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Fort Lauderdale, Broward, Florida, USA
Fort Lauderdale is known as the Venice of America because the city has 185 miles of local waterways.
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The city was incorporated in 1911, and in 1915 was designated the county seat of newly formed Broward County.
Fort Lauderdale's first major development began in the 1920s, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s.
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1916
Fort Lauderdale, in Dade co., Fla., 30 miles N. by E. of Miami.
Lippincotts New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns, Resorts, Islands, Rivers, Mountains, Seas, Lakes, Etc., in Every Portion of the Globe, Part 1 Angelo Heilprin Louis Heilprin - January 1, 1916 J.B. Lippincott - Publisher
1945 - NAVY REPORTS 5 PLANES LOST OVER ATLANTIC. SEARCH UNDER WAY OFF FLORIDA COAST; 10 CREWMEN ABOARD.
Miami, Fla. (UP) - A flight of five navy torpedo bombers disappeared off the southeast Florida coast last night, and today a full-scale search aided by aircraft carrier was launched over a wide area.
The escort carrier Solomons, with 25 or 30 planes which could scour the Atlantic region was called into the search by the navy here. Planes from the carrier were joined by all available coast guard, navy and army aircraft and rescue vessels.
Navy officials here said only that the Solomons "happened to be in the neighborhood." It was not known if it were returning to a United States port from a war area.
All merchant shipping in the coastal waters also was asked by radio to aid in the search, the largest air-sea rescue operation for the stations in this area.
The planes, from the naval air station at Fort Lauderdale, Fla., were reported overdue when they failed to return from a routine flight. Each carried two crewmen.
None of the planes sent out distress messages, apparently, ... Read MORE...
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1947 - September 17–September 21 – The 1947 Fort Lauderdale Hurricane in southeastern Florida, and also in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana causes widespread damage and kills 51 people.
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September 21, 1947
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1965 - October 14 -15 - Heavy rains hit the coastal areas of southeastern Florida.
In a 24 hour period rains of twenty inches were reported from Deerfield Beach to Fort Lauderdale, with 25.28 inches on the Fort Lauderdale Bahia-Mar Yacht Basin. Flooding that resulted caused considerable damage to roads and streets. The rains inundated numerous newly planted vegetable fields, and some residences. Ten miles away just 4.51 inches of rain was reported.
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1965 - October 30-31 - Fort Lauderdale, FL, was deluged with 13.81 inches of rain, which brought their rainfall total for the month of October to an all-time record of 42.43 inches.
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1968 - December 6 - WKID (WSCV) TV channel 51 in Fort Lauderdale, FL (IND) 1st broadcast
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1969 - August 30 - Racial disturbances in Fort Lauderdale Florida
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Oliver Marquis CHERRY (30 July 1879, Vaughan, York, Ontario, Canada - 4 September 1976, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA)
Joseph Gustave RHEIMS (21 July 1892, Southbridge, Massachusetts, USA (Globe) (Lensdale) (Saundersdale) (Shuttleville) - March 1957, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA)Harry DAVIS (25 June 1895, Baltimore, Maryland, USA - 29 June 1926, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA)Edward Ludger ROY (October 1906, Rumford, Maine, USA - 1970, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA)Leroy Burton BAKER (17 September 1907, Watertown, Massachusetts, USA - 8 November 1981, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA)
Sally PEACH (18 May 1911, Swampscott, Massachusetts, USA - 19 December 1985, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA)
Regina Marie FLEURY (01/07/1912, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire) (Saint-Hyacinthe-le-Confesseur) - 10/3/2001, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA)Joseph Walter DAVIS (21 April 1913, Red Bank, New Jersey, USA - 20 January 2003, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA)Loretta MARTIN (23 January 1914, Frenchville, Maine, USA (Chateaugay) (Ste-Emilie) (Ste-Luce) - 3 December 1993, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA)
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