DIED
George Hendry, 90, who won his first table-tennis national championship at age 14; he also won 35 seniors titles and a world title and was featured on Wheaties cereal boxes.
RESCUED
Twenty-two coal miners who had been trapped for seven days underground in a flooded mine in northeastern China.
DIED
Joey Vento, 71, the founder of Geno's Steaks in South Philadelphia; Vento, who started the 24-hour, seven-day restaurant in 1966, recommended provolone on cheesesteaks instead of the much more popular Cheez Whiz.
DIED
Budd Hopkins, 80, a renowned Abstract Expressionist who devoted the latter half of his life to UFO...
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