Historical events of Dallas, Texas

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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.

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• 1841 - Dallas is founded.
• 1873 - Two railroads intersect in Dallas, assuring its economic future.
• 1888 - The Dallas Zoo opens, making it the first zoological garden in the state.^[1]
• 1903 - Dallas annexes town of Oak Cliff on the south side of the Trinity River, expanding its size by a third.
• October 19, 1917 - Love Field is created.
• 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 is opened for civilian use.
• 1927 - 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.
• 1930 - Bonnie and Clyde meet in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas and begin their crime spree across Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana.
• 1934 - The criminal duo Bonnie and Clyde are buried in Dallas after being killed by police in Louisiana on May 23.
• 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.
• 1963, 22 November - 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 school book depository at the corner of Elm and Houston.
• 1974 - Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport opens.
• 1976 - Thanks-Giving Square is completed in downtown Dallas.
• 1978 - Dallas the TV series debuts with a CBS mini-series 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, 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.^[2]
• 1987 - Annette Strauss is inaugurated as the first female mayor of Dallas.^[2]
• 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, 18 December - Dallas Area Rapid Transit opens the first full-service subway station in Texas (and the Southwest), Cityplace Station.
• 2006 - 9 April - An estimated 500,000 people participated in the largest march in the city's and perhaps state history.^[3]

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