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Georgia History Timeline
Chronology for August 16;
Yesterday Tomorrow
| August 16, 1763 |
Thomas Boone received the communiqué from the Board of Trade
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| August 16, 1780 |
Battle of Camden (South Carolina)
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Baron DeKalb |
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Georgia and the American Revolution
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| August 16, 1876 |
At a convention held in Macon, Republicans nominate wealthy Atlanta businessman Jonathan Norcross to run for governor against Alfred Colquitt. |
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City of Macon, Georgia |
| August 16, 1880 |
U. S. Senator, Georgia governor, and Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee (1860) Herschel Johnson dies near Louisville, Georgia (Jefferson County) |
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Herschel V. Johnson |
| August 16, 1888 |
John Styth Pemberton dies, Atlanta, Georgia. Following a service attended by "every pharmicist in the city of Atlanta," Pemberton's body was returned to Columbus, Georgia |
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John Stith (Styth) Pemberton |
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Columbus, Georgia |
| August 16, 1949 |
Margaret Mitchell pronounced dead at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. She is later buried at Oakland Cemetery.
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Margaret Mitchell |
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Oakland Cemetery |
| August 16, 1984 |
Judge denies Jim Williams a new trial
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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| August 16, 1991 |
TLC signs its first contract, with La Face Records
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TLC |
| August 16, 2005 |
Coretta Scott King, widow of Civil Rights activist Martin Luther King, suffers a major stroke. |
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