| January 19, 1733 |
Oglethorpe, along with the settlers, set sail for Beaufort, South Carolina
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James Oglethorpe |
| January 19, 1735 |
Alice Riley is hanged for the murder of William Wise. She is the first person to be hanged in the colony of Georgia. |
| January 19, 1736 |
Highlanders arrive at New Inverness (Darien)
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| January 19, 1782 |
Continental General Anthony Wayne arrives in Georgia, crossing the Savannah River on horseback with orders to rid the state of the British in spite of being outnumbered 2 or 3 to 1. |
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'Mad' Anthony Wayne |
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Georgia and the American Revolution
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| January 19, 1807 |
Robert Milledge Charlton born, Savannah, Georgia
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Savannah, Georgia births and deaths |
| January 19, 1816 |
Bank of the State of Georgia is incorporated
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| January 19, 1824 |
Senate ratifies 1804 treaty with Cherokee
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| January 19, 1861 |
Georgia votes to secede from the Union at a convention held in Milledgeville, Georgia. |
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Civil War - 1861 |
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Robert Toombs |
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Milledgeville |
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Slavery in Georgia |
| January 19, 1863 |
W. T. Wofford promoted to Brigadier General
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William Tatum Wofford |
| January 19, 1866 |
The Atlanta city council votes to allocate $10,000.00 to deal with an ongoing smallpox epidemic. |
| January 19, 1924 |
Gutzon Borglum unveils the head of Robert E. Lee at Stone Mountain, Georgia
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John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum |
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Stone Mountain |
| January 19, 1938 |
A bill to legalized liquor in 16 Georgia counties is introduced in the legislature
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| January 19, 1947 |
Gov. Ellis Arnell resigns in favor of Lt. Governor M. E. Thompson
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Georgia's Three Governors Controversy |
| January 19, 1947 |
Josh Gibson dies, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania from a stroke. |
| January 19, 1961 |
In an attempt to deal with federal pressure to integrate schools, Gov. Earnest Vandiver proposes an amendment to the Georgia constitution that ends all laws designed to maintain segregated schools. In order to have it pass the overwhelmingly pro-segregation legislature, he includes a local option to close schools or integrate. This date is often noted as January 18.
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The Road to Integration
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Ernest Vandiver, Jr. |
| January 19, 1976 |
Jimmy Carter wins the Iowa caucuses
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Jimmy Carter |
| January 19, 1982 |
Controversial fiber evidence introduced by Lewis Slayton in the Wayne Williams Atlanta Child Murders Trial is ruled admissible by Judge Clarence Cooper. Today this type of evidence is normally admitted. |
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Clarence Cooper |
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Atlanta Child Murders |
| January 19, 1997 |
Poet/writer James Dickey died (lung disease), Columbia, South Carolina
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James Dickey |
| January 19, 2002 |
Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King and his father, "Daddy" King were co-pastors, reopens after the first phase of a restoration project
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Martin Luther King
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