Current events of 23 September 2007 (2007-09-23) (Sunday) edit history watch

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)