1935 – The Federal Emergency Relief Administration’s strategy of reshaping Key West into a tourist destination was working.

1966 – The Lighthouse Military Museum opened in the former Key West lighthouse keeper’s quarters on Whitehead Street.

1935 – A resolution by aFlorida Congressman to designate Key West Naval base a winter station for submarines met opposition from the Navy.

Letters recently donated to the Florida Keys History Center illuminate a century-old Key West banking scandal.

1938 – After two years of discussion and planning, the Key West City Council passed an ordinance providing for zoning within city limits.

1955 – Mackerel and tarpon were running in Key West Harbor and dozens of fishermen were trying their luck from the Clyde-Mallory Dock.

1955 – The Key West Garden Club’s annual Flower Show opened at the East Martello Tower.

1964 – The Navy awarded a $1,967,209 contract to Bauer Dredging Company to deepen Key West’s main ship’s channel to 34 feet.

1940 – Key Wester William W. Demeritt was commissioned a Captain in the Coast Guard.

1924 – So many tourists were traveling between Key West and Havana that the steamship Governor Cobb had to make an extra trip.

1954 – After completing structural surveys, the Florida Road Department greenlighted 2,000 feet of fishing catwalks on bridges.

1960 – Students at Key West High School were dismissed for the day after a phone caller warned a bomb was set go off there at 2 p.m.

1964 – The Hemingway House opened as a museum dedicated to telling of the late author’s life in Key West.

1975 – Key West Police arrested the owner of Uncle Sam’s Pawn Shop and Howie’s Lounge.

1917 – The first long-distance telephone connection from Key West was made to Miami at 1:47 p.m.

1911 – The French line steamer Louisiane, which had gone ashore at Sombrero Key in the hurricane of October 2010, was refloated.

1880 – Former U.S. President and Army General Ulysses S. Grant visited Key West.

1940 – The East Martello Tower was opened to tourists. Boys employed by the National Youth Administration served as guides.

2000 – The last vestiges of the Howard Johnson’s restaurant on North Roosevelt Boulevard in Key West were removed.

1954 – Key West diver Ed Ciesinski left for Nassau to work with the underwater camera crew on “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea."