1909 – Louis Mouton, proprietor of A. Granday & Company, manufacturer of green turtle soup, died in Key West.
1951 – Pauline Hemingway died after a brief illness while visiting California. She had been a resident of Key West since 1927 when she came here with her then-husband, writer Ernest Hemingway.
1952 – Admiral Irving Duke drove the first stake to begin construction of the three new buildings for the Fleet Sonar School on the south part of the Naval Station near the beach.
1969 – Long Key State Park was dedicated.
1974 – The winner in the run-off election were Jerome V. Shipley, Monroe County Commission; Purie Howanitz, County Commission; Joseph Thompson, Monroe County School Board and Edith Lowell, Mosquito Control Board.
1991 – In Key West elections, Harry Bethel was elected to the City Commission and the voters overwhelmingly rejected a referendum that would have given the city authority to issue short-term bonds and refinance bonds without voter approval.
1993 – Naval Aircraft Squadron VAQ-33 was decommissioned at the Naval Air Station Key West. VAQ-33 had been the largest squadron in Key West.
1994 – Willie Ward, longtime civil right and community leader, died at the age of 70.
Information compiled by Tom Hambright, Historian Emeritus, Florida Keys History Center, Monroe County Public Library
Image: A. Granday’s fine clear green turtle soup can label. Florida Keys History Center, Monroe County Public Library. https://www.flickr.com/photos/keyslibraries/28623695482