In the Sunshine State on this day in:

1837 Seminole chief Osceola and his party, camped outside Fort Pepton near St. Augustine under a flag of truce, were taken prisoner by U.S. Troops.

1905 President Theodore Roosevelt visited Jacksonville during a one-day visit.  Roosevelt spoke to white students at Central Grammar School and to African-American students at Florida Baptist Academy.

1912 Cohen Brothers, operators of Jacksonville’s oldest department store (founded in 1867), opened a “block square” store in the St. James Building on Hemming Park.

1958 Two USAF Bomarc missiles were launched within less than 10 seconds of each other at Cape Canaveral.