Milestones: Dec. 10, 1965

Born. To Crown Prince Akihito, 31, No. 1 son of Japan's Emperor Hirohito, and Princess Michiko, 31; their second child, second son; in Tokyo.

Married. Henry Fonda, 60, Hollywood's Jack-of-all-parts turned bewildered father of Broadway's Generation; and Shirlee Mae Adams, 33, former American Airlines stewardess; he for the fifth time (his others: Actress Margaret Sullavan, Socialites Frances Brokaw, Susan Blanchard and Afdera Franchetti); in Mineola, L.I., where New York Supreme Court Justice Edwin R. Lynde sternly admonished: "No couple I have married has broken apart. I don't expect you to."

Died. Erich Apel,...

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