The top 3 students from 11 participating Dallas County high schools will be honored by the Dallas Sales Executives Club at a banquet at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Sam Houston Room of the Sheraton-Dallas Hotel as the club winds up its annual Distributive Education project.

One month later, Johnston was promoted to major and the position of aide-de-camp to General Sam Houston.

* 1836 – Texas Revolution: A day after the Battle of San Jacinto, forces under Texas General Sam Houston capture Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.

* 1836 – Texas Revolution: The Battle of San Jacinto – Republic of Texas forces under Sam Houston defeat troops under Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.

In 1916, while stationed at Fort Sam Houston, Eisenhower was football coach for St. Louis College, now St. Mary's University.

In June 1941, he was appointed Chief of Staff to General Walter Krueger, Commander of the 3rd Army, at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas.

* Fort Sam Houston News Leader ( Texas )

Sam Houston from Texas was one of the few southern opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

* 1793 – Sam Houston, American politician ( d. 1863 )

* 1861 – Edward Clark became Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who has been evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy.

* 1836 – Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.

In 1836, five sites served as temporary capitals of Texas ( Washington-on-the-Brazos, Harrisburg, Galveston, Velasco and Columbia ), before President Sam Houston moved the capital to Houston in 1837.

In the late 1830s, Sam Houston negotiated a peace between Texas and the Comanches.

To " protect " the Texas national archives, President Sam Houston ordered them removed from Austin.

Sam Houston ordered 500 militia to help end the feud.

Sam Houston and Stephen F. Austin depicted on a 1936 US postage stamp commemorating 100th anniversary of the Texas Republic

* 1836 – Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.

* Sam Houston

* July 26 – Sam Houston, first President of the Republic of Texas ( b. 1793 )

* President Sam Houston ( Republic of Texas )

* President Sam Houston ( Republic of Texas )

* March 2 – Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas ( d. 1863 )

* April 22 – Texas Revolution: Forces under Texas General Sam Houston capture Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.

* September 5 – Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.

* Huntsville, Texas, is the home of the Sam Houston Memorial Museum, a statue, Sam Houston State University, and Houston's gravesite.

* Sam Houston Memorial Museum

The Sam Hill Memorial Bridge across the Columbia River is named after him.

Biggs Junction is located on the south side of the Columbia River at the junction of Interstate 84 / U. S. 30 and U. S. 97 where it crosses the Sam Hill Memorial Bridge over the river from Washington.

Biggs Junction ( right ) at the approach to the Sam Hill Memorial Bridge over the Columbia River

* Wilt Chamberlain is elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, along with coaches Sam Barry, Eddie Hickey, John McLendon, Ray Meyer and Pete Newell, and referee Jim Enright

He and a son, Sam Bean ( 1874 – 1907 ), are interred at the Whitehead Memorial Museum in Del Rio.

* Sam Rayburn Memorial Student Center at Texas A & M University-Commerce is named after Mr. Rayburn.

* Sam Rayburn Memorial Highway, roughly a forty mile section of Texas State Highway 121 that begins at Texas State Highway 78, two miles north of Bonham, Texas, and ends at its terminus with the Sam Rayburn Tollway in McKinney, Texas, was named in his honor.

* Sam Rayburn Memorial Veterans Center in Bonham, Texas was named in his honor.

: 1901 The Peabody Memorial Library, Sam Houston State University, Texas

Two years later, the team coached by Bowman and managed by Sam Pollock won the Memorial Cup in 1958.

The Sam Hill Memorial Bridge, which carries U. S. Route 97 across the Columbia River near Maryhill, is named for him.

In 2012 the university began a search for placement of the reconstructed Sam Houston Memorial Window, once a centerpiece in the Old Main Building on campus, in honor of the upcoming 150th Anniversary of the death of General Sam Houston.

The Uncle Sam Memorial Statue marks a site near his birthplace.

Image: Uncle Sam Memorial Statue, Arlington, MA-general view. jpg | Uncle Sam Memorial Statue, Arlington, Massachusetts

Image: Uncle Sam Memorial Statue, Arlington, MA-Uncle Sam. jpg | Uncle Sam statue detail