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Today in Texas History - January 8 1864 - Texas native David Owen Dodd was hanged at age seventeen. He was captured as he tried to cross Federal lines near Little Rock with notes in Morse code hidden in his shoe. After a military court found him guilty, he confessed that he had been sent to gather information about Union troops. Dodd may have been the youngest person hanged as a spy in the Civil War. 1865 - About 160 Confederates and 325 state militiamen lost a battle against the Kickapoo Indians about twenty miles southwest of present day San Angelo. 1884 - The Texas state legislature made fence cutting a felony punishable by one to five years in prison. 1910 - Jacob Brodbeck, considered by some the first man to fly in an airplane, passed away. He created an airship and attempted flight in Texas almost 40 years before the Wright brothers. 1919 - Ballerina Nana Gollner was born in El Paso. She began ballet training at age four as treatment for infantile paralysis. thewesternvault
Posted on: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 15:39:14 +0000

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