1. On October 20, 1941, the first class of male cadets was admitted to the newly-established Women's College of Georgia, which is now known as Georgia College & State University.

2. On this day in 1950, the Georgia Institute of Technology won its first college football game in nearly four years, defeating Tennessee 7-6.

3. In 1977, Jimmy Carter, who was born and raised in Plains, Georgia, became the first U.S. president to visit the state's largest city, Atlanta, since the Reconstruction era.

4. October 20, 2002, marked the opening of the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, which at the time was the largest aquarium in the world.

5. On this day in 2011, the Atlanta Braves announced that they would be leaving Turner Field, their home stadium since 1997, to move to a new ballpark in Cobb County that would open in 2017.