| September 15, 1565 |
Spanish begin a forced march to eliminate Ft. Caroline.
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| September 15, 1744 |
Oglethorpe marries Lady Elizabeth Wright
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James Oglethorpe |
| September 15, 1780 |
Battle of the White House (Augusta)
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Georgia and the American Revolution
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| September 15, 1825 |
Junius and Granby Hillyer "thrash" Robert Toombs. Toombs leaves, finds a gun and tries to shoot one of the brothers. He was stopped by a third party, then returned with a knife and later another gun. The Hillyer brothers were unharmed.
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University of Georgia, Athens (UGA) |
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Robert Toombs |
| September 15, 1831 |
Eleven white missionaries are found guilty in Lawrenceville, Georgia for violating Georgia law requiring an oath of allegiance from all white men working in the Cherokee Nation. This case would go to the Supreme Court.
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Augustin Smith Clayton |
| September 15, 1834 |
William Harris Crawford dies at a friend's home near Elberton, Georgia.
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Elbert County, Georgia |
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William Harris (W. H.) Crawford |
| September 15, 1835 |
Less than three months after their marriage, Jeff Davis's wife dies of yellow fever or malaria in Louisiana
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Jefferson Davis |
| September 15, 1845 |
First Augusta to Atlanta train
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Atlanta, Georgia (through 1900) |
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City of Augusta, Georgia
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Richmond County, Georgia |
| September 15, 1883 |
Abbeville, county seat of Wilcox County, is incorporated |
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Wilcox County, Georgia |
| September 15, 1926 |
Air mail flights to Atlanta Airport (C. A. M. 10) begin
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Atlanta, Georgia (1900-2000) |
| September 15, 1930 |
Hoagy Carmichael records Georgia on my Mind. Bix Beiderbecke accompanied Carmichael on the cornet.
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| September 15, 1949 |
The Fighting Kentuckian, starring John Wayne and Oliver Hardy is released. |
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Oliver Hardy |
| September 15, 1961 |
W. W. Law is fired from his job as a Savannah postal worker after the election of G. Elliot Hagan of Sylvania, (Screven County) GA. who made it a campaign promise to have the NAACP leader fired from his job as a postal worker.
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
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The Road to Integration
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Screven County, Georgia |
| September 15, 1966 |
In one of the tightest races for governor in the history of the state, Ellis Arnell, Lester Maddox, Jimmy Carter and James Grey all finish with more than 150,000 votes. Arnell and Maddox are forced into a run-off
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Jimmy Carter |
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1966 Election for Governor of Georgia |
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Lester Maddox |
| September 15, 1977 |
Mary Willis "Ferne" Jackson, Director of Public Education for the Columbus, Georgia Health Department is strangled in her bedroom by an intruder.
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Wynnton Stocking Strangler |
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Columbus, Georgia |
| September 15, 1977 |
Carter County staring Victor French and Kene Holliday begins a two-year run. The show aimed to cash in on Jimmy Carter's presidency by being set in Georgia
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Movies filmed in Georgia
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| September 15, 1981 |
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin arrives in Plains to meet with "private citizen" Jimmy Carter |
| September 15, 1999 |
More than 100,000 coastal Georgia residents flee Hurricane Floyd.
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| September 15, 2009 |
Jimmy Carter portrays an outburst by a South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson as "racist." During a speech by President Obama in Congress, Wilson called out "You lie" when the President said his health care package would not cover illegal immigrants. |
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Jimmy Carter |
