1980 – The Key West fishing boats Dos Hermanos and Blanche III arrived in Key West with 48 Cuban refugees, which began the Mariel Boatlift.

1959 – Some 25 members of the Marathon-based Tortugas Shrimpers Association met with elected officials in Tallahassee to urge the passage of a bill that would reopen areas of the Tortugas shrimp beds that had been closed for conservation.

1869 – Dr. Samuel Mudd, who had been a prisoner for four years at Fort Jefferson, was pardoned and released.

A new renovation is restoring prominence to one of Key West's oldest public spaces.

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

1935 – An excursion to Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas was offered to up to 16 passengers on the Commodore seaplane.

1880 – Former U.S. President and Army General Ulysses S. Grant visited Key West.

1925 – The Key West City Council approved a motor bus service to be operated on the city’s streets by the Key West Electric Company.

1925 – The Key West Police Department declared that, due to a rise in reckless driving, they would increase enforcement of traffic laws.

1925 – Key Wester Stephen Lowe purchased a lot adjoining his lumber business along the waterfront off Caroline Street.

1862 - The Pennsylvania 47th regiment landed at Key West to relieve New York regiments who had suffered greatly from yellow fever.

1909 – The 102-ton schooner Annie Greenlaw was delivered to Key West turtle soup manufacturer Armand Granday.

1862 - The Pennsylvania 47th regiment landed at Key West after having been in Hilton Head.

Emancipation played out differently in Key West than it did in other parts of Florida - or the country.

Local author David Sloan donated a remarkable collection of letters from a Union officer stationed in Key West during the Civil War.