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Events
- 1835 – Navy Yard designer Alexander James Dallas is transferred to command of the West Indian squadron.[1]
- 1868 – The Pensacola & Louisville Railroad Company is incorporated by the Florida legislaure.
- 1967 – A fire at the Jay Prison Camp kills 38 inmates.
- 1973 - Southern rock music icon Black Oak Arkansas performed at the Municipal Auditorium. Country-rock artist Charlie Daniels was a supporting act, and New Orleans-based folk singer Les Moore opened the evening.
Deaths
- 1989 – T. T. Wentworth
- 2003 – McGuire's Pipe Band founder Jack Dasinger (plane crash)
References
- ↑ The twentieth century biographical dictionary of notable Americans, The Biographical Soceity, 1904.