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Today is the final day of the Miami Seaquarium. It’s closing after 70 years on Virginia Key. In 2023, we revisited the park through the context of Lolita, the world-famous Orca that resided there almost all of its life. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
12.10.2025 14:25 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
FLASHBACK: On this day in 1984, "Brother's Keeper," the pilot episode of Miami Vice, debuted on NBC. The series would change how people across the country and around the world view Miami and set the region on course to a new identity. Listen now! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
16.09.2025 14:54 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
NEW EPISODE: Doris Hart is one of the most accomplished women's tennis players of all time. She's also a UM alumna who spent most her life in Dade County. Learn more about Doris and her singular "Boxed Set" achievement in this month's episode! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
06.09.2025 13:34 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Our friend Jody Baxter Noll is returning to Dade and speaking at @booksandbooks.bsky.social this morning! We hope to see you there! www.eventbrite.com/e/a-morning-...
24.08.2025 14:31 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Happy birthday to the City of Miami! 129 years ago, Miami was incorporated above a pool hall in what’s now Downtown. It’s been a heck of a story since. Learn more about the process of incorporation from our episode in 2021!
28.07.2025 14:50 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
FLASHBACK: 100 years ago today, the @miamiherald.com featured one of its most unbelievable covers ever. The mayor of Miami died, and it wasn't the lead story. That's because William Jennings Bryan died too. Learn more about this remarkable date in our 2022 episode. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
27.07.2025 16:53 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
FLASHBACK: 100 years ago today, the @MiamiHerald featured one of its most unbelievable covers ever. The mayor of Miami died, and it wasn't the lead story. That's because William Jennings Bryan died too. Learn more about this remarkable date in our episode from 2022.
27.07.2025 13:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The front page of the Tower Section of the Miami Daily News on July 26, 1925. Pictured is what was then the Miami News Tower, now the Miami Freedom Tower.
Happy 100th birthday Miami Freedom Tower! The Magic City’s signature building opened on this day in 1925 as the Miami News Tower. Listen to our conversation with the legendary Dr Paul S. George about the tower from 2023! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
26.07.2025 20:08 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Thank you. Holmes was truly remarkable.
25.07.2025 00:26 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Every community has a small handful of titans that bend the direction of that community for generations. G. Holmes Braddock was one of those titans for Miami-Dade County. He was also an absolute gentleman. Read the obit from @thehowardcohen.bsky.social to learn more about this one-of-a-kind Miamian.
24.07.2025 19:05 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1Roy Black is arguably the best-known attorney in South Florida history. Locally, he might be best known for the defense of police officers Luis Alvarez and William Lozano. We spoke about the Alvarez trial with @sethaweitz.bsky.social earlier this year. Listen to our conversation at the link below.
22.07.2025 16:10 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A Wright aircraft flown by Howard Gill in celebration of Miami's 15th anniversary on July 21, 1911.
NEW: It was the railroad that founded Miami, but our region has been shaped by flight ever since its first public aviation meet. That event, celebrating Miami’s 15th birthday, took place on this day in 1911. Listen to learn more! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
21.07.2025 12:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We explored then-state senator Bob Graham’s “Workday” tactic in an episode last year. It was thought of as a joke in the early going, but Graham took the work seriously, and it helped him reach the governor’s mansion and change our state’s politics. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
20.07.2025 02:57 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Today is the 45th anniversary of two men setting a room on fire at Miami's Mutiny Hotel, then scaling down the building. We spoke with “Hotel Scarface” author @robenfarzad.bsky.social in 2022 about the incident and the larger context of Miami’s wild 1980s. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...
23.06.2025 22:06 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
On this day in 1926, Roxcy Pearl O'Neal was born. Listen to our episode from last year to learn more about how Roxcy Bolton's activism through @nationalnow.bsky.social and elsewhere changed South Florida and the nation. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
03.06.2025 16:08 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
FLASHBACK: On this day in 1984, Metro Dade Transit Authority opened Metrorail. The service that opened didn't match the original plans (and it still doesn't), but Metrorail did reflect a change in how Miamians got around town. Learn more in our episode from 2021! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
20.05.2025 19:58 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0And now you know...
