Ponce de León Names Florida
On April 2, 1513, Juan Ponce de León's expedition sighted the Florida coast and gave the peninsula its flowery name.
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The One-Minute War: Key West Secedes from America
On April 23, 1982, Key West seceded as the Conch Republic over a Border Patrol roadblock, fought America for one minute, surrendered, and billed Washington $1 billion in foreign aid.
Snow Falls on Miami: The Day Winter Came to the Sunshine State
On January 19, 1977, snow fell on Miami for the first and only time in recorded history, as an Arctic blast pushed all the way to the Bahamas.
The Day America Saved the River of Grass
On December 6, 1947, President Harry Truman dedicated Everglades National Park, protecting 1.5 million acres of a swamp most Americans had written off.
The Treaty That Made America Coast to Coast
On February 22, 1819, the United States signed the Adams–Onís Treaty, gaining Florida and its first boundary line stretching to the Pacific.