* 2006 – Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky bound for Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia.

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the world's busiest airport as measured by passenger traffic and aircraft traffic, offers air service to over 150 U. S. destinations and more than 80 international destinations in 52 countries, with over 2, 700 arrivals and departures daily.

Atlanta has 21 sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International, Inc. ( SCI ):

* Paul Kantor ( Ed ), Gheorghe Mureşan ( Ed ), Fred Roberts ( Ed ), Daniel Zeng ( Ed ), Frei-Yue Wang ( Ed ), Hsinchun Chen ( Ed ), Ralph Merkle ( Ed ), " Intelligence and Security Informatics ": IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2005, Atlanta, GA, USA, May 19 – 20, ... ( Lecture Notes in Computer Science ), Springer, 2005, ISBN 3-540-25999-6.

The annual national championship for Club Racing is called the SCCA National Championship Runoffs and has been held at Riverside International Raceway ( 1964, 1966, 1968 ), Daytona International Speedway ( 1965, 1967, 1969 ), Road Atlanta ( 1970 – 1993 ), Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course ( 1994 – 2005 ), and Heartland Park Topeka ( 2006 – 2008 ).

The system, which uses rubber tires and travels along a fixed underground guideway, is similar to the people mover systems at Singapore Changi Airport, Hartsfield – Jackson Atlanta International Airport, and Denver International Airport.

* September 18 – The International Olympic Committee awards the 1996 Summer Olympics to Atlanta, Georgia.

* October 5 – December 31 – International Cotton Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia

As an example, new affiliates WDJT in Milwaukee and WGNX in Atlanta — both cities that are home to NASCAR races — and WWJ in Detroit, close to Michigan International Speedway, were on the UHF band ( channels 14 – 69 ), meaning that they had a significantly reduced broadcast area compared to former affiliates WITI, WAGA-TV, and WJBK, respectively.

The Richmond Braves were the Triple-A affiliate of the Atlanta Braves and played in the International League.

* 11th International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality ( ISMAR 2012 ), Atlanta, Georgia, United States, November 2012

The seventh International Congress in Atlanta, GA, USA, from 28 Jun to 2 Jul 2000, was the first held outside of the UK.

Also, from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport it served numerous feeder cities.

* The Seigakuin Atlanta International School, a private Japanese education system elementary and middle school, is located in Peachtree Corners.

Clayton County is within the five-county core of the Atlanta Metropolitan Area, and is the county in which most of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport lies.

* Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport

Located on Interstate 85 halfway between Montgomery, Alabama and Atlanta, Georgia, Valley is 75 miles southwest of Hartsfield – Jackson Atlanta International Airport ( ATL ) and 85 miles northeast of Montgomery Regional Airport ( MGM ) in Montgomery.

Dothan's airport, the Dothan Regional Airport, is currently ( 2009 ) served by Atlantic Southeast Airlines, a subsidiary of SkyWest, Inc. operating flights for Delta Air Lines, with 3 – 5 daily flights to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

Hartsfield – Jackson Atlanta International Airport is partially located in the city boundaries, and the Georgia International Convention Center, owned and operated by the City of College Park, is within the city limits.

The jury further said in term-end presentments that the City Executive Committee, which had over-all charge of the election, `` deserves the praise and thanks of the City of Atlanta '' for the manner in which the election was conducted.

He was a member of the Oakland City Methodist Church and a native of Atlanta.

Over the weekend, Mrs. Self, personnel clerk, was a feted and honored guest of the Atlanta Club, organization of women employes at City Hall.

Arizona had postseason victories over the St. Louis Cardinals ( 3 – 2 in the NLDS ) and the Atlanta Braves ( 4 – 1 in the NLCS ) to advance to the World Series where, in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York City, they beat the three-time reigning champions, the New York Yankees, 4 to 3, to become the youngest expansion franchise to win the World Series ( in just their fourth season of play ).

During Selig's terms as Executive Council Chairman ( from 1992 – 1998 ) and Commissioner, new stadiums have opened in Arizona, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Colorado, Detroit, Houston, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Arlington, St. Louis, Washington, D. C., New York City ( Flushing, Queens and the Bronx ), Minneapolis, and Miami.

