Milestones

By Elizabeth L. Bland; Heather Won Tesoriero

KNIGHTED. RUDY GIULIANI, 57, New York City mayor; by Queen Elizabeth. Naming the mayor a Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Prince Andrew, in a visit to New York, cited his "outstanding help and support to the bereaved British families in New York" after the Sept. 11 attack. Because he is not a British citizen, he will not be called Sir.

ARRESTED. WINNIE MADIKIZELA-MANDELA, 65, controversial ex-wife of Nelson Mandela; on 85 counts of fraud involving more than $100,000; in Pretoria. The charges involve an alleged scheme to obtain loans for nonexistent employees of the African National Congress Woman's League, of which she is president.

DIED. EMILY COURIC, 54, Virginia state senator; of pancreatic cancer; in Charlottesville. Best known countrywide as the older sister of NBC's Today show co-host Katie Couric, she was regarded at home as a principled but not partisan Democrat who shared her sister's peppy charm. "Pancreatic cancer is not, as my sister says, the cancer of choice," Emily said.

DIED. JAY LIVINGSTON, 86, pop composer; in Los Angeles. In the 1940s and '50s, with collaborator Ray Evans (standing), he wrote songs for more than 80 movies, including the Academy Award-winning tunes Que Sera, Sera, Buttons and Bows and Mona Lisa, which was not a love song at all but a coded message in a World War II movie. The classic Christmas song that became Silver Bells started out as Tinkle Bells until Livingston was advised by his wife to change it. It was known around the Livingston home as "the annuity." Later, the duo wrote theme music for such television shows as Bonanza and Mister Ed. It is Livingston's voice that sings "A horse is a horse/Of course, of course..."

DIED. ZHANG XUELIANG, 100, Chinese warlord; in Honolulu. In December 1936, in an event now known as the Xian Incident, he sent his troops to kidnap Chiang Kai-shek, releasing him two weeks later when Chiang promised to work with the communists to battle Japan. The promise resulted in a decade of cooperation that positioned the communists to conquer the entire Chinese mainland in 1949. Zhang spent the next 55 years under house arrest, mostly in Taiwan, but his reputation as a patriot grew. As democracy arrived in Taiwan in the early 1990s, he was given increasing freedom and began to spend more time in the U.S. with his descendants.