1911 – Mrs. Eliza Cleare died at age 105. She was born at Harbor Island, Bahamas, on April 14, 1806 and came to Key West in 1886.
1941 – Lieutenant Colonel Webster F. Putman relieved Colonel Louis L. Pendleton as Commanding Officer Army Barracks Key West.
1954 – The Navy’s first Underwater Swimmers School was commissioned in Building 107 on the Naval Station with Lt. R.J. Fay as commanding officer.
1987 – Presidential candidate Jesse Jackson was in Key West to attend an anti-drug rally and to visit a drug interdiction vessel.
1988 – Voters denied the city authority to issue bonds to buy the salt ponds property that now has the Ocean Walk Apartments and Las Salinas Condominiums.
Information compiled by Tom Hambright, Historian Emeritus, Florida Keys History Center, Monroe County Public Library
Image: The Underwater Swimmers School on the Naval Station Key West circa 1970s. Florida Keys History Center, Monroe County Public Library. https://www.flickr.com/photos/keyslibraries/3608133198