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== 1900's ==
'''1900''' -- Baars, Dunwoody & Company established
'''1900''' -- St. Anthony's Hospital established
'''1900''' -- Pensacola Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company established
'''1900''' -- American National Bank established
'''1902''' -- Pensacola established its first streetcar system
'''1902''' -- Pensacola navy yard received a dry dock
'''1904''' -- William, Albert, and Peter Rosasco bought the Bay Point Mill Company
'''1905''' -- fires destroys much of downtown 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
'''1906''' -- A Hurricane hit Pensacola
'''1906''' -- Dry dock at the Pensacola Navy Yard destroyed by a hurricane
'''1911''' -- 10/20/1911 - The United States Government closed the Pensacola Navy Yard
'''1913''' -- 11/17/1913 - FDR arrived in Pensacola to announce plans to create a Naval Air Station at Pensacola
'''1914''' -- 11/01/1914 - The firm of Crow, Rudolf & Company in Liverpool, England, went bankrupted. The First National Bank of Pensacola had put a lot of money into the company and lost a lot when it when belly up. It caused an economic depression in Pensacola.
'''1914''' -- 01/20/1914 - The first naval flight school was established at the Pensacola Navy Yard
'''1916''' -- A Hurricane hit NW Florida
'''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
'''1921''' -- The Newport company closed
'''1926''' -- WCOA AM radio went on the air
'''1926''' -- A hurricane hit Pensacola
'''1929''' -- The Stock Market Crashed
'''1939''' -- 01/24/1939 - A post office was established in Gulf Breeze
'''1941''' -- 12/07/1941 - The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, bringing the United States into World War II
'''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
'''1995''' -- 10/05/1995 - Hurricane Opal hit Pensacola
