Milestones: Jul. 1, 1966

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Born. To Peter Snell, 27, New Zealand track champ, who in 1962 broke three world records in eight days; and Sally Turner Snell, 24: their first child, a girl; in Auckland, New Zealand.

Married. Rod Laver, 27, Australian tennis star, the second amateur ever to win the Australian, Wimbledon, French and U.S. titles in one year (1962), now top moneymaker on the pro circuit; and Mary Bensen, 35, California accountant; she for the second time; in San Rafael, Calif.

Married. Mamie Van Doren, 33, bosomy starlet (High School Confidential); and Lee Meyers, 19, $50,000 bonus pitcher (California Angels) still in the minors; she for the third time; in Boise, Idaho.

Divorced. John Schlesinger, 43, one of South Africa's biggest land developers, currently worth $70 million; by Anna Lee Iva Schlesinger, 42, a New Yorker he married during a World War II stint as a U.S. Air Force bombardier; on uncontested grounds of adultery; after 22 years of marriage, including eight years of separation, and two children; in Pretoria, South Africa.

Divorced. William O. Douglas, 67, Supreme Court Justice for 25 years; by Joan Martin Douglas, 26, his third wife; on uncontested grounds of cruel treatment and personal indignities; after less than three years of marriage (she won the right to resume her maiden name); in Yakima, Wash.

Died. Ferdinando Innocenti, 74, one of the Milan industrialists responsible for Italy's post-World War II economic boom, best known for his Lambrettas, the low-cost scooter that in the 1950s helped put every paisano in the driver's seat, but which were only a small part of his $500 million empire producing steel tubing, heavy machinery, steel furnaces (including a recently completed $400 million steel mill in Venezuela) and English Austins and Mini-Minors with zippy Latin bodies; of a heart attack; in Milan.

Died. Ed Wynn, 79, the "Perfect Fool"; of cancer; in Los Angeles (see SHOW BUSINESS).

Died. Pierre Montet, 80, internationally respected French archaeologist who, after finding the world's oldest alphabetical inscription at a Lebanon site in 1922, went on to spend 20 years excavating at the Nile Delta town of Tanis, onetime capital of ancient Egypt, uncovering through the years three mummies of Pharaohs from the 21st and 22nd dynasties, their gold death masks and silver sarcophagi still intact; of pulmonary congestion; in Paris.