{"id":34046,"date":"2017-09-16T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=34046"},"modified":"2017-09-15T08:45:05","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T13:45:05","slug":"this-day-in-history-founding-of-general-motors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=34046","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; Founding of General Motors"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>September 16<\/h3>\n<p>1630<br \/>\nThe Massachusetts village of Shawmut changed its name to Boston.<\/p>\n<p>1810<br \/>\nMexico began its revolt against Spanish rule.<\/p>\n<p>1908<br \/>\nGeneral Motors was founded by William C. Durant.<\/p>\n<p>1919<br \/>\nThe American Legion was incorporated by an act of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>1940<br \/>\nThe United States first adopted peacetime conscription when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Selective Training and Service Act into law.<\/p>\n<p>1974<br \/>\nPresident Ford announced conditional amnesty for Vietnam War deserters and draft evaders.<\/p>\n<p>1975<br \/>\nPapua New Guinea became independent.<\/p>\n<p>1982<br \/>\nLebanese Christians massacred hundreds of Palestinian refugees in Beirut.<\/p>\n<p>1987<br \/>\nThe Montreal Protocol was signed by 25 nations, limiting production of substances that harm the ozone layer. To date, 197 nations have ratified the protocol.<\/p>\n<h3>Birthdays<\/h3>\n<p>Nadia Boulanger<\/p>\n<p>Pronunciation: [n\u00e4dy\u00e4\u00b4 bOOl\u00e4NzhA\u00b4]\n1887\u20131979, French conductor and musician, born in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>James Jerome Hill<\/p>\n<p>railroad builder (1838)<\/p>\n<p>Albrecht Kossel<\/p>\n<p>physiologist (1853)<\/p>\n<p>Jean Arp<\/p>\n<p>sculptor, painter (1887)<\/p>\n<p>Allen Funt<\/p>\n<p>radio and television producer (1914)<\/p>\n<p>Lauren Bacall<\/p>\n<p>actress (1924)<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Byrd<\/p>\n<p>jazz guitarist (1925)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 16 1630 The Massachusetts village of Shawmut changed its name to Boston. 1810 Mexico began its revolt against Spanish rule. 1908 General Motors was&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6132],"tags":[69,106,103,1495,6131],"class_list":["post-34046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today","tag-fhsu","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-tiger-media-network","tag-tigermedianet","tag-today-in-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34047,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34046\/revisions\/34047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}