Georgia’s first official state flag was created.
Atlanta’s first telephone exchange opened in the Kimball Opera House (then being used as Georgia’s capitol building).
Noted Georgia educator Mary Creswell was born in Pennsylvania. She became the first woman to receive a baccalaureate degree from the University of Georgia.
Former Union general William T. Sherman visited Georgia, the state he had so devastated in his Atlanta Campaign and March to the Sea fifteen years earlier; his reception was surprisingly cordial.