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'''1900''' - [[Alger-Sullivan Company]] begins operation in Century.
'''1901''' -- [[Theisen Building ]] built and named for Danish-born Chris Thiesen.
'''1902''' -- Pensacola established its first streetcar system
'''1902''' -- [[Pensacola navy yard Navy Yard]] received a dry dock
'''1904''' -- William, Albert, and Peter Rosasco bought the Bay Point Mill Company
'''1905''' -- The last yellow fever epidemic in Pensacola.
'''1905''' -- 01/01/1905 - [[F. C. Brent ]] retired as the president of the First National Bank
'''1905''' -- 10/31/1905 - Fire erupted in downtown Pensacola destroying the [[Brent Block ]] which included the Brent and Blount buildings as well as many other buildings.
'''1906''' -- A Hurricane hit Pensacola, category #3, MS/ AL/ Pensacola - 134 dead.
'''1906''' -- Dry dock at the [[Pensacola Navy Yard ]] destroyed by a hurricane
'''1908''' - New Pensacola City Hall built, current site of [[T. T. Wentworth ]] Jr. Florida State Museum.
'''1910''' - Hotel [[San Carlos Hotel]] opens.
'''1911''' -- 10/20/1911 - The United States Government closed the [[Pensacola Navy Yard ]] and it was abandoned
'''1913''' -- 11/17/1913 - FDR arrived in Pensacola to announce plans to create a Naval Air Station at Pensacola
'''1914''' -- 01/20/1914 - The first naval flight school was established at the [[Pensacola Navy Yard ]]
'''1914''' -- 2/2/1914 - Banks in Pensacola collapse
'''1916''' -- The Newport Company, a naval stores industry, was established in Pensacola
'''1917''' -- A Hurricane hit Pensacola, destroying the [[Pensacola Opera House ]]
'''1918''' -- A Flu Epidemic struck Pensacola
'''1919''' -- Serious influenza epidemic stricks Pensacola.
'''1920''' -- Ten cases of bubonic plague epidemic in Pensacola which includes 6 deaths.
'''1921''' -- The Newport company closed
'''1925''' -- [[Saenger Theater ]] built at current location on Palafox Street.
'''1926''' -- WCOA AM radio went on the air
'''1929''' -- The Stock Market Crashed
'''1930''' -- Warrington, a civilian community named for Capt. [[Lewis Warrington]], moves from Naval Air Station to present site across Bayou Grande. H. Clay Armstrong produces the History of Escambia County.
'''1931''' -- Bridges are built across Santa Rosa Sound and Pensacola Bay.
'''1948''' -- Escambia General Hospital opens, becomes University Hospital.
'''1951''' -- [[Baptist Hospital ]] opens.
'''1961''' -- 08/10/1961 - Gulf Breeze's first mayor and city council were officially sworn into office
'''1961''' -- 08/17/1961 - The Gulf Breeze City Council held its first official meeting
'''1963''' -- [[University of West Florida ]] founded, opens in 1967.
'''1991''' -- The Wall South Foundation, formed by the VVNF to oversee the building of "Wall South", reached an agreement with the city of Pensacola in January 1991 for a five and one half acre site on Bayfront Parkway. This is the home of [[Veterans Memorial Park]]/Wall South.
'''1995''' -- 10/05/1995 - [[Hurricane Opal ]] hit Pensacola '''2004''' -- 9/16/2004 - [[Hurricane Ivan]] made landfall on Orange Beach, AL. [[Hurricane Ivan]] caused an estimated US$13 billion (2004 US$) in damages to the United States, making it the fifth costliest hurricane ever to strike that country.
