1930 – The Key West Pilot Commission voted to cut pilotage charges in half on all ships calling for fuel, supplies, repairs, or other needs. The move was made to encourage more shipping at the port of Key West.

1954 – Key West City Commissioners gave Al Logun, owner of Logun’s Lobster House at the south end of Simonton Street, approval to extend the street 100 feet into the ocean. The extension would alleviate a crowded parking situation and provide visitors with a better view of the water. 

1962 – Florida State Road Department surveyors were in Key West to examine the site for a proposed causeway to cross Garrison Bight. The span, to be built on fill from deepening the bight, would start between First and Fifth Streets on one end and join Palm Avenue at the intersection of Eisenhower Drive on the other.

1962 – The Key West Citizen’s “Power for Peace” float was awarded the best-of-theme prize in the Key West Armed Forces Day parade.  

1989 – Shorty’s Diner, an institution on Key West’s Duval Street since 1942, closed. A.J. Galloway, son of the founder, announced he was moving to central Florida and taking a long rest.

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.