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Centennial Olympic Park is a 22-acre (89,000 m 2) public park located in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, owned and operated by the Georgia World Congress Center Authority. It was built by the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG) as part of the infrastructure improvements for the 1996 Summer Olympics .
Centennial Olympic Park, located in downtown Atlanta, was created to memorialize the games and, according to Georgia Trend, is "the centerpiece of the Olympics legacy" in the city. [1] In 1996, the year the park opened, the monument was erected to honor Pierre de Coubertin , [ 2 ] who had founded the modern Olympic Games with the 1896 Summer ...
World Athletes Monument World Athletes Monument Completion date 1996 The World Athletes Monument, more commonly known as the Prince Charles Monument or Prince of Wales Monument, is a monument located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The monument, dedicated to the 1996 Summer Olympics, is a gift from the Prince of Wales. The monument is located on Peachtree Street, at Pershing Point, in ...
The Ocoee Whitewater Center, near Ducktown, Tennessee, United States, was the canoe slalom venue for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, [2] [3] and is the only in-river course to be used for Olympic slalom competition. A 1,640 foot (500 m) stretch of the Upper Ocoee River was narrowed by two-thirds to create the drops and eddies needed for a ...
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Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium was imploded on August 2, 1997, and is now a parking lot adjacent to the former Olympic Stadium. [117] Following the 1996 Summer Paralympics, Olympic Stadium was retrofitted between September 1996 and April 1997, with the synthetic 400 m athletic track and 35,000 seats removed.
Revelers were enjoying the festive atmosphere when, around 1:20 a.m. on July 27, an explosion rocked the park. Two people died and another 110 were injured.
On July 27, 1953, the Korean War armistice was signed at Panmunjom, ending three years of fighting. In 1789, President George Washington signed a measure establishing the Department of Foreign ...