On this day in the Sunshine State …

1917 North Florida counties continued to deal with the snow that fell yesterday.  Cold temperatures caused the “white rain” to stick to the ground and to the limbs of trees.

1958 The Cuban population of Miami (along with elements of America’s underworld) watched events in Cuba with great anxiety.  Sons of the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista landed in Miami on their way to New York and reported that Cuba’s fall to Fidel Castro was imminent.

1961 President John F. Kennedy today addressed 1,100 Cuban survivors of the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion attempt and an additional 40,000 spectators at Miami’s Orange Bowl.