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Independence DayEdit
- See also: Category:Independence Day
EventsEdit
- 1781 – Father de Veley of St. Michael's Parish conducts his first funeral, for Anthony Soler.[1]
- 1845 – Antebellum period: Florida gains statehood and becomes the 27th star on the U.S. flag.
- 1910 – Isolated race riots break out after African-American boxer Jack Johnson defeats "Great White Hope" Jim Jeffries.
- 1973 - Hard rock musician Edgar Winter performed at the Mobile Municipal Auditorium.
- 1974 – LGBT: Thousands of gay rights activists assemble in Pensacola for a "national convention,"[2] an antecedent of the Memorial Day Weekend festivities.
- 1978 - Rock musicians Foreigner and Wet Willie performed at the Mobile Municipal Auditorium.
- 1984 - Mike Danger performs at Franco's All-Nite Affair.
- 2005 – Hurricane Dennis forms as a tropical depression in the Caribbean Sea.
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ReferencesEdit
- ↑ Austin Carroll. A Catholic History of Alabama and the Floridas. P. J. Kenedy & sons, 1908.
- ↑ Dallas A. Blanchard and Terry James Prewitt. Religious violence and abortion: the Gideon Project. University Press of Florida, 1993.