Milestones

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DIED

Keith Emerson, 70, progressive-rock star, keyboardist and co-founder of Emerson, Lake & Palmer, a British band that released six platinum albums in the ’70s. Among his well-known songs: “Lucky Man” and the 30-minute-long “Karn Evil 9.”

• Michael White, 80, film and theater impresario famous for producing Monty Python and the Holy Grail and The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

• Lloyd Shapley, 92, a 2012 Nobel laureate known as a father of game theory. He also mentored the troubled mathematician John Nash, subject of the 2002 movie A Beautiful Mind.

ANNOUNCED

The retirement of NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, who spent a total of 520 days in space, including a yearlong stint aboard the International Space Station.

SIGNED

By Governor Kate Brown, a bill that makes Oregon the first state to remove coal from its energy supply. Under the new law, coal would be phased out through 2030.

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