Milestones

DIED

Adolfo Suárez, 81, Spain’s first Prime Minister after the 36-year reign of dictator Francisco Franco. During his four years in office, until 1981, he helped guide Spain back to democracy before resigning.

RULED

By a National Labor Relations Board official, that Northwestern University football players are employees of the Illinois school and therefore entitled to form the U.S.’s first college athletes’ union. The university has announced it will appeal the decision.

DIED

Lawrence Walsh, 102, onetime federal judge, famed as independent counsel during the Iran-contra scandal who pursued those responsible for illegal arms sales to Iran during the Reagan Administration.

DIED

Robert Strauss, 95, Washington insider, fundraiser and Democratic Party strategist who helped orchestrate Jimmy Carter’s 1976 presidential campaign and served as ambassador to Russia under George H.W. Bush from 1991 to 1993.

CONVICTED

By a Manhattan federal-court jury, Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law, Sulaiman Abu Gaith, 48. Found guilty of conspiring to kill Americans, he faces life in prison.