1911 – Curtiss Aircraft test pilot J.A.W. McCurdy attempted to fly from Key West to Havana but crashed just short of the goal.

1930 – The Key West Chamber of Commerce had requested use of a U.S. government airplane to help eradicate mosquitoes.

1911 – The French line steamer Louisiane, which had gone ashore at Sombrero Key in the hurricane of October 2010, was refloated.

1925 – In the first week of mullet season, 250,000 pounds, caught primarily off southwestern Florida, had been landed at Key West.

2003 – The Key West Butterfly & Nature Conservatory opened for business at 1316 Duval Street.

1935 – The cabanas at Rest Beach were fully booked by winter visitors for the season.

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

1912 – Key West continued to celebrate the completion of the railroad. At 11 a.m. a parade marched down Duval Street.

2004 – The City of Key West hired Armando Parra as official chicken catcher to try to control the island’s free-ranging chicken population.

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

1912 – “Opening the Over Sea Railway to Key West” was the cover story of Collier’s National Weekly Magazine.

1925 – A report from Key West said, “Bathing conditions have been ideal for the past several days.

1940 – The East Martello Tower was opened to tourists. Boys employed by the National Youth Administration served as guides.

1953 – The Navy dedicated the baseball field at Naval Station Key West in honor of Key Wester and Marine Sgt. Norris A. Walker.

After a five-year overhaul of the area, Key West celebrated the grand opening of the city-owned Key West Bight Historic Seaport.

1925 – A group of Key Westers traveled by boat to Munson Island to give a surprise party for Mr. and Mrs. Newton Munson.

1875 – Construction began on Key West’s Convent of Mary Immaculate at 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.

1971 – John Dedek purchased the neglected Fogarty House property at 227 Duval Street in Key West.

2000 – The last vestiges of the Howard Johnson’s restaurant on North Roosevelt Boulevard in Key West were removed.