Want to learn more about the treacherous court of English King Henry VIII? Here are some books that can help.

1966 – The Lighthouse Military Museum opened in the former Key West lighthouse keeper’s quarters on Whitehead Street.

Staff from the Islamorada Library branch provide tech help to the JOY Center every week and a film club and craft class once a month.

1955 – After just two months of operation, the P & O Steamship Company halted its Key West-to-Tampa.

1961 – President John F. Kennedy and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan met in Key West to discuss the situation in Southeast Asia.

Mango Languages has created a parents' guide for using the free language learning app for homeschool curricula.

1935 – A resolution by aFlorida Congressman to designate Key West Naval base a winter station for submarines met opposition from the Navy.

The Tuesday Movie Matinee at the Key West Library is at 3 p.m. and is free and open to the public.

The late Jim Clupper compiled a comprehensive list of islands in the Florida Keys, with notes on the history of their names.

1993 – Key West resident and Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Hersey died at age 78.

1986 – The last “Blessing of the Shrimp Fleet” took place, with Father Tony Mullane performing the service.

1952 – Dr. Remington Kellogg, director of the U.S. National Museum, issued a statement outlining the distinctiveness of the Key deer.

2010 – The Friends of Higgs Beach, an ad hoc citizens’ group, was working with Monroe County to improve the Key West beachfront park.

1935 – A group of 10 Key West women went to Pirate’s Cove on Sugarloaf Key for lunch and an afternoon of playing bridge.

1937 – The turtling schooner A.M. Adams arrived in Key West on its first voyage, delivering a cargo of 380 green sea turtles.

1939 – Construction of the cable schooner Western Union was progressing rapidly.

1858 - Sombrero Key Lighthouse was first lighted under the charge of lightkeeper Joseph Bethel.

1953 – The Arthur Sawyer Post 28, American Legion, asked the City of Key West for permission to buy the land where their clubhouse sat.

1963 - Filming began on “Man In The Water,” a movie starring Mark Stevens.

Letters recently donated to the Florida Keys History Center illuminate a century-old Key West banking scandal.