July 3, 1714

1714 James Edward Oglethorpe entered Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, at age 17 1/2.

July 3, 1734

1734 The delegation of Yamacraw Indians that had accompanied James Oglethorpe to England appeared at the Georgia Office for a special meeting with the Georgia Trustees -- a meeting that artist William Verelst captured in a famous painting that would become an icon of Georgia history.

July 3, 1889

1889 Members of the Georgia General Assembly assembled at the Georgia state capitol (located at the corner of Marietta and Forsyth streets and built as the Kimball Opera House) for the last time. The opera house had served as state capitol since January 1869, but need for a larger facility led the legislature to authorize a new statehouse in the early 1880s. Construction of the new capitol began in 1885 on the site of the former Atlanta City Hall/Fulton County Court House. Now, the day before the new capitol’s formal dedication, lawmakers marched as a group from the Kimball Opera House to inspect Georgia’s new capitol (which continues in use today).

July 3, 1913

1913 The attorney for Newt Lee, the night watchman at the National Pencil Factory who discovered Mary Phagan’s body, announced he was instituting habeas corpus proceedings attempting to get Lee released from prison. He had been held since the day after the April 27 murder.

July 3, 1913

1913 The Georgia Senate indefinitely tabled a motion to allow representatives of the Georgia Woman’s Suffrage Association to address that body.

July 3, 1918

1918 S. Ernest Vandiver, Jr. was born in Canon (Franklin County), Georgia. He would obtain a law degree from the University of Georgia, serve as a Army Air Corps pilot in World War II, practice law after the war, manage Herman Talmadge’s gubernatorial campaign in 1948, and serve as lieutenant governor (1955-1959) and governor of Georgia (1959-1963).

July 3, 1960

1960 Atlanta Braves slugger Hank Aaron hit his 199th and 200th home run in a game against the St. Louis Cardinals.

July 3, 1966

1966 Atlanta Braves pitcher Tony Cloninger hit 2 grand slam homeruns and drove in 9 runs in a single game against the Giants. That same year, Cloninger was the first Braves pitcher to start a game -- the season opener -- after the Braves moved to Atlanta from Milwaukee. In that game, Cloninger pitched for 12 innings in a 3-2 loss to the Pirates.