In the Sunshine State on this day in 1823 The Treaty of Moultrie Creek was signed today by 27 Florida Seminole chiefs and U.S. Commissioners near St. Augustine. The Treaty called for the Seminoles to be settled on reservations in Central Florida and near the Apalachicola River. In return, the United States government agrees to pay more than $100,000 in cash and to provide goods and services to the Native Americans for a period of 20 years. U.S. Commissioners broke the treaty by allowing settlements in reservation lands, failure to make cash and service promised and then tried to relocate the Seminole to Oklahoma Indian Territory.

In 1831 Naturalist John J. Audubon investigated the underwater life off the Florida Keys.

In 1926 Twenty-eight students registered at the University of Miami Medical School, Florida’s first medical school, as the first classes got underway.