1957
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was organized in Atlanta; its first president was Martin Luther King, Jr.
Fort Gordon, in Augusta, Georgia, was designated as a training center for Military Police and the Signal Corps.
Jackie Robinson retired from major league baseball.
Georgian Paul Anderson back-lifted a record 6,270 pounds, earning him for the time the label "world's strongest man" by The Guiness Book of World Records .
The first jet landed at Atlanta's airport.
Filmmaker Spike Lee was born in Atlanta.
Long time Georgia Senator Walter George died in Vienna, Georgia.
Famous comedian Oliver Hardy , born in Harlem, Georgia, died this year in California.
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference
U.S. Army Signal Center, Fort Gordon
Walter George Commemorative Stamp
Laurel and Hardy Commemorative Stamp
Oliver Hardy Historical Marker
Georgia Transportation Timeline
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly - Southern Governors' Conference
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly on Civil Rights Legislation
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly on Importation of Foreign Made Goods
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly - Georgia Commission on Education
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly Commending Atlanta Public School Teachers Associaation
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly - United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization Censured
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly - Memorial to Congress - 14th and 15th Amendments to be Declared Void
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly - Request to Congress to Increase Tariff Rates on Textile Imports
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly - Impeachment of Certain U.S. Supreme Court Justices
Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly Authorizing Reconstruction on New Echota
This Day in Georgia History January 5 .
This Day in Georgia History January 29 . See 1878
This Day in Georgia History February 14 .
This Day in Georgia History March 13 .
This Day in Georgia History March 20 .
This Day in Georgia History March 22 . See 1956
This Day in Georgia History May 13 .
This Day in Georgia History June 12 .
This Day in Georgia History August 7 .
This Day in Georgia History August 13 .
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