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41/5 59/15 Indonesia (40), In 1972 the OMNI in Atlanta became home to the Atlanta Flames of the National Hockey League in 1980 the team had departed for Calgary Alberta becoming the Calgary Flames in 1999 the NHL returned to Atlanta in the form of the Atlanta Thrashers the Thrashers played in Philips Arena; however the team moved to Winnipeg Manitoba and became the current Winnipeg Jets in 2011 again leaving Atlanta without an NHL franchise. . The Atlanta Falcons have played in Atlanta since their inception in 1966 the Falcons have won the division title six times (1980 1998 2004 2010 2012 2016) and the NFC championship twice in 1998 and 2016 However they have been unsuccessful in both of their Super Bowl trips so far losing to the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XXXIII in 1999 and to the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LI in 2017 the Atlanta Hawks began in 1946 as the Tri-Cities Blackhawks playing in Moline Illinois the team moved to Atlanta in 1968 they play their games in State Farm Arena the Atlanta Dream is the city's Women's National Basketball Association franchise. . Hispanic or Latino (of any race) 4.7% 1.9% 1.5% n/a, Jimmy Carter from Plains Georgia was President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 Martin Luther King Jr was born in Atlanta in 1929 He was a civil rights movement leader fighting for rights for African Americans and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. . . Hoyt Wilhelm This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.

In 1738 an incident involving a Welsh mariner named Robert Jenkins sparked the War of Jenkins' Ear between Britain and Spain Hundreds of North Americans volunteered for Admiral Edward Vernon's assault on Cartegena de Indias a Spanish city in South America the war against Spain merged into a broader conflict known as the War of the Austrian Succession but most colonists called it King George's War in 1745 British and colonial forces captured the town of Louisbourg and the war came to an end with the 1748 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle However many colonists were angered when Britain returned Louisbourg to France in return for Madras and other territories in the aftermath of the war both the British and French sought to expand into the Ohio River valley, Film The Fox Theatre a cultural icon of Atlanta Jekyll Island. ? On July 8 2011 it was reported in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that six police officers were fired for lying about events concerning a raid on the Atlanta Eagle Bar (which catered to gay persons) in June 2011 a 343-page report was released that details how 16 officers lied or destroyed evidence when asked about the raid on the Eagle Bar at least two of the officers in question had been cited for lying on another occasion in a federal drug case in October 2009 (the federal prosecutors informed the Atlanta Police Department that they would never be used again in a federal prosecution), National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Cuban 17,648 0.3% 9,206 0.2% 8,442 91.7% Atlanta Hawks Basketball National Basketball Association State Farm Arena Atlanta. The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) is the principal rapid transit system in the Atlanta metropolitan area Formed in 1971 as strictly a bus system MARTA operates a network of bus routes linked to a rapid transit system consisting of 48 miles (77 km) of rail track with 38 train stations MARTA operates almost exclusively in Fulton and DeKalb counties with bus service to two destinations in Cobb county and the Cumberland Transfer Center next to the Cumberland Mall and a single rail station in Clayton County at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport MARTA also operates a separate paratransit service for disabled customers as of 2009 the average total daily ridership for the system (bus and rail) was 482,500 passengers, In the 1730s Parliamentarian James Oglethorpe proposed that the area south of the Carolinas be colonized with the "worthy poor" of England to provide an alternative to the overcrowded debtors' prisons Oglethorpe and other English philanthropists secured a royal charter as the Trustees of the colony of Georgia on June 9 1732 Oglethorpe and his compatriots hoped to establish a utopian colony that banned slavery and recruited only the most worthy settlers but by 1750 the colony remained sparsely populated the proprietors gave up their charter in 1752 at which point Georgia became a crown colony, Rogers Hornsby. Paraguay (7) Retired, Both houses of the General Assembly may determine procedural rules provide for its employees the General Assembly as a whole or each house separately has the ability to create interim committees; Georgia state legislators have claimed that in an 1818 survey the state's border with Tennessee was erroneously placed one mile (1.6 km) farther south than intended and have continued to dispute this with Tennessee Correction of this inaccuracy would allow Georgia access to water from the Tennessee River. . George N Barnard photograph of Slave trader's business on Whitehall Street Atlanta Georgia 1864 ironically shows a United States Colored Troop Infantryman [Corporal] just by the door, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport has three cargo complexes that include two million square feet of space; the airport moves over 650,000 tons of cargo annually it has nearby cold storage for perishables and is the only airport in the Southeast with USDA-approved cold-treatment capabilities Delta Air Lines also offers an on-airport refrigeration facility for perishable cargo and a 250-acre Foreign Trade Zone is located at the airport.