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Events

• 1814 – War of 1812: British Major Edward Nicholls issues a proclamation from Spanish Pensacola urging Louisiana natives to assist him "in liberating [their land] from a faithless, imbecile government."
• 1905 – Yellow fever is declared at Pensacola.
• 1976 - Elvis Presley performed two concerts, at 4:30 and 8:30 pm, at the Mobile Municipal Auditorium.
• 1985 – John Burt receives five months' probation for trespassing into the office of abortion provider Bo Bagenholm.
• 2001 – The Historic Pensacola Preservation Board is renamed West Florida Historic Preservation, Inc.

Deaths

• 1850 – John Jerrison
• 2007 – James Ross
• 2012 - Johnny Ray Betts, aka Cowboy.