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==Notable events==
*Date unknown – a new [[Pensacola City Hall]] is completed at 300 South [[Jefferson Street]] on the east side of [[Plaza Ferdinand VII]]. The building currently houses the [[T. T. Wentworth Jr. Florida State Museum]].
*[[April 7]] – Streetcar operators of the [[Pensacola Electric Company]] [[1908 streetcar operators' strike|go on strike]].*[[April 12]] – National Guard troops are ordered into Pensacola to protect [[1908 streetcar operators' strike|strikebreakers ]] and restore order.*[[May 13]] – [[[[1908 streetcar operators' strike|Streetcar operators' strike ]] ends.
*[[July 29]] – [[Leander Shaw]] is hanged by a lynch-mob in [[Plaza Ferdinand VII]] for the rape and murder of [[Lillie Davis]].
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