1937 A sit-down strike against General Motors ended with the company agreeing to recognize the United Automobile Workers Union.
1993 President Bill Clinton announced his choice of Miami prosecutor Janet Reno to be the nation's first female attorney general.
2004 A car bomb at an army recruiting center in Baghdad, Iraq, killed 47 people.
2006 Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and wounded a companion during a quail hunt in Texas.
2006 Dubai Ports World, a state-owned business in the United Arab Emirates, struck a $6.8 billion deal to take over operations at six U.S. ports. (The deal was later blocked.)
2008 The Defense Department charged Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and five other detainees at Guantanamo Bay with murder and war crimes in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks. (Charges against one were later dropped.)
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