Milestones

By Sean Gregory, Unmesh Kher and Nadia Mustafa

BORN. BEATRICE MILLY MCCARTNEY; to former Beatle Paul McCartney, 61, and his second wife, Heather Mills, 35; by emergency caesarean three weeks early; in London. She is the couple's first child and McCartney's fourth.

RESIGNED. MAHATHIR MOHAMAD, 77, autocratic Malaysian Prime Minister; as expected, after a 22-year tenure during which he spearheaded the largely Muslim nation's rapid transformation from a tin-and rubber-producing backwater to a high-tech exporter but also diminished the judiciary, censored the media and intimidated the opposition. He promoted a moderate brand of Islam, but his last days in office were overshadowed by his statements disparaging Jews.

OVERTURNED. The 1983 conviction of EDWIN WILSON, 75, former CIA officer; after a federal judge ruled that prosecutors used false testimony to hide the fact that the CIA had employed him to sell 20 tons of plastic explosives to Libya in the largest illegal weapons deal in U.S. history; in Houston. Wilson is serving 52 years on three separate convictions--including one for attempted murder--but could be eligible for parole this year.

INJURED. BETHANY HAMILTON, 13, among the nation's best competitive amateur surfers, after a 10-to-15-ft. shark bit off her left arm while she was lying on her surfboard; off Kauai's North Shore, Hawaii. Hamilton had obtained several sponsors and was planning to go pro.

DIED. ROD RODDY, 66, flashy announcer on the long-running game show The Price Is Right; of cancer; in Los Angeles. For 17 years his booming voice invited audience members to "Come on down!"

DIED. FRANCO CORELLI, 82, powerhouse Italian tenor; in Milan. Largely self-taught, he was faulted by critics for the raw passion in his singing but adored by rank-and-file opera buffs, who gave him bravos for such roles as Manrico in Il Trovatore and Cavaradossi in Tosca. His competitiveness sometimes took a strange form; during Puccini's Turandot at New York City's Metropolitan Opera in 1961, he bit a soprano on the neck because she held a high note longer than he did.

DIED. WALTER WASHINGTON, 88, former mayor of Washington and first black chief executive of a major American city; in Washington. The great-grandson of a slave, he was appointed Washington's mayor by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967; eight years later, after the city won home rule, he became its first elected mayor in more than 100 years. He steered the capital through some of the nation's worst urban riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., organized a new municipal bureaucracy and gave the city a budget surplus.