In the Sunshine State on this day in 1911 Delray, now part of Delray Beach, was incorporated on this date.

In 1933 An unnamed hurricane struck the east coast of Florida on this date. More than “4 million boxes of citrus were blown from the trees statewide,” according to John M. Williams and Iver W. Duedall in the revised edition of “Florida Hurricanes and Tropical Storms They go on to quote U.S. Weather Bureau reported “The property loss in Indian River, St. Lucie and Palm Beach Counties was probably about $2 million dollars [$25 million in 1990 dollars].”