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The Houston Astrodome, the world's first fixed-roof, air-conditioned multipurpose stadium, opened on 9 April 1965 with an exhibition game between the Astros and Yankees — though it's stood closed and searching for a new use since 2008.

After 56 days of trial and six days of deliberation, a federal jury in Houston convicted Enron's two former chief executives. Kenneth Lay was found guilty on all six counts he faced; Jeffrey Skilling was convicted on conspiracy, securities fraud, false statements and insider trading counts, closing the criminal case over the largest US corporate collapse of its time.

Texas kicked off construction on its $13 billion North Houston Highway Improvement Project, a decades-long rebuild of one of America's deadliest interstates.

Sable Offshore posted a $197.0 million net loss for Q1 2026 after resuming oil sales from the Santa Ynez Unit under a U.S. Department of Energy Defense Production Act order, and ended the quarter with $956.3 million of short-term debt against $52.2 million in cash.

Sable Offshore reported $137.1 million of revenue and $9.4 million of operating cash flow for the second quarter of 2026, its first full quarter of sales since the Santa Ynez Unit restart, and ended June selling about 40,000 net barrels of oil a day.

A 236-acre plant that will make the active ingredient of Lilly's Foundayo weight-loss pill, with more than 600 permanent jobs and about 4,000 construction jobs. Lilly expects it running by 2030.

The new North Concourse at George Bush Intercontinental replaces the 1969-era flight stations with about 765,000 square feet on three levels, 22 gates for United and a 54,000-square-foot United Club, the largest in the airline's network. It is the centrepiece of the $2.5 billion Terminal B Transformation, which closed the old Terminal B lobby in January 2025.

A 700,000-square-foot building joined to the George R. Brown Convention Center, holding two exhibition halls, an atrium hall and the largest ballroom in Texas, plus a 100,000-square-foot pedestrian plaza linking it to the Toyota Center. Houston First financed this first phase of its $2 billion convention district transformation with about $1.38 billion of hotel occupancy tax and special revenue bonds.

Project 11 widens the channel by 170 feet along its Galveston Bay reach, from 530 to 700 feet, and deepens upstream segments to 46.5 feet so the largest container ships can pass one another. Dredging began in 2022; Port Houston finished its own segments in October 2025 and the US Army Corps of Engineers is completing the rest, with the spoil building bird islands, marsh and oyster reef.

Phase 2 tears down the convention center's 1968 arena and replaces it with a four-storey building and a new ballroom, finishing a rebuild whose first phase added 76,000 square feet and wrapped up in winter 2025. The centre stays open to events through the work.

NASA plans to retire the 25-year-old ISS by guiding it into a remote stretch of the South Pacific using a purpose-built SpaceX deorbit vehicle.