Milestones

Ten years ago: Katarina Witt won the gold medal in women’s figure skating at the Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada, with Elizabeth Manley of Canada second and Debi Thomas of the United States, third.

Five years ago: President Clinton, in his weekly radio address, promised to find out who was behind the huge explosion at New York City’s World Trade Center, a bombing later blamed on Islamic militants. Actress Lillian Gish died in New York at age 99.

One year ago: A jury in Fayetteville, N.C., convicted former Army paratrooper James N. Burmeister of murdering a black couple so he could get a skinhead tattoo. He was later sentenced to life in prison. Legislation banning most handguns in Britain went into effect.