They include the Olympics in Barcelona in 1992, Atlanta in 1996, Sydney in 2000, Salt Lake City in 2002, Athens in 2004, Turin in 2006, Beijing in 2008, Vancouver in 2010, and London in 2012.

John Stephens was a prosperous real estate developer after the Civil War and one of the founders of the Gate City Street Railroad ( 1881 ), a mule-drawn Atlanta trolley system.

A new national headquarters was established in Louisville, Kentucky in 1988 replacing the headquarters of the UPCUSA in New York City and the PCUS located in Atlanta, Georgia.

* In the first major sporting event in New York City since the attack, a baseball game at Shea Stadium, the New York Mets ' Mike Piazza hits a two-run, game-winning home run in the bottom of the eighth inning against the Atlanta Braves to defeat the Braves, 3-2.

It is headquartered in New York City, and has offices in Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and Atlanta.

American journalist and social commentator Joel Garreau criticized the common use of the term solely to areas outside the political boundaries of major cities in his 1991 book Edge City: Life on the New Frontier when he discussed the phenomenon of edge cities in Atlanta ( emphasis added ):

Architecturally notable Shriners Temples include the New York City Center, now used as a concert hall, Newark Symphony Hall, The Landmark Theater ( formerly The Mosque ) in Richmond, Virginia, the Tripoli Shrine Temple in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the Helena Civic Center ( Montana ) ( formerly the Algeria Shrine Temple ), and the Fox Theatre ( Atlanta, Georgia ) which was jointly built between the Atlanta Shriners and William Fox.

For instance, WNYW in New York City, WTTG in Washington, D. C., and WAGA in Atlanta, Georgia, are referred to as Fox 5.

Only a few Fox stations that air a late evening newscast in the traditional evening news timeslot used by NBC, ABC and CBS affiliates ( 11 p. m. in the Eastern and Pacific time zones, 10 p. m. in the Central and Mountain time zones ), along with the primetime newscast ; these include Fox-owned stations WTVT / Tampa, KDFW / Dallas, WAGA / Atlanta, WOFL / Orlando, WJBK / Detroit, KMSP / Minneapolis, KSAZ / Phoenix, WTTG / Washington, D. C. and WFXT / Boston, as well as affiliates WDAF-TV / Kansas City, WITI / Milwaukee, WBRC / Birmingham, KOKH / Oklahoma City, WTIC / Hartford, WXXA / Albany, WZTV / Nashville, WVUE / New Orleans, KTVI / St.

The contending cities are: Atlanta, Chicago, Galveston, Houston, San Juan, and Miami in the United States ; Cancún and Puebla in Mexico ; Panama City, Panama ; and Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.

In 2011, the Atlanta City Council renamed Harris Street in Downtown Atlanta as John Portman Boulevard at Historic Harris Street.

The Bureau operates regional offices in 12 cities: Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago, Kansas City, Seattle, Charlotte, Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, and Los Angeles.

The remaining regional offices will be located in: New York City, Philadelphia, Chicago, Atlanta, Denver, and Los Angeles.

In Atlanta and New York City and the marches were called Gay Liberation Marches, and the day of celebration was called " Gay Liberation Day "; in Los Angeles and San Francisco they became known as ' Gay Freedom Marches ' and the day was called " Gay Freedom Day ".

* 1946 – A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia kills 119 people, the deadliest hotel fire in U. S. history.

The film premiered on November 12, 1946 at the Fox Theater in Atlanta, Georgia.

Well-known people who have lived in and around Selma include 19th-century inventors Frank Dusy, Abijah McCall and William Deidrick ; the poets William Everson ( Brother Antoninus, 1912 – 94 ) and Larry Levis ( 1946 – 96 ); William R. Shockley ( 1918 – 1945, recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor in World War II ; author-historian Victor Davis Hanson ( 1953-); and Atlanta Braves manager Bobby Cox ( 1941-).