14.05.2025 19:23 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
FLASHBACK: On this day in 1942, a torpedo slammed into the side of the SS Potrero del Llano off Virginia Key. The attack by U-564 brought a visual reminder of World War II to Miami and would eventually expand the Allies fighting the Axis Powers. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
14.05.2025 14:05 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
FLASHBACK: On this day in 1997, a tornado danced through downtown Miami and across Biscayne Bay. The damage was thankfully minimal, but the visuals were unforgettable. Learn more in our episode from 2022!
12.05.2025 13:05 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
FLASHBACK: On this day in 1920, Barbara Capitman was born. We spoke with Daniel Ciraldo of the Miami Design Preservation League back in 2023 when the Art Deco district faced threat from Tallahassee. As the state legislature again considers weakening preservation, our chat is more relevant than ever.
29.04.2025 14:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
FLASHBACK | On this day in 1980, the Mariel Boat Lift began, transforming South Florida forever. We spoke with @abgrace.bsky.social of @NPR.org "White Lies" about the events that led to the boatlift in 2023.
20.04.2025 13:03 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Have you had a chance to listen to our episode on Ruth Bryan Owen from last weekend? If not, now’s a great time to listen on Spotify!
18.04.2025 14:07 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
NEW | On April 13, 1933, Miami's Ruth Bryan Owen was sworn in as America's first female minister to a foreign country. It was just the latest way in which the daughter of William Jennings Bryan smashed barriers for women in the United States. Listen to learn more! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
14.04.2025 14:45 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
FLASHBACK | For more than three decades, Ralph Renick was Miami TV news. Then, 40 years ago today, on April 10, 1985, he up and left. Why? To run for governor. Learn more about Ralph and his race in our episode from 2022. #MiamiHistory
10.04.2025 14:28 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A peacock, sitting on a branch against a blue sky.
A peacock, sitting on a branch and calling against a blue sky.
A zoomed-in photograph of a peacock, sitting on a branch and calling against a blue sky.
I know that South Florida can sometimes (oftentimes) be insane, but there’s something magic about coming to a local park and being able to take a picture of a peacock like this.
05.04.2025 16:09 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
On this date in 1972, 500 Bay Lane was the site of one of the most consequential meetings in American history. Without this Key Biscayne real estate perhaps Watergate never happens. Listen to learn! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
31.03.2025 00:16 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
On this date in 1972, 500 Bay Lane was the site of one of the most consequential meetings in American history. Without this Key Biscayne real estate perhaps Watergate never happens. Listen to learn! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
31.03.2025 00:16 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
FLASHBACK: On this day in 1970, Roxcy Bolton was elected a vice president of @nationalnow.bsky.social. As we celebrate Women's History Month, listen to our episode from last year to learn more about this remarkable woman who changed South Florida and the nation. #WomensHistoryMonth #MiamiHistory
20.03.2025 13:01 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
NEW: On this day in 1984, Miami police officer Luis Alvarez was found not guilty in the shooting death of Nevell Johnson Jr. We talk about this and Miami’s broader policing history with @sethaweitz.bsky.social, author of “City of Hope, City of Rage: Miami, 1968-1994.” Listen now!
15.03.2025 14:06 — 👍 9 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 2
“This Day in Miami History” host Matthew Bunch posing with a copy of “The 1968 Florida Teachers' Strike: Public Sector Unionism and the Fight Against Sunshine State Conservatism”
“The 1968 Florida Teachers' Strike: Public Sector Unionism and the Fight Against Sunshine State Conservatism” by our friend Jody Baxter Noll is officially available for sale today! Buy it from @booksandbooks.bsky.social now! shop.booksandbooks.com/aff/thisdaym...
07.03.2025 14:01 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2
