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Events

• 1821 – U.S. General Andrew Jackson accepts the transfer of Florida from Spain to the United States in Plaza Ferdinand VII and installs a provisional capital in Pensacola.
• 2007 – Sammy, a 10-year-old giraffe at The Zoo Northwest Florida, dies following a neck injury incurred by a post or cable surrounding the enclosure.

Births

• 1833 – Emory Fiske Skinner
• 1852 – Mary Ella Brent
• 1928 – Bill Davis

Deaths

• 1907 – John Baker
• 1915 – Frank Sigari