Milestones

Ten years ago: The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 2,400 for the first time. Sugar Ray Leonard upset Marvin Hagler to become middleweight champion. Los Angeles Dodgers executive Al Campanis said on ABC that blacks “may not have some of the necessities” to be major-league managers.

Five years ago: The Supreme Court limited some undercover sting operations as it ruled that a farmer had been entrapped by postal agents into buying mail-order child pornography.

One year ago: A sorrowful President Clinton was on hand at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to greet the arrival of 33 flag-draped caskets carrying the remains of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and other victims of a plane crash in Croatia.