1863 – U.S. Navy landsman George Sisinger died of chronic dysentery at the Navy hospital in Key West.
1924 – The group formed to advocate for the new Florida Keys highway was being encouraged to change its name from the Road to the Mainland Association to the Overseas Highway Association
1934 – Monroe County Sheriff Karl Thompson arrested Bertis Sterling at Key Largo. Sterling had taken a sponging boat from Key Wester William Russell five months previously and never returned it, nor had he paid any proceeds from sponge sales.
1941 – Florida Highway Patrolman Paul Daniels, a Key West native who was shot and killed in the line of duty in Dade County, was buried in the Key West City Cemetery.
1955 – “Carib Gold,” a motion picture about shrimpers finding a sunken treasure, was being filmed in Key West. The movie starred Ethel Waters, Coley Wallace and Cicely Tyson.
1969 – The Key West Junkanoos announced that, beginning in January, they would play every Saturday evening on the front patio of the old Fogarty house at the corner of Caroline and Duval streets.
1983 – Preliminary plans for the development of the Truman Annex were unveiled before the Historic Preservation Board. The plan called for the old Custom House building to be used as the lobby of an adjoining hotel complex that would have up to 500 rooms.
Information compiled by the late Tom Hambright, Historian Emeritus, and Dr. Corey Malcom, Lead Historian, Monroe County Public Library, Florida Keys History Center.
Image: Key West Junkanoos, Dudley Lynch, Kenneth Rahming, Lee Joe Whyms, Leonard Allen, Bill Butler, Charles Allen, and Alven Scott. Wright Langley Collection. Monroe County Public Library, Florida Keys History Center