In the Sunshine State on this day in 1896 an agreement was made to extend telephone service from Chipley to St. Andrews Bay on the coast.

In 1935 President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced today that an initial allocation of $5 million had been made for the construction of the Florida Ship Canal, which would cross the state from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean.

In 1979 Ft. Lauderdale residents continued their hurricane watch today. At 7:00 a.m., Hurricane David was located about 35 miles due east of the city and packed winds of about 85 mph. Throughout the day, residents prepared for the worst, but Hurricane David came ashore at about 6:00 p.m. twenty miles south of Melbourne. It was the first hurricane to hit the Brevard County-Cape Canaveral area since the devastating hurricane of 1926.