Milestones

By Amanda Bower, Val Castronovo, Matthew Cooper, Randy Hartwell, Unmesh Kher, Benjamin Nugent, Julie Rawe, Chris Taylor and Josh Tyrangiel

BORN. To CELINE DION, 32, chanteuse Quebecoise, and Rene Angelil, 59, her husband-manager; a boy, RENE-CHARLES, who was conceived in vitro; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Dion has said she has a second embryo stored at a fertility clinic, ready to help give her son a sibling.

INDICTED. RON CAREY, ex-Teamsters president who had pledged to clean up corruption in the union; on seven counts of perjury following an investigation into illegal fund raising for his 1996 re-election; in Manhattan. The indictment accuses Carey of lying about his knowledge of $855,000 in union funds diverted to his successful campaign against James P. Hoffa.

BAIL DENIED. To PAVEL BORODIN, Russian official and Vladimir Putin confidant; by a U.S. federal judge; in Brooklyn. Borodin was detained Jan. 17 at New York's Kennedy airport, while en route to George Bush's Inauguration, on allegations by Swiss prosecutors that he received millions in kickbacks from Swiss companies doing renovations at the Kremlin.

CONVICTED. LIONEL TATE, 13; of first-degree murder; by a jury in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. While imitating World Wrestling Federation moves in 1999, Tate dropped, kicked and body-slammed six-year-old Tiffany Eunick, who suffered fatal injuries. Tate, who turns 14 this week, was tried as an adult. He faces life in prison without parole.

DIED. TOMMIE AGEE, 58, centerfielder and lead-off hitter for New York's "Miracle" Mets of 1969; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Acquired in 1968, Agee was hit on the head by the very first pitch he saw as a Met and endured a 0-for-34 slump. The following season, Agee's quick feet and splendid glove helped the Mets rise from ignominy to the World Series, where he made two of the greatest catches in baseball history and powered the team to victory.

DIED. CANDIDA DONADIO, 71, keen-eyed literary agent; in Stonington, Conn. In her first job as an agent in 1957, Donadio sold the novel Catch 18, by Joseph Heller. Fearing readers would confuse it with Leon Uris' Mila 18, she suggested the title Catch-22 in honor of her Oct. 22nd birthday. She also sold Philip Roth's Goodbye, Columbus. Her clients included Robert Stone and Mario Puzo. She was criticized in recent years for selling letters written by former client Thomas Pynchon.

DIED. AL MCGUIRE, 72, Hall of Fame coach and broadcaster; in Milwaukee, Wis. After a 21-year college-basketball coaching career and a stint in the pros, McGuire scaled the broadcast booth at nbc and cbs. In his 23 years of on-camera banter, he became known for his effusive "McGuireisms."

DIED. BYRON DE LA BECKWITH, 80, unrepentant white supremacist serving a life sentence for the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers; in Jackson, Miss. During his trial, a smug Beckwith offered cigars to the prosecutor. The all-white jury deadlocked, as did another at a second trial two months later. The case was reopened when the long-missing murder weapon, an Enfield .30-06 rifle, was discovered by the father-in-law of a Jackson assistant district attorney, and Beckwith was convicted in 1994.