TEXAS
1519-Spanish explorer Alonso Alvarez de Pineda maps coastal region;
1682-Two missions erected near present-day El Paso by Spanish
missionaries; 1821-Stephen F. Austin leads first band of Americans
to settle near Gulf Coast; 7836-SAM HOUSTON TRIUMPHS OVER MEXICANS
AT BATTLE OF SAN JACINTO; December 29, 1845-Becomes twenty-eighth
state.
