Portal:Current events/2007 September 23
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September 23, 2007 (Sunday)
- The United Automobile Workers sets a deadline of 11am Monday for General Motors to avoid a strike. (New York Times)
- 2007 Atlantic hurricane season: Subtropical Depression 11 is upgraded to Subtropical Storm Jerry, 1070 miles (1725 km) west of the Azores. (AP via ABC News America) (NOAA)
- Yasuo Fukuda, a political moderate, is elected by Japan’s governing Liberal Democratic Party to become the country’s next prime minister. (NYT)
- Some 15,000 Buddhist monks and laymen march through the streets of Rangoon in the sixth day of escalating peaceful protests against the Burmese military regime. (Bangkok Post)