Milestones

By Kathleen Adams, Amanda Bower, Val Castronovo, Randy Hartwell, Ellin Martens, Sora Song, Joel Stein and Josh Tyrangiel

MARRIED. WILLIAM SHATNER, 69, retired Captain Kirk and former Priceline pitchman; to horse trainer ELIZABETH MARTIN, 42; in Lebanon, Ind.

DIVORCING. PHYLICIA RASHAD, Cosby Show matriarch, and third husband AHMAD RASHAD, ex-Minnesota Viking and NBC sportscaster; in New York City.

REVERSED. 1999 ruling by KANSAS STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION that eliminated the teaching of evolution as the central theory of human origin. By a 7-to-3 vote, the board restored evolution and the Big Bang to science-class curriculums.

CRASHED. Two ARMY BLACK HAWK helicopters, which "came in contact: and crashed 200 yds. apart while carrying out nighttime exercises, killing six soldiers; in northern Oahu, Hawaii.

CHARGED. JOSEPH MESA JR., 20, freshman at Gallaudet University, a college for the deaf; with two counts of felony murder; in Washington. Mesa, a resident of Guam, dismayed and relieved a terror-stricken campus by admitting that robbery was his motive for killing two freshmen classmates in their dorms, one early this month with the victim's own knife. The other, weak with cerebral palsy, was bludgeoned to death last year. Mesa had no criminal record and had planned to devote his career to the deaf.

CHARGED IN ABSENTIA. ROBERT TULLOCH, 17, and JAMES PARKER, 16, as adults with first-degree murder for the January stabbing deaths of husband-and-wife Dartmouth College professors Half and Susanne Zantop in their secluded home; in Concord, N.H. Warrants were issued for the teens' arrest. At a weekend news conference, authorities warned that the pair should be considered dangerous and refused to comment on a motive.

DIED. KHALID ABDUL MUHAMMAD, 53, former Nation of Islam activist and personal assistant to Louis Farrakhan; reportedly from a brain hemorrhage; in Marietta, Ga. Farrakhan dismissed Muhammad in 1993 after the latter insulted Catholics, whites and gays, calling Jews "bloodsuckers" and the Pope "a no-good cracker." As front man for the New Black Panthers in 1998, he led the contentious "Million Youth March" in New York City.

DIED. LEWIS ARQUETTE, 65, actor, musician and puppeteer who appeared in the film Best in Show and on TV's Seinfeld, son of Tonight Show fixture Cliff (Charley Weaver) Arquette, and father of actors Rosanna, Richmond, Patricia, David and Alexis; of heart failure; in Los Angeles.

DIED. ROSALIE GWATHMEY, 92, photographer of Southern black life and mother of the architect Charles Gwathmey; in Amagansett, N.Y. In the 1940s, Gwathmey chronicled the communities around her hometown of Charlotte, N.C. In 1951 she and a group of her New York colleagues, including Dorothea Lange and Berenice Abbott, were deemed subversive, and in 1955, frustrated by the inhospitable atmosphere, she threw out her negatives and walked away from her craft. For the rest of her life, Gwathmey and the photographic community rarely celebrated her work, until a 1994 show revived interest in her photographs of everyday Southern life.