Today in Atlanta History
Georgia (US) Topics: Augusta, GA
Historical Events
Results 1 - 96 of 96
1864-05-01 - Atlanta campaign, GA
1864-05-05 - Atlanta Campaign-5 days fighting begins at Rocky Face Ridge
1864-05-05 - Campaign in Northern Georgia - Chattanooga GA to Atlanta GA
1864-05-06 - General Sherman begins advance to Atlanta Georgia
1864-05-08 - Atlanta Campaign: Sever fighting near Dalton
1864-05-13 - -16] Atlanta Campaign-Battle of Resaca Georgia
1864-05-14 - Battle of Reseca, GA -Atlanta-
1864-05-16 - Atlanta Campaign-battle of Resaca, ends (since May 13)
1864-06-27 - Atlanta Campaign-Battle of Kennesaw Mountain GA
1864-07-20 - Battle of Peachtree Creek-Atlanta Campaign
1864-07-22 - Battle of Atlanta-Hood attacks Sherman, 8449 conf, 3641 US die
1864-07-28 - Battle of Atlanta GA (Ezra Church)-second sortie US700 CS4642
1864-08-31 - Atlanta Campaign-Battle of Jonesboro Georgia, 1900 casualties
1864-09-01 - Skirmish at Hood evacuated confederates from Atlanta GA
1864-09-02 - Union General William T Sherman captures Atlanta
1864-11-15 - Union Major General Sherman burns Atlanta
1865-09-19 - Atlanta University forms
1879-01-02 - Dr Benjamin E Mays, named president of Atlanta Board of Education
1884-04-24 - National Medical Association of Black physicians organizes (Atlanta)
1885-10-13 - The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is founded in Atlanta, Georgia.
1886-05-08 - Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta sells 1st Coca-Coke (contained cocaine)
1889-01-15 - The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is originally incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia.
1895-09-18 - Booker T Washington delivera "Atlanta Compromise" address
1897-01-01 - 1st football game between black colleges-Atlanta U 10, Tuskegee 0
1905-09-06 - Atlanta Life Insurance Company forms
1905-09-21 - Atlanta Life Insurance Co forms
1905-09-22 - Race riot in Atlanta Georgia (10 blacks & 2 whites killed)
1906-09-22 - Race riot in Atlanta Georgia, kills 21
1917-05-21 - The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 takes place.
1922-03-15 - 1st southern radio station begins (WSB, Atlanta Georgia)
1922-08-14 - 1st "old time" musicians broadcasted on radio (Jenkins-WSB Atlanta)
1925-02-08 - Marcus Garvey enters federal prison in Atlanta
1926-02-09 - Teaching theory of evolution forbidden in Atlanta, Georgia schools
1929-04-01 - Morehouse College, Spellman College & Atlanta University affiliate
1932-02-02 - Al Capone sent to prison (Atlanta, Georgia)
1932-05-04 - Al Capone, convict of income tax evasion, enters Atlanta Penitentiary
1938-05-16 - 38 die in Terminal Hotel fire (Atlanta Ga)
1939-12-15 - "Gone With the Wind" premieres in Atlanta
1946-12-07 - Fire at Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, kills 119
1948-09-29 - WSB TV channel 2 in Atlanta, GA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1949-03-08 - WAGA TV channel 5 in Atlanta, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1949-10-03 - WERD, 1st black-owned radio station, opens in Atlanta
1958-02-17 - WETV (now WPBA) TV channel 30 in Atlanta, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960-05-23 - WGTV TV channel 8 in Athens-Atlanta, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960-08-07 - Students stage kneel-in demonstrations in Atlanta churches
