1999 – Key West City Clerk Josephine Parker died unexpectedly after collapsing at the dais just before the start of a commission meeting.

1935 – The Key West Aquarium was opened with a dedication ceremony attended by more than 500 celebrants.

1935 – The Long Key Fishing Camp was hosting its largest group of anglers in five years.

1925 – The Navy took custody of Clinton Place at the entrance to Naval Station Key West and assumed maintenance of the monument.

1924 – The first batch of concrete for the walls of the San Carlos Opera House was poured.

1899 – The Key West Electric Street Railway company opened with a streetcar that ran up and down Duval and to La Brisa.

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1924 – So many tourists were traveling between Key West and Havana that the steamship Governor Cobb had to make an extra trip.

1954 – After completing structural surveys, the Florida Road Department greenlighted 2,000 feet of fishing catwalks on bridges.

1960 – Students at Key West High School were dismissed for the day after a phone caller warned a bomb was set go off there at 2 p.m.

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1995 – The statue of Henry “Booty” Singleton at the foot of Margaret Street was dedicated.

1964 – The Hemingway House opened as a museum dedicated to telling of the late author’s life in Key West.

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1975 – The Oldest House on Duval Street officially opened as a museum.

1907 – The City of Key West was striving to make Fleming Street on either side of Duval the “Broadway” of the city.

1953 – The Key West City Commission approved a resolution that changed the name of Salt Pond Road to Jose Marti Drive.

1999 – A group called “Citizens Coalition for the Preservation of Keys Character” was working to dissolve the new Village of Islamorada.

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1975 – Key West Police arrested the owner of Uncle Sam’s Pawn Shop and Howie’s Lounge.