Saturday, March 02, 2013

It's Texas Independence Day!

Texas Independence Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Texas Independence Day is the celebration of the adoption of the Texas Declaration of Independence on March 2, 1836. With this document, settlers in Mexican Texas officially broke from Mexico, creating the Republic of Texas.[1] Texas Independence Day is an official holiday in the state of Texas.[2]

5 comments:

Tom Johnson said...

Yep, we're having parades in Seymour today. Some people dressing up circa 1800s, etc. Should be a lot of fun.

Cap'n Bob said...

Enjoy it while you can. The Mexicans are taking it back.

Tom Johnson said...

hahaha
Yeah, they've already changed the name of an old down between Seymour and Wichita Falls named Fulda to La Escalara. This was one of the oldest cattle loading points in this area - from cattle drives to a train. Guess I should have taken Spanish in school instead of French (lol).

Tom said...

Once again, Texas leads the way.

Anonymous said...

In our India we are celebrating August 15th as the Independence day. I observed Texas also celebrating March 2nd as his Independence day when it officially broke from Mexico. Can you update this blog with all different countries' Independence dates? I am very much interested to know about it. Apart from this article, I learned about hammerhead shark which is the largest of all hammerhead species.