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Marietta, GA
| January 22, 1852 |
City of Marietta incorporated
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Marietta, GA |
| October 9, 1863 |
Jeff Davis addresses a crowd at Marietta, GA
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Jefferson Davis |
| November 13, 1864 |
Downtown Marietta destroyed by Union Cavalry General Judson Kilpatrick
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March to the Sea |
| February 17, 1897 |
Alice McLellan Birney, a native of Marietta, Georgia, organizes the National Congress of Mothers, which became the Parent Teachers Association
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Marietta, GA |
| April 23, 1897 |
Lucius Clay born, Marietta, Georgia
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General Lucius D. Clay |
| June 1, 1900 |
Mary Phagan born, Marietta, Georgia
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Leo Frank and the murder of Mary Phagan |
| July 15, 1905 |
Trolley service is inaugurated between Atlanta and Marietta. The 12 mile run takes roughly 30 minutes |
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Marietta, GA |
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Atlanta, Georgia (1900-2000) |
| August 17, 1915 |
A lynch mob hangs Leo Frank, near the present-day site of the Big Chicken
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Leo Frank and the murder of Mary Phagan |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
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Marietta, GA |
| January 17, 1916 |
Marietta Country Club incorporated. Their 9-hole course would expand to 18 holes in 1966.
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Marietta, GA |
| February 8, 1917 |
Kennesaw Mountain, west of Marietta, is authorized by Congress to become a memorial to the men who died in the Civil War battle. It is transferred from the War Department to the National Parks Service
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Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park
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| May 31, 1925 |
The Wisconsin Monument, dedicated to the Union soldiers from Wisconsin who died in Georgia, is dedicated at the Marietta National Cemetery
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Marietta, GA |
| March 30, 1942 |
Ground is broken for the new Bell Bomber factory in Marietta
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Marietta, GA |
| June 15, 1943 |
58th Bombardment Wing of the Army Air Force is formed in Marietta, Georgia. It is the first B-29 unit established by the Army Air Force |
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Marietta, GA |
| June 15, 1943 |
Marietta Army Airfield (AKA Cobb County Airport) is designated by General Order
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Marietta, GA |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
| June 4, 1948 |
Secretary of Defense transfers functions at the air field in Marietta from the Army to the Air Force
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Marietta, GA |
| February 15, 1950 |
Marietta Air Force Base is renamed Dobbins Air Force Base in honor of Capt. Charles Dobbins, a flyer from Marietta who was shot down in the Mediterranean Sea near Sicily in July, 1943
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Marietta, GA |
| September 1, 1952 |
A spate of UFO sightings riled people in Atlanta and Marietta
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UFO sightings in Marietta and Atlanta |
| March 29, 1954 |
Secretary of the Navy Robert B. Anderson presents the Medal of Honor for Corporal Lee Hugh Phillips to his mother, Izora Cantrell. Phillips body is reinterred at the Marietta National Cemetery in Marietta, Georgia.
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Corporal Lee Hugh Phillips
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| December 2, 1962 |
A Louisville and Nashville train derails in Marietta, Georgia while carrying nuclear weapons components |
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Marietta, GA |
| February 9, 1963 |
Country music star Travis Tritt born, Marietta
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Travis Tritt |
| July 22, 1963 |
Official roll-out of the Lockheed C-141 Starlifter in Marietta by President John Kennedy.
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Marietta, GA |
| October 31, 1963 |
Just before Halloween festivities were scheduled to begin in downtown Marietta, Georgia, Atherton's Drug Store exploded in a ball of flames, killing 7 and injuring 34 |
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Marietta, GA |
| 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 |
| November 29, 1992 |
Sara Tokars, a Marietta homemaker, is killed in front of her two young children.
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Marietta, GA |
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Fred Tokars orders a 'hit' on his wife |
| December 31, 1996 |
After a service in Atlanta, JonBenet Ramsey's body is laid to rest in Marietta, Georgia.
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Marietta, GA |
| February 27, 1998 |
Following a piece on America's Most Wanted, Tony Ray Amati is arrested in Marietta, Georgia. He had been one of the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted
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Marietta, GA |
| April 8, 1998 |
Deadly tornadoes strike Marietta, Dunwoody, and Duluth
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| June 11, 2002 |
Life College, Marietta, Georgia, the largest Chiropractic College in the nation, loses its accreditation.
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Marietta, GA |
| July 26, 2002 |
Gone With the Wind memorabilia auction nets Melanie Hamilton's sweater for Marietta Museum
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Memorabilia auction nets gains for Marietta museum |
| June 13, 2003 |
Dumb and Dumberer, a "prequel" to Dumb and Dumber is released. It was filmed in Marietta and Atlanta
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Movies filmed in Georgia
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| February 2, 2004 |
Jury selection in the Lynn Turner trial begins in Marietta. |
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Marietta, GA |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
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Lynn Turner |
| November 2, 2004 |
Three-term Republican congressman Johnny Isakson of Marietta defeated Decatur Democrat Denise Majette from the U. S. House of Representatives to win the U. S. Senate seat vacated by Zell Miller. Also elected to the U. S. House were Jack Kingston (1st), Sanford Bishop (2nd), Jim Marshall (3rd), Cynthia McKinney (4th), John Lewis (5th), Tom Price (6th),John Linder (7th), Lynn Westmoreland (8th), Charlie Norwood (9th), Nathan Deal (10th), Phil Gingrey (11th), John Barrow (12th), and David Scott (13th). |
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Marietta, GA |
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Zell Miller |
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Cynthia McKinney |
| September 5, 2009 |
17-year old Melanie Oudin of Marietta defeats seeded Maria Sharapova at the U. S. Open. Oudin will eventually lose in the quarter finals. |
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