| March 27, 1734 |
Oglethorpe arrives in Charleston on the first leg of a trip that will take him to England. With him are Tomochichi and other Indians
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Tomochichi's trip to England
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James Oglethorpe |
| March 27, 1777 |
Unable to raise a militia large enough to accomplish his goals, Button Gwinnett requests the assistance of Continental commander Lachlan McIntosh to launch the Second Florida Expedition
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Button Gwinnett |
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Second Florida Expedition |
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Lachlan McIntosh |
| March 27, 1814 |
General Andrew Jackson defeats the Creek Red Stick faction at Horseshoe Bend of the Tallapoosa River (now Alabama).
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| March 27, 1825 |
Marquis de LaFayette spends the night at the Gachet house, Lamar County, Georgia
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Lamar County, Georgia |
| March 27, 1836 |
James Fannin and his regiment are executed in Goliad after surrendering during the Battle of Coleto
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James Walker Fannin |
| March 27, 1864 |
Herny Wirz takes command of the inmates at Camp Sumter (Andersonville)
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Camp Sumter, Andersonville, Georgia
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| March 27, 1941 |
Eleanor Roosevelt in Valdosta
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Eleanor Roosevelt dedicates library in Valdosta |
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Lowndes County, Georgia |
| March 27, 1941 |
The state creates the Stone Mountain State Park Authority |
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Stone Mountain |
| March 27, 1970 |
Georgia ratifies the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote |
| March 27, 1994 |
The Palm Sunday Killer tornadoes destroy a church in Piedmont, AL (west of Cedartown) before killing 18 in Georgia |
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| March 27, 1996 |
Gays Hill Baptist Church, Millen, burns
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Jenkins County, Georgia |
| March 27, 2002 |
President George W. Bush delivers a major speech on Homeland Security at Georgia Tech
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| March 27, 2005 |
Hail the size of baseballs and golf balls was reported as well as flooding rivers including the Flint River in Culloden; the Ocmulgee in Hawkinsville, Abbeville and Macon; the Oconee in Dublin and Penfield; Big Creek near Alpharetta; and the Chattahoochee River in Whitesburg. |
| March 27, 2008 |
Charles Johnson enters Doctors Hospital in Columbus, Georgia. He stalks a male nurse whom he blames for his mother's death in 2004 and kills him. He kills two more people while making his escape before being shot by a Columbus police detective. |
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Gunman at Doctors Hospital |
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Columbus, Georgia |
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Muscogee County, Georgia |
| March 27, 2009 |
Omni National Bank, Atlanta, Georgia, was closed by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was named Receiver. SunTrust Bank, Atlanta, Georgia, will act as paying agent for the insured deposits. |
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Bank Failures in Georgia |
| March 27, 2009 |
Shirley Sherrod gives a speech at the Atlanta NAACP regional meeting in which she describes helping a white farmer (Roger and Eloise Spooner) in 1985. Sherrod's father had been killed by racists in 1960. |
