DIED
• Aubrey McClendon, 56, ex–Chesapeake CEO, in a car wreck, one day after being indicted for conspiring to rig energy lease bids.
• George Kennedy, 91, star of the Airport movies, who won the 1967 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for Cool Hand Luke.
• Louise Rennison, 63, author best known for her young-adult novel Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging.
ELECTED
As the new president of FIFA, Gianni Infantino. Infantino, 45, succeeds the disgraced Sepp Blatter as head of soccer’s powerful international governing body, which has been rocked by corruption scandals.
VETOED
By Dennis Daugaard, Republican governor of South Dakota, a bill that would have made the state the first in the country to restrict bathroom access for transgender public-school students.
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