Milestones

DIED

Edmund Morgan, 97, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian of early America, especially Puritan New England and colonial Virginia, and author of a best-selling biography of Benjamin Franklin.

APPOINTED

Carmen Meléndez, by Venezuela’s President, Nicolás Maduro, as that nation’s first female Defense Minister. She was already Venezuela’s first female admiral.

OPENED

The New Century Global Center, the world’s largest building–more than 18 million sq. ft. of stores, offices, hotels and artificial beach–in Chengdu, China.

DIED

F.D. Reeve, 84, prolific poet and father of Superman star Christopher Reeve. The elder Reeve also published several novels and plays and translated prominent Russian works into English.

DIED

Bert Stern, 83, renowned celebrity photographer best known for his 1962 photo shoot with Marilyn Monroe just six weeks before her death.

DIED

Douglas Dayton, 88, co-founder (in 1961) and first president of the Target chain of superstores, which has since grown into a retail juggernaut with more than 1,700 locations in the U.S. and Canada.