1. In 1957, the Georgia State Board of Education made the decision to integrate public schools, becoming one of the first Southern states to do so.
2. On November 12, 1864, General William T. Sherman's Union Army captured the city of Atlanta, a significant turning point in the Civil War.
3. In 1932, Georgia native and aviation pioneer Eugene Bullard became the first African American to be licensed as a pilot in France.
4. On November 12, 1990, Georgia Governor Zell Miller signed the HOPE (Helping Outstanding Pupils Educationally) Scholarship program into law, providing state-funded scholarships to Georgia high school students who maintained a certain GPA.
5. On this day in 1941, the Georgia Tech football team played the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, Hawaii, marking the first-ever intercollegiate football game played in the state of Hawaii.