In today’s episode of This Day in Miami History, advisers to President Richard Nixon meet on Key Biscayne and discuss a plan to wiretap Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate Hotel.
In today’s Episode of This Day in Miami History, The Beatles arrive in Miami for their second performance on The Ed Sullivan Show. It was a whirlwind week for the band, and for the city....
In today’s episode of This Day in Miami History, Alphonse Gabriel Capone dies in his Palm Island estate. Learn more about the life, and death, of Scarface in South Florida. For more about Al Capone,...
January 1, 1926: Coral Gables Stadium hosts an unprecedented college football exhibition
- January 1, 2022
- Tagged as: College Football, Coral Gables, Dade, Miami, Miami-Dade, Stadium
In today’s episode of This Day in Miami History, the notion that Coral Gables would never host a college football stadium is dispelled. In 1926, it housed two. And Coral Gables Stadium featured a matchup…
In today’s episode of This Day in Miami History, the City of Miami suffers a devastating fire in the early hours of December 26, 1896, burning down buildings where potentially half of the city’s business...
In today’s episode of This Day in Miami History, we look back at the runoff for Mayor of Miami in 1983. While it goes in the recordbooks as the election that sealed Maurice Ferré’s sixth...
In today’s episode of This Day in Miami History, we remember the Cuban Missile Crisis, and its impact on South Florida. President John F. Kennedy spoke to the public about the construction of missile launch...
In today’s episode of This Day in Miami History, we remember the Great Miami Hurricane of 1926, the storm that broke the boom, killed hundreds and forever reshaped Miamians’ relationship with tropical weather. Please make...
In today’s episode of This Day in Miami History, we celebrate the birth of the Miami Dolphins. It took a South Dakota politician turned businessman and one of Hollywood’s biggest celebrities, bound together by their...
In today’s episode of This Day in Miami History, we celebrate the quasquicentennial (125th birthday) of the City of Miami by looking back at the meeting that led to its incorporation, the key events that...