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Georgia is the state with the third-lowest percentage of older people (65 or older) at 12.8 percent (as of 2015), 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 Legends' first home game was played on February 24 2019 against the Birmingham Iron where they lost 28-12; . . .

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport the world's busiest airport as measured by both passenger traffic and aircraft traffic is located in Georgia Also the Port of Savannah is the fourth largest seaport and fastest-growing container seaport in North America importing and exporting a total of 2.3 million TEUs per year! Downtown Atlanta The Olympic flag waves at the 1996 games; Notable Architecture Lake City pop 2,612 Along with the rest of the Southeast Georgia's population continues to grow rapidly with primary gains concentrated in urban areas the population of the Atlanta metropolitan area added 1.23 million people (24 percent) between 2000 and 2010 and Atlanta rose in rank from the eleventh-largest metropolitan area in the United States to the ninth-largest. The city is home to the Atlanta Dogwood Festival an annual arts and crafts festival held one weekend during early April when the native dogwoods are in bloom, Alpharetta pop 57,551 Diving (4), The low-density residential subdivision development that dominates the Atlanta area has historically not been required to replace lost tree inventory.[citation needed] Because of larger lot sizes and natural-looking architecture such as California contemporary older neighborhoods typically have many mature forest trees except in cases where they have been destroyed by homeowners.[citation needed] Increasing density allowed by zoning since the 1980s has meant fewer and fewer trees left and by the 2000s it became common for developers to completely clearcut dozens of acres of forest and bulldoze all hills flat to build generic tract housing often with tightly packed homes nearly touching each other and up against the street.[citation needed] However over the past decade some area cities and counties have revised their tree ordinances to require tree recompense to be equal to or greater than the pre-development tree density trying to ensure a future tree canopy Rather than leaving trees on each home lot as before this typically involves a set-aside of green space in each development with most other areas still clear-cut Even when some trees are replaced it is with a single type of trees planted the same distance from each other rather than different trees at random placement and age as in the native forest At a rate of 50 acres (20 hectares) per day,[citation needed] the deforestation brought by land development has had a significant impact on area watersheds as they now flood far more rapidly and to a much greater extent than prior to development.[citation needed].