Milestones

Ten years ago: A judge in New York ordered the feuding San Diego Yacht Club and a New Zealand challenger to settle the battle for the America’s Cup with a September race. The Americans used a two-hulled catamaran to easily defeat the New Zealanders’ monohull, setting off a legal dispute that ended two years later in victory for the American team.

Five years ago: Israelis launched raids on guerrilla bases in south Lebanon, while guerrillas fired rockets into Israel; the fighting ended July 31 with a U.S.-brokered cease-fire.

One year ago: Autumn Jackson, the young woman who claimed to be Bill Cosby’s out-of-wedlock daughter, was convicted by a federal jury in New York of trying to extort $40 million from the entertainer.