1913 – Agustin Parla Orduna, a Key West native, flew his sea plane to Cuba, becoming the second man to fly across the Florida Straits.

1976 – The Singleton Corporation announced they had bought Sea Farms, Inc. and the Thompson & O’Neal Shrimp Company. The purchase included most of the waterfront of Key West Bight.

1873 – Lodge No. 13 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows was instituted at Key West.

1912 – The Monroe Theater at 623 Duval was screening the 1911 Irish feature “Arrah-na-pogue,” with admission at 10, 15 or 20 cents, based on seating.

1959 – A simulated nuclear bomb drop was the central feature of Civil Defense exercises in Key West.

2010 – After having had the lowest census participation rate in Florida in 2000, Monroe County had the highest for 2010.

1958 – Billy Watkins Moody, serving a sentence in Monroe County Jail for larceny, admitted to having started multiple fires in Key West.

1956 – The First Baptist Church on Eaton Street at the corner of Bahama Street was destroyed by fire.

1886 – At 10 o’clock in the morning, a fire started near the San Carlos Theater in Key West.

1935 – A group of 10 Key West women went to Pirate’s Cove on Sugarloaf Key for lunch and an afternoon of playing bridge.

1939 – Construction of the cable schooner Western Union was progressing rapidly.

1939 – A Works Progress Administration sewer line project employing 442 Key West men had, to date, laid 20 miles of sewer pipe in the city.

1935 – The Long Key Fishing Camp was hosting its largest group of anglers in five years.

1960 – Students at Key West High School were dismissed for the day after a phone caller warned a bomb was set go off there at 2 p.m.

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

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

1925 – The Key West sponge fleet left port for their second trip of the season to the sponging grounds near Bahia Honda.

1983 – Fire destroyed the Fountains Restaurant in the landmark Cuban Club building on Duval at the corner of Amelia Street.