In the Sunshine State on this day in:

1828 The City of Quincy was incorporated today.

1829 The City of Webbville was incorporated.

1925 The first Winn-Dixie Stores were opened by the Davis family in Miami.  This chain of retail grocery stores was first called, “Table Supply.”

1946 President Harry S. Truman took a ride in a captured German U-boat during American Navy maneuvers off the coast of Key West, thus becoming the first American president to ride in a submarine while in office.

1957 Cary Augustus Hardee, the 23rd governor of Florida, died today in Live Oak.  

1969 The first British radio satellite was launched into orbit by a U.S. rocket today from Cape Canaveral.

1985 Hurricane Kate, a Category 2 storm, struck the Florida Panhandle near Port St. Joe.  The storm inflicted an estimated $300 million in damages.