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1995 1st NBA game at General Motors Place, Vancouver Grizzlies beat Minnesota Timberwolves 100-98 in OT

1993 General Motors sues NBC, alleging that "Dateline NBC" program had rigged 2 car-truck crashes to show that 1973-87 GM pickups were prone to fires

1992 Dateline NBC airs a demonstration show General Motors trucks, blowing up on impact, later revealed NBC rigged test

1991 General Motors announces closing of 21 plants

1991 General Motors announces 9 month loss of $2.2 billion

1989 Tina Barrett wins LPGA Mitsubishi Motors Ocean State Golf Open

1987 Chrysler Corp offered to buy American Motors Corp for $1 billion

1981 Roger Smith becomes CEO of General Motors

1979 NL approves Astros sales from Ford Motors to John J McMullen for $19M

1977 General Motors introduces 1st U.S. diesel auto (Oldsmobile 88)

1966 Tina Barrett, Balt, LPGA golfer, 1989 Mitsubishi Motors Ocean State

1962 Harlow H Curtice, President of General Motors (1953-8), dies at 69

1959 Patty Jordan, Buffalo, New York, LPGA golfer, 1988 Mitsubishi Motors Ocean

1955 Fiat Motors orders 1st private atomic reactor

1952 Maurice Olley of General Motors begins designing the Corvette

1951 British auto manufacturers Austin/Moris Motors merge

1950 General Motors reports net earnings of $656,434,232 (record)

1945 General Motors workers go on strike

1937 44-day sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint Mich ends

1929 General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel

1928 Donald E Petersen, Minnesota, exec, Ford Motors

1927 Pastor of Have begins blessing of motorcars/motors

1926 James Cox of Ford Motors announces 8 hr day and $5 daily minimum wage

1925 Roger Smith, CEO, General Motors

1908 Carriage-maker, William Durant, founded General Motors Corp

1908 William Crapo Durant incorporates General Motors in Janesville Wisc

1903 Ford Motors incorporates

1897 Oldsmobile begins operation as a General Motors Corp division

1893 Harlow H Curtice, President of General Motors, 1953-8

1890 Charles Wilson, President of General Motors, 1940-53, /Sec of Def, 1953-57

1879 Baldwin steam motors tram 1st tried in Sydney Australia



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