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Georgia History Timeline
Chronology for February 8
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| February 8, 1757 |
Georgia Assembly passes a bill allowing justices of the peace take into custody any Arcadians who are unwilling to work. |
| February 8, 1758 |
Samuel Bowen signs on as a seaman on the Pitt, a freighter bound for Canton, China
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| February 8, 1761 |
Henry Mitchell born, Sussex County, Virginia
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| February 8, 1772 |
Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, mother of King George III and the woman for whom the city of Augusta is named, dies. |
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City of Augusta, Georgia
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| February 8, 1782 |
William Lowndes born, "Horseshoe" plantation, South Carolina
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William Lowndes |
| February 8, 1796 |
Bulloch County created
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Archibald Bulloch |
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Creation of Georgia Counties
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Bulloch County, Georgia |
| February 8, 1820 |
William Tecumseh Sherman is born, Lancaster, Ohio
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William Tecumseh Sherman |
| February 8, 1888 |
CSA Brigadier General Robert Houstoun Anderson died, Savannah, Georgia
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Savannah, Georgia births and deaths |
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General Robert H. Anderson |
| 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
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Marietta, GA |
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Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park
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| February 8, 1925 |
After his arrest at the 125th Street Station in New York City, Marcus Garvey is taken to the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary to serve a sentence for his mail fraud conviction
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Atlanta, Georgia (1900-2000) |
| February 8, 1927 |
Ty Cobb signs with the Philadelphia A's |
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Ty Cobb |
| February 8, 1930 |
WSB begins to broadcast a radio signal at 5,000 watts
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WSB Atlanta |
| February 8, 1973 |
Savannah records 3.6 inches of snow - most in 100 years
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
| February 8, 1991 |
Senate votes to put up the question of instituting a Georgia lottery to the voters |
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Georgia Lottery |
| February 8, 1998 |
A bomb in Birmingham, AL kills an off-duty policeman.
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Eric Rudolph and the Atlanta Area bombings |
| 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 |
| February 8, 2005 |
Alpharetta-based ChoicePoint informs 35,000 California residents by mail that their personal information may have been taken in an identity theft scam. California is the only state to require reporting these crimes to consumers (state law SB 1386). |
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ChoicePoint scandal |
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