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John Neely Bryan established the permanent settlement of Dallas in 1841 after planting a wooden stake on a bluff near three forks of the Trinity River in 1839. The city grew rapidly after railroads arrived in 1873, transforming it into a major trading center for cotton and cattle.
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Elm Street inside Dealey Plaza on the 22nd of November 1963 while his motorcade passed through downtown Dallas minutes before the shooting occurred. Lee Harvey Oswald fired from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository building and Kennedy died at Parkland Memorial Hospital just over thirty minutes after being shot.
The 2020 census recorded 1,304,379 residents living in Dallas proper with Hispanic or Latino Americans constituting the largest ethnic group in the city. Non-Hispanic White residents declined from 82.8 percent of the population in 1930 to less than one-third today.
Dallas became known as the heart of Silicon Prairie due to the high concentration of telecommunications firms within the Telecom Corridor which hosts over 5,700 companies including AT&T and Nokia. Texas Instruments employs more than 10,400 people at its corporate headquarters in Dallas and Fortune Magazine listed eleven Fortune 500 companies within Dallas city limits by 2022.
Reunion Tower and I.M. Pei's Dallas City Hall define the modernist era of the city while Postmodern skyscrapers like Fountain Place and Renaissance Tower dominate the commercial district today. Fair Park holds the world's largest collection of Art Deco exhibit buildings built for the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition.