[Fhstoday] TODAY IN FLORIDA HISTORY FOR NOVEMBER 3

[Nick Wynne]

TODAY IN FLORIDA HISTORY 
NOVEMBER 3   
     
1752 Most of the Spanish settlement on Santa Rosa Island was nearly destroyed
by a hurricane.

1862 Floridians were appalled by the news that a Federal regiment of Negro
troops had landed in Fernandina to replace white troops stationed on Amelia
Island.

1863 The U.S.S. Tioga was ordered to duty as part of the Union blockading
squadron in the Gulf of Mexico.

1883 The Bank of Tampa opened.

1957 Floridians, along with the rest of the world, were shocked and amazed
when
the Russians successfully launched SPUTNIK II into orbit.  This satellite,
which carried a dog named “Laika,” was the first manmade space vehicle to
carry
a living organism into space.  The ramifications of this launch included an
expanded United States space program and a considerable increase in jobs and
money for Brevard County, the site of the Cape Canaveral Space Center.  The
increased activity produced a significant increase in the population of
Florida’s East Coast.

1994 Space shuttle Atlantis was launched today with astronauts Donald
McMonagle, Curtis Brown, Ellen Ochoa, Joseph Tanner, Scott Parazynski and
Jean-Francois Clervoy aboard.  The mission of the Atlantis was to practice new
approach methods for upcoming Mir/shuttle dockings.