Milestones

DIED

Jack Layton, 61, the leader of the New Democratic Party, Canada's official opposition; Layton had served as a Member of Parliament from Toronto since 2004.

DIED

Hazel Johnson-Brown, 83, the first African-American woman to become a U.S. Army general; she was chief of the Army nursing corps for four years.

REPLACED

Sri Lanka, on the 140-ft., 700,000-lb. Unisphere globe, the symbol of the 1964 World's Fair in Queens in New York City; the country's likeness was ripped from the monument by a tornado in September 2010.

DIED

Raul Ruiz, 70, a Chilean-born filmmaker who directed 90 feature films and 30...

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