The very first Chick-fil-A restaurant opened in Atlanta’s Greenbriar Mall.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was jailed while performing a public prayer at the city hall in Albany, Georgia, US.
Florida, one of the confederate states, was readmitted to the Union.
The first Atlanta International Pop Festival took place at Atlanta International Raceway in Hampton, Georgia, with as many as 150,000 partygoers.
A nuclear bomb was lost off the coast of Georgia, US.
Maynard Jackson was elected as the first black Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia.
