Events
- January 30 – Five tons of condemned dynamite are detonated near Fort Pickens, about a mile away from the battery. The resulting explosion created a hole "large enough to hide a house" on the beach and was felt across Pensacola Bay in the city, cracking plaster and shattering windows.[1]
Facts
- Population of Pensacola in 1903 was approximately 22,000 per the 1903 Sanborn Fire Maps[2]