April 21
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Events
- 1838 – Santa Rosa Island is reserved for naval purposes by executive order.[1]
- 1862 – Thomas Marshall Jones is made brigadier general under Braxton Bragg.[2]
- 1908 – Streetcar operators' strike: A crowd fires upon a streetcar on the West Hill line and fatally wounds the conductor, a Mr. G. Hoffman.
- 1985 – Chuck Bates ends his service as acting Escambia County Administrator.
- 2002 – Bob Halfhill ends his tenure as Escambia County Administrator.
Births
- 1863 – William Benjamin Wright
- 1921 - Leon Odell Griffith
Deaths
- 2007 – Kevin Davis
- 2016 - Peter Sturges Ruckman
Marriages
- 1866 – George Stone Hallmark to Leila White
References
- ↑ United States military reservations, national cemeteries, and military parks. Government Printing Office, 1904.
- ↑ Bruce S. Allardice. Confederate Colonels. University of Missouri Press, 2008.