But when former Gov. Marvin Griffin and Lt. Gov. Byrd accepted the invitations of the Georgia State Chamber of Commerce to join the tour next November, the situation was aggravated.

The Georgia State Chamber of Commerce tried to guard against the danger of eliminating potential candidates.

`` On the other hand, Emory University derives its corporate existence from the State of Georgia.

Four persons died in Georgia weekend traffic crashes, two of them in a fiery crash near Snellville, the State Patrol said Sunday.

Moyers interviewed Collins, Cash, opera singer Jessye Norman, Appalachian folk musician Jean Ritchie and her family, white Sacred Harp singers in Georgia, black Sacred Harp singers in Alabama, and a prison choir at the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville.

Duke donated some flown items, including a lunar map, to Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia.

She is currently an assistant professor in literacy education at Georgia State University.

The university has also educated 26 foreign Heads of State, including President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, President of East Timor Jose Ramos Horta, President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves and other historical figures such as Wellington Koo, Gaston Eyskens, and T. V. Soong.

* Notes from Physics and Astronomy HyperPhysics at Georgia State University ; see also home page

And although the disease was declared eradicated, some pus samples still remain in laboratories in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ) in Atlanta, Georgia in the United States and State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology VECTOR in Koltsovo, Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia.

* Georgia State Representative David Casas discussing HB 1133 and HB 325, scholarship tax credits YouTube video

Robert Toombs of Georgia was the first Secretary of State, and Christopher Memminger of South Carolina became Secretary of the Treasury.

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The University of Georgia School of Veterinary Medicine and Colorado State University's School of Veterinary Medicine are two of the main centers where veterinary laparoscopy got started and have excellent training programs for veterinarians interested in getting started in MIS.

* Notes from Physics and Astronomy HyperPhysics at Georgia State University ; see also home page

* HyperMath site at Georgia State University

The 34 State Parties to the Open Skies Treaty are: Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and United States.

* 25-Lester Maddox, 87, segregationist Governor of the State of Georgia.

* Georgia State University

Several residents of central Kansas, including real estate agent Georgia Rucker and a retired Army NCO, testified at Terry Nichols ' federal trial that they had seen two trucks at Geary Lake State Park, where prosecutors alleged the bomb was assembled.

Four years earlier, Georgia Rep. Elliott Levitas and 91 co-sponsors introduced a resolution in the U. S. House of Representatives " the sense of the Congress that the American Broadcasting Company, the Department of State, and the U. S. Information Agency should work to have the television movie ' The Day After ' aired to the Soviet public.

To the south, the British were said to be funding the Creek Indian raids ; Savannah was fortified, the State of Georgia under martial law.

In Stanley v. Georgia,, the Court ruled that " f the First Amendment means anything, it means that a State has no business telling a man, sitting in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.

* Electric field in " Electricity and Magnetism ", R Nave-Hyperphysics, Georgia State University

* Dalton State College, one of eight state colleges in the University System of Georgia

* 1936 – Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.

* 1862 – American Civil War: The Andrews Raid ( the Great Locomotive Chase ) occurred, starting from Big Shanty, Georgia ( now Kennesaw ).

* 1953 – In Warner Robins, Georgia, an F4 tornado kills 18 people.

* 1943 – Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.

* 2006 – Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky bound for Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia.

* 1814 – American Indian Wars: the Creek sign the Treaty of Fort Jackson, giving up huge parts of Alabama and Georgia.

* 2008 – Georgia launches a large-scale military offensive against South Ossetia, in an attempt to reclaim the territory from Russia, starting the 2008 South Ossetia war.

* 1185 – The cave city of Vardzia is consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia.

* 1915 – Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Marietta, Georgia, United States.

* 1942 – Nathan Deal, American politician, 82nd Governor of Georgia

* 1919 – Eugene V. Debs is imprisoned at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, for speaking out against the draft during World War I.

* Alexander I of Georgia ( 1412 – 1442 ), King of Georgia

* Alexander II of Imereti ( 1478, 1483 – 1510 ), King of Georgia and of Imereti

* 2011 – A 5. 8 earthquake occurs in Mineral, Virginia, the earthquake is felt as far north as Ontario and as far south as Atlanta, Georgia.

* 1864 – During the American Civil War, Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta, Georgia.

* 2009 – In Tbilisi, Georgia, up to 60, 000 people protest against the government of Mikheil Saakashvili.

* 1991 – The Republic of Georgia introduces the post of President after its declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.

In the divisional playoffs, the Falcons defeated the St. Louis Rams 47 – 17 in the Georgia Dome, advancing to the NFC Championship, which they lost to the Eagles 27 – 10.

* 1991 – An ASA EMB 120 crashes in Brunswick, Georgia, killing all 23 aboard.

* 1881 – Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.

* Reuben Cone ( 1788 – 1851 ), an important pioneer and landowner in Atlanta, Georgia

* Constantine II of Georgia ( c. 1447 – 1505 )

* 1946 – A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia kills 119 people, the deadliest hotel fire in U. S. history.