The Coca-Cola Company was incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was jailed while performing a public prayer at the city hall in Albany, Georgia, US.
Ether was used as an anesthetic for the first time, by American surgeon Crawford Long, in Athens, Georgia.
The state of Georgia seceded from the United States of America.
Coca-Cola launched their ill-fated new formula known unofficially as 'New Coke.'
The world's favorite soda, Coca-Cola, was sold in glass bottles in Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA.