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...
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...
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...
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.
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...