On this day in 1982, 10,000 teachers in Detroit walked off the job despite a law banning public employee strikes. The labor action affected 201,000 schoolchildren and was in protest of a Board of Education demand to cut pay by 8%.

Jacobo Árbenz, born on this day in 1913, was a Guatemalan President who earned the ire of the United Fruit Company, the largest private landowner in the country, by instituting widespread land reforms. He was ousted in a U.S-backed coup in 1954.