In the Sun Shine State on this day in 1559 the first Spanish settlement in the present United States was established by Don Tristan de Luna Arellano. De Luna’s party consisted of Dominican friars, soldiers, and settlers who built their settlement on the site of today’s Pensacola. The settlement was abandoned after two years.

In 1842 Colonel William Jenkins Worth proclaimed the end of the Second Seminole War from his headquarters at Cedar Key. Although Colonel Worth officially ended the war, the actual fighting slowly died out over the next feew months.

In1888 Because of a yellow fever epidemic in Jacksonville many residents of that area fled by train to Atlanta. Fear that that the epidemic would spread to Atlanta led city officials to require that every incoming passenger train be inspected by a doctor. Fortunately, none of the refugees fleeing to Atlanta ever caught the disease.

In 1963 Ten Cuban refugees were taken to Key West by a USCG cutter.The ten were rescued from Anquilla Cay, Bahamas.