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The Houston race riot of 1917, also known as the Camp Logan Mutiny, [1] [2] was a mutiny and riot by 156 soldiers from the all-black 24th Infantry Regiment of the United States Army, taking place on August 23, 1917, in Houston, Texas.
An eight-year-old girl was killed and three others were wounded in a shooting near Soldan High School. [170] August 23, 2019: Houston (8) Texas: 2 2 4: Two men were killed and a man and woman were injured in a drive-by shooting. [171] August 22, 2019: Columbia (2) South Carolina: 2 2 4
In 2011, ExxonMobil announced plans to construct a new complex on a 385-acre plot of land near the intersection of the Hardy Toll Road and Interstate 45, which is in the Houston ETJ and might be annexed by Houston. About 10,000 employees in the Houston area will relocate to the campus starting in 2014, with full occupancy by 2015. [95]
Texas was the first U.S. battleship to become a permanent museum ship, she was turned over to the state of Texas on 21 April 1948 as a permanent museum in Houston. [A 3] [8] In 1976 she became the first battleship to be declared a U.S. National Historic Landmark, [10] and is the only remaining World War I era dreadnought battleship.
The area is primarily composed of the ZIP codes 77085, 77045, and 77047. The ZIP code 77085, which covers an area similar to a triangle, roughly bounded by U.S. Route 90A (South Main), Hiram Clarke Road, and Beltway 8 (Sam Houston Tollway), saw the number of population rise to over 200% of its original population, between 2000 and 2010.
The Houston Chronicle is the largest daily newspaper in Houston, Texas, United States.As of April 2016, it is the third-largest newspaper by Sunday circulation in the United States, behind only The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times.
Several African-American-owned newspapers are published in Houston. Allan Turner of the Houston Chronicle said that the papers "are both journalistic throwbacks — papers whose content directly reflects their owners' views — and cutting-edge, hyper-local publications targeting the concerns of the city's roughly half-million African-Americans."
On July 9, 2014, a mass shooting occurred in a home located in northern Harris County, Texas, near the Spring census-designated place, a suburban area of the Greater Houston area, leaving six family members dead, four children, and a lone survivor. Ronald Lee Haskell, 34, was apprehended after a standoff that lasted several hours.