June 30
- Florida Keys History Center
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1833 – A correspondent wrote from Key West that there had been seven deaths on the island from “Asiatic scourge” and 10 deaths from cholera approximately one month earlier.
1958 – Monroe County Sheriff’s deputies and a team from the Navy were searching for a man who fell asleep while fishing from the Bow Channel Viaduct and dropped into the water. A fellow fisherman tried to get a rope to the man but lost sight of him. The accident happened at 3:15 a.m.
1960 – Carrier Anti-Submarine Air Group 50 was commissioned in the main hangar at Trumbo Point.
1970 – Key West based Destroyer Division 601 was disestablished and the ships were transferred to Destroyer Squadron 18, which moved to Key West.
1981 – U.S. Senator Lawton Chiles dedicated the reconditioned cutters Ute and Lipan in ceremonies at the Coast Guard Station in Key West.
1994 – Ethealinda Kemp Stricker, 96, was buried from Old Stone Methodist Church. She was a graduate of Monroe County High School and Florida State College for Women. She retired in 1958 after 33 years teaching in the Monroe County School system, most of the time at Harris School.
2001 – Key West artist and musician David Wegman returned to the island after a 15-year global sailing adventure. Wegman had left on his sailboat the African Queen IV in 1986 with one goal: “Do something.”
Information compiled by Dr. Corey Malcom, Lead Historian, Monroe County Public Library, Florida Keys History Center.
Image: U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Lipan (WMEC 85) at Trumbo Point, Key West. Photo by Raymond L. Blazevic. Monroe County Public Library, Florida Keys History Center.