1960-10-19 - Martin Luther King Jr arrested in Atlanta sit-in
1961-05-26 - Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee establishes in Atlanta
1964-03-05 - Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen Jr, announces a baseball team is moving there
1966-09-06 - Race riot in Atlanta Georgia
1967-09-01 - WJRJ (WTCG, WTBS) TV channel 17 in Atlanta, GA (IND) begins
1968-04-09 - Martin Luther King Jr, buried in Atlanta
1968-09-28 - Atlanta Chiefs beat San Diego Toros 3-0 for NASL championship
1969-07-04 - 140,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival featuring Led Zep & Janis Joplin
1969-08-16 - WATL TV channel 36 in Atlanta, GA begins broadcasting
1969-09-30 - Atlanta's 10th straight win, clinches NL West pennant
1970-07-03 - 200,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival
1970-07-09 - In Atlanta, Chief-No-ka-homa is joined by cousin Chief Round-the-Horn
1971-06-06 - WHAE (now WGNX) TV channel 46 in Atlanta, GA (CBN) begins broadcasting
1972-07-25 - 43rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 at Atlanta-Fulton County Stad
1973-10-16 - Maynard Jackson elected 1st black mayor of Atlanta
1976-06-20 - 76th US Golf Open: Jerry Pate shoots a 277 at Atlanta AC in Duluth Ga
1976-07-11 - In pre-game promo at Atlanta County Stadium, 34 couples wed at home plate followed by Championship Wrestling "Headlocks & Wedlocks"
1976-12-17 - Superstation WTBS in Atlanta went national
1978-08-11 - Legionnaire's disease bacteria isolated in Atlanta
1981-03-05 - US govt grants Atlanta $1 million to search for black boy murderer
1981-07-17 - Fulton County (Atlanta) grand jury indicts Wayne B William 23 year old photographers, for murder of 2 of 28 blacks killed in Atlanta
1981-08-09 - 63rd PGA Championship: Larry Nelson shoots a 273 at Atlanta AC Ga
1981-10-27 - Andrew Young, former UN Ambassador, elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia
1982-01-11 - Atlanta Ga's temperature goes below zero F
1982-02-27 - Wayne Williams found guilty of murdering 2 of 28 blacks in Atlanta
1982-08-06 - WQXI (Atlanta) is 1st to use Harris Corp AM stereo system
1982-08-14 - Atlanta snaps an 11-game losing streak with a 6-5 win over Padres
1986-06-13 - Steve Garvey 1st ejection from a game, after Atlanta's triple-play
1986-07-09 - Atlanta's Dale Murphy doesn't play ending consecutive streak at 740
1986-10-01 - President Carter's presidential library/museum dedicated in Atlanta
1988-03-15 - Eugene Marino of Atlanta, appointed 1st African American archbishop
1989-05-14 - 1st Tour de Trump bicycle race run (Atlanta)
1990-07-29 - 28th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats USSR in Atlanta Georgia (2-1)
1990-09-18 - Atlanta is chosen to host 1996 (centennial) Summer Olympics
1992-10-18 - 1st non-US team to win a World Series Game; Toronto 5, Atlanta 4
1992-10-20 - 1st World Series game outside of US - Toronto beats Atlanta
1992-10-22 - Atlanta, becomes 1st US team to win a World Series game out of US
1993-04-18 - Trish Johnson wins LPGA Atlanta Women's Golf Championship
1994-01-30 - Superbowl XXVIII: Dallas Cowboys beat Buffalo Bills, 30-13 in Atlanta Superbowl MVP: Emmitt Smith, Dallas, RB
1994-04-17 - Val Skinner wins LPGA Atlanta Women's Golf Championship
