| Vol 8, No 1 | January 1, 1863 | Thursday Evening |
(1937) 
The Cotton Bowl Classic in Dallas was played for the first time on this day in 1937 at the Texas State Fair Grounds. Behind the legendary arm of Sam Baugh, Texas Christian University beat Marquette in the first Cotton Bowl ever, by a score of 16-6.
(1936)
A Lot of football takes place on January 1st. In 1938, the man that changed football, Davey O'Brien, led his TCU Horned Frogs, to a victory over Carnegie Tech at the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, to secure the AP National Championship. The score ... 15-7.
(1967)
Following their best season ever at 10-3-1 where the Cowboys won the Eastern Conference Championship, the Dallas Cowboys lost the NFL Championship game to the Green Bay Packers on this date in 1967, by the score of 27-34. These two teams would meet again at the end of the following season in the famed Ice Bowl.
On this date in 1929, author and playwright, Larry L King was born in Putnam, Texas. He authored 13 books and seven stage plays, plus many screenplays, short stories, television documentaries, and more. He was nominated for Broadway's 1979 Tony Award as Best Book (Musical) with collaborator Peter Masterson for "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" a theatre production based on the 1973 closing of the legendary "Chicken Ranch" in LaGrange.
While Civil War continues to the South, President Abraham Lincoln today issued the Emancipation Proclamation, calling on the Union army to liberate all slaves in states still in rebellion as "an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity." These three million slaves were declared to be "then, thenceforward, and forever free." However it took the Union army to remove the slaves from their masters. As the Union Army occupied former Confederate territory, former slaves followed them. The proclamation exempted the border slave states that remained in the Union at the start of the Civil War and all or parts of three Confederate states controlled by the Union army. Since the Emancipation Proclamation was issued under the President's war powers act, it took the 13th Amendment to make freedom for all the Law of the Land.
On this date in 1830, Jim Bowie and a friend left Thibodaux, Louisiana, headed for Texas. In Louisiana James and his brothers Rezin and Stephen established an 1,800 acre sugar plantation, which was the first in Louisiana to use steam power in the sugar mill. The Sugar Mill would be sold in 1831 for $60,000. Once in Texas, Bowie will visit Jared Groce, weathy cotton farmer and owner of a large plantation off the Brazos River near San Felipe. In Texas, Bowie will become a Mexican Citizen and become wealthy in land speculation and other ventures. In 1831, he will get married.
(1973)
KTRK-TV in Houston today, hired Marvin Zindler as their new consumer fraud investigative reporter. Zinder was recently fired from the Harris County Sherrifs Department. Within months, Zinder would become the driving force behind the closing of "The Chicken Ranch" after only seven months as an investigative reporter. Zindler and the story of the closing became immortalized in the Broadway Musical "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" and the 1970s hit "LaGrange" by ZZ Top. Zindler would remain with KTRK for 35 years.
(1947)
In 1944, Western movie star, Roy Rogers, was working on his new moving "The Cowboy and the Senorita". His co-star was Dale Evans. The movie also included Roy's sidekick, Gabby Hays, and his song group The Sons of the Pioneers. Roy and Dale and the rest would work together on several projects after that.
