This article contains a timeline of major events in the history of Dallas, Texas (USA). It serves as an abridged supplement to the main history article for the city and its several subarticles on periods in the city's history.
1922 - The Magnolia Building opens. Its trademark neonPegasus that would be erected in 1934 would come to be one of the city's most recognizable landmarks and representative of the city itself.
1927
Love Field is opened for civilian use.
The world's first convenience store is opened in Dallas by the Southland Ice Company, which will eventually become 7-Eleven.
1930
C. M. Joiner strikes oil 100 miles (160 km) northeast of Dallas. Dallas became a center of commerce for the Texas oil trade.
1934 - The criminal duo Bonnie and Clyde are buried in Dallas after being killed by police in Louisiana on May 23.
1958 - While working for Texas Instruments, Jack Kilby created the world's first integrated circuit at a Dallas laboratory in September, sparking an electronics revolution that changed the world and created a global market now worth more than $1 trillion a year.
1978 - The soap opera Dallas debuts with a CBSminiseries that was filmed entirely in Dallas. The actual series was later almost all filmed in a Los Angeles studio. The internationally popular show ran for 13 years.
2010 - Population: city 1,197,816; megaregion 19,728,244.[9]
2014 - September 7 - Dallas is the home of the first case of the Ebola Virus in the United States.
2016 - July 7 - A mass shooting in downtown Dallas targeting police officers during a protest results in the deaths of five officers along with the shooter, and the injuries of nine other officers and two civilians.
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