Milestones: Jul. 2, 1984

BORN. To Robyn Gibson, 27, and Mel Gibson, 28, American-born Australian hunky-dory actor (The Year of Living Dangerously, The Bounty): their fourth child, third son; in Sydney.

DIED. Soia Mentschikoff, 69, Russian-born legal scholar and educator who specialized in commercial law and broke down many professional barriers: in 1947 she became the first woman to teach law at Harvard, in 1951 the first at the University of Chicago; from 1974 until her 1982 retirement, she was dean of the University of Miami law school, one of the first women so appointed at an accredited...

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