{"id":216655,"date":"2026-03-23T15:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/216655\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T15:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:01:10","slug":"this-day-in-history-march-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/216655\/","title":{"rendered":"This Day in History, March 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WACO, Texas (KWTX) &#8211; On March 22, 1910, fire destroyed the main building of Texas Christian University in Waco. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The brick structure, thought to be fireproof, ignited around 8 p.m. when two students discovered flames. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Within hours, only charred and blackened walls remained. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Nearly all of the library\u2019s 6,000 volumes were destroyed, along with the nearly completed 1910 Horned Frog yearbook. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Classes resumed at TCU within days, held on the lawn, in dining halls, and in neighboring buildings. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Other Texas cities, including Fort Worth, Dallas, McKinney, and Gainesville, placed competing bids to attract TCU. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Fort Worth\u2019s bid of 50 acres of land, $200,000, and promises of utilities and streetcar access proved irresistible. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On May 9, 1910, TCU\u2019s Board of Trustees unanimously accepted Fort Worth\u2019s offer, ending the university\u2019s 15-year presence in Waco.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KWTX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WACO, Texas (KWTX) &#8211; On March 22, 1910, fire destroyed the main building of Texas Christian University in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,853,355,84521,12111,7145,21251],"class_list":["post-216655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-tcu","tag-texas-christian-university","tag-texas-christian-university-in-waco","tag-this-day-in-history","tag-waco","tag-we-the-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}