In the Sunshine State on this day in 1597 Father Pedro Corpa, a Franciscan missionary to Florida, was clubbed to death by Indians at Tolomato mission extreme north Florida (now southeast Georgia).

In 1822 The City of St. Augustine was incorporated under the Territorial Laws of Florida.

In 1963 The Air Force Association awards sometime Brevard County resident, astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, the David C. Schilling Trophy for his 22 orbit Project Mercury space flight.