In the Sunshine State on this day in:

1876 The town of Baldwin was incorporated today.

1913 The Secretary of the Navy appointed a board to select a site for naval aviation training.  Pensacola was eventually chosen as the site and thus began that city’s long association with naval fliers.  So many aviators pass through the training facility, date, and marry local females, that Pensacola is known as “The Mother of the Navy.”

1946 C. M. Gay assumed office as the Comptroller of Florida, a position he held until he was replaced by Ray E. Green in 1955.

1980 James Earl “Jimmy” Carter became the first President of the United States to visit the Capitol in Tallahassee.  President Carter spent October 9-10 in Tallahassee, slept overnight in the Executive Mansion, and signed into law (in the Chamber of the House of Representatives) the Congressional Act appropriating $100,000,000 for refugee relief.