| Vol 8, No 36 | February 5, 1959 | Thursday Evening |
(1964) 
Despite a 4 year regular season record of 13-38-1, Dallas Cowboys coach Tom Landry
received a ten year extention of his contract with the franchise. With one year remaining on his current contract, Landry was now under contract for the next eleven years in what was possible the longest contract in profession sports history.
On this date in 1848, Myra Maybelle Shirley was born in Carthage, Missouri. When their town was burned by the Union Army in 1964, her family moved to Scyene, Texas near Dallas.
(1959)
On this date in 1959, the bodies of Buddy Hollie and J.P Richardson (The Big Bopper) are brought back to Texas following a plane crash outside of Clear Lake Iowa that claimed the lives of Buddy, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens on Feb 3rd. The two were on their Winter Dance Party tour which included Dion and the Belmonts and Ritchie Valens. Valens, 17, from California, also died in the crash.
(2008)
On this date in 2008, The City Council of Waco rejected the free donation of a 70 foot statue of a Texas Ranger which was to be erected at the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame on I-35 in Waco. Many thought the proposed statue looked ugly, or was not in keeping with the modesty of the adjacent museum. The statue would have depicted a Texas Ranger of the Old West, and would resemble in magnitude the statue of Sam Houston along I-45 in Huntsville.
(1989)
On this date in 1989, the 6 and 1/2 hour epic "Lonesome Dove" premiered on Television. Based on a book written by Archer City native, Larry McMurtry, much of the filming took place outside Austin. The mini-series stared Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones as two ex-Texas Rangers, who decide to drive a heard of cattle from Texas to start the first cattle ranch in Montana. McMurtry received the Pulitzer Price in literature in 1986 for Lonesome Dove.
