Milestones

DIED

Camilla Williams, 92, the first black woman to perform a lead role with a major U.S. opera troupe; the soprano also sang at the 1963 Washington civil rights march.

WON

The Australian Open, by Novak Djokovic, who defeated Rafael Nadal in a 5 hr. 53 min. match, the longest Grand Slam singles final in pro-tennis history.

DIED

Nicol Williamson, 75, a mercurial British actor who courted controversy as Hamlet and Macbeth onstage and as a cocaine-shooting Sherlock Holmes on film.

SCORED

The first perfect 100 in Winter X Games superpipe history, by snowboarding star Shaun White, who won his fifth...

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