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The 2018 season Super Bowl 53 was played at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia, on February 3rd, 2019, between the New England Patriots and the Los Angeles Rams. The Patriots won, defeating the Rams 13–3, giving them their sixth Super Bowl championship win in eleven Super Bowl appearances. Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman was named Super Bowl MVP. Pop group Read more...
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Rapper King Von was shot and killed, aged 26, in the early hours of Friday, November 6th, 2020, during an altercation outside the Monaco Hookah Lounge in south downtown Atlanta, Georgia. A native of Chicago’s Kingsway Gardens, King Von, whose real name was Dayvon Bennett, was based in Atlanta. He had been at the city’s Opium Nightclub with a group Read more...
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Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport is the busiest airport in the United States, both by passenger numbers and aircraft movements. In 2019, Atlanta Airport handled 110.5 million passengers and over 904,000 aircraft movements, averaging some 300,000 passengers and 2,500 airplane arrivals and departures daily. ATL is also currently the busiest passenger airport in the world. Read more...
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On the evening of September 29th, 2003, Atlanta Thrashers hockey player Dany Heatley lost control of his Ferrari on Lenox Road in the residential district of Buckhead, Atlanta. The car collided with a brick pillar and wrought iron fence outside the Plantation apartment complex, splitting the vehicle in two. Heatley and his passenger, Thrashers teammate Dan Snyder, suffered serious injuries. Read more...