| 1513 | |
| 1539 | | 1 Jun:
Hernando de Soto makes landfall in Florida beginning his exploration of North America.PGHMS HMdb |
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| 1565 | | 8 Sep:
The oldest continuously occupied European-established settlement within the borders of the continental United States, St. Augustine, Florida, is founded.SA LOC |
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| | 20 Sep:
Spanish forces capture the French Huguenot settlement of Fort Caroline in the first European battle on American soil.SIMag PG |
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| 1715 | | 31 Jul:
A hurricane sinks a fleet of treasure ships returning to Spain.CW IRMag |
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| 1810 | |
| 1822 | |
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Joseph Marion Hernández, born José Mariano Hernández, becomes the first Hispanic elected to Congress.USHouse USCongress |
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| 1835 | | 28 Dec:
300 Seminole warriors attack U. S. troops beginning the Second Seminole War.SemTribe DBS |
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| 1845 | |
| 1860 | | 20 Dec:
Confederate States begin to secede from the Union.Tulane SI |
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| 1861 | | 4 Feb:
The Confederate States of America is formed.CWH LoVA |
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| | 18 Feb:
Jefferson Davis becomes the President of the Confederate States of America.ACW LoC |
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| 1945 | | 5 Dec:
U. S. Navy Flight 19, consisting of 5 Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bombers, disappears in the Bermuda Triangle off the coast of Florida, never to be seen again.Navy NASFM |
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| 1950 | | 24 Jul:
Cape Canaveral launches its first rocket.W I R E D CoF |
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| 1958 | | 17 Mar:
Vanguard 1, the first solar-powered satellite, is launched.NASA Space |
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| 1959 | | 17 Feb:
Vanguard II, the first weather satellite, is launched.SI NASA |
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| | 22 Feb:
The first Daytona 500 is raced, with Lee Petty being declared the winner 3 days later.LoC MMCG |
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| | 8 Jun:
Missile Mail - 3,000 pieces of mail are delivered by a cruise missile fired from a U. S. Navy submarine.W I R E D SI |
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| 1977 | | 19 Jan:
Snow falls in Miami, Florida and the Bahamas (I was in Freeport at the time), the only recorded occurrence in history.MiamiHerald NWS |
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| 1986 | | 28 Jan:
Just after lift-off, the space shuttle Challenger explodes, killing all aboard.NASA Space |
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| 2001 | | 22 Dec:
Richard Reid fails in his attempt to blow up a flight from Paris to Miami with explosive material in his shoes.CNN Flying |
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| 2009 | | 7 Mar:
The Kepler Space Observatory, a spacecraft designed to search for other Earth-like planets, is launched at Cape Canaveral, Florida.NASA Space |
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| 2013 | | 17 Feb:
Danica Patrick becomes the first women in history to win the pole for NASCAR's Daytona 500.IMS NASCAR |
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| 2015 | | 21 Dec:
SpaceX brings the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket back to Earth for a soft touchdown at Cape Canaveral, Florida after delivering a payload of 11 commercial satellites into orbit.Space.com SA |
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| 2023 | | 8 Jun:
The twice impeached, indicted, sexual abuser and former squatter of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue again adds to his criminal resumé, this time with a federal indictment - another first - he received in Florida containing 37 charges related to classified documents found at Mar-a-lago.CNN npr |
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