1830 – William Hackley recorded his in diary: Rose before the sun and read the “Acts.” Read Hammond. After dinner went with Captain James J. Board in his boat around to the Southern Beach after sea groupers got a few and had a pleasant sail. After tea played whist until near ten. The wind from the north northeast light, weather pleasant.
1944– The Key West Municipal Hospital on Stock Island was dedicated.
1948 – President Harry Truman was re-elected in a upset victory over Gov. Tom Dewey of New York. After his victory, President Truman announced he was going to Key West on vacation.
1954 – The following Democratic Party candidates were elected without opponents in the general elections: William Neblett, State Senate; Aquilino Lopez Jr., Judge; Berine C. Papy, State Representative; William A. Freeman, Monroe County Commission; Gerald Saunders, County Commission and Monroe County School Board members William R. Warren Jr., Keller Warren and Edney B. Parker. Statewide, the voters approved a constitutional amendment that would consolidate the city-county tax assessor offices on Jan. 1, 1956.
1965 – Over the weekend, burglars cut through the roof of the First National Bank, entered the vault and opened 90 of the 1,000 safety deposit boxes. Since the boxes were private, the amount stolen was never publicly known and some arrests were made later, but no one was ever indicted.
1965 – In the Key West city election, Mayor Kermit Lewin and Commissioners Harry Knight and Charles Pritchard were re-elected.
1971 – In the Key West city election, Charles “Sonny” McCoy was elected mayor.
1982 – Ed Swift and Alison Fahrer were elected to the Monroe County Commission. Fahrer won by one vote.
1987 – In a surprise move, Gene Lytton was elected Mayor of Monroe County at the County Commission meeting in Marathon.
1993 – Dennis Wardlow was re-elected Mayor of Key West and Emery Major, Jimmy Weekley and Sally Lewis were elected to the City Commission.
Information compiled by Tom Hambright, Historian Emeritus, Florida Keys History Center, Monroe County Public Library
Image: Alison Fahrer at the Windley Key Fossil Reef Geological State Park in 1994. Photo by Nancy Klingener. Florida Keys History Center, Monroe County Public Library. https://www.flickr.com/photos/keyslibraries/49234531438