Something happened on an unremarkable day just before the season changed. Everybody who was OUTSIDE….went INSIDE.
Ravi Shankar plays a concert at the Hemisfair Theater for the Performing Arts (now Lila Cockrell Theater).
September 19 In San Antonio History...
The first city election takes place (19 votes cast for Mayor: 15 for John W. Smith, 2 for Antonio Navarro, 1 for Francisco Ruiz and 1 for J.
The addition will be completed on Oct. 31 and will eventually bring the square footage of North Star Mall to 1.2 million square feet.
St. Peter Claver Catholic Church is founded at Nolan and Live Oak streets.
See the latest announcement from BiblioTech: Bexar County's All-Digital Public Library.
Find out what's new in San Antonio with Patch's daily newsletter.
Your five-minute guide to everything worth knowing today in town.
Here's a five-minute guide to what's going on around town today.
Here's the latest from San Antonio, delivered right to your inbox.
At 12:01 a.m., Prohibition ends and 6,000 people gather to watch 100 trucks and 25 boxcars loaded with Pearl beer rumble out of the Brewery.
Woah, woah, woah. Hold your horses. What even IS a Flex Borrow?
The Catholic Ursuline Order of nuns opens the first school for girls in San Antonio.
See the latest announcement from the San Antonio Public Library.
The doctor says he performed an abortion in defiance of Texas' new, near-total ban on abortions and all but dared supporters to sue him.
He also visits Plaza Guadalupe, Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, San Fernando Cathedral and Municipal Auditorium.
The San Antonio Light reports on President Kennedy’s speech in Rice Stadium in Houston today.
Green was a football star at San Antonio’s Southwest High School.
New resource alert! Learn Something New!
High winds destroy the twin towers and scaffolding (right) two days before the arrival in San Antonio of Pope John Paul II.
San Antonio’s new Children’s Museum holds its grand opening in the Vance Building at 305 E. Houston Street.
The flood was caused by some of the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in Texas.
The Killers went back to their roots with the release of their seventh record, Pressure Machine.
The first Folklife Festival opens on the grounds of the Institute of Texan Cultures (right). 7,546 people attend on opening day.
1894 San Antonio Female College opens its doors. In 1916 the college was recognized by the University of Texas as a junior college.
The San Antonio Evening News publishes its first issue (right).
Harold Joske, the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Joske, drowns in the Guadalupe River north of New Braunfels.
Classes begin for the first time at the brand new 1604 campus of UTSA.
SAN ANTONIO (September 1, 2021) — September is National Library Card Sign-up Month.
Alamo Plaza is decided upon as the location for the cenotaph honoring the Alamo heroes.
Ignacia Agustina Munoz y Morillo is first recorded baptism in the parish of San Fernando, on this date.
Cece Rios lives with her family in the desert town of Tierra del Sol.
Radio station KONO changes frequency from 1400 MHZ to 860 MHz. It’s still there.
Blockbuster Video announces its first San Antonio location at 9885 IH-10 West in the Colonnade.
Temple Beth–El is dedicated across Jefferson from Travis Park.