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Georgia History Timeline / Chronology 2004;_Virginia_Resolves
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| January 1, 2004 |
Georgia Bulldogs (#11) defeat Purdue (#12) in the Capital One Bowl (formerly the Citrus Bowl) in Orlando, FL. With the game tied at the end of the 4th quarter, courtesy of a Purdue field goal with 49 seconds remaining, capping an astounding 24-point comeback by Purdue. On the first series of plays in overtime, Georgia decided to go in a fourth and one situation, scoring the winning touchdown. |
| 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 |
| February 4, 2004 |
After 2 days of trying to seat an impartial jury in the Lynn Turner case, Cobb County Superior Court Judge Jim Bodiford orders a change of venue. |
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Houston County, Georgia |
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Lynn Turner |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
| February 8, 2004 |
Atlanta's Outkast wins three grammies including top honors with the Album of the Year for "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below"
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OutKast |
| March 16, 2004 |
Whitney Houston checks into a drug rehab center. Within a week the pop diva checks out. |
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Whitney Houston
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| April 5, 2004 |
Georgia Tech loses to UConn (University of Connecticut) in the NCAA Finals. |
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Georgia Tech / 2004 NCAA Tournement |
| April 11, 2004 |
Phil Mickelson wins the Masters. |
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Mickelson defeats Els to capture the Masters |
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Masters Tournament |
| April 20, 2004 |
Canada’s Gord Fraser won Stage 1 of the six day, seven stage 2004 Dodge Tour de Georgia. Fraser, is known for his sprinting capabilities and fierce competitiveness. Comprised of 82.1 miles, the first stage began and ended in Macon, taking the riders east to Georgia’s antebellum capitol, Milledgeville.
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City of Macon, Georgia |
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Tour de Georgia 2004 |
| 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 |
| April 21, 2004 |
Man on Fire starring Denzel Washington and Dakota Fanning premieres |
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Dakota Fanning |
| April 22, 2004 |
Lance Armstrong, five-time winner of the Tour de France, sprinted for victory in Stage 3 of the Tour de Georgia. The 78.4 mile third stage began in Carrollton and concluded in downtown Rome with three additional circuits of 2.55 miles each. |
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Tour de Georgia 2004 |
| April 23, 2004 |
Jason McCartney (US) captured Stage 5 of the Tour de Georgia with a solo breakaway finish. On the first of two epic mountain stages, McCartney crossed the finish line with a final time of 5 hours, 40 minutes, and 16 seconds. |
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Tour de Georgia 2004 |
| April 24, 2004 |
Cesar Grajales captured Stage 6 of the Tour de Georgia atop the highest point in the state, Brasstown Bald. Comprised of 128.25 miles, the stage began in Athens and concluded after a "hors categorie" 3.5-mile climb up to the Bald with grades over 20%. Grajales' winning time was 5 hours, 16 minutes and 29 seconds.
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Tour de Georgia 2004 |
| April 25, 2004 |
Five-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong (USA), won the General Classification (G.C.) in the Tour de Georgia. Gord Fraser (CAN) captured today's final stage (Stage 7), an 88.4-mile course that finished with a four laps on the streets of Alpharetta |
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Tour de Georgia 2004 |
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Fulton County, Georgia |
| April 26, 2004 |
Lynn Turner's trial resumes in Perry, Georgia (Houston County). |
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Houston County, Georgia |
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Lynn Turner |
| May 4, 2004 |
Coca-Cola named Neville Isdell, a 60-year-old former company insider, as its chairman and chief executive officer, ending a three-month search at the world's largest soft drink maker. |
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Coca-Cola |
| May 7, 2004 |
Sonny Perdue orders a state of emergency in Georgia related to the G-8 Summit to be held on Sea Island. The order covered 6 Georgia counties, Chatham, Bryan, Libery, McIntosh, Glynn and Camden. |
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Glynn County, Georgia |
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McIntosh County, Georgia |
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Liberty County, Georgia |
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Bryan County, Georgia |
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Chatham County, Georgia |
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Camden County, Georgia |
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Sonny Perdue |
| 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 |
| May 21, 2004 |
Georgia Senator Zell Miller, retiring at the end of this term, announces he will not teach at his alma mater, Young Harris College in Young Harris, Georgia. Professor David Franklin penned a letter the Senator labeled as "vitrolic." Miller compared the enviroment at the college to Washington, D. C., and stated that he would not "put up with this kind of vitriol." In the letter, Franklin bitterly complained about the HOPE scholarship funding and Miller's stand on Iraq prisoner abuse. |
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Zell Miller |
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Towns County, Georgia |
| May 25, 2004 |
Shortly after 4:00am fire broke out in BioLab, a chemical manufacturing and storage facility in Conyers. Smoke from the fire forced officials to close I-20 east of Atlanta. |
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Rockdale County, Georgia |
| June 6, 2004 |
President George W. Bush arrives in Georgia in preparation for the G8 summit |
| June 8, 2004 |
