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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.
• 2007 – The new Krispy Kreme store at 9th Avenue and Cervantes Street opens.

Births

• 1842 – Daniel Gonzalez Brent

Deaths

• 2004 – Cooper Yates

Marriages

• 1879 – Charles Henry Bliss to Matilda Sophia Wilcox