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100 Years & Beyond

This is your Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and we’re just getting started. Be part of our epic 100-year celebration. We’ve got events that roar in the iconic destination that is Los Angeles. From can’t-miss concerts to signature football games, our centennial event lineup is as colossal as we are and you won’t want to miss a moment.

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Coliseum Epic Moments

History

The Greatest Stadium in the World

Join us as we honor the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum’s 100-year history of hosting the most significant sporting, entertainment, cultural and military events in the world.

  • Sporting

    Served as the home field for the Los Angeles Rams, Raiders, Chargers, and even the Dodgers

  • Sporting

    Hosted two Super Bowls, three NFL Championships, and one World Series

  • Sporting

    Only venue to host two Summer Olympics, and soon a third in 2028

  • Sporting

    Home to the USC Trojans since 1923, and the UCL Bruins from 1928-1981

  • Entertainment

    Legendary performances from The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Prince, Bruce Springsteen, U2, Metallica, The Who, Grateful Dead, and Van Halen

  • Entertainment

    100k+ attended Wattstax ’72 Benefit Concert featuring important civil rights leaders and top African American recording artists

  • Entertainment

    Evel Knievel successfully leaped over 50 crushed cars on the Coliseum field in 1973

  • Cultural

    Less than a year after his famous “I Have A Dream” speech, Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at the Coliseum

  • Cultural

    Featured appearances by U.S. Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan

  • Cultural

    Billy Graham’s service in 1963 set an all-time Coliseum record with 134,254 attendees

  • Cultural

    First-ever Papal Mass by Pope John Paul II brought over 100k to the Coliseum

  • Cultural

    Nelson Mandel’s Coliseum rally was a key moment of his first visit to the United States in 1990

  • Military

    Dedicated as a memorial to the LA County WWI veterans upon opening in 1923

  • Military

    150k+ turned out in 1944 to support the World War II efforts

  • Military

    One month after WWII ended, almost 100k gathered at the Coliseum to honor Gen. James Doolittle, Gen. George Patton and the fallen soldiers of the war

  • Military

    Rededicated in 1959 as a living memorial to all who served in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War I

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