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Georgia History Timeline
Chronology for August 2
Yesterday Tomorrow
| August 2, 1775 |
Ebenezer McCarthy is charge with enlisting Georgia recruits into the South Carolina regiments
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| August 2, 1776 |
Button Gwinnett, George Walton, and Lyman Hall sign the Declaration of Independence
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George Walton
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| August 2, 1864 |
Stoneman's Raiders are repelled by Georgia Rebels at Barber's Creek
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Civil War - 1864 |
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William Tecumseh Sherman |
| August 2, 1926 |
Sears Roebuck on Ponce de Leon Avenue in Atlanta opens its doors for business |
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Atlanta, Georgia (1900-2000) |
| August 2, 1960 |
After just over a year in existance, the Continental League folds without playing a single game. Major League Baseball agrees to accept four of its franchises as expansion teams in 1962. |
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Boston Braves, Milwaukee Braves, Atlanta Braves |
| August 2, 1985 |
Delta Air Lines Flight 191 crashes while attempting to land at Dallas-Ft. Worth Airport. The original impact was in an empty field, but the plane remained intact and "bounced" onto a 6-lane highway, then crashing into a pair of water tanks. 136 out of 167 passengers died. |
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Delta Air Lines
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| August 2, 1997 |
Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium is demolished. It takes 30 seconds for explosive charges to level the building
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Boston Braves, Milwaukee Braves, Atlanta Braves |
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Fulton County, Georgia |
| August 2, 2010 |
Noting its inability to compel testimony, a commission appointed by the Atlanta School Board reports that widespread cheating in Atlanta schools is limited to 12 of 58 flagged by the state. |
| August 2, 2011 |
Zephyrhills, Florida, police officer Kevin Widner encounters gunfire on when he pursues a white Subaru speeding in a 35 mph zone. The group is later identified as the Dougherty family. |
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Dougherty Gang |
| August 2, 2011 |
The Dougherty gang, comprised of 29-year-old Lee Grace Dougherty and her two younger brothers, Dylan, 26, and Ryan, 21, from East Palatka, Florida rob CertusBank in Valdosta, Georgia |
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Dougherty Gang |
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Lowndes County, Georgia |
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