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In November 1732 the Anne set sail from England, carrying James Oglethorpe and Georgia's first colonists. Almost a century later the final cession of Creek Indian land in Georgia was signed in 1827, and in 1864 Union general William T. Sherman began his destructive March to the Sea. This month in 1936 Thornwell Jacobs, the president of Oglethorpe University, published his concept for a "crypt of civilization" in Scientific American. Spelman College in Atlanta received a $20 million donation from actor/comedian Bill Cosby in November 1988, and in 1992 Georgia voters approved a statewide lottery to help fund public education. Rebecca Latimer Felton became the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate in November 1922. U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke in 1935 at the opening of Techwood Homes in Atlanta, the nation's first public housing project. This month in 1972 Andrew Young became the first black U.S. congressman elected from the Deep South since Reconstruction, and in 1976 Jimmy Carter became the first Georgian to be elected president of the United States. In November 1983 U.S. president Ronald Reagan designated a federal holiday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Albany native Ray Charles's recording of "Georgia on My Mind" reached number one on the charts for the first time in November 1960. In sports, Frank Sinkwich, a halfback for the University of Georgia football team, won the Heisman Trophy in 1942. In 1977 the Atlanta Braves hired Bobby Cox to manage and rebuild the baseball team. In November 1995 pitching ace Greg Maddux became the first major league pitcher in history to win four consecutive Cy Young Awards, three of which he won while playing with the Braves. November birthdays include: author and actress Fanny Kemble (1809); physician Crawford Long (1815); politician Carl Vinson (1883); lawyer and politician Richard B. Russell Jr. (1897); author Margaret Mitchell (1900); songwriter Johnny Mercer (1909); media mogul Ted Turner (1938); and musicians Duane Allman (1946) and Amy Grant (1960).
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