In the Sunshine State on this day in:

1834 A Seminole Council was held today at Fort King (Ocala).  Osceola, Micanopy and other chiefs expressed strong hostility to the policy of removal to lands west of the Mississippi River.

1903 The Germania Club, the pioneering German-American social club, was organized in Jacksonville.

1921 Seven people were killed in the Tampa-St. Petersburg area and more than 500 homes in Ybor City were destroyed as the Tampa Bay area was struck by a violent hurricane. 

1964 President Lyndon Baines Johnson was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree at dedication ceremonies for Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton.  The University was organized on July 1, 1962.  

1971 Walt Disney World was officially dedicated by Roy D. Disney in ceremonies held at the Lake Buena Vista Resort.

1972 Doyle Elam Carlton, the 25th governor of Florida (January 8, 1929-January 3, 1933), died today in Tampa.