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Tag Archives: Florida
January 15, 2011
On January 15, 2011, police in Titusville, Florida got a tip that helped them solve an arson at a home on North Dixie Avenue. While sifting through the wreckage of the burned home, they found a suspicious latex glove and inside the glove, they found the… Continue reading
Posted in 21st Century, Historical Facts
Tagged arson, Dean Martin, Florida, Florida Man, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, stoopid criminals, Titusville
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November 8, 2000
On November 8, 2000, Florida instituted a statewide recount to decide the winner of the 2000 US presidential election between Al Gore and George W Bush. The Supreme Court had to get involved and stop the vote counting and named… Continue reading
July 27, 1377
On July 27, 1377, the first example of a quarantine occurred in the city of Rugusa, which is now Dubroknik, Croatia. The city council passed a law that required newcomers from plague areas to isolate for 30 days, and then… Continue reading
Posted in 14th Century, Historical Facts
Tagged Alabama, alchemy, Arizona, Croatia, Dubroknik, firsts, Florida, Georgia, Latin, lickspittle, quaranta, quarantine, Rugusa, state governors, Texas, Trump
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April 8, 1513
On April 8, 1513, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon landed at what is now called St. Augustine, Florida and claimed all of Florida for Spain. How’d he do this you ask? He stood on the land, planted a flag and yelled ‘DIBS’. The native people already there asked him what he was doing and … Continue reading
Posted in 16th Century, Historical Facts
Tagged dibs, England, Florida, france, Incans, Juan Ponce de Leon, land grab, Mayans, Portugal, Romans, Spain, St Augustine
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January 19, 1861
On January 19, 1861, Georgia seceded from the Union. They said all the cool kids were doing it. They weren’t. It was the usually quartet of troublemakers South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida and Alabama. You know, the ones that sit in the back of the classroom and refuse to do any homework and complain every time … Continue reading
Posted in 19th Century, Historical Facts
Tagged Alabama, Florida, Georgia, misbehaving, Mississippi, seceding, South Carolina
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November 7, 1991
On November 7, 1991, actor Paul Reubens, aka Pee Wee Herman, pled no contest to charges of animal cruelty. Mr. Reubens had been arrested in Sarasota, Florida for spanking his monkey in an adult movie theater. The monkey was told that they were going to see a Jane Goodall documentary, but instead it was an … Continue reading
Posted in 20th Century, Historical Facts
Tagged ASPCA, chim-chim, euphemisms, Florida, Paul Reubens, Pee Wee Herman, Sarasota, spanking the monkey
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September 25, 1992
On September 25, 1992, in Orlando, Florida, 12-year-old Gregory Kingsley was legally divorced from his biological parents. Twelve, thirteen, and fourteen year-olds throughout the United States immediately threatened to divorce their parents when their later curfews, smoking attempts, and back-sassing was blocked by said parents. Unfortunately for these young teenagers, most parents already had the … Continue reading
Posted in 20th Century, Historical Facts
Tagged divorce court, Florida, Orlando, throw me in that briar patch, unintended results
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August 3, 1985
On August 3, 1985, mail service was returned to a nudist colony in Paradise Lake, Florida. It had been suspended because the mailperson had complained about delivering mail to a bunch of naked men and women. The original postal worker didn’t have a problem delivering mail to the nudist colony, but when a different mail … Continue reading
Posted in 20th Century, Historical Facts
Tagged femailman, Florida, nudists, Paradise Lake, US Postal Service
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February 22, 1819
On February 22, 1819, Spain ceded Florida to the United States via the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819. No money was exchanged but the western boundaries of the United States and the Spanish Territories in the Americas were negotiated. This treaty was considered an American diplomatic success at the time. In 2008, Georgia and Alabama had … Continue reading
Posted in 19th Century, Historical Facts
Tagged Adams-Onis Treaty, Alabama, Florida, Gainesville, Georgia, global warming, Jacksonville, jai alai, Spain, treaties, United States
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February 12, 1733
On February 12, 1733, James Oglethorpe and his colonists on his ship, the ‘Anne’ landed and settled near the present site of Savannah, Georgia, and started the British Colony of Georgia, which was named after the English King who gave Oglethorpe his charter, King George II. Mr. Oglethorpe founded the colony upon the promise of … Continue reading