Milestones

Ten years ago: Leaders of the world’s seven wealthiest industrial democracies opened a three-day economic summit in Toronto.

Five years ago: Nobel Prize-winning author Sir William Golding died at his home in Cornwall, England, at age 81.

One year ago: President Clinton welcomed world leaders to Denver on the eve of an economic summit. McDonald’s won a libel case in London against two vegetarian activists, even though the judge said he agreed with some of the defendants’ sharpest criticisms of the fast-food giant.