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Events

• 1861 – Fort Pickens receives supplies and troop reinforcements from the USS Powhatan. Confederate Brigadier General Braxton E. Bragg imposes martial law in Pensacola, stopping all trade and communications with the Union-held fortress.
• 1987 - Recent Grammy Award winner Bruce Hornsby performed on Pensacola Beach, to his biggest audience to date.
• 2005 - Country / pop music artist Kenny Rogers performed a benefit concert at the civic center, for Hurricane Ivan relief.
• 2007 – The new Krispy Kreme store at 9th Avenue and Cervantes Street opens.
• 2012 - Surf rock guitarist Dick Dale performs at Vinyl Music Hall.

Births

• 1842 – Daniel Gonzalez Brent

Deaths

• 2004 – Cooper Yates

Marriages

• 1879 – Charles Henry Bliss to Matilda Sophia Wilcox