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Georgia History Timeline
Chronology for May 14;
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| May 14, 1733 |
The James arrives in Savannah with supplies, store and people for the colony
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
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James Oglethorpe |
| May 14, 1742 |
Nathan Brownson born, Litchfield, Connecticut
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| May 14, 1765 |
Samuel Bowen, who had been imprisoned for 4 years while in China, purchases a tract of land in Thunderbolt. He had already asked Heny Yonge, a friend, to plant the soy bean seeds he brought with him from China
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| May 14, 1794 |
Secretary of War Knox writes Gov. Mathews asking him to take measures to prevent Elijah Clarke's Transoconee Expedition.
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| May 14, 1864 |
John Gordon commissioned Major General, CSA
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John Brown Gordon
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| May 14, 1973 |
Carl Issacs, Billy Issacs, and Wayne Coleman enter the Alday home in Seminole County (Donalsonville), Georgia looking for money and guns. The Maryland work camp escapees kill Jerry Alday, his father Ned, two brothers and an uncle. Jerry's wife Mary, who had witnessed some of the killing, was forced into a car and raped repeatedly before she was killed.
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Alday family murders
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Seminole County, Georgia |
| May 14, 1991 |
Alan Jackson releases Don't Rock The Jukebox
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| May 14, 2004 |
After hearing evidence that included the antifreeze poisoning of boyfriend Randy Thompson, Houston County jurors convict Lynn Turner of killing husband Glenn Turner. |
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Lynn Turner |
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Houston County, Georgia |
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