On June 10, 1991, baseball fans across the Tampa Bay region received disappointing news. After months of anticipation, Major League Baseball announced that Miami and Denver […]

On June 8, 1888, the Orange Belt Railway’s locomotive Mattie rolled into the southern end of the Pinellas Peninsula, marking the event widely recognized as the […]

On June 6, 1906, St. Petersburg celebrated the arrival of its first fire engine, a major milestone for a growing city determined to improve public safety. […]

On June 4, 1943, Florida took a significant step toward expanding women’s legal rights when Governor Spessard L. Holland signed legislation that newspapers dubbed the “Women’s […]

On June 3, 1965, astronaut Edward H. White II stepped out of the Gemini 4 spacecraft and into history, becoming the first American to walk in […]

On June 1, 1937, Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, lifted off from Miami to continue their second attempt at flying around the world along […]

On May 31, 1953, WSUN-TV, Channel 38, signed on in the Tampa Bay area as St. Petersburg’s first television station and one of the earliest UHF […]

The West Coast Inn was a well-known hotel in downtown St. Petersburg, historically located on 1st Street South across from Al Lang Stadium and part of […]

On May 29, 2018, the Tampa Bay Rays delivered one of those rare moments that instantly becomes part of franchise memory. In the third inning against […]