Georgia History Timeline
Chronology for August 28
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| August 28, 1565 |
Spanish (Pedro Menendez de Aviles) establish the city of St. Augustine.
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| August 28, 1754 |
Midway and Newport Society organized by the Puritans who inhabited Midway Neck. |
| August 28, 1823 |
Rev. Daniel Butrick, a Morovian missionary, makes an entry in his personal diary describing today's Rock City as a 'citadel of rocks...' atop Lookout Mountain
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Lookout Mountain |
| August 28, 1862 |
Battle of Second Manassas |
| August 30, 1862 |
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Civil War - 1862 |
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Philip Cook, CSA |
| August 28, 1887 |
Woodrow and Ellen Wilson have the second of their three daughters at Ellen's aunt's house in Gainesville, Georgia
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Woodrow Wilson |
| August 28, 1911 |
St. George, Georgia is deluged, receiving some 18 inches of rain in a 24-hour period. This set the state record for rainfall in a 24-hour period
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| August 28, 1962 |
During a rally organized as part of the Albany Movement Albany police arrest and jail demonstrators for a day. |
| August 28, 1963 |
Martin Luther King leads a march of 250,000 supporters of Civil Rights in Washington D.C. Speaking from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, King tells the racially mixed crowd "I Have A Dream." Some estimate the crowd at 400,000. This is the culmination of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and speakers other than King include Georgian John Lewis, then chairman of the SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee).
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Martin Luther King
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| August 28, 1968 |
Julian Bond is nominated for Vice-President at the Democratic National Convention. |
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Julian Bond |
| August 28, 1991 |
A Chatham County Superior Court jury convicts Troy Anthony Davis of killing Savannah police officer Mark Allen MacPhail. |
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City of Savannah, 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 |
| August 28, 2008 |
50,000-student Clayton County School System loses its accreditation |
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Clayton County, Georgia |
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