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Georgia History Timeline
Chronology for May 9
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| May 9, 1754 |
Franklin's "Join or die" rattlesnake, encouraging the colonies to unite to fight the common enemy (at that time it was France) is first published. Georgia does not appear on the snake because it was more closely tied to Great Britain |
| May 9, 1810 |
Benjamin Lincoln dies, Hingham, Massachusetts
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Benjamin Lincoln
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| May 9, 1832 |
Treaty of Payne's Landing is signed. The treaty required that the Seminole Indians be removed to the west. A small band of the Seminoles lived in Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp.
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Okefenokee Swamp |
| May 9, 1850 |
First Western & Atlantic train passes through the tunnel at Chetoogeta Mountian, completing the link between Atlanta and Chattanooga
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| May 9, 1865 |
Joseph Brown is arrested in the governor's mansion in Milledgeville by Captain G. H. Kneeland of the Union Army. |
| May 9, 1932 |
Portions of Cherokee, Gwinnett and Cobb Counties, along with all of Campbell County and Milton County are ceded to Fulton County.
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Campbell County, Georgia |
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Fulton County, Georgia |
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Gwinnett County, Georgia |
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Cherokee County, Georgia |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
| May 9, 1937 |
Dave Prater (one-half of Sam and Dave) born, Ocilla, Georgia
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| May 9, 1942 |
Singer Tommy Roe born, Atlanta, Georgia
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Tommy Roe |
| May 9, 1948 |
New passenger terminal/hanger opens at Atlanta Airport. Its theme was taken from a book by Joel Chandler Harris, one of Atlanta's favorite writers, Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings. A black employee sat on a bale of cotton outside the door and recited quotes from the book. At the time Atlanta Airport was ranked 7th in air line operations, actually reaching first place a couple of months each year.
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| May 9, 1960 |
Judge Hooper sets a deadline for the desegregation of Atlanta schools at May 1, 1961
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Donald L. Hollowell |
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Frank A. Hooper |
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The Road to Integration
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| May 9, 1962 |
106 members and friends of the Atlanta Art Association begin a month-long tour of Europe. Crash at Orly Airport - The Day Atlanta Died |
| May 9, 1970 |
Dedication services are held for the carvings in Stone Mountain, although work continues on the masterpiece through 1972. President Nixon had been scheduled to attend, but Kent State forced him to give the visit to Vice-president Spiro Agnew.
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Stone Mountain |
| May 9, 1970 |
Six African-Americans are killed during riots in Augusta sparked by the apparent torture-murder of Charles Oatman, a learning-impaired black youth, while in custody in the Richmond County (GA) jail. |
| May 9, 1989 |
Jim Williams is acquitted
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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| May 9, 1994 |
President Clinton appoints Clarence Cooper to the United States District Court as a Judge for the Northern District of Georgia |
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Clarence Cooper |
| May 9, 2006 |
Phil Mickelson wins the Masters Tournament in Augusta |
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Masters Tournament |
| May 9, 2009 |
The body of UGA professor George Zinkhan is discovered in a shallow grave in northern Clarke County, Georgia |
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