[FHStoday] TODAY IN FLORIDA HISTORY FOR NOVEMBER 26

[Nick Wynne]

TODAY IN FLORIDA HISTORY 
NOVEMBER 26   
1722 The Spanish re-established control over Pensacola following the loss of
the territory by France as a result of the outcome of the War of the Quadruple
Alliance in Europe.  Spanish Lieutenant Colonel  Alejandro Wauchope received
possession of Pensacola from Frecnh Lieutenant Jean Baptiste Reboue. 

1862 The Federal ship, U.S.S. National Guard, was ordered to sail to Turtle
Harbor, Florida, with a cargo of coal to replenish the supplies of the West
Indies Blockading Squadron.

1864 The Florida Legislature approved a special election for sheriff in Duval
County.  The need for this election was because the previous sheriff, elected
in 1863, was captured and imprisoned by Federal troops. 

1902 Major George R. Fairbanks was elected president at the organizational
meeting of the Florida Historical Society in Jacksonville.  Although
originally
founded in 1856 in St. Augustine, the War Between the States and
Reconstruction
forced the Society into a hiatus.  Fairbanks and others realized the need for
the creation of the Society to “collect, preserve and publicize documents
relating to Florida history.”  Florida did not have a state archive until the
1960s and until that time the Society performed the job of collecting
documents.  Fairbanks enunciated the need for a Society library, a task that
was finally achieved in 1997 when the Tebeau-Field Library of Florida History
opened in Historic Cocoa Village.

1925 WJAX, the radio station owned by the City of Jacksonville, went on the
air
with its first broadcast.