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Georgia History Timeline
Chronology for February 12
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| February 12, 1740 |
Governor of Spanish Florida, Manuel de Montiano writes to Cuba requesting help in preventing a siege of St. Augustine |
| February 12, 1824 |
Daniel McNeil is appointed to re-measure the Georgia-Florida border because of continuing disputes
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| February 12, 1825 |
William McIntosh, the son of an American Revolution hero and a Creek woman, signs the Treaty of Indian Springs. In exchange for a plantation on the Chattahoochee River, McIntosh signs away almost all remaining Creek land in Georgia
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Creek Indians |
| February 12, 1838 |
Dahlonega mint officially opens for business
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Dahlonega, Georgia |
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Dahlonega Mint |
| February 12, 1876 |
James Augustine Healy is appointed Bishop of Portland, Maine, by Pope Pius the IX.
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James Augustine Healy |
| February 12, 1892 |
The cyclorama "Battle of Atlanta" is displayed at a building on Edgewood Avenue |
| February 12, 1936 |
John Wesley Dobbs calls for a "political reawakening" of Atlanta's black voters from the pulpit of Big Bethel A. M. E Church.
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The Road to Integration
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| February 12, 1957 |
Federal judge Frank Hooper dismisses Horace Ward's case to integrate the University of Georgia on the grounds that he had failed to reapply when he was rejected and that he had been accepted to another law school |
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Donald L. Hollowell |
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The Road to Integration
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| February 12, 1972 |
Eat a Peach is released
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Duane Allman and the Allman Brothers Band |
| February 12, 1977 |
The Lover's Lane Murderer strikes again, at West Manor Park in Atlanta. The couple is seriously injured, but live to tell of an attack by a large black male
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Lover's Lane Murders |
| February 12, 1978 |
Ruth Schwob averted the Wynnton Stocking Strangler by triggering a bedside alarm. The strangler left, finding Mildred Borom, 78, less than two blocks away.
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Wynnton Stocking Strangler |
| February 12, 1981 |
The Atlanta Area Consortium recommends a 35 acre park east of downtown Atlanta as the site of the Carter Presidential Library, with a parkway for access. Opposition to the plan by the neighborhood around the park is immediate.
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Jimmy Carter |
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