Milestones

DIED

Eugene Polley, 96, inventor of the first wireless TV remote control in 1955; the Flash-Matic shot a beam of light to corners of the TV screen to change the channel.

LAUNCHED

Space X’s Falcon 9 rocket, from Cape Canaveral; it is the first commercial spacecraft to launch into orbit to deliver supplies to the International Space Station.

WON

The UEFA Champions League, by Britain’s FC Chelsea, which defeated German juggernaut Bayern Munich 4-3 in penalty shots after a tie in regulation play.

DIED

Abdel Basset Ali Megrahi, 60, Libyan convicted of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people.

SENTENCED

Shakil Afridi, by a Pakistani tribal court, to 33 years in prison on the charge of treason; the physician was accused of helping the CIA locate Osama bin Laden.

DIED

Herbert Breslin, 87, publicist and manager, who for 36 years guided the career of Luciano Pavarotti; Breslin later wrote a tell-all memoir about the famed tenor.