| Vol 8, No 313 | November 8, 1960 | Tuesday Evening |
(1974)
On this date in 1914 at Kirbyville in Shelby County, Ivory Joe Hunter was born. Best known for his 1956 No. 12 pop hit "Since I Met You Baby", Pat Boone also had a No.1 smash hit with Hunter's "I Almost Lost My Mind." Hunter developed lung cancer and died in Memphis in 1974.
(1960)
On this date in 1960, John F Kennedy was elected President, and Lyndon Johnson Vice President. LBJ was also elected U.S.Senator in the same election.
(1932)
On this date in 1932, Franklin Roosevelt was elected President, and in Texas, Ma Ferguson was elected to return to the Governorship, a post she vacated 4 years before.
(1966)
On this date in 1966, Texas voters passed a constitutional amendment abolishing the State's Poll Tax as a requirement for voting. Federal courts in other states had already ruled that a poll tax unfairly restricted the rights of minorities to vote.
(1978)
For the first time since Reconstruction in the 1870s, Texas elects a Republican as Governor. On this date in 1978, Bill Clements was elected Governor of Texas. Republican Senator John Tower was also reelected, and Republicans gain two more Congressional seats.
(1978)
On this date in 1978, Mickey Leland won his bid to fill the Congressional seat being vacated by noted Congresswoman Barbara Jordan. Jordan had announced earlier that she would accept a professorship at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.
