Milestones

RELEASED

From prison, Oscar Pistorius, after serving one year of his five-year sentence for culpable homicide in the death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. The South African Paralympian is set to spend the rest of his sentence under house arrest at his uncle’s home in Pretoria.

DISCOVERED

Strong evidence that Central Asia is the most likely location of dogs’ first domestication, possibly in modern-day Mongolia or Nepal, after researchers analyzed DNA from nearly 5,400 dogs.

DECLARED

By Hawaii Governor David Ige, a state of emergency over Hawaii’s enormous homeless population, which is greater per capita than that of any other state in the U.S. The declaration allows Ige to direct $1.3 million toward building housing facilities and maintaining other shelter programs.

DIED

George Mueller, 97, engineer who played a critical role in NASA’s program to put a man on the moon. The day the Apollo 11 crew returned to Earth, he declared, “Today … we conclusively proved that man is no longer bound to the limits of the planet on which for so long he has lived.”

• Skip Yowell, 69, co-founder of the backpack retailer JanSport, which got its start making packs for hikers and now caters more to students. The company was sold in 1986, but Yowell retained the title of vice president.