1864 American Civil War: Battle of Resaca - the battle begins with Union General Sherman fighting toward Atlanta.
1864 American Civil War: Battle of Peachtree Creek - Near Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate forces led by General John Bell Hood unsuccessfully attack Union troops under General William T. Sherman.
1864 American Civil War: Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta, Georgia.
1906 Race riots in Atlanta, Georgia. At least 27 people are killed and the black-owned business district is severely damaged.
1915 Emory College is rechartered as Emory University, and plans to move its main campus from Oxford, Georgia to Atlanta.
1915 Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Atlanta, Georgia.
1939 The film version of ''Gone With The Wind'', starring Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Olivia DeHavilland and Leslie Howard, premieres at Loew's Grand Theater in Atlanta, Georgia.
1996 After takeoff from Miami, a fire started by improperly-handled oxygen canisters in the cargo hold of Atlanta-bound ValuJet Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 on board.
1996 The 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, is opened by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1998 Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with 6 bombings (including the 1996 Olympic bombing) in Atlanta, Georgia.
1999 Mark O. Barton kills nine in Atlanta, Georgia.
2000 Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown), a former Black Panther, is captured after a gun battle in Atlanta, Georgia, that left a sheriff's deputy dead.