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==Events==
*[[January 30]] – Five tons of condemned dynamite are detonated near [[Fort Pickens]], about a mile away from the battery. The resulting explosion created a hole "large enough to hide a house" on the beach and was felt across [[Pensacola Bay]] in the city, cracking plaster and shattering windows.<ref>"Dynamite shook Pensacola." ''New York Times'', January 31, 1903.</ref>
==Facts==
*Population of Pensacola in [[1903]] was approximately 22,000 per the 1903 [[Sanborn Fire Maps]] <ref>[http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/digital/collections/sanborn/query/UF70000206_Index.htmlFire maps].</ref> ==References=={{reflist}}
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