Soon after the first of the year in 1946, some soldiers returned to live in Atlanta, and at least two of the Germans applied for U. S. citizenship and returned as well.

* Third Army Area, headquartered variously in rented office space in downtown Atlanta and in 1946 at Fort McPherson in Atlanta, Georgia included NC, SC, GA, FL, AL, TN and MS

In 1946 Candler Field was renamed Atlanta Municipal Airport and by 1948, more than one million passengers passed through a war surplus hangar that served as a terminal building.

* 2003 – 04: Mighty Ducks of Anaheim ( through 2005 – 06 ), Atlanta Thrashers ( would become home shirt ), Boston Bruins ( c. 1970 – vintage program ) Columbus Blue Jackets ( became home jersey in 2007 – 08 ), Dallas Stars ( used through 2005 – 06 ), Edmonton Oilers ( c. 1988 – vintage program ), Florida Panthers ( former road shirt, through 2006 – 07 ), Los Angeles Kings ( c. 1987 – vintage program ), Minnesota Wild ( became home jersey in 2007 – 08 ); Montreal Canadiens ( c. 1946 and c. 1960 versions – vintage program – 1946 version used through 2006 – 07 ), New York Rangers ( c. 1978 – vintage program ), St. Louis Blues ( c. 1979 – vintage program ) Vancouver Canucks ( c. 1976 – vintage program ; worn as fourth in 2005 – 06, in use as third through 2006 – 07 )

The tragedy remains the worst disaster in Nevada history, and the third-worst hotel fire in modern U. S. history, after the 1946 Winecoff Hotel fire in Atlanta that killed 119 people and the Dupont Plaza Hotel, San Juan, Puerto Rico fire on December 31, 1986, in which 97 perished.

Ángel Remigio Hermoso ( born October 1, 1946 ), commonly known as Remy Hermoso ( er-MO-so ), is a former Major League Baseball shortstop and right-handed batter who played for the Atlanta Braves ( 1967 ), Montreal Expos ( 1969 – 70 ) and Cleveland Indians ( 1974 ).

The community was annexed by Atlanta in 1952, following an earlier attempt by Mayor William B. Hartsfield in 1946 that was voted down by residents.

The area that is now the Buckhead Community was annexed by Atlanta in 1952, following an earlier attempt by Mayor William B. Hartsfield in 1946 that was voted down by residents.

Established in 1946 by James H. Gray a naturalized New Englander who moved to Southwest Georgia to form Gray Communications System ( now Gray Television Group ) which has grown since 1993 into a modern day, successful television group based out of Atlanta, Georgia through a series of acquisitions ranging from 1993-2002.

After a disastrous series of fires between 1942 and 1946, including the Cocoanut Grove Nightclub fire in Boston, which claimed the lives of 492 people and the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta which claimed 119 lives, the Building Exits Code began to be utilized as potential legal legislation.

* Stone, Clarence N., Regime Politics Governing Atlanta: 1946 – 1988, 1989, University Press of Kansas

After Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in 1946 with the Montreal Royals of the International League, the Southern Association adhered to the Jim Crow segregation laws of the time and only once permitted an African-American to play in the circuit: Nat Peeples of the 1954 Atlanta Crackers, the only black player in the league's history.

* 1946 — Atlanta

Born in Atlanta in 1946, Jones went to high school at St. Albans School in Washington, D. C., and later received an A. B.

The reason for this was that there was no provision in the original 1946 Bermuda agreement that would have allowed British Caledonian ( BCal ), then the UK's foremost wholly privately owned, independent international scheduled airline, to use the licences the UK Civil Aviation Authority ( CAA ) had awarded it in 1972 to begin daily scheduled services from its London Gatwick base to Houston and Atlanta.

Robert Jose Watson ( born April 10, 1946 in Los Angeles, California ) is a former first baseman for the Houston Astros, Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees and Atlanta Braves from -, and currently serves as Major League Baseball's vice president of rules and on-field operations.

Umbricht was born in Chicago, Illinois, and moved to Atlanta in 1946.