First opened in 1887, the park hosted the Cotton States and International Exposition of 1895, a World's Fair which ran for 100 days, featured 6,000 exhibits and attracted 800,000 visitors.
The theatre opened on December 25, 1929, just two months after the stock market crash. The Fox hosted the premiere of Walt Disney's Song of the South in 1946. Disney himself introduced the picture.
It's the world's largest aquarium housing more than 100,000 animals of 500 different species. The aquarium was built as a gift to the city of Atlanta from Home Depot co-founder Bernard Marcus in 2001.
Ground was broken in 1989 & on October 5, 1992, Fernbank Museum of Natural History opened to the public, becoming one of the only museums in the world to grow out of an old-growth forest.
Hank Aaron became the all-time career home run leader by hitting his 715th home run off the LA Dodgers' Al Downing on April 8, 1974. Barry Bonds succeeded Aaron as the new home run champ in 2007.
