Georgia History Timeline / Chronology 1910
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| January 5, 1910 |
The Jenkins County Courthouse, which had been completed less than two years before, burns. A new courthouse, almost identical to the first, is rebuilt over the next two years.
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Jenkins County, Georgia |
| March 15, 1910 |
A Navy tug boat, the Nina, on the way to Havana harbor on a mission to salvage the Maine, disappears after being sighted off the coast at Savannah, Georgia
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
| July 21, 1910 |
Construction begins on Atlanta's Georgian Terrace
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Atlanta, Georgia (1900-2000) |
| August 3, 1910 |
Georgia ratifies the 16th Amendment to the Constitution
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Georgia, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution
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| October 9, 1910 |
On the final day of the 1910 baseball season, Ty Cobb sits out to preserve his lead in the batting average race with Nap Lajoie. Going eight for eight, Lajoie almost took the crown from Cobb. The Chalmers Company, who gave a car to the winner of the batting crown, decided to award two cars that year.
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Ty Cobb |
| October 26, 1910 |
Allen Daniel Candler dies of Bright's disease, Atlanta
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| November 17, 1910 |
The Technique, Georgia Tech's Alumni magazine, begins publication
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| November 22, 1910 |
Boarding a private train in New Jersey a group of New York bankers, a presidential advisor, and a senator journey to Jekyll Island, Georgia to discuss the revision of a failed piece of legislation, the Federal Reserve Act of 1910. Their discussions are frequently, wrongly, credited with leading to the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, which created The Federal Reserve System.
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| December 5, 1910 |
Confederate General Alfred Cumming died, Rome, Georgia
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Rome, Georgia |
| December 12, 1910 |
Joseph Rucker Lamar is nominated to the Supreme Court by William Howard Taft.
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| December 15, 1910 |
Flying machine races take place at Candler Field auto racecourse
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