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Columbus, Georgia
| December 24, 1827 |
State declares its intention to lay out the city of Columbus, Georgia
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Columbus, Georgia |
| July 27, 1852 |
George Foster Peabody born, Columbus, Georgia
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George Foster Peabody |
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Columbus, Georgia |
| May 27, 1863 |
The boiler on the CSS Chattahoochee explodes while plowing the waters near the coast of Georgia. She is taken to the shipyard in Columbus, where she is eventually scuttled.
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Columbus, Georgia |
| April 16, 1865 |
Wilson's Federal cavalry captures Columbus and West Point
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Civil War - 1865 |
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Columbus, Georgia |
| October 12, 1876 |
CSA Brig. General Pleasant J. Philips dies, Columbus, GA |
| October 12, 1876 |
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Brigadier General Pleasant J. Philips
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Columbus, Georgia |
| April 26, 1886 |
Blues singer "Ma" Rainey born, Columbus
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Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey |
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Columbus, Georgia |
| August 16, 1888 |
John Styth Pemberton dies, Atlanta, Georgia. Following a service attended by "every pharmicist in the city of Atlanta," Pemberton's body was returned to Columbus, Georgia |
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John Stith (Styth) Pemberton |
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Columbus, Georgia |
| February 19, 1900 |
Writer Carson McCullers (Lula Carson Smith) born, Columbus, Georgia
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Carson McCullers |
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Columbus, Georgia |
| September 6, 1921 |
The New York World began a series of expose articles on the Ku Klux Klan. Syndicated throughout the U.S., it only appeared in the Columbus Enquirer-Sun in Georgia. |
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Ku Klux Klan in Georgia |
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Columbus, Georgia |
| April 0, 1924 |
WDBA, Columbus, GA licensed
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Columbus, Georgia |
| December 22, 1939 |
Blues singer "Ma" Rainey dies, Columbus
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Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey |
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Columbus, Georgia |
| July 4, 1944 |
Rev. Primus King, enters the courthouse in Columbus, Georgia and attempts to vote in the "white only" Democratic primary. King was black.
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The Road to Integration
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Columbus, Georgia |
| June 21, 1947 |
Inaugural run of "Man o' War" rail service between Columbus and Atlanta on the Central of Georgia Railway
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Columbus, Georgia |
| February 18, 1956 |
Dr. Thomas H. Brewer, who help create a Columbus chapter of the NAACP in 1937 and was an important figure in the Primus King case, is murdered by Lucio Flowers, a white policeman. Brewer was shot 7 times in front of his office in Columbus
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The Road to Integration
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Columbus, Georgia |
| May 16, 1970 |
"Man o' War," Central of Georgia rail service between Columbus and Atlanta ends.
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Columbus, Georgia |
| September 15, 1977 |
Mary Willis "Ferne" Jackson, Director of Public Education for the Columbus, Georgia Health Department is strangled in her bedroom by an intruder.
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Wynnton Stocking Strangler |
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Columbus, Georgia |
| September 25, 1977 |
71-year-old Jean Dimenstien is found strangled and assaulted in a sexual manner in her Wynnton (an area of Columbus, Georgia) home. Similar to a murder that had occured 10 days earlier, the elderly women of Columbus had become a target for a serial killer.
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Wynnton Stocking Strangler |
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Columbus, Georgia |
| April 18, 1984 |
Carlton Gary is arrested on marijuana related charges in Columbus, Georgia. He posts bond and is freed.
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Wynnton Stocking Strangler |
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Columbus, Georgia |
| April 21, 2004 |
Italy's Mario Cipollini won Stage 2 of the Dodge Tour de Georgia in a sprint finish. Comprised of 117.9 miles, the second stage began in Thomaston and concluded in Columbus, with more than 4,000 spectators cheering the cyclists at the finish area along Broadway Street.
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Tour de Georgia 2004 |
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Columbus, Georgia |
| August 28, 2006 |
Columbus, Georgia won the Little League World Series on Monday, defeating Kawaguchi City, Japan, 2-1, in the rain-postponed final. |
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Columbus, Georgia |
| September 7, 2006 |
After visiting with Little League World Champions from Columbus, Georgia, President George W. Bush visits Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum in Pooler for a fund-raiser for Republican Max Burns and the Cobb Galleria in Marietta for a speech on the War Against Terror |
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Eighth Air Force |
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Columbus, Georgia |
| March 27, 2008 |
Charles Johnson enters Doctors Hospital in Columbus, Georgia. He stalks a male nurse whom he blames for his mother's death in 2004 and kills him. He kills two more people while making his escape before being shot by a Columbus police detective. |
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Gunman at Doctors Hospital |
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Columbus, Georgia |
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Muscogee County, Georgia |
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