1995-09-03 - Carolina Panthers lose their 1st NFL game (Atlanta-23 Carolina-20 OT)
1996-07-19 - XXVI Olympic games open in Atlanta Georgia
1996-07-20 - 26th Olympic games open at Atlanta, Georgia (sched)
1996-07-27 - Bomb explodes at Atlanta Olympic Park, 1 killed, 110 injured
1996-08-04 - 26th Olympic games close at Atlanta, Georgia (sched)
1996-10-24 - Last game at Atlanta County Fulton Stadium. Yanks win record 8th straight road post season win (with no loses)
1997-03-27 - "Young Man From Atlanta," opens at Longacre NYC for 85 performances
1997-06-08 - "Young Man From Atlanta" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 85 perfs
1997-06-17 - NHL announces it will add Nashville in 1998, Atlanta in 1999 & Minneapolis-St Paul & Columbus, Ohio in 2000
1997-06-25 - NHL approves franchises in Nash, Atlanta, Columbus, & Minn-St Paul
1998-10-14 - Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with 6 bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 70 of 70
1893-05-04 - Royal Butler, [Edwin Richey], Atlanta GA, actor
1893-07-01 - Walter Francis White, Atlanta Georgia
1898-04-14 - Lee Tracy, Atlanta Ga, actor (Martin Kane-Martin Kane Private Eye)
1901-02-06 - Ben Lyon, Atlanta GA, actor (I Cover the Waterfront, Night Nurse)
1902-03-17 - Bobby Jones Jr, Atlanta Georgia, amateur golfer (Grand Slam 1930)
1913-05-03 - Earl Blackwell, Atlanta Ga, author (Celebrity Register)
1914-12-30 - Bert Parks, [Jacobson], Atlanta Ga, TV host (Miss America)
1918-06-04 - LeRoy Walker, Atlanta Ga, CEO (US Olympic Committee)
1918-06-14 - Leroy T Walker, Atlanta Ga, US Olympic consultant (1960, 68, 72)
1920-01-20 - DeForest Kelley, Atlanta GA, actor (Dr McCoy-Star Trek)
1920-06-20 - DeForest Kelley, Atlanta Ga, actor (Dr Leonard McCoy-Star Trek)
1920-10-13 - Nipsey Russell, Atlanta Ga, comedian (Car 54, Barefoot in the Park)
1923-02-02 - James Dickey, Atlanta, poet/actor (Deliverance)
1923-09-07 - Louise Suggs, Atlanta GA, LPGA golfer (US Women's Open-1949, 52)
1925-07-11 - Mattiwilda Dobbs, Atlanta, Ga, soprano
1927-08-26 - Sam Massell, (Mayor-Atlanta)
1927-10-25 - Barbara Cook, Atlanta Ga, stage singer/actress (Music Man)
1929-01-15 - Martin Luther King Jr, Atlanta, dreamer (Nobel 1964)
1932-03-12 - Andrew Young, US ambassador to UN (1977-79)/(Mayor-D-Atlanta)
1934-05-07 - Ben Smith, Atlanta GA, PGA golfer (Ralphs Senior Classic-4th)
1937-03-20 - Jerry Reed, Atlanta GA, singer/actor (Bat 21, Smokey & the Bandit)
1938-03-23 - Maynard Jackson, first black mayor of Atlanta (d. 2003)
1938-05-10 - Maxim Shostakovich, Leningrad Russia, conductor (Atlanta Symph)
1939-08-02 - Edward Pattern, Atlanta Ga, singer (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
1940-02-28 - Joe South, Atlanta, guitarist/songwriter/singer (Games People Play)
1941-06-02 - William Guest, Atlanta Ga, singer (Gladys Knight Show)
1942-05-09 - Tommy Roe, Atlanta, rocker (Hooray for Hazel)
1942-09-04 - Merald "Bubba" Knight, Atlanta Ga, singer (Gladys Knights & Pips)
1944-02-05 - J R Cobb, Birmingham Ala, rocker (Atlanta Rhythm Section, Classic IV)
1944-05-28 - Gladys Knight, Atlanta Ga, singer, leader of Pips (Last Train)
1945-06-23 - Paul Goddard, Georgia, rock bassist (Atlanta Rhythm Section)
1946-02-04 - Roy Yeager, Doraville Ga, rocker (Atlanta Rhythm Section)
