1 August 1961
On this date in 1961...
The largest and premier Southern amusement park at the time, Six Flags Over Texas opened in Arlington, Texas.
Other Years:
- 1781 - British army commanded Lord Cornwallis occupied Yorktown, Virginia.
- 1966 - Charles Whitman wounded 31 and killed 16 people from the bell tower at University of Texas in Austin before himself being killed by a police officer.
- 1993 - The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 crests.
- 2001 - Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore installed a Ten Commandments monument in the state judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit from the Southern Poverty Law Center to have it removed and eventually his own removal from the court.
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