April 28
- Florida Keys History Center
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1898 – The Red Cross Society’s ship State of Texas, with nurses and medicine arrived in Key West from New York.
1909 – Reverend J.W. Roseborough conducted an organizational meeting of the First Presbyterian Church in the Key West City Hall on Greene Street. Thirty persons were received into the membership.
1926 – Key Westers were dumping their unwanted pets on Stock Island, and residents there were being overwhelmed by the large number of starving dogs and cats.
1946 – At midnight, Key West initiated daylight saving time by advancing clocks in the city by one hour. Commissioners were pressured to adopt the policy after similar measures were passed in most other cities along the eastern seaboard. The island would revert to “slow time” on September 29.
1968 – National Air Lines made the first jet landing at Key West International Airport using a Boeing 727. The county had extended the runway and removed obstructions to make the airport usable for jets.
1974 – El Salvador United Methodist Church celebrated the 100th anniversary of Methodist Spanish work in Key West. In 1873 the Florida Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, appointed J.E.A. Van Duzer the first missionary to the Spanish-speaking people of Key West.
1982 – The last span of the new Seven Mile Bridge was put in place.
1992 – Police made a gruesome discovery at a home on Southard Street. They found a man who had been dead for two months, and his roommate was unaware he was dead.
Information compiled by Dr. Corey Malcom, Lead Historian, Monroe County Public Library, Florida Keys History Center.
Image: The first National Airline 727 jet to land at Key West International Airport. Photo by Cory McDonald. Monroe County Public Library, Florida Keys History Center.