On September 16, 1908, William C. Durant founded General Motors.
The General Motors Company was founded in 1908 by William C. Durant to consolidate several motorcar companies producing Buick, Oldsmobile, Cadillac, Oakland (later Pontiac), Ewing, Marquette, and other automobiles, as well as Reliance and Rapid trucks.
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NASA publicly unveils its first space shuttle, the Enterprise, on September 17, 1976, in Palmdale, California.
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Hyderabad State was a Dominion and later Republic of India state formed after the princely state of Hyderabad joined the Indian Union on September 17, 1948.
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On September 17, 1787, 39 of the 55 delegates signed the new document, with many refusing to sign due to the lack of a bill of rights.
George Sudarshan, a famous Indian physicist, was born in Kerala on September 16, 1931.
Narendra Damodardas Modi was born on September 17, 1950, in Vadnagar
M. F. Husain was born on September 17, 1915, in Pandharpur, Maharashtra, India.
Mäki was the first person to run 10,000 metres in under 30 minutes.