1830 – William R. Hackley recorded in his diary: Rose with the sun and read the “Acts” and afterwards Hammond. After dinner read Stewart. The weather has been hot all day and the winds light and variable till about 8 P.M. when the wind came out of the northwest and blew quite fresh.
1944 – Three days after a disputed election the Monroe County Board of Canvassers declared that Willard M. Albury had been elected Superintendent of Public of Instruction.
1950 – Residents of Monroe County overwhelmingly voted for an Anti-Mosquito district. The vote was 1,781 to 170 for the special tax.
1961 – Key West City Commissioner Harry Knight was re-elected for a second term and John dePoo was elected commissioner.
1967 – Mayor Kermit Lewin was re-elected in the Key West city election and Gwen McCook and Jack Niles were elected to the commission.
1972 – Harry Pritchard was re-elected to the Monroe County Commission.
1978 – George Dolezal was elected to the Monroe County Commission, the first Republican elected to a county office in 90 years.
1983 – Jennie Bethel DeBoer died at the age of 97. She grew up at the Key West Lighthouse where her father, William Bethel, was keeper for 25 years. During World War I she served as a Yeomanette in the Navy. After the war, she worked for the Key West Citizen for 35 years.
1989 – Capt. Tony Tarracino was elected Mayor of Key West and Sally Lewis was re-elected to the commission.
Information compiled by Tom Hambright, Historian Emeritus, Florida Keys History Center, Monroe County Public Library
Image: Capt. Tony Tarracino at his desk in 1991. Photo by Nancy Klingener. Florida Keys History Center, Monroe County Public Library. https://www.flickr.com/photos/keyslibraries/49234995621