| January 1, 1977 |
Georgia loses to Pitt at the Sugar Bowl
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Vince Dooley |
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University of Georgia's post-season appearances
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| January 16, 1977 |
First in a series of three "Lover's Lane" shootings in Adams Park (Atlanta) claim the lives of LaBrian Lovett and Veronica Hill.
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| January 16, 1977 |
Police are called to the scene of a "traffic accident" in southwest Atlanta. Inside a car they find the bodies of LaBrian Kovett and Veronica Hill, the first victims in the Lovers Lane Murders |
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Lover's Lane Murders |
| January 20, 1977 |
Jimmy Carter asks Max Cleland to head the Veterans Administration
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Jimmy Carter |
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Max Cleland
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| January 20, 1977 |
Jimmy Carter becomes the first native-born Georgian to be inaugurated President of the United States
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Jimmy Carter |
| January 21, 1977 |
President Jimmy Carter pardons all Vietnam-era draft dodgers
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Jimmy Carter |
| January 23, 1977 |
Roots, featuring Levar Burton and an all-star cast premiers on ABC. It had been filmed in Savannah and St. Simons Island
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
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Movies filmed in Georgia
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| January 28, 1977 |
Turner Communications purchases controlling interest in the Atlanta Hawks
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Ted Turner |
| 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 |
| March 12, 1977 |
Lover's Lane murderer attacks a couple in Adams Park. He disappears without a trace and leaves one dead, one injured.
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Lover's Lane Murders |
| March 17, 1977 |
President Jimmy Carter addresses the General Assembly of the United Nation placing the "promotion and protection of human rights" as part of the U. S. foreign policy. |
| March 28, 1977 |
Supreme Court hears the case of Coker v. Georgia. |
| April 4, 1977 |
Southern Airways Flight 242, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 crashed during a hailstorm while attempting an emergency landing on a two-lane highway near New Hope, Georgia (west of Atlanta)
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Paulding County, Georgia |
| April 5, 1977 |
In a special election to fill Andrew Young's seat in the U. S. House of Representatives, Wyche Fowler defeats Paul Coverdale. |
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Fulton County, Georgia |
| April 18, 1977 |
President Jimmy Carter addresses the nation about the impending energy crisis, calling it a catastrophe. |
| June 29, 1977 |
Ruling in Coker v. Georgia, the Supreme Court holds that capital punishment in the case of rape is "grossly disproportionate and excessive punishment." |
| July 1, 1977 |
Georgia's "Cave Law" (Cave Protection Acts, 1977) goes into effect, protecting caves throughout the state from pollution, looting and vandalism
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| July 11, 1977 |
President Carter presents the Martin Luther King's Medal of Freedom to Coretta Scott King, his wife
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Martin Luther King
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Jimmy Carter |
| July 16, 1977 |
Bert Lance testifies before a Senate sub-committee, answering questions about activities of that bank while he was Chairman of the Board. Questions also arose about the involvement of Calhoun National Bank (Calhoun, Georgia). These questions revolved around "sweetheart" loans made to Lance.
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Bert Lance |
| August 20, 1977 |
Jack Stephens introduces Indonesian businessman Mochtar Riady, who makes an offer for Lance's 200,767 shares of the National Bank of Georgia. The deal is refused at the time, but is consummated in 1982.
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Bert Lance |
| September 6, 1977 |
Larry Gene Campbell is arrested in Atlanta, Georgia after a neighbor spots his picture on a wanted posted at the local post office. He had been one of the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted
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| 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 21, 1977 |
Office of Management and Budget Director Bert Lance resigns his position because of allegations of unethical behavior within the National Bank of Georgia
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Bert Lance |
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Jimmy Carter |
| September 25, 1977 |
71-year-old Jean Dimenstien is found strangled and assaulted in a sexual manner in her Wynnton (an area of Columbus, Georgia) home. Similar to a murder that had occured 10 days earlier, the elderly women of Columbus had become a target for a serial killer.
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Wynnton Stocking Strangler |
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Columbus, Georgia |
| October 2, 1977 |
Police arrest Jerome Livas in connection with an assualt and murder of a woman. He is connected to the two Wynnton murders.
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Wynnton Stocking Strangler |
| October 14, 1977 |
Police announce the arrest of the Wynnton Stocking Strangler, Jerome Lucus
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Wynnton Stocking Strangler |
| October 21, 1977 |
Florence Scheible, almost 90 years old is found murdered and assualted
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Wynnton Stocking Strangler |
| October 27, 1977 |
"Flipper's Ditch," at Fort Sill, OK becomes a National Historic Landmark
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Henry O. Flipper From Slave to Officer
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| October 28, 1977 |
74-year-old Kathleen Woodruff is found murdered and assualted in her home.
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Wynnton Stocking Strangler |
| November 6, 1977 |
Toccoa Falls Bible College loses 39 students when a dam bursts above Toccoa Falls.
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Stephens County, Georgia |
| November 22, 1977 |
The Atlanta Braves sign a contract with Bobby Cox to manage the team |
| December 14, 1977 |
Farmers, including many from Georgia, involved in the American Agriculture Movement stopped buying and selling products, as they looked for "parity." The strike quickly fizzled
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