[FHStoday] TODAY IN FLORIDA HISTORY FOR NOVEMBER 29

[Nick Wynne]

TODAY IN FLORIDA HISTORY 
NOVEMBER 29   
1845 James C. Ballard and Adeline Beall were issued the first marriage license
in Marion County.

1861 Confederate President Jefferson Davis assured Governor John Milton that
Florida and its defense against a Union invasion was a prime consideration of
the Confederate national government.  

1863 Union general Alexander Asboth was authorized to raise a regiment of
cavalry in West Florida, if he could. 

1890 Delegates of the National Farmer’s Alliance, a cooperative economic union
of farmers, met in convention at the Ocala House, built by Henry Bradley
Plant.

1963 In the immediate aftermath of the assassination of President John F.
Kennedy in Dallas, President Lyndon Baines Johnson ordered the name of Cape
Canaveral  be changed to Cape Kennedy and to also rename the space facility in
honor of the slain president..