[Fhstoday] TODAY IN FLORIDA HISTORY FOR NOVEMBER 16

[lewis n. wynne]

TODAY IN FLORIDA HISTORY
NOVEMBER 16 
1862 The U.S.S. Tioga, on duty with the Gulf Blockading Squadron, was
enroute to
Key West for supplies and repairs.
1863 Colonel J. J. Finley was promoted to brigadier general today and assigned
the command of the 6th Florida Infantry Regiment, which is attached to the
Confederate Army of Tennessee.
The Rachel Seaman was assigned to duty with the Union East Gulf Blockading
Squadron. 
1864 An expedition of the Union army left Fort Barrancas (Pensacola) today for
an incursion to Pine Barren Ridge, Florida.
1888 Doak S. Campbell, former president of Florida State University, was born
today in Waldron, Arkansas. Campbell received his doctorate from George
Peabody
College in 1930. He became president of the Florida State College for Women in
1941 and continued in that position when the university became co-ed in 1948.
The football stadium at FSU is named for Doak S. Campbell.
1897 The first edition of the Kissimmee Valley Gazette was published today.
1963 President John F. Kennedy observed the submarine launch of a Polaris
missile today off the coast of Cape Canaveral. Kennedy was on a visit to the
NASA Space Center.
1973 Skylab 3 was launched today from Cape Canaveral.