In today's episode of This Day in Miami History, we look at the opening of the Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye in Hialeah. The church, which practices ritualistic animal sacrifice, would fight the city all the way to the Supreme Court and create lasting influence on America's view of religious freedom.

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Animal sacrifice and Religious Freedom : Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah by David M. O'Brien at Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/animalsacrificer0000obri

Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah at Oyez.org: https://www.oyez.org/cases/1992/91-948

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In today's episode of This Day in Miami History, we take a look back on July 27, 1925. This was the day most of Miami learned that their mayor had died. However, it was not the biggest news story that day.

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Miami and Dade County, Florida; Its Settlement, Progress and Achievement by E.V. Blackman on archive.org.

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In today's episode of This Day in Miami History, we break format a bit to talk with Roben Farzad, the host of NPR's "Full Disclosure" and author of "Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami." Farzad joins us to talk about Michael Borkin and Charles Pfeiffer, who on June 23, 1980, climbed down the side of The Mutiny Hotel after setting the room on fire. This small moment offers the opportunity to look at a much wilder time in Miami's history.

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In today's bonus episode of This Day in Miami History, Matthew Bunch talks with Ari Odzer, a reporter for NBC 6 WTVJ. Their discussion includes the 1997 Miami Tornado and the work of a broadcast journalist.

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In today's episode of This Day in Miami History, we remember the "Great Miami Tornado of 1997." A F1 tornado in Miami was unusual, but the startling video the mid-afternoon cyclone produced would attract attention from around the globe.

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Ari Odzer's 1997 live stand-up: https://youtu.be/DShp7d6yozY?t=393

Daniel Brown's National Weather Service recap of the storm: https://www.weather.gov/mfl/vortex

moviemagg on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/moviemagg/videos

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In today's Episode of This Day in Miami History, anchorman Ralph Renick – the definitive voice of South Florida News for 35 years – abruptly resigned his position to run for governor of Florida.

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In today's episode of This Day in Miami History, advisers to President Richard Nixon meet on Key Biscayne and discuss a plan to wiretap Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. But that's just the tip of the iceberg of the plan, and Miami's involvement.

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In today's Episode of This Day in Miami History, The Beatles arrive in Miami for their second performance on The Ed Sullivan Show. It was a whirlwind week for the band, and for the city.

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Save the Deauville - http://www.savethedeauville.com/

WQAM Radio Tribute - http://560.com/wqam.html

MDC Wolfson Archives

Buddy Dresner Interview - YouTube

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In today's episode of This Day in Miami History, Alphonse Gabriel Capone dies in his Palm Island estate. Learn more about the life, and death, of Scarface in South Florida.

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"My Al Capone Museum" - http://www.myalcaponemuseum.com/index.htm

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In today's episode of This Day in Miami History, the notion that Coral Gables would never host a college football stadium is dispelled. In 1926, it housed two. And Coral Gables Stadium featured a matchup of national champions, pitting the 1922 Princeton Tigers against the 1924 Notre Dame Fighting Irish, and the Four Horsemen.

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South Florida Coastal Historical Aerial Photograph Download Archive - http://maps.fiu.edu/sfchap

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