1908<\/strong> – General Motors was founded by William Crapo “Billy” Durant. The company was formed by merging the Buick and Olds car companies.<\/p>\n 1924<\/strong> – Jim Bottomley knocked in 12 runs in a single game setting a major league baseball record.<\/p>\n 1940<\/strong> – U.S. President Roosevelt signed into law the Selective Training and Service Act, which set up the first peacetime military draft in U.S. history.<\/p>\n 1940<\/strong> – Samuel T. Rayburn of Texas was elected Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. He served for 17 years.<\/p>\n 1941<\/strong> – “The Arkansas Traveler” debuted on CBS Radio. The show was later renamed “The Bob Burns Show.”<\/p>\n 1953<\/strong> – “The Robe” premiered at the Roxy Theater in New York. It was the first movie filmed in the widescreen CinemaScope process.<\/p>\n 1953<\/strong> – The St. Louis Browns of the American League were given permission to move to Baltimore, MD, where they became the Baltimore Orioles.<\/p>\n 1963<\/strong> – “The Outer Limits” premiered on ABC-TV.<\/p>\n 1965<\/strong> – “The Dean Martin Show” debuted on NBC-TV.<\/p>\n 1968<\/strong> – “The Andy Griffith Show” was seen for the final time on CBS.<\/p>\n 1972<\/strong> – “The Bob Newhart Show” premiered on CBS-TV.<\/p>\n 1974<\/strong> – U.S. President Ford announced a conditional amnesty program for draft evaders and deserters during the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n 1976<\/strong> – The Episcopal Church formally approved women to be ordained as priests and bishops.<\/p>\n 1982<\/strong> – In west Beirut, the massacre of hundreds of Palestinian men, women, and children began in refugee camps of the Lebanese Christian militiamen.<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong> – The Communist Party in China announced changes in leadership that were designed to bring younger officials into power.<\/p>\n 1987<\/strong> – The Montreal Protocol was signed by 24 countries in an effort to save the Earth’s ozone layer by reducing emissions of harmful chemicals by the year 2000.<\/p>\n 1988<\/strong> – Tom Browning pitched the 12th perfect game in major league baseball.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> – An eight-minute videotape of an address by U.S. President George H.W. Bush was shown on Iraqi television. The message warned that action of Saddam Hussein could plunge them into a war “against the world.”<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong> – Exxon Corporation was ordered by a federal jury to pay $5 billion in punitive damages to the people harmed by the 1989 Exxon Valdez<\/i> spill.<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong> – Two astronauts from the space shuttle Discovery<\/i> went on the first untethered spacewalk in 10 years.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – Universal paid $9 million for the rights to the Dr. Seuss classics “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” and “Oh, the Places You’ll Go.”<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – Meryl Streep received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.<\/p>\n 2004<\/strong> \u2013 Hurricane Ivan makes landfall in Gulf Shores, Alabama as a Category 3 hurricane.<\/p>\n 2005<\/strong> \u2013 The Camorra organized crime boss Paolo Di Lauro is arrested in Naples, Italy.<\/p>\n 2007<\/strong> \u2013 One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 carrying 128 crew and passengers crashes in Thailand killing 89 people.<\/p>\n 2007<\/strong> \u2013 Security guards working for Blackwater Worldwide shoot and kill 17 Iraqis in Nisour Square, Baghdad.<\/p>\n 2013<\/strong> \u2013 A gunman kills twelve people at the Washington Navy Yard.<\/p>\n 2014<\/strong> \u2013 The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant launches its Kobani offensive against Syrian\u2013Kurdish forces.<\/p>\n History of 16 September 1908 – General Motors was founded by William Crapo “Billy” Durant. 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