1830 – William R. Hackley recorded in his diary: Rose about sunrise and read Gil Blas. Captain Thomas Rooke went up to the reef this morning. After breakfast cleaned the brass on my gun case. Read Hammond for a short time when not being in a humor for study I took up a volume of Peter Pindar. After dinner took a nap and walked up to the beach. After tea sat and conversed until half past 8, when I went to bed. Dr. B.B. Strobel, I heard, read a sermon at the courthouse this morning. Wind east northeast, weather pleasant.
1905 – A general strike of the cigarmakers was ordered. Several meetings of the Manufacturers Union and the Cigarmakers Union failed to settle the strike.
1935 – The Works Progress Administration began a program of eradication of wild cotton in the Keys and Everglades. The wild cotton was host to the pink boll worn and was to be completely eliminated.
1946 – President Harry Truman submerged to 440 feet on a captured German submarine manned by a U.S. Navy crew.
1954 -The crew filming “The Rose Tattoo” left en masse after the final scenes were shot at the Mardi Gras Club on Duval Street.
1961 – In the Key West city elections C.B. Harvey defeated Mayor Delio Cobo who was running for a third term. Ismael “Terry Lee” Garcia and Jay Stricker were elected to the City Commission.
1967 – In the Key West run-off election, Charles Pritchard and Bob Dean were elected to the City Commission.
1978 – Filming started on a movie about the life of Capt. Tony Tarracino.
1978 – Don Schloesser was elected Mayor of Monroe County at the organizational meeting of the County Commission.
Information compiled by Tom Hambright, Historian Emeritus, Florida Keys History Center, Monroe County Public Library
Image: The Mardi Gras Club, a location used in “The Rose Tattoo,” filmed in Key West in 1954. Ray Blazevic Collection. Florida Keys History Center, Monroe County Public Library. https://www.flickr.com/photos/keyslibraries/6488346611/