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Events

• 1905 – The state Jim Crow law, authored by Pensacola legislators to segregate streetcars, is struck down as unconstitutional by the Florida Supreme Court.
• 1974 – Congressman Bob Sikes is reprimanded by the House of Representatives for failing to disclose financial ties to businesses who benefitted from government contracts he awarded.

Births

• 1951 – Janet Holley

Deaths

• 1908 – Leander Shaw, hanged by a lynch-mob in Plaza Ferdinand VII for the rape and murder of Lillie Davis
• 1994 – Dr. John Britton and his bodyguard James Barrett, murdered by anti-abortion activist Paul Hill