Today in 2016, University of Houston reports a record-high enrollment of 43,797 students.

Today in 1968, the Houston Oilers play their first regular season game in the Astrodome, losing to Kansas City.

Today in 2006, Macy’s ditches the Foley’s name after buying the 100-year-old Houston department store months earlier.

Today in 2016, former Houston Rockets great Yao Ming is inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.

Today in 2016, former Houston Comets legend Sheryl Swoopes is inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.

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Today in 2008, Freeland, south of the Heights, is designated as an Historic District by the City of Houston. City of Houston Houston Planning

Today in 2013, the 10-building, 52-acre Greenway Plaza is sold to Atlanta-based Cousins Properties for $950 million.

Today in 1961, Category 4 Hurricane Carla makes landfall near Port Lavaca. Due to emerging satellite and radar technologies on broadcast TV, half a million are able to evacuate - keeping the death toll to 46. #houwx

Today in 1965, the Astrodome hosts its first ever football game, Tulsa beats University of Houston Houston Athletics Houston Football

Today in 1989, Houston’s first IMAX theater opens at the Houston Museum Natural Science. The Houston Museum of Natural Science ❤️🦖🧠🌌

Today in 2017, The New Yorker publishes a cover story on Houston and Hurricane Harvey. Chip Kidd

Today in 1892, architect John Staub, who designed many Houston homes, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s Bayou Bend, and Brennan's of Houston, is born.

Today in 1962, JFK pledges the U.S. to go to the moon by decade’s end in speech at Rice University. “We choose to go to the moon and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” NASA History Office NASA's Johnson Space Center JFK Library

Today in 1965, former Houston Rockets shooting guard Vernon "Mad Max" Maxwell is born. Vernon Maxwell

Today in 1978, “The Ballad of the Urban Cowboy” by Aaron Latham is published in @Esquire, later the basis for the Pasadena-based movie.

Today in 1980, Yao Ming, former Center for Houston Rockets and one of China’s best-known athletes, is born.

Today in 1992, Dr. Mae Jemison becomes the first Black woman to travel in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour. Dr. Mae Jemison NASA History Office

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