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Georgia History Timeline
Chronology for April 12
Yesterday Tomorrow
| April 12, 1724 |
Lyman Hall, doctor, governor, signed the Declaration of Independence for Georgia, born in Wallingford, Connecticut
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Lyman Hall |
| April 12, 1741 |
Rev. Johann Martin Bolzius held two services for the Salzburgers
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Salzburgers in Georgia |
| April 12, 1772 |
Georgia's House of Commons elects radical Noble Wimberly Jones as speaker for the first of three times. Acting Royal Governor James Habersham rejects the choice each time. The body then selects Archibald Bulloch as speaker, whom Habersham accepts but orders the house to remove any mention of Jones' election. They refuse and Habersham orders the house dissolved
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| April 12, 1777 |
Statesman Henry Clay born, Hanover County, Virginia
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Henry Clay |
| April 12, 1834 |
Treaty with the Seminole (Payne's Landing) proclaimed.
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| April 12, 1861 |
Start of the American Civil War
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Thomas Sumter |
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American Civil War |
| April 12, 1862 |
The Great Locomotive Chase |
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Civil War - 1862 |
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Western and Atlantic Railroad |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
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Bartow County, Georgia |
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Gordon County, Georgia |
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Whitfield County, Georgia |
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Catoosa County, Georgia |
| April 12, 1866 |
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce organized as "Board of Trade"
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| April 12, 1899 |
Sam Hose kills his employer Alfred Cranford during an argument over wages
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The Lynching of Sam Hose |
| April 12, 1945 |
Pres. Franklin Roosevelt dies at Warm Springs, Georgia, victim of a cerebral hemorrhage.
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| April 12, 1948 |
Tying the course record, Georgian Claude Harmon wins the Masters at Augusta
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City of Augusta, Georgia
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Masters Tournament |
| April 12, 1951 |
[circa] Mary Ball Tinius becomes the first woman to be seated on a jury in Georgia, in White County, Georgia. Legislation had not yet passed allowing women jurors |
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White County, Georgia |
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Women allowed on jury duty |
| April 12, 1960 |
Coca-Cola received a trademark on the contour bottle
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Coca-Cola |
| April 12, 1961 |
Textile magnate Cason J. Callaway, who founded Callaway Gardens, dies |
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Cason J. Callaway |
| April 12, 1962 |
The Ida Cason Callaway Memorial Chapel is dedicated by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale |
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Callaway Gardens |
| April 12, 1962 |
The Stone Mountain Scenic Railroad opens at Stone Mountain Park |
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Stone Mountain |
| April 12, 1963 |
Dr. Martin Luther King, representing the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, is arrested in Birmingham, AL, for contempt of court and parading without a permit. He had come to Birmingham in an attempt to integrate public facilities in accordance with Supreme Court rulings. While in jail he composed his response to a public letter from 8 clergymen (who were white) criticizing him for breaking the law. King responded that We have waited 340 years for our constitutional and God-given rights. ...it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say "wait."
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The Road to Integration
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Martin Luther King
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| April 12, 1966 |
First ball game played by the Atlanta Braves in the Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium in front of 51,000 fans
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Boston Braves, Milwaukee Braves, Atlanta Braves |
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Fulton County, Georgia |
| April 12, 1972 |
The General goes on display at the Kennesaw Civil War Museum
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| April 12, 1999 |
Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill No. 1, a landmark in the Cabbagetown area of Atlanta since the 1881 International Cotton Exposition, burns. Dramatic TV footage shows the rescue of a trapped crane operator by firefighter.
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| April 12, 2001 |
Derwin Brown is honored when Dekalb County's Candler Road police building is named in his memory
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Derwin Brown murdered |
| April 12, 2005 |
Data broker LexisNexis announced that up to 310,000 US accounts may have been compromised by unauthorized access to its computers. |
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ChoicePoint scandal |
| April 12, 2009 |
Angel Cabrera wins the 73rd Annual Masters in a three person playoff. |
| April 12, 2010 |
Baldwin County District Attorney Fred Bright said assault charges against Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger would not be filed. |
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Milledgeville assault |
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