16 September 1620: Mayflower’s departure for America.
16 September 1908: General Motors was founded by William C. Durant.
16 September 1919: The American Legion was incorporated by an act of Congress.
16 September 1970: King Hussein of Jordan declared martial law following the hijacking of four international airliners by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
16 September 1975: Papua New Guinea achieved full independence from Australia.
16 September 1982: Lebanese Christians massacred hundreds of Palestinian refugees in Beirut.
16 September 1998: The Basque separatist organization ETA announced an indefinite cease-fire after 30 years of terrorist guerrilla attacks in Spain that were blamed for 800 deaths; the peace lasted 14 months.
Blessed is the man, who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot
Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.
- Barbara Bush
Your silent thoughts are like the roots of a plant. They remain hidden in the dark recesses of the earth, but from them stems the whole plant—its life and form, its strength and beauty. From them and through them the plant lives and dies. So, too, your thoughts, although hidden, are your real, vital force.
- Lawrence G. Lovasik
