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Events

• 1693 – The Pez-Sigüenza expedition reaches Mobile Bay and begins a scientific exploration.
• 1781 – Siege of Pensacola: Spanish forces open fire on the Queen's Redoubt with four battery mortars.
• 1841 – Jackson Morton is appointed Navy agent at Pensacola.
• 1929 – Ernest Olmstead Saltmarsh steps down as superintendent of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad.
• 1990 - Rock / pop musician David Bowie performs at Pensacola Civic Center as part of his Sound + Vision tour.
• 2006 – The Florida Black Chamber of Commerce endorses the Community Maritime Park project and urges the city to move forward without a referendum.
• 2015 - Hard rock band Slipknot performs at the Pensacola Civic Center.

Deaths

• 1818 – Alexander Arbuthnot and Robert C. Ambrister (executed)