Today is Friday, Sept. 16, the 260th day of 2016. There are 106 days left in the year.

Today’s birthdays: Actress Janis Paige is 94. Actor George Chakiris is 84. Actor Ed Begley Jr. is 67. Actor-comedian Lenny Clarke is 63. Baseball Hall of Famer Robin Yount is 61. Actor Mickey Rourke is 60. Magician David Copperfield is 60. Retired MLB All-Star pitcher Orel Hershiser is 58. Comedian Molly Shannon is 52. Singer Marc Anthony is 48. Comedian-actress Amy Poehler is 45. Rapper Flo Rida is 37. Actress Alexis Bledel is 35. Rock singer-musician Nick Jonas is 24.

In 1908, General Motors was founded in Flint, Mich., by William C. Durant.

In 1976, the Episcopal Church formally approved the ordination of women as priests and bishops.

In 1982, the massacre of between 1,200 and 1,400 Palestinian men, women, and children at the hands of Israeli-allied Christian Phalange militiamen began in west Beirut’s Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.

In 1994, a federal jury in Anchorage ordered Exxon Corp. to pay $5 billion in punitive damages for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.

In 2006, the Vatican said Pope Benedict XVI sincerely regretted offending Muslims with his reference to an obscure medieval text characterizing some of the teachings of Islam’s founder as ‘‘evil and inhuman.’’

In 2011, President Obama signed into law a major overhaul of the nation’s patent system to ease the way for inventors to bring their products to market.