Milestones

DIED

Andrew Geller, 87, designer of the American house shown in Moscow in 1959 that sparked the "kitchen debate" between Nikita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon.

FIRED

The entire police force of Veracruz, Mexico--900 officers--to curb drug-related corruption; the Gulf state handed security control to the Mexican navy.

DIED

Joe Simon, 98, co-creator of Captain America in the year before the U.S. entered World War II; Simon was also the first editor of Timely Comics, which evolved into Marvel Comics.

DIED

Bettye Danoff, 88, who along with Babe Didrikson Zaharias and 11 others founded the LPGA in 1950; she played golf from...

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