In today’s episode of This Day in Miami History, we look at the opening of the Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye in Hialeah. The church, which practices ritualistic animal sacrifice, would fight the city...Read more
In today’s episode of This Day in Miami History, we take a look back on July 27, 1925. This was the day most of Miami learned that their mayor had died. However, it was not...Read more
In today’s episode of This Day in Miami History, we break format a bit to talk with Roben Farzad, the host of NPR’s “Full Disclosure” and author of “Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and...Read more
In today’s bonus episode of This Day in Miami History, Matthew Bunch talks with Ari Odzer, a reporter for NBC 6 WTVJ. Their discussion includes the 1997 Miami Tornado and the work of a broadcast...Read more
In today’s Episode of This Day in Miami History, we remember the “Great Miami Tornado of 1997.” A F1 tornado in Miami was unusual, but the startling video the mid-afternoon cyclone produced would attract attention...Read more
In today’s Episode of This Day in Miami History, anchorman Ralph Renick – the definitive voice of South Florida News for 35 years – abruptly resigned his position to run for governor of Florida.Read more
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.Read more
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....Read more
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,...Read more
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Matthew Bunch
Matthew Bunch is the host of This Day in Miami History. A social sciences teacher with Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Bunch seeks to connect the community with its unique history. He is a graduate of the University of Miami (BS, Journalism and Economics, 2009) and Gettysburg College (MA, American History, 2023).