1956 – James A. Portier of 110 Olivia Street in Key West returned home after playing his third season with the Negro League’s Indianapolis Clowns. Portier was a member of the league’s East-West All Stars, and he hoped to try out with the Kansas City A’s organization.

The 1733 wreck of a Spanish treasure fleet off the Keys led to some of the first English-language newspaper reporting about the islands.