April 9 - Texas History

This is today in Texas history.

On this day, April the 9th, in 1965, the Houston Astros played the New York Yankees in exhibition

baseball in the Astralum.

The first event in the New Dome Stadium.

The Astralum, the first fully air condition, enclosed, multipurpose sports stadium in

the world, was first approved by voters in the 1950s.

Roy Huffins had led in the development.

Over the years, it was the home stadium of the Houston Astros and the Houston Orders

among other teams.

It also hosted such varied entertainments as bullfighting rodeos, and in 1992, the Republican

National Convention.

I bet you didn't know that.

That was today in Texas history.