Milestones

Ten years ago: Hundreds of residents of Lockerbie, Scotland, paid silent tribute to five of the Americans killed in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, as coffins containing victims’ remains began the journey home.

Five years ago: U.S. officials said that Strobe Talbott, who had served as the Clinton administration’s chief Russia policy architect, would take over the number-two spot at the State Department.

One year ago: Billy Wright, Northern Ireland’s most notorious Protestant militant, was shot to death by three members of the Irish National Liberation Army at the Maze Prison outside Belfast.