1. In 1949, the University of Miami was officially designated as a "university" by the Florida Legislature. It had previously been known as the "University of Miami College" since its founding in 1925.
2. On February 9, 1961, the iconic Cuban leader Fidel Castro arrived in Palm Beach, Florida for a 10-day visit. His visit was the first by a Cuban head of state to the United States since the communist revolution.
3. In 1971, astronaut Stuart Roosa, a native of Durango, Colorado, visited the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to prepare for his upcoming Apollo 14 lunar mission. Roosa would become the first person to carry seeds to the moon, as part of an experiment to see how they would grow in space.
4. On this day in 1995, the largest tiger shark ever caught in Florida was officially weighed and measured. The shark measured 14 feet, 9 inches long, and weighed over 1,700 pounds.
5. In 2015, Florida Governor Rick Scott issued an executive order banning state agencies from using the term "climate change." The order was widely criticized by environmentalists and scientists who argued that it was an attempt to stifle discussion of the state's increasing vulnerability to climate change-related threats such as sea level rise and hurricanes.
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