1756 - Lt. Gov. Bernardo de Miranda y Flores of Spanish Texas set out from San Antonio to search for mineral deposits and discovered the Los Almagres silver mine in Llano.
1836 - The Texas forces at San Patricio are annihilated by Mexican General Jose Urrea's soldiers. The main force on Santa Anna's army continues North to San Antonio where within days, they will prepare to do battle with Jim Bowie, Colonel Travis, David Crockett and a force of just over 150 at the Alamo.
1867 - Jessie Andrews was born. She was the first woman to graduate from the University of Texas in 1886. She was also the school's first female teacher in 1888.
1909 - After more than 22 years in Federal Custody, Geronimo, former leader of the Apache Indian Nation, died on this date in 1909 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma - still a prisoner of war.
1913 - The Comstock caught fire off the mouth of the Brazos River. The hydraulic hopper dredge General C. B. Comstock was built for the United States Army Corps of Engineers in 1895. The vessel traveled to Galveston on her own keel in the summer of 1895 and spent most of her career there. After being driven ashore by the Galveston hurricane of 1900, she could not be freed until a channel fifty feet wide and eight feet deep was dug to release her. She caught fire and burned to the water line. The crew was quickly rescued by fishermen from Quintana and the life-saving crew from Surfside, but the Comstock was a total loss. The wreck was relocated during jetty construction in June 1987 and investigated and identified in 1988. The artifacts are in a collection at Corpus Christi Museum.
1929 - The League of United Latin American Citizens, originally called the United Latin American Citizens, was founded at Salón Obreros y Obreras in Corpus Christi, Texas. LULAC is the oldest and largest continually active Latino political association in the United States and was the first nationwide Mexican-American civil-rights organization.
1930 - The El Paso Museum of Art was chartered under its original name, El Paso International Museum.
2009 - Representative Brandon Creighton of Conroe, filed HCR 50, reasserting the sovereignty of Texas under the 10th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Nine other states including Oklahoma and Washington have already passed similar resolutions in the past few weeks. Most of the issue stems from the federal government's distribution of funds to the states with strings (mandates) attached, or simply mandates with no money at all. These federal mandates became a big portion of President Obama's economic stimulous package which became law earlier in the week. Many state governors are refusing these federal funds because of the federal mandates which are attached to them. In reponse to the governors, President Obama threatened to force the variious state legislatures to go over their governor's head, and require the governors to accept the funds transfers. Throughout the country, resentment to increasing federal control of the economy and states has been increasing. On February 10th, Newsweek published a full page cover with the headline "We Are All Socialists Now". This month, eight states have passed legislation trying to reverse that claim with a huge slap in the face to the federal government ... "Oh, No We're NOT!" [
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