1929 – A Category 3 hurricane passed over Key Largo. The lowest barometer reading recorded in the Keys was 27.99. Damage was slight because of the very small population of the Upper Keys.
1940 – The Navy announced that a contract had been negotiated to construct a freshwater pipeline from the mainland to Key West.
1944 – Colonel Sherman E. Willard relieved Colonel Ralph E. Hill as Commanding Officer Army Barracks Key West.
1955 – Two Navy airmen on watch escaped injury when a small but violent tornado struck Boca Chica Naval Air Station and tore two blimps from their moorings and blew them a half a mile into the mangroves with the men inside. Both airships were badly damaged.
1976 – The winners in the runoff election were: William A. Freeman, sheriff; Roger Swift, school board; Richard Kerr, county commissioner and J. Burton Frierson III, Florida Keys Authority board.
Information compiled by Tom Hambright, Historian Emeritus, Florida Keys History Center, Monroe County Public Library
Image: Workers installing the Navy water pipeline C 1940. Wright Langley Collection. Florida Keys History Center, Monroe County Public Library. https://www.flickr.com/photos/keyslibraries/9277263050