Milestones

DIED

Elisabeth Bing, 100, the “mother of Lamaze,” who championed the more natural childbirth technique. An estimated quarter of expectant mothers in the U.S. attend Lamaze classes.

RECALLED

By Japan-based auto-parts maker Takata, more air bags, bringing the total to 34 million. A defect sometimes causes the bags to explode, which has led to six deaths and more than 100 injuries.

FILED

A complaint by the Federal Trade Commission claiming that four cancer charities are fraudulent. The group behind all four is accused of spending some of its $187 million on personal expenses.

DISCOVERED

An image that may be the only likeness of William Shakespeare created during the playwright’s lifetime. A historian found it in a 1598 encyclopedia.

DIED

Aruna Shanbaug, 66, a nurse in India who had been in a coma for 42 years after being raped and physically assaulted by an orderly. She died of pneumonia but had become the face of arguments over euthanasia in the country.

ANNOUNCED

By President Obama, new restrictions on the military gear the federal government provides or funds for local police departments. This includes tanks and grenade launchers.