1946-05-19 - Diedre Lenihan, Atlanta Ga, actress (Wendy-Needles & Pins)
1946-09-08 - Dean Daughtry, rock keyboardist (Atlanta Rhythm Section)
1947-09-10 - Larry Gene Nelson, Ft Payne AL, PGA golfer (1980 Atlanta Classic)
1948-02-05 - Barbara Hershey, [Herzstein], Atlanta, (Stuntman, Shy People)
1948-06-12 - Barry Bailey, Doraville Ga, rocker (Atlanta Rhythm Section)
1951-07-31 - Barry Van Dyke, Atlanta Ga, actor (Battlestar Galactica, Diag Murder)
1952-03-01 - David Allen Barr, Kelowna BC, PGA golfer (Atlanta Golf Classic)
1953-05-11 - Boyd Gaines, Atlanta Ga, actor (Mark-One Day at a Time, Sure Thing)
1957-03-20 - Spike Lee, Atlanta, dir (Mo Better Blues, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X)
1957-04-17 - Byron Cherry, Atlanta Ga, actor (Coy-Dukes of Hazzard)
1958-03-20 - Holly Hunter, Atlanta Georgia, actress (Broadcast News, Roe vs Wade)
1958-06-02 - Lex Lugar, [Larry Pfohl], Atlanta Ga, wrestler (WWF/WCW/NWA)
1959-04-22 - Nicky Le Roux, South Africa, LPGA golfer (1994 Atlanta Champ-15th)
1959-04-25 - Tony Phillips, Atlanta GA, baseballoutfielder: Chicago White Sox
1959-11-09 - Tony Phillips, Atlanta GA, outfielder (Chic White Sox)
1959-11-21 - Tim Wilkison, Shelby NC, tennis player (WCT Atlanta finals-1986)
1960-09-29 - Wendy White, Atlanta Ga, tennis player
1961-03-01 - Mike Rozier, NFL halfback (Heisman Trophy-1983, Houston, Atlanta)
1962-04-22 - Denise Baldwin, Atlanta GA, LPGA golfer (1991 Futures Salisbury)
1962-04-27 - Denise Baldwin, Atlanta, LPGA golfer (1991 Futures Salisbury Classic)
1963-05-24 - Horace Holden Jr, Atlanta GA, slalom double canoe (Olympics-11th-96)
1963-10-16 - Missy Hyatt, Atlanta Ga, wrestling manager (WCW, ECW)
1965-05-06 - Tim Simpson, Atlanta GA, Nike golfer (1985 Southern Open)
1965-12-16 - Page Dunlap, Harrisonburg VA, LPGA golfer (1994 Atlanta Women's-8th)
1966-07-03 - Moises Alou, Atlanta GA, outfielder (Montreal Expos)
1967-03-24 - Richard Gillam, Atlanta Ga, pairs skater (& Erin Moorad)
1967-06-26 - Travis Fine, Atlanta GA, actor (Ike McSwain-Young Riders)
1968-01-27 - Tracy Lawrence, Atlanta Tx, country singer (Sticks & Stones)
1968-07-14 - John Maginnes, Atlanta GA, Nike golfer (1994 NIKE Texarkana Open-5th)
1969-01-04 - Lindsay Kennedy, Atlanta Ga, actor (Jeb-Little House on the Prairie)
1969-07-25 - Andrea Wieland, Atlanta GA, field hockey goaltender (Olympics-96)
1969-12-19 - Chris Robinson, Atlanta, rocker (Black Crowes-Shake Your Money Maker)
1970-01-31 - Rachel Jean Marteen, Atlanta GA, playmate (Aug, 1995)
1971-03-01 - Shepherd Clark, Atlanta Ga, figure skater (1994, 97 Eastern Sr champ)
1973-07-29 - Stephen Dorff, Atlanta, actor (I Know My Name is Steven)
1974-05-23 - Kimber West, Atlanta GA, playmate (Feb 1997)
1978-06-15 - RoRo, [Romell Chapman], Atlanta Ga, rapper (Another Bad Creation)
1979-01-10 - Chris H E Smith, [Daddy Mack], Atlanta, rapper (Kris Kross-Warm it Up)
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 4 of 4
1879-08-30 - John B Hood, confederate general (lost Atlanta), dies at 48
1936-02-20 - John Hope, president of Atlanta University, dies at 67
1990-07-20 - Herbert Jenkins, Atlanta's longest serving police chief (b. 1907)
2003-06-23 - Maynard Jackson, Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia (b. 1938)
