It was also clear NASA would soon outgrow its practice of controlling missions from its Cape Canaveral Air Force Station launch facilities in Florida, so a new Mission Control Center would be included in the MSC.

The aim was to secede Cuba from Spain, and annex it as a US state as Florida had been in 1824 through the Adams-Onis Treaty.

The previous mark was held by the Florida Marlins.

American Media's corporate headquarters in Boca Raton, Florida, figured prominently in news headlines in late 2001, after an anthrax attack was perpetrated on the company.

* About 50 people in Vernon, Florida collected insurance claims for loss-of-limb accidents in the late 1950s and early 1960s ; this was more than two-thirds of all such claims in the United States during that time.

By early June, Nami was living in apartment 1504 at the Delray Racquet Club condominiums with Saeed al-Ghamdi in Delray Beach, Florida.

He was one of 9 hijackers to open a SunTrust bank account with a cash deposit around June 2001, and on June 29 received either a Florida State Identification Card or Drivers License.

Once he was in the U. S., he settled in Florida and helped plan out how the attacks would take place.

The privateer-turned-pirate Henry Jennings and his followers decided, early in the 18th century, to use the then uninhabited island of New Providence as a base for their operations ; it was within easy reach of the Florida Strait and its busy shipping lanes, which were filled with European vessels crossing the Atlantic.

One plane crash was said to have taken place in 1937 off Daytona Beach, Florida, in front of hundreds of witnesses ; a check of the local papers revealed nothing.

In 1996, it was mentioned that Mumy was also reunited with Harris, again, at a Walt Disney convention in Orlando, Florida.

The stroke was followed by a heart attack, suffered in Gainesville, Florida, on August 28, 2007.

He was posthumously awarded a Doctor of Fine Arts degree by the University of Florida for his influence on American popular music and in its " People in America " radio series about influential people in American history, the Voice of America radio service paid tribute to him, describing how " his influence was so widespread that it is hard to imagine what rock and roll would have sounded like without him.

* 2008: Although confirmed before his death in June 2008, an honorary degree was posthumously conferred upon Diddley by the University of Florida in August 2008.

In 1762, Havana was briefly occupied by Great Britain, before being returned to Spain in exchange for Florida.

This led to disappointment in Britain, as many believed that Florida was a poor return for Cuba and Britain's other gains in the war.

Florida shut the Cubs out in Game 5, but young pitcher Mark Prior led the Cubs in Game 6 as they took a 3 – 0 lead into the 8th inning and it was at this point when a now-infamous incident took place.

Jim Leyland, a two-time NL Manager of the Year who had won the World Series with the Florida Marlins two years earlier, was expected to bring the Rockies back into contention in 1999.

In 1933, Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak was fatally wounded in Miami, Florida during a failed assassination attempt on President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Counter-Strike faced controversy in April 2007 when Jack Thompson, now a disbarred attorney from Florida, predicted that the perpetrator of the Virginia Tech Massacre had been trained to kill in the game, well before Seung-Hui Cho ( the shooter ) was identified.

In August 2010 an eight day old boy was circumcised in a Florida hospital against the stated wishes of the parents.

* Commodore ( shipwreck ), a steamer lost to a maritime disaster in 1897 that occurred off the coast of Daytona Beach, Florida, of which American novelist Stephen Crane was a surviving passenger

Chic's was formed by Nile Rodgers a self described " street hippie " from late 1960s New York and Martin Dow DJ at from Key West, Florida who pioneered the NYC sound across that state.

Only one ship of the United States Navy has been named USS Tallahassee, after the city of Tallahassee, Florida, but two others were projected to carry the name.

Artuso is currently imprisoned at the Coleman Federal Correctional Complex in Florida ; his projected release date is August 28, 2016.

However, a subsequent study produced a map incorporating both climatic extremes and averages which projected that the Burmese python's range as limited to Southern Florida.

and projected continued growth in the Jacksonville area, the Florida Department of Transportation, in the early 2000s, conducted a study on making long-term improvements to J. T. B.

( The previous day the projected path was towards the Florida Panhandle.

Note the Florida catcher, Mike Rabelo, in a standing position behind the opposite batter's box to receive the pitch

While Simon was in England that summer of 1965, radio stations around Cocoa Beach and Gainesville, Florida, began to receive requests for a song from the album Wednesday Morning, 3 A. M. called " The Sound of Silence ".

However, there were franchises in several cities without NFL teams which would later receive them, such as Jacksonville, Florida.

In Gideon v. Wainwright, the Court held that the Sixth Amendment required that all indigent criminal defendants receive publicly-funded counsel ( Florida law, consistent with then-existing Supreme Court precedent reflected in the case of Powell v. Alabama, required the assignment of free counsel to indigent defendants only in capital cases );

The U. S. District Court Florida stated that " defendants would receive assignments via shortwave radio transmissions ".

In 2012, Republican candidates must earn 1144 delegates to receive the GOP nomination for president at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida beginning August 27.

Fearing that he would not receive a fair trial, Benjamin burned his papers and is reported to have stayed in Ocala, Florida, with Solomon Benjamin, a relative, before continuing south to Gamble Mansion in Ellenton, on the southwest coast of Florida.

In June 1991, Vincent declared that the American League would receive $ 42 million of the National League's $ 190 million in expansion revenue and that the AL would provide players in the National League expansion draft ( involving the Colorado Rockies and Florida Marlins ).

After graduating from high school, he went on to receive a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from the University of Florida in 1984.

At the University of Florida, he was active in student politics, and was inducted into both the university Hall of Fame ( the most prestigious honor a student can receive at UF ) and Florida Blue Key.

While at the University of Florida, he was inducted into the University of Florida Hall of Fame, the most prestigious honor a student leader could receive, and served as president of Florida Blue Key.

Spanish goods also continued to receive certain tariff privileges in Florida ports.

He went on to receive his Masters and Doctorate in Political Science from the University of Florida.

Having already won a contract from the Spanish king as Florida adelatando, and standing to receive a large land grant and the title of marquis if he was successful in his commission, Menéndez was now available to serve.

He then went on to receive a bachelor's degree in engineering with honors from the United States Coast Guard Academy, and a master ’ s degree in aeronautical systems from the University of West Florida.

Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and West Virginia are considered the most favorable states for net metering, as they are the only states to receive an " A " rating from the Network for New Energy Choices in 2011.

It was stationed at Eglin AFB, Florida, operating from Hurlburt Field, where it was programmed to receive the Martin B-57 Canberra, the replacement for the B-26 Invader.

On January 28, 2010, the White House announced that Florida would receive $ 1. 25 billion of its request, about half of the cost of the Tampa-Orlando segment.

Other financial aid later enabled him to attend the Florida State University, where he received a bachelor's degree ( 1964 ), a master's degree ( 1965 ), and a Ph. D. ( 1967 ), becoming the youngest student in FSU history to receive a doctorate in political science.

In Florida, sandhills receive cm of rainfall per year, just like the more hydric ecosystems surrounding them.