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Events

• 1847 – Pensacola Baptist Church of Christ (the predecessor of First Baptist Church) is organized.
• 1907 – Charles Henry Bliss defeats Walker Ingraham in a Democratic primary election for the mayoralty of Pensacola.
• 2001 – State Representative Jerry Maygarden quietly amends a Medicaid bill to allow area hospitals to transfer beds to satellite facilities, a move that would largely benefit Baptist Health Care.
• 2004 – Chuck Baldwin is asked to serve as the presidential running mate to Constitution Party candidate Michael Peroutka.
• 2007 – Thelma Manley is fired from Front Porch Pensacola.

Births

• 1803 – George Edmund Chase

Deaths

• 1769 – John Eliot (suicide)
• 1941 - Constable Mallory Williams, killed in the line of duty while attempting to apprehend a thief.