Ten years ago: Baseball manager Dick Howser, who’d led the Kansas City Royals to a World Series championship, died at age 51 after a yearlong struggle with brain cancer.

Five years ago: President Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed a breakthrough arms-reduction agreement. Addressing Congress, Yeltsin pledged to find any American prisoners of war still being held in Russia.

One year ago: ValuJet Airlines suspended its flight schedule indefinitely after a federal inspection found “several serious deficiencies” in the discount carrier’s operations. (ValuJet resumed limited operations 15 weeks later.)