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[@TxStHistAssoc](/creator/twitter/TxStHistAssoc)
"On this day in 1541 the Spanish explorer Francisco Vzquez de Coronado in a letter to the king of Spain became the first man to describe the vast Llano Estacado (Staked Plains) located in northwest Texas and northeast New Mexico"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TxStHistAssoc/status/1980292971355353310) [@TxStHistAssoc](/creator/x/TxStHistAssoc) 2025-10-20T15:20Z 15.3K followers, 26.4K engagements


"On this day in 1958 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act which established the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (@NASA ). The Manned Space Center opened in 1963 and was officially renamed the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TxStHistAssoc/status/1950212040796127296) [@TxStHistAssoc](/creator/x/TxStHistAssoc) 2025-07-29T15:09Z 15.3K followers, 4594 engagements


"On this day in 1835 the New Orleans Greys two companies of United States volunteers that served together in the Texas Revolution were organized at a meeting held in the grand coffee room of Banks's Arcade in New Orleans"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TxStHistAssoc/status/1977766905529389348) [@TxStHistAssoc](/creator/x/TxStHistAssoc) 2025-10-13T16:02Z 15.3K followers, 4966 engagements


"Read more about the New Orleans Greys volunteer company in the Texas Revolution:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TxStHistAssoc/status/1977767486809673835) [@TxStHistAssoc](/creator/x/TxStHistAssoc) 2025-10-13T16:04Z 15.3K followers, 4269 engagements


"On this day in 1890 Dwight David Eisenhower general of the army and thirty-fourth president of the United States was born in a two-story frame house in Denison Texas. Pictured📷 Inaugural Parade 1953 featuring Texas float honoring the birthplace of Dwight D. Eisenhower"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TxStHistAssoc/status/1978104298366980280) [@TxStHistAssoc](/creator/x/TxStHistAssoc) 2025-10-14T14:23Z 15.3K followers, XXX engagements


"On this day in 1839 Mirabeau B. Lamar second president of the Republic of Texas and his cabinet arrived in the new capital city of Austin. Lamar had appointed Edwin Waller to lay out the new capital at the site of the community of Waterloo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TxStHistAssoc/status/1979249268008362360) [@TxStHistAssoc](/creator/x/TxStHistAssoc) 2025-10-17T18:12Z 15.3K followers, 32.2K engagements


"#OTD in 1836 the ad interim government ended with the inauguration of Sam Houston as president of the Republic of Texas. The temporary gov. fled with the people in the Runaway Scrape and was located successively at Washington-on-the-Brazos. 📸David G. Burnet interim President"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TxStHistAssoc/status/1981061771436630507) [@TxStHistAssoc](/creator/x/TxStHistAssoc) 2025-10-22T18:15Z 15.3K followers, 19.1K engagements


"On this day in 1863 the First Texas Cavalry USA left New Orleans for South Texas as part of the Union effort to interdict the lucrative trade between Confederate Texas and Mexico. The First was one of two regiments of Unionist cavalry from Texas to serve in the Civil War. #OTD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TxStHistAssoc/status/1981395996627066947) [@TxStHistAssoc](/creator/x/TxStHistAssoc) 2025-10-23T16:23Z 15.3K followers, 5726 engagements