Milestones

Monday, June 13, 2011

    • DIED

    Jeff Conaway, 60, star of the television show Taxi; he played Grease's Danny Zuko on Broadway but starred as sidekick Kenickie in the 1978 film version.

    MOVING

    The NHL's Atlanta Thrashers, to Winnipeg, returning hockey to the Manitoban capital after a 15-year absence; they are Atlanta's second lost NHL team.

    ANNOUNCED

    By the Justice Department, new charges against 9/11 planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others, who will be tried by military tribunal at Guantánamo Bay.

    NOMINATED

    John Bryson, former president of Edison International utility, for U.S. Commerce Secretary; Bryson was also a co-founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council.

    BROKEN OUT

    A row between Germany and Spain, after scientists in Hamburg blamed Spanish cucumbers for an E. coli outbreak that killed 16.

    DIED

    Leonora Carrington, 94, Surrealist painter and sculptor and partner to Max Ernst; her self-portrait is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.