| Vol 8, No 57 | February 26, 1989 | Sunday Evening |
(1989) 
Jimmy Johnson from the University of Miami was picked to coach the Cowboys by new owner Jerry Jones. While at Miami, Johnson built a 52-9 record, and a National Collegiate Championship. Jones and Johnson were team mates on the National Champion Arkansas Razorbacks. Another member of that team was Barry Switzer who would succeed Johnson in 1994.
On this date in 1908, Frederick Bean Avery was born in Taylor. He graduated from North Dallas High School in 1926. "Tex" Avery is credited with creating Daffy Duck and developing Bugs Bunny into a wacky character. He also created the Droopy cartoons. His work included whistling wolves, bugged eyes, and melting admirers. Tex Avery was a major innovator in the cartoon industry in Hollywood.
(1989)
Tom Landry, the only Coach the Dallas Cowboys had ever had, was fired on this date in 1989 by the Cowboys' new owner, Jerry Jones, who named University of Miami coach Jimmy Johnson to succeed him. Jones and General Manager Tex Schramm flew to Landry's vacation home at Lake Travis to break the news. "It was a very difficult meeting," Schramm said. "It's very, very sad. It's tough when you break a relationship you've had for 29 years. That's an awful long time." Landry, took the Cowboys to a record five Super Bowls with two victories. Following the firing, Schramm resigned.
(1888)
On this date in 1888, a statue originally ordered from a catalog, the Goddess of Liberty, was raised into place atop the new Texas State Capitol Building in Austin. Texas Capitol is now the tallest State Capitol in US and taller than the US Capitol building in Washington.
(1998)
In 1996, on her nationally televised talk show, Ophra Winfrey and vegetarian activist Howard Lyman suggested that feeding practices of Cattle could lead to Mad Cow disease in humans, even though there had been no reported cases of Mad Cow disease in the United States. To an enthusiast audience, Ophra exclaimed that Lyman's stories were enough for her to give up hamburgers.
On this date in 1949, a B-50 Superfortress, the Lucky Lady II, took off from Fort Worth's Carswell Air Force Base. 94 hours and several mid-air refueling stops, and 23,452 miles later, Captain James Gallagher and his crew landed back at Carswell, after circling the earth non-stop. This was the first non-stop circumnavigation of the globe.