Milestones

DIED

Screenwriter Melissa Mathison, 65, who wrote the beloved E.T., for which she received an Oscar nomination. Her other films include Kundun and The Indian in the Cupboard. She had recently worked with Steven Spielberg again, on an adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The BFG.

WON

The English-language World Scrabble Championship, by Nigerian Wellington Jighere. With the 36-pointer felty, he became the first African to win the title.

FOUND

A sunken steamship in Lake Huron that is likely the Hydrus, the last unrecovered ship to sink in the Great Storm of 1913, the strongest on record in the Great Lakes. A group of shipwreck hunters had been searching for it for 30 years.