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The Texas Almanac is a biennially published reference work providing information for the general public on the history of the US state of Texas and its people, government and politics, economics, natural resources, holidays, culture, education, recreation, the arts, and other topics.
Holidays portal; Texas portal; This is a collection of articles about public holidays observed only, or primarily, by the U.S. State of Texas. For more widely celebrated holidays, see Category:Federal holidays in the United States.
1985 – Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time. 1985 – Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion judgment against Texaco , in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States , stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil ...
In addition to Thanksgiving and Veterans Day, November's calendar of holidays and observances includes several other reasons to celebrate.
This is a list of selected November 19 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit.
This is a list of the individual Texas year pages. In 1845, the United States annexed the Republic of Texas as the 28th U.S. state , establishing the State of Texas. [ 1 ]
While the holiday is traditionally linked to the Northeast – most notably the 1621 celebration in Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts – Texas has its own surprising connections to Thanksgiving.
In 1987, Martin Luther King Jr. Day was added as a federal holiday for the third Monday in January, and in that year the Texas Legislature made it an optional state holiday, and in 1991 they made MLK Day an official state holiday. In some years (1987, 1998, 2004, 2009, 2015, 2026) MLK Jr. Day and Confederate Heroes Day fall on the same day.