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| seating_capacity = [[American football]]: 73,208 (expandable to 76,468)<ref>{{cite web|title=The Superdome – An Icon Transformed|url=http://superdome.com/uploads/SUPERDOMEMEDIAKIT5.3.12FINAL.pdf|publisher=State of Louisiana|access-date=September 6, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221185008/http://superdome.com/uploads/SUPERDOMEMEDIAKIT5.3.12FINAL.pdf|archive-date=February 21, 2014}}</ref><br />[[Basketball]]: 73,432<br />[[Baseball]]: 56,941
| record_attendance = 78,133 ([[WrestleMania 34]], April 8, 2018)
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* The [[Republican National Convention]] was held there in 1988, nominating then-[[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] [[George H. W. Bush]] for president and [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] [[Dan Quayle]] of [[Indiana]] as vice president.<ref name=Timeline />
* In June 1996, ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996 film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'', Disney's 34th animated feature, had a gala world premiere at this stadium, with over 65,000 people attending the event.
* From February 14 to 25, 2000, ''[[Wheel of Fortune (American game show)|Wheel of Fortune]]'' aired two weeks' worth of shows that were taped in the dome in January 2000.2 weeks New Orleans week college week.
* In August 2001, the [[Bassmaster Classic XXXI]] final weigh-in was held in the stadium.
* In 2020, the Finish Line of [[CBS]]'s reality competition ''[[The Amazing Race 32]]'' was held at the Superdome.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.goldderby.com/feature/the-amazing-race-32-premiere-date-spoilers-everything-to-know-1203353485/|title=Everything to know about 'The Amazing Race 32'|work=[[Gold Derby]]|last=Eng|first=Joyce|date=September 28, 2020|access-date=December 10, 2020}}</ref>
* In 2005, during [[Hurricane Katrina]], people who couldn't evacuate stayed in the Superdome, where things got really bad. <ref>{{Cite news |last=Guarino |first=Mark |date=2015-08-16 |title=Misleading reports of lawlessness after Katrina worsened crisis, officials say |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/16/hurricane-katrina-new-orleans-looting-violence-misleading-reports |access-date=2024-11-01 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
 
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