1914 – A new chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy was formed at the home of Mrs. Adele Kirkland at the corner of White and Washington streets in Key West, and it was named for Stephen R. Mallory. Mrs. Charles O. Forsberg was elected president.
1924 – There were 19 paid members of the new Key West Golf Club on Stock Island. It was hoped that there would be over 100 members by the beginning of the winter season.
1951 – Pauline Hemingway died after a brief illness while visiting California. She had been a resident of Key West since 1928 when she came here with her ex-husband, writer Ernest Hemingway.
1952 – Admiral Irving Duke drove the first stake to begin construction of the three new buildings for the Fleet Sonar School on the south part of the Naval Station near the beach.
1993 – Naval Aircraft Squadron VAQ-33 was decommissioned at the Naval Air Station Key West. VAQ-33 had been the largest squadron in Key West.
1994 – Willie Ward, a longtime civil rights and Key West community leader, died at the age of 70.
2004 – Monroe County began construction of a new courthouse complex at Jackson Square in Key West. The 58,000-square-foot, three-story building would cost $15 million, and it would be called the Freeman Justice Center.
Information compiled by Dr. Corey Malcom, Lead Historian, Monroe County Public Library, Florida Keys History Center.
Image: VAQ-33 squadron and planes line up at NAS Key West, 1993. Wright Langley Collection. Monroe County Public Library, Florida Keys History Center.