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Georgia History Timeline
Chronology for January 24;
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| January 24, 1733 |
Benjamin Lincoln born, Hingham, Massachusetts
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Benjamin Lincoln
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| January 24, 1777 |
At the behest of the 2nd Continental Congress, a "Committee of Seven" is appointed to revise the Rules and Regulations of 1776. Button Gwinnett, William Belcher, Joseph Wood, Josiah Lewis, John Adam Treutlen, Henry Jones and George Wells are chosen.
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John Treutlen |
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Button Gwinnett |
| January 24, 1779 |
Archibald Campbell leaves Savannah with about 1,000 men, heading northwest to Augusta. |
| January 24, 1826 |
Treaty with the Creek at Washington, DC. This voided the Treaty of 1825 at Indian Springs
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Creek Indians |
| January 24, 1840 |
Alabama legislature accepts the line established in the 1826 Georgia survey
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| January 24, 1854 |
Fannin County created
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Creation of Georgia Counties
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Fannin County, Georgia |
| January 24, 1884 |
24-year old Joseph Jacobs purchases a drug store on Peachtree Street near present-day Underground Atlanta.
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| January 24, 1930 |
Rebecca Latimer Felton dies, Atlanta
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Rebecca Latimer Felton |
| January 24, 1941 |
Harold Ragsdale ("Ray Stevens") is born in Clarksdale
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| January 24, 1949 |
Georgia Women Jurors bill moves to the floor of the state house |
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Women allowed on jury duty |
| January 24, 1960 |
Martin Luther King becomes co-pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church with his father, "Daddy King"
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Martin Luther King
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| January 24, 1987 |
A crowd of 20,000 racially mixed people from the metropolitan Atlanta area join Rev. Hosea Williams and others in a unity march in Cumming, Georgia (Forsyth County). A march the previous week had been turned back by racists.
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Forsyth County, Georgia |
| January 24, 1996 |
Statue of Richard B. Russell is dedicated, in front of the Richard B. Russell Senate Office Building
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Richard B. Russell, Jr. |
| January 24, 2006 |
Jury selection begins in former Atlanta mayor Bill Campbell's corruption trial |
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Mayor Bill Campbell indicted |
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