Start of G8 summit on Sea Island, Georgia includes leaders from The United States of America (George W Bush), French Republic (Jacques Chirac), Russian Federation (Vladimir Putin), United Kingdom (Tony Charles Lynton Blair), Republic of Italy (Silvio Berlusconi), Federal Republic of Germany (Gerhard Schröder), Japan (Junichiro Koizumi), and Canada (Paul Martin). Prime Minister of Ireland, His Excellency Bertie Ahern, T.D., attended the Sea Island Summit in his capacity as President of the Council of the European Union |
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Glynn County, Georgia |
| June 10, 2004 |
The G8 Summit comes to a close at Sea Island, Georgia |
| June 11, 2004 |
Ray Charles dies in Los Angeles, California |
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Ray Charles |
| June 16, 2004 |
Delta Air CEO Gerald Grinstein said Delta "canot survive in its current form" as fares continue to decrease and oil prices rise. |
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Delta Air Lines
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| June 17, 2004 |
Guide Chris Griffin bags a legendary pig known as Hogzilla that was killed after it wandered out of swamps along the Alapaha River. The river has long been a haven for swine that escape local pig farms and begin to live off the land. The land where the pig (technically, it was a hog) was shot is in Berrien County near the town of Alapaha, Georgia. |
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Hogzilla |
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Berrien County, Georgia |
| July 16, 2004 |
Former governor George Busbee dies from a massive heart attack in Savannah. |
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Savannah, Georgia births and deaths |
| July 22, 2004 |
Dallas-based Centrex Homes accidently destroys 80-year old family farm in Cumming, GA (Forsyth County) |
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Cumming, GA farm destroyed |
| August 30, 2004 |
Atlanta-based OutKast wins 4 MTV Video Music Awards for "Hey, Ya," including Video of the Year and Best Hip-Hop Video. |
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OutKast |
| August 30, 2004 |
Former Atlanta mayor Bill Campbell indicted on a wide array of charges |
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Mayor Bill Campbell indicted |
| September 1, 2004 |
Democratic Senator Zell Miller gives the keynote address at the Republican convention |
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Zell Miller |
| September 5, 2004 |
Hurricane Francis makes landfall at Sewall's Point, Florida, on the state's east coast. |
| September 6, 2004 |
Hurricane Francis makes landfall on the Florida panhandle |
| September 7, 2004 |
Sweeping north through Georgia, Hurricane Francis brings sustained winds of up to 35 mph and 12 inches of rain in some areas. Especially hard hit were the southern tier of counties. |
| September 27, 2004 |
In a timeline released by the Alpharetta-based company, ChoicePoint uncovers suspicious activity in some West Coast small business accounts |
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ChoicePoint scandal |
| October 11, 2004 |
Braves lose the National League Division Series to the Astros. |
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2004 National League Division Series |
| October 12, 2004 |
Security officials with ChoicePoint contact Los Angeles police, looking for help with fraudulent accesses to its files, according to a timeline released by the company. |
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ChoicePoint scandal |
| October 15, 2004 |
Wachovia receives Federal Reserve approval on the planned merger with SouthTrust |
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Wachovia and First Union Banks
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| October 26, 2004 |
ChoicePoint CEO Derek Smith and President Douglas Curling have ChoicePoint's board approve the 10b5-1 sale of 737,380 shares of stock. Rule 10b5-1 requires that the plan be adopted while the executive does not possess material nonpublic knowledge. |
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ChoicePoint scandal |
| October 27, 2004 |
During a sting operation in California, Alpharetta-based ChoicePoint faxed information to Olatunji Oluwatosin, a Nigerian national accused in one of the largest identity theft scandals in United States history. Oluwatosin was arrested at a Kinko's store after receiving a fax from the information-gathering spin-off of Equifax |
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ChoicePoint scandal |
| November 1, 2004 |
U. S. Supreme Court rejects the appeal of Michael Perez and Benjamin Hodges. |
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Woman assaulted in apartment of 3 UWG baseball players |
| 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 |
| November 10, 2004 |
Delta pilots voted to accept a pay cut in exchange for a right to buy up to 15 percent of Delta stock as the company struggled to avoid bankruptcy. |
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Delta Air Lines
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| November 10, 2004 |
Linda Schrenko indited for stealing more than $500,000 in federal education funds |
| November 13, 2004 |
Residents of rural Alapaha, Georgia (Berrien County), hold a festival celebrating Hogzilla, the legendary 1,000-pound hog. |
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Hogzilla |
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Berrien County, Georgia |
| November 18, 2004 |
Zell Miller bids good-bye to the U. S. Senate. |
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Zell Miller |
| December 8, 2004 |
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation was forced to detonate a pipe bomb found in rocks by a fisherman in the vicinity of the Buford Dam powerhouse at Lake Lanier. Police closed off access to the dam during the operation. |
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Lake Lanier |
| December 14, 2004 |
At a preliminary hearing for Olatunji Oluwatosin, Detective Duane Decker of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department testifies that ChoicePoint representatives told him "something like 4 million people have been exposed.." to the identity theft |
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ChoicePoint scandal |
| December 27, 2004 |
Bronx Zoo announces it is closing the animal preserve on St. Catherine's Island |
| December 27, 2004 |
Donald Hollowell dies of heart failure, Atlanta, Georgia |
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Donald L. Hollowell |
| December 28, 2004 |
Both sides agree to mediation in the long-running battle between the estate of Rosa Parks and hip-hop recording artists OutKast |
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OutKast |
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