- 1892 – City officials enacted an ordinance to pave Palafox Street in anticipation of the Pensacola Terminal Company's streetcar system.
- 1926 – WCOA went on the air for the first time, at 8:30 PM.
- 2004 – Escambia County Sheriff's Deputy Charles Dix shot Martha Bledsoe with a Taser five times in a Wal-Mart parking lot.
- 2007 – M. J. Menge died after a long battle with cancer.