DIED
Louis Simpson, 89, poet and academic who specialized in poems of everyday life in the U.S.; his collection At the End of the Open Road won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize.
PRESENTED
The U.S. Congressional Gold Medal, to Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi; the medal was awarded in absentia in 2008 while Suu Kyi was detained in Burma.
EXPIRED
At midnight on Sept. 16, the collective-bargaining agreement between players and owners in the National Hockey League, triggering a lockout, the second in the past decade, that threatens the upcoming season.
DIED
Albert Marre, 87, Tony Award--winning director of more...