In the Sunshine State on this day in 1565 From the account of Pedro Menendez’s expedition to Florida in 1565 by Francisco Lopez de Mendoza Grajales, the chaplain to the expedition

.Our General, having received the good news, decided at once, Saturday, September 1, to go on land to the Indians; and he carried them many things of linen, and knives and mirrors and other small things of this class to gain their support, and that they might show us where the French port was. One of the Frenchmen, who understood the language, learned that we had left the French behind about five leagues, which is where God brought us when we first saw land. And we learned we did not then find them because we did not put men on land to reconnoiter it; and that if we struck them at once we would take them unalerted.

In 1899 The first issue of the St. Augustine Record was published. The price for a single issue was two cents. The paper had been previously known as The Daily Herald.

In 1948 Chipola Junior College, founded in 1946 as a private school, was re-established as a public institution. The college, located in Marianna, was originally affiliated with the Baptist Church.