. The Georgia Institute of Technology commonly referred to as Georgia Tech is a public research university and institute of technology in Atlanta Georgia It is part of the University System of Georgia and has satellite campuses in Savannah Georgia; Metz France; Athlone Ireland; Shenzhen China; and Singapore, The Georgia Bulldogs (Southeastern Conference) Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (Atlantic Coast Conference) Georgia State Panthers and Georgia Southern Eagles (Sun Belt Conference) are Georgia's NCAA Division I FBS football teams having won multiple national championships between them the Georgia Bulldogs and the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets have a historical rivalry in college football known as Clean Old-Fashioned Hate and the Georgia State Panthers and the Georgia Southern Eagles have recently developed their own rivalry, The Locomotion at Darlington Railway Centre and Museum. . .
On October 13 1885 Georgia Governor Henry D McDaniel signed the bill to create and fund the new school in 1887 Atlanta pioneer Richard Peters donated to the state 4 acres (1.6 ha) of the site of a failed garden suburb called Peters Park the site was bounded on the south by North Avenue and on the west by Cherry Street He then sold five adjoining acres of land to the state for US$10,000 (equivalent to $280,000 in 2018) This land was near Atlanta's northern city limits at the time of its founding although the city has expanded several miles beyond it a historical marker on the large hill in Central Campus notes the site occupied by the school's first buildings once held fortifications to protect Atlanta during the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War the surrender of the city took place on the southwestern boundary of the modern Georgia Tech campus in 1864. Atlanta pop 472,522 The 1996 Olympics were marred by the Centennial Olympic Park bombing on July 27 Security guard Richard Jewell discovered the pipe bomb and immediately notified law enforcement and helped evacuate as many people as possible from the area before it exploded Although Jewell's quick actions are credited for saving many lives the bombing killed spectator Alice Hawthorne wounded 111 others and caused the death of Melih Uzunyol by heart attack Jewell was later considered a suspect in the bombing but was never charged and he was exonerated in October 1996 in 2003 Eric Robert Rudolph was charged with and confessed to this bombing as well as the bombings of two abortion clinics and a gay bar He stated "the purpose of the attack on July 27th was to confound anger and embarrass the Washington government in the eyes of the world for its abominable sanctioning of abortion on demand." He was sentenced to a life sentence at ADX Florence prison in Florence Colorado, The Downtown Connector freeway opened in the 1950s and the blocks between Williams Street and Techwood Drive were demolished to make way for it in 1959 Lenox Square and in 1964 Ansley Mall opened and the Tenth Street shopping district went into decline By the late 1960s Peachtree Street between Eighth and Fourteenth Streets had become a center of hippie culture known as the Strip. Judo ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
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