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Georgia History Timeline
Chronology for August 6;
Yesterday Tomorrow
| August 6, 1752 |
Second grant of land to settlers of Midway
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Liberty County, Georgia |
| August 6, 1775 |
Daniel Morgan and his company of Virginia militia report to American command in Boston
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Daniel Morgan |
| August 6, 1776 |
400 South Carolina troops arrive in Savannah to participate in the First Florida Expedition
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
| August 6, 1777 |
Continental General Lachlan McIntosh is ordered to report to George Washington.
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Lachlan McIntosh |
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George Washington |
| August 6, 1779 |
John Wereat becomes President of the Executive Council
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Governors of Georgia, 1733-1800
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| August 6, 1821 |
Freeman Walker resigns his seat in the U. S. Senate
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Freeman Walker
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| August 6, 1887 |
Just west of Macon, in Bibb County, nine members of Tom Woolfolk's family were murdered with an ax.
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Bibb County, Georgia |
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Tom Woolfolk and the Woolfolk Family murders |
| August 6, 1914 |
Ellen Louise Axson dies, Washington D. C.
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| August 6, 1914 |
Ellen Axson Wilson, wife of President Woodrow Wilson, dies in the White House from complications due to Bright's Disease (an obsolete term for kidney disease)
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Woodrow Wilson |
| August 6, 1946 |
The Atlanta Constitution publishes Martin Luther King's letter to the editor in which the future civil rights leader calls for "basic rights and opportunities" for blacks.
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The Road to Integration
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Martin Luther King
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Yesterday Tomorrow
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