1. In 1861, the Georgia State Convention voted unanimously to secede from the Union, becoming one of the original Confederate states. This decision led to the start of the American Civil War.

2. On March 9, 1918, Georgia Tech defeated Cumberland College in a historic college football game. The final score was 222-0, which remains the highest-scoring game in the history of college football.

3. In 1933, Georgia Governor Eugene Talmadge declared a state of emergency and ordered martial law in response to a strike by textile workers in Columbus. The strike ended a few days later, but the incident highlighted the tension between workers and employers in Georgia during the Great Depression.

4. On March 9, 1959, the Georgia legislature passed a resolution honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for his leadership in the Montgomery bus boycott. King was a graduate of Morehouse College in Atlanta and had become a prominent civil rights leader in the state.

5. In 1973, the Georgia General Assembly ratified the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which sought to guarantee equal rights for women under the Constitution. However, the amendment ultimately failed to gain enough support for ratification at the national level.