In 1996, the Olympic torch run passed through the city during the weeks leading up to the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta.

On April 12, 1862, the steam locomotive General was pursued from Atlanta and passed through Adairsville as its people witnessed the incident during the Great Locomotive Chase.

In 1887, a railroad, built from Atlanta and Fort Valley, passed through Riverdale.

* In 1996, the Olympic Flame passed through on its way to Atlanta

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.

In the same year, four of the five metropolitan area counties ( Clayton, DeKalb, Fulton, and Gwinnett ) and the City of Atlanta passed a referendum authorizing participation in the system, but the referendum failed in Cobb County.

However, Young recovered and led the 49ers on a five game winning streak, capped off by a 56-17 win over the Atlanta Falcons in which Young passed for 399 yards and three touchdowns.

* On January 31, 1999, in Super Bowl XXXIII, Elway passed for 336 yards in a 34-19 victory over the Atlanta Falcons.

Later that year, when Atlanta and Fulton County passed prohibition legislation, Pemberton responded by developing a carbonated, non-alcoholic version of his French Wine Coca.

Atlanta, without power or able to fire her guns, drifted out of control and out of the battle as the Japanese ships passed her by.

After only three semesters he passed the Georgia bar exam and subsequently joined his father's law firm, Jones, Evins, Moore and Powell, in Atlanta.

In 2004, in an effort to keep Underground Atlanta from closing a second time, the city passed an ordinance allowing bars in the complex to remain open and serve drinks until 4: 00 -- a last call 90 minutes later than the rest of the city had recently been restricted to.

The Air Atlanta fleet began with five Boeing 727-100 aircraft, and added five Boeing 727-200s as time passed.

" She also stated the people of Greece " have waited long for this moment ," alluding to the long time period between the first modern Olympic Games in Greece and the 2004 Games, as well as the fact that Athens was passed over in 1990 in favor of Atlanta, Georgia for host of the 1996 Summer Olympics.

No serious damage occurred to the station when the 2008 Atlanta tornado passed by the site, even though the then-analog WYGA-CA 45 ( operating from the site under STA at very low power until WGCL-TV 46 went digital ) was knocked off-air.

He was not offered any jobs, however, and was passed up by the New York Giants, Buffalo Bills, Arizona Cardinals, Chicago Bears, and Atlanta Falcons.

Newman made his Truck Series debut on October 25, 2008 at Atlanta Motor Speedway, starting 10th in the 33 truck field driving Kevin Harvick's # 2 Truck and passed his teammate Ron Hornaday with less than five laps to go to pick up his first truck series win in his first start making him the first driver to get their first Truck win at Atlanta and becoming the 4th driver to win in their first Truck race and joining the list of drivers who have won in all three of NASCAR's top series.

On his death in 1961 it passed to banker Mills B Lane of Atlanta before in 1964 taking up residence in The Harrah Collection at Reno, Nevada.

Smith passed the bar examination in 1873 and became a lawyer in Atlanta, Georgia.

During the American Civil War, he represented Atlanta in the Georgia General Assembly house from 1863 to 1865, where he offered a bill to raise soldiers pay to $ 25 per month ( which was passed ).

In 1951, after a failed 1947 referendum and two other failed attempts, the state legislature passed a " Plan of Improvement " by which Buckhead, but also vast areas of what is today northwest, southwest, and south Atlanta, were annexed into Atlanta on Jan. 1, 1952.

in April 1871, Richard Peters and George Adair bought out the charter of the Atlanta Street Railway Company ( horse-drawn ) and on September 1 of that year opened the first section connecting Five Points to the West End – a route that passed by both of their homes.

In 2001 the Georgia Legislature passed a resolution, to designate the Earl T. Shinhoster Interchange at the junction with Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard in Savannah in honor of Earl Shinhoster, who was a Black civil rights activist.

In 2003 the Georgia Legislature passed a resolution to designate Interstate 16 in honor of James L. Gillis, Sr., a Democrat who served as a State Representative, State Senator and Director of the Georgia Department of Transportation, as the Jim Gillis Historic Savannah Parkway.

The center passed inland a few miles south of Savannah, Georgia, on August 28 ; upon making landfall, the hurricane rapidly degenerated.

Savannah itself received only minor damage, although the storm's center passed close by.

After a harrowing trip and a supposed delivery of information to President Jefferson Davis and other Confederate leaders in Richmond, Virginia, they passed on to Savannah, Georgia and ultimately to the expected safety of New Orleans, Louisiana.

Clumps of brush that they passed were so many enchained demons straining in anger to tear and gnaw on his bones.

To the stump of a tree as he passed it, the same stump which had impaled the car of many a guest in the past thirty years and which he refused to have removed.

and it is not unlikely that, even as the great Bach lay dormant for so many years, so has the erudite, ingenious SalFininistas passed through his `` purgatory '' of neglect.

Furniture has been traditionally elaborately carved and in many Alpine countries carpentry skills are passed from generation to generation.

While Miss Marple is described as ' an old lady ' in many of the stories, her age is mentioned in " At Bertram's Hotel ", where it is said she visited the hotel when she was 14 and almost 60 years have passed since then.

Excluding " Sleeping Murder ", forty-one years passed between the first and last-written novels, and many characters grow and age.

Most Protestants deny the need for this type of continuity and the historical claims involved have been severely questioned ; Eric Jay comments that the account given of the emergence of the episcopate in chapter III of Lumen Gentium " is very sketchy, and many ambiguities in the early history of the Christian ministry are passed over " Their reasons are given in detail below.

Eight years have passed, and the city of Genoa is still trying to recover from the many damages provoked by the rioters, mainly devoted to crash cars, setting stores on fire, robbing banks and using any heavy or pointed object as a means to provoke damage to people and objects.

The ballads do not have any known author or correct version ; instead, having been passed down mainly by oral tradition since the Middle Ages, there are many variations of each.

The Rump passed many restrictive laws to regulate people's moral behaviour, such as closing down theatres and requiring strict observance of Sunday.

Two days passed between his death and the announcement of the election of Yuri Andropov as the new General Secretary, suggesting to many outsiders that a power struggle had occurred in the Kremlin.

Continuing down the Columbia, Thompson passed the barrier of The Dalles with much less difficulty than experienced by Lewis and Clark, as high water obscured Celilo Falls and many of the rapids.

There are many methods to determine whether a photon passed through a slit, for instance by placing an atom at the position of each slit.

If a human watched the dance of the elves, he would discover that even though only a few hours seemed to have passed, many years had passed in the real world.

In many jurisdictions, conciliar resolutions that have been passed require episcopal assent and / or consent to take force.

The United States Congress has passed a number of landmark environmental regulatory regimes, but many other federal laws are equally important, if less comprehensive.

Corinth was the meeting point of many nationalities because the main current of the trade between Asia and western Europe passed through its harbors.

* He got passed the laws to ban pinball machines as gambling devices around 1939, and many photos exist of him destroying the games prohibition-style, with sledge hammers or in large fires.

For many geologic applications, isotope ratios are measured in minerals that give the amount of time that has passed since a rock passed through its particular closure temperature, the point at which different radiometric isotopes stop diffusing into and out of the crystal lattice.

The English Civil War had begun and troops were stationed in many towns through which he passed.

First and foremost it forms a body of intricate judicial opinions, legislation, customs, and recommendations, many of them passed down over the centuries, and an assortment of ingrained behaviors, relayed to successive generations from the moment a child begins to speak.

Notably, thousands of Irish emigrants during the Famine passed through Grosse Isle near Québec City, where many succumbed to typhus.