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Airman 1st Class Kcey Ruiz of McDonough was was one six airmen killed when a C-130J Super Hercules crashed shortly after takeoff from Jalalabad Airfield, Afghanistan, in Oct. 2015. FACEBOOK PHOTO
Deja News: 9/11 attacks, 20 years of war claimed 224 Georgians
1974 -- Investigators search the crime scene at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta after the assassination of Alberta Williams King, mother of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. BILL MAHAN / AJC FILE
Deja News: When Atlanta was U.S. ‘murder capital’
Tim Singleton, one of the AJC Peachtree Road Race co-founders (left), and women's winner Gayle Barron after the 1970 race.
Deja News: Peachtree Road Race now dwarfs first event in 1970
June 1981 - A Volkswagen heads north into semi-rural Cobb County on the South Cobb Drive bridge over the Chattahoochee River. It was on this bridge that Wayne Williams was sighted the night of May 22 - the event that eventually led to his arrest in the murder of Nathaniel Cater.
Wayne Williams’ 1981 arrest allayed crime fears, ended Atlanta Child Murders
Opened in 1949, Starlight Drive-in is the only dedicated drive-in theater in metro Atlanta. AJC File
Deja News: Social distancing the norm at Starlight Drive-In since 1949
June 1903 -- A deadly tornado ripped through Gainesville, destroying businesses and homes. Over 100 people were killed, including several children working in a mill.
AJC Deja News: 1936 Gainesville tornado remains nation’s 5th deadliest
1952 -- An unidentified worker oversees production at the National Biscuit Company (later Nabisco) plant in southwest Atlanta. LANE BROS. PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION / GSU
AJC Deja News: Nabisco ‘Bakery of Tomorrow’ set to close after 80-year run
Convicted killer Brian Nichols escaped the death penalty after a jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict.
Spa killings another grisly chapter in Georgia history
Feb. 1964 -- Sunday Journal and Constitution readers learned about plans for Greenbriar Mall, set to open in 1965.
AJC Deja News: Greenbriar envisioned as more than just another mall (1964)
March 1976 -- Journal writer Charles Seabrook detailed the pros and cons of a proposed $135 million program aimed at vaccinating every America against a feared new strain of swine flu. AJC PRINT ARCHIVES
AJC Deja News: Swine flu vaccination effort met initial resistance (1976)
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