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Georgia History Timeline
Chronology for June 3
Yesterday Tomorrow
| June 3, 1808 |
Jefferson Davis is born, present-day Todd County, Kentucky
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Jefferson Davis |
| June 3, 1850 |
The Southern Convention, more commonly called the Nashville Convention begins. Lasting 9 days, the convention had been called to unite slaveholders against Northern intrusion, including possible secession. Moderate Democrats prevailed and established a "wait and see" attitude, taking no action.
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| June 3, 1889 |
Tom Woolfolk is again tried for murder
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Tom Woolfolk and the Woolfolk Family murders |
| June 3, 1905 |
Henry Van Ness Boynton, who proposed the National Battlefield Park at Chickamauga, died
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| June 3, 1931 |
Bert Lance born, Gainesville, Georgia
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Bert Lance |
| June 3, 1936 |
United Daughters of the Confederacy dedicates a monument to Jefferson Davis on the site of his surrender to Union forces. |
| June 3, 1946 |
U. S. Supreme Court bans segregation on interstate buses
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The Road to Integration
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| June 3, 1958 |
Poet Byron Herbert Reece, ill and financially hurting, commits suicide
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Union County, Georgia |
| June 3, 1961 |
Secretary of State Dean Rusk accompanies President John F. Kennedy for talks with Soviet Premiere Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna. At this meeting Khrushchev demands the Berlin crisis be resolved by December. Kennedy responds "It will be a cold winter." This is regarded as one of the earliest tests of Kennedy's resolve.
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Dean Rusk
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| June 3, 1962 |
Air France jet carrying 106 Atlanta civic and cultural leaders crashed during take-off at Orly Airport in Paris, France. Crash at Orly Airport - The Day Atlanta Died |
| June 3, 1963 |
Vice-president Lyndon Baines Johnson tells advises President John F. Kennedy (through a staff member) that "blacks are tired of this patience stuff..." and that Kennedy ought to "sit-down with Russell" and answer every argument he made against civil rights
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Richard B. Russell, Jr. |
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The Road to Integration
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| June 3, 1985 |
61-year old cancer patient Katy Yarbrough is overdosed with radiation by a Therac 25 at Kennestone Hospital in Marietta, the first such case reported. The machine will eventually be withdrawn from the market and the FDA will rewrite virtually all of its regulations as a result of this and other cases involving the Therac 25.
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Marietta, GA |
| June 3, 1986 |
Supreme Court orders a new trial in the Alday family murders
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Alday family murders
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