1908 – Carriage-maker William C. Durant founded General Motors in Flint, Michigan.
1919 – American Legion incorporated by an act of Congress.
1926 – Hurricane in Florida and Alabama kills 372 people.
1931 – Blimp is moored to Empire State Building in New York City.
1937 – Redskins play first game in Washington at Griffith Stadium and defeat the New York Giants 13-3 in NFL season opener.
1940 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Selective Training and Service Act, which called for the first peacetime draft in the United States.
1947 – John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 394.3 mph.
1953 – First movie in Cinemascope, “The Robe,” based on the book by Lloyd C. Douglas, directed by Henry Koster and starring Richard Burton and Jean Simmons, premieres.
1960 – Amos Alonzo Stagg retires as a football coach at 98 years old.
1964 – “Shindig” premieres on ABC-TV.
1968 – Richard Nixon appears on “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-in.”
1974 – President Gerald Ford announces conditional amnesty for Vietnam War deserters.
1979 – Catfish Hunter Day at Yankee Stadium.
1988 – Cincinnati Reds’ Tom Browning pitches a perfect game, beats Los Angeles Dodgers 1-0.
1992 – Federal Communications Commission votes to allow competition for local phone service.
1999 – A state-record 14.8 inches of rainfall from Hurricane Floyd at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
2007 – One-Two-Go Airlines flight 269 carrying 128 crew and passengers crashes in Thailand, killing 89 people.
2013 – 12 people are killed after a gunman opens fire at a naval yard in Washington, D.C.
2019 – 50,000 workers at General Motors go on strike in the United States over pay and factory closings.
2021 – Idaho Department of Health and Wellness says the whole state is in a hospital resource crisis, will ration healthcare due to COVID-19 surge.
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