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Georgia History Timeline
Chronology for February 5
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| February 5, 1736 |
Symond and London Merchant arrive at Tybee Roads. Among the passengers are Charles and John Wesley
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James Oglethorpe |
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The Wesleys in Georgia
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| February 5, 1777 |
Glynn County created
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Creation of Georgia Counties
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Glynn County, Georgia |
| February 5, 1777 |
Liberty County created
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Creation of Georgia Counties
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Liberty County, Georgia |
| February 5, 1777 |
Richmond County created
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Creation of Georgia Counties
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Richmond County, Georgia |
| February 5, 1777 |
Wilkes County created
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John Wilkes
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Creation of Georgia Counties
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Wilkes County, Georgia |
| February 5, 1777 |
Chatham County created
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Creation of Georgia Counties
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Chatham County, Georgia |
| February 5, 1777 |
Effingham County created
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Creation of Georgia Counties
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Effingham County, Georgia |
| February 5, 1777 |
Burke County created
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Creation of Georgia Counties
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Burke County, Georgia |
| February 5, 1777 |
Camden County created
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Creation of Georgia Counties
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Camden County, Georgia |
| February 5, 1777 |
State constitution agreed upon unanimously
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State Constitution of 1777 |
| February 5, 1793 |
The U. S. Supreme Court hears the case of Chisholm v. Georgia |
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Chisholm v. Georgia |
| February 5, 1836 |
Jefferson Franklin Long is born, Crawford County, Tennessee (Knoxville)
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| February 5, 1867 |
Stone Mountain Granite and Railway Company purchases Stone Mountain for $37,000 |
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Stone Mountain |
| February 5, 1934 |
Henry "Hammerin' Hank" Aaron born, Mobile, Alabama
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Hank Aaron
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| February 5, 1958 |
An unarmed hydrogen bomb is jettisoned from a B-47 flying over Tybee Roads (the shipping lanes off Tybee Island) into Wassaw Sound after a mid-air accident
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Nuclear warhead near Savannah |
| February 5, 1959 |
Carson McCullers introduces Marilyn Monroe to Karen Blixen (Out of Africa). |
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Carson McCullers |
| February 5, 1965 |
Lester Maddox, as owner of the Pickrick Restaurant, is ordered by Judge Hooper to end discrimination at the restaurant or close. Maddox chooses to close the restaurant rather than serve blacks
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Frank A. Hooper |
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Lester Maddox |
| February 5, 1976 |
A recruit falls ill at Fort Dix, New Jersey, and dies the following day. Under orders from Gerald Ford, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta launches an inoculation project against "swine flu," the disease responsible for 20 million deaths in 1918-1919.
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| February 5, 2008 |
Georgians turn out in record numbers for an election, selecting Barrack Obama and Mike Huckabee as our choice for Democrat and Republican nominees for president. |
| February 5, 2008 |
A Washington D. C. court of appeals hands Georgia a major loss in its water wars with Florida and Alabama. The three-judge panel held that Georgia did not have a right to increase its draw of water from Lake Lanier |
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Lake Lanier |
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