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Georgia History Timeline / Chronology 2011
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| January 2, 2011 |
The remains of Kristi Cromwell are found near the site of her kidnapping in August, 2009 |
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Union County, Georgia |
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Kristi Cromwell |
| January 9, 2011 |
A crippling snowstorm dumps 3-10 inches of snow across North Georgia. An unusual cold snap of 96 hours of below freezing weather keeps the snow in place forcing up to a week of school and business closings |
| January 10, 2011 |
Emmanuel Hammond, convicted of the murder of Julie Love files a petition for writ of certiorari in the United States Supreme Court, which was denied. |
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Murder of Julie Love |
| January 12, 2011 |
Governor Nathan Deal sets aside $46 million dollars to develop regional water reservoirs in Georgia |
| January 14, 2011 |
Oglethorpe Bank, Brunswick, GA fails. Assets are purchased by Bank of the Ozarks. |
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Bank Failures in Georgia |
| January 15, 2011 |
The Atlanta Falcons lose to the Green Bay Packers 48-21 in the NFC divisional playoff game at the Georgia Dome |
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Atlanta Falcons |
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The Georgia Dome |
| January 18, 2011 |
Atlanta public high schools are placed on probation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, which warned that board infighting in the governance of the city's school system had reached a dangerous level. |
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Atlanta School Cheating Scandal |
| January 21, 2011 |
Enterprise Banking Company, McDonough, GA fails. |
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Bank Failures in Georgia |
| January 25, 2011 |
Emmanual Hammond is executed by the state of Georgia |
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Murder of Julie Love |
| January 31, 2011 |
Walton County's Besse Cooper becomes the oldest living person in the world. |
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Walton County, Georgia |
| February 4, 2011 |
American Trust Bank, Roswell, GA fails. Assets are purchased by Renasant Bank |
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Bank Failures in Georgia |
| February 4, 2011 |
North Georgia Bank, Watkinsville, GA fails. Assets are purchased by BankSouth. |
| February 18, 2011 |
Habersham Bank, Clarkesville, GA fails. Assets are purchased by SCBT N. A. |
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Bank Failures in Georgia |
| February 18, 2011 |
Citizens Bank of Effingham, Springfield, GA fails. Assets are purchased by Heritage Bank of the South |
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Bank Failures in Georgia |
| March 6, 2011 |
UGA centerfielder Johnathan Taylor suffers a serious spinal injury in a collision with leftfielder Zach Cone trying to catch a fly ball during a game with FSU. |
| March 7, 2011 |
The Georgia Supreme Court in a 6-1 decision that the Voter ID law passed in 2005 is legal, finishing challenges in both state and federal courts |
| March 29, 2011 |
Brian Gregory named Georgia Tech basketball coach |
| April 19, 2011 |
Plant Longleaf, Georgia's 11th coal-fired electric plant is required to report on only two additional pollutants to get a license, in spite of pro-environment protests. |
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Early County, Georgia |
| April 27, 2011 |
Tornadoes strike Ringgold and Cedartown, killing 15 in Georgia and 295 throughout the South. |
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Catoosa County, Georgia |
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Polk County, Georgia |
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| April 28, 2011 |
Governor Nathan Deal visits tornado damage in Ringgold |
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Catoosa County, Georgia |
| May 6, 2011 |
Mary Tyson of Albany, Georgia is selected "Mother of the Year" by Good Morning, America. |
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Albany, Georgia |
| May 13, 2011 |
Governor Nathan Deal signs a bill into law giving police authority to question suspects about their immigration status |
| May 19, 2011 |
For the first time since June, 2009 Georgia's unemployment rate drops below 10% |
| May 26, 2011 |
Eddie Long settles lawsuits with four young men out-of-court, avoiding public airing of charges of sexual impropriety in the suits. |
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Bishop Eddie Long Scandal |
| June 8, 2011 |
U. S. Federal Appeals Court in Atlanta hears arguments regarding the Constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. U.S. Solicitor General Neal Katyal, arguing for the Obama Administration, defended the requirement that almost all Americans purchase health insurance by 2014. Under questioning from the judges Katyal admitted that "requiring a private citizen to purchase a product from a private company" had never been done before. Former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement, argued on behalf of 26 states, including Georgia. |
| June 11, 2011 |
Kansas City Chiefs tight end Leonard Pope rescues
Bryson Moore from a pool in Americus, Georgia.
Bryson had fallen into the deep-end and was underwater. |
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Sumter County, Georgia |
| June 29, 2011 |
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals overturns a 2009 ruling by Judge Paul Magnuson and directed the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to reconsider giving Georgia permanent access to Lake Lanier water. |
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Lake Lanier |
| July 5, 2011 |
Educators in 44 of 58 schools in Atlanta that were investigated were found to have used a code of silence, retaliation, and suppression of information to allow cheating on tests for the past decade. |
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Atlanta School Cheating Scandal |
| August 2, 2011 |
Zephyrhills, Florida, police officer Kevin Widner encounters gunfire on when he pursues a white Subaru speeding in a 35 mph zone. The group is later identified as the Dougherty family. |
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Dougherty Gang |
| August 2, 2011 |
The Dougherty gang, comprised of 29-year-old Lee Grace Dougherty and her two younger brothers, Dylan, 26, and Ryan, 21, from East Palatka, Florida rob CertusBank in Valdosta, Georgia |
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Dougherty Gang |
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Lowndes County, Georgia |
| August 9, 2011 |
Frankiln Delano Roosevelt's Warm Springs home, known as the McCarthy cottage or the Little White House, burned to the ground, a major historic loss for the state of Georgia. |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| August 10, 2011 |
REI employee spots the Dougherty gang in Colorado Springs. Police in Pueblo County, Colorado pursue the gang on I-25 and halt the car with "stop sticks" |
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Dougherty Gang |
| September 5, 2011 |
An unusual Labor Day quarter-mile wide tornado traveling at speeds estimated at 90mph cut a 24-mile swath in Cobb and Cherokee County destroying 400 homes. |
| September 9, 2011 |
Four North Georgia terrorists are arraigned in Gainesville in front of Magistrate Judge Susan Cole. They plead not guilty. She heard testimony and arguments relating to Frederick Thomas, 73, of Cleveland, Georgia, who faces federal charges of conspiring to possess an unregistered explosive and an unregistered silencer, but did not rule on bond. |
| September 13, 2011 |
The Census Bureau reported that the poverty rate in Georgia reached 18.7%, the highest rate since 1983. |
| September 20, 2011 |
Troy Davis, the convicted killer of Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail lost his appeal for clemency before the Georgia Pardons Board. |
| September 21, 2011 |
Troy Davis is executed at the Georgia Diagnostic Prison in Butts County |
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Butts County, Georgia |
| October 2, 2011 |
Cornelius Washington arrested for DUI in Commerce, Georgia |
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Cornelius Washington DUI |
| October 13, 2011 |
The Georgia licensing board revoked teaching certificates for three administrators and impose two-year suspensions on eight teachers implicated in the Atlanta Cheating Scandal. |
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Atlanta School Cheating Scandal |
| November 1, 2011 |
Dan Roberts, 67, Frederick Thomas, 73, Samuel Crump, 68, and Ray Adams, 65 are arrested in Toccoa, Georgia for plotting to kill government employees using bombs and ricin. |
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Stephens County, Georgia |
| November 20, 2011 |
Longtime "Voice of the Dogs" Larry Munson died in Athens, Georgia, from complications of pneumonia. |
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