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. ; Local government In 1867 Major General John Pope military governor of Georgia called for an assembly in Atlanta to hold a constitutional convention at that time Atlanta officials moved once again to have the city designated as Georgia's state capital donating the property where Atlanta's first city hall was constructed the constitutional convention agreed and the people voted to ratify the decision on April 20 1868 the Georgia General Assembly first convened in Atlanta on July 4 1868! East Point pop 33,712 Calendar Main article: Railway signalling! Georgia Tech students hold a heated long and ongoing rivalry with the University of Georgia known as Clean Old-Fashioned Hate the first known hostilities between the two institutions trace back to 1891 the University of Georgia's literary magazine proclaimed UGA's colors to be "old gold black and crimson" Dr Charles H Herty then President of the University of Georgia felt that old gold was too similar to yellow and that it "symbolized cowardice" After the 1893 football game against Tech Herty removed old gold as an official color Tech would first use old gold for their uniforms as a proverbial slap in the face to UGA in their first unofficial football game against Auburn in 1891 Georgia Tech's school colors would henceforth be old gold and white, The construction of the first railway of the Austro-Hungarian empire from Vienna to Prague came in 1837-1842 to promises of new prosperity Construction proved more costly than anticipated and it brought in less revenue because local industry did not have a national market in town after town the arrival of railway angered the locals because of the noise smell and pollution caused by the trains and the damage to homes and the surrounding land caused by the engine's soot and fiery embers Almost all travel was local; ordinary people seldom had need of passenger trains. . .

; Immediately after the 1996 Summer Paralympics which followed the Olympics the stadium went through its first conversion Much of the north end of the stadium was removed in order to convert it to its permanent use as a 49,000-seat baseball park the stadium hosted the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball from 1997 to 2016 following a multimillion-dollar renovation to retrofit the stadium for baseball by removing the temporary stands that had made up nearly half the stadium and building the outfield stands and other attractions behind them. India (49) 5 Records, District 4 Natalie Hall Democratic The Braves have retired eleven numbers in the history of the franchise including most recently Chipper Jones' number 10 in 2013 John Smoltz's number 29 in 2012 Bobby Cox's number 6 in 2011 Tom Glavine's number 47 in 2010 and Greg Maddux's number 31 in 2009 Additionally Hank Aaron's 44 Dale Murphy's 3 Phil Niekro's 35 Eddie Mathews' 41 Warren Spahn's 21 and Jackie Robinson's 42 which is retired for all of baseball with the exception of Jackie Robinson Day have also been retired the color and design of the retired numbers reflect the uniform design at the time the person was on the team excluding Robinson, In early 1861 Georgia joined the Confederacy (with secessionists having a slight majority of delegates) and became a major theater of the Civil War Major battles took place at Chickamauga Kennesaw Mountain and Atlanta in December 1864 a large swath of the state from Atlanta to Savannah was destroyed during General William Tecumseh Sherman's March to the Sea 18,253 Georgian soldiers died in service roughly one of every five who served in 1870 following the Reconstruction Era Georgia became the last Confederate state to be restored to the Union. .