A swamp rabbit attacked President Jimmy Carter while he was fishing in Plains, Georgia.
Maynard Jackson was elected as the first black Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia.
The first Atlanta International Pop Festival took place at Atlanta International Raceway in Hampton, Georgia, with as many as 150,000 partygoers.
The very first Chick-fil-A restaurant opened in Atlanta's Greenbriar Mall.
Martin Luther King Jr. was jailed while performing a public prayer at the city hall in Albany, Georgia, US.
A nuclear bomb was lost off the coast of Georgia, US.
Gone with the Wind, the drama film directed by Victor Fleming, premiered in Atlanta, Georgia.
In Atlanta, Georgia, legislation passed that made pinball machines illegal in the city.
The Girl Scouts of the USA was founded.
The Coca-Cola Company was incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia.
Dr. John Pemberton sold the first Coca-Cola at Jacobs' Pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia.
Florida, one of the confederate states, was readmitted to the Union.
The state of Georgia seceded from the United States of America.
Ether was used as an anesthetic for the first time, by American surgeon Crawford Long, in Athens, Georgia.
Georgia became the 4th state to join the United States of America.
