- 1822 – President James Monroe appointed Henry Marie Brackenridge (already serving as alcalde of Pensacola) judge of the superior court of West Florida.
- 1985 – Rodney Kendig began his 9-year tenure as Pensacola City Manager.
- 2003 – John Burt disappeared after writing a sexually solicitous note to a girl at his Our Father's House ministry.
- 2006 – Kent Hovind pleaded no contest to 4-year-old charges of violating county building codes at his Dinosaur Adventure Land business.