library of Congress.