Template:On this day/August 5

Copy the 3-5 most noteworthy events from the corresponding date page. Please change to past tense and bold the key article. You may also include a relevant photo, sized between 100-140px wide and aligned right.

August 5:

• 1763 – Lieutenant Colonel Augustine Prevost arrived in Pensacola with 350 men to accept the transfer of Florida from Spain to Great Britian.
• 2003 – While pursuing a suspect at the Oakwood Terrace apartments, Escambia County Sheriff's Deputy James Sullivan shot bystander Michael J. Montgomery twice with a Taser.