DIED
Edmund Morgan, 97, Pulitzer Prize--winning historian of early America, especially Puritan New England and colonial Virginia, and author of a best-selling biography of Benjamin Franklin.
APPOINTED
Carmen Meléndez, by Venezuela's President, Nicolás Maduro, as that nation's first female Defense Minister. She was already Venezuela's first female admiral.
OPENED
The New Century Global Center, the world's largest building--more than 18 million sq. ft. of stores, offices, hotels and artificial beach--in Chengdu, China.
DIED
F.D. Reeve, 84, prolific poet and father of Superman star Christopher Reeve. The elder Reeve also published several novels and plays and translated prominent Russian works into English.
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