[Fhstoday] TODAY IN FLORIDA HISTORY FOR NOVEMBER 8

[lewis n. wynne]

TODAY IN FLORIDA HISTORY
NOVEMBER 8 
1814 Spanish Governor Maurique formally surrendered Pensacola to American
forces under the command of General Andrew Jackson today, officially
acknowledging the reality of Jackson’s defeat of Spanish forces. Jackson soon
restored Pensacola to the Spanish, but only after the British forces had been
evacuated to the mouth of the Apalachicola River.
1862 Union General Nathaniel P. Banks was appointed to command the Federal
Department of the Gulf, which included West Florida.
1876 Eartha Mary Magdalene White, African-American humanitarian and the
founder
of the Clara White Mission, was born today in Jacksonville.
1904 The City of Umatilla was incorporated.
1958 The third attempt by the United States Air Force to launch a rocket to
the
moon failed after travelling a mere 1,000 miles.
1962 The United States announced that all Soviet missile bases in Cuba were
dismantled, thus ending the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1966 Claude Kirk was elected governor of Florida today. He was the first
Republican governor elected since the end of Reconstruction.
1973 Construction started today on the new Capitol building. When finished
(August 19,1977), it will be Florida’s fourth capitol building.