This Day In History
- 1630 The Massachusetts village of Shawmut changed its name to Boston.
- 1638 France's King Louis XIV was born.
- 1810 Mexicans began their revolt against Spanish rule.
- 1893 Hundreds of thousands of settlers swarmed onto a section of land in Oklahoma known as the ''Cherokee Strip.''
- 1908 General Motors was founded on this day. The man responsible for the beginning of the huge auto-manufacturing company (maker of Cadillac, Buick, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Chevrolet) was William Crapo ‘Billy’ Durant.
- 1919 The American Legion was incorporated by an act of Congress.
- 1940 Samuel T. Rayburn of Texas was elected Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
- 1940 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the Selective Training and Service Act, which set up the first peacetime military draft in U.S. history.
- 1966 The Metropolitan Opera opened its new opera house at New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
- 1972 ''The Bob Newhart Show'' premiered on CBS.
- 1977 Opera singer Maria Callas died in Paris at age 53.
- 1982 A massacre of hundreds of Palestinian men, women and children by Lebanese Christian militiamen began in west Beirut's Sabra and Chatilla refugee camps.
- 1987 Two dozen countries signed the Montreal Protocol, a treaty designed to save the Earth's ozone layer by calling on nations to reduce emissions of harmful chemicals.
- 1996 Former national security adviser McGeorge Bundy died in Boston at age 77.
- 2003 North Carolina Sen. John Edwards formally launched his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.
- 1914 Allen Funt (radio/TV producer, host: Candid Microphone, Candid Camera; films: What Do You Say to a Naked Lady?, Money Talks; died Sep 5, 1999)
- 1924 Lauren Bacall (Betty Perske) (actress)
- 1925 B.B. (Riley B.) King (musician, singer)
- 1927 Peter Falk (Emmy Award-winning actor)
- 1927 Jack Kelly (actor: Maverick)
- 1944 Linda Henning (actress: Petticoat Junction)
- 1956 David Copperfield (Kotkin) (magician, illusionist)
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