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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

Milestones

Ten years ago: Surgeon General C. Everett Koop released a report declaring nicotine was addictive in ways similar to heroin and cocaine. The Supreme Court ruled that police can search discarded garbage without a search warrant.

Five years ago: A two-day Bosnian Serb referendum on a U.N.-backed peace plan ended, with voters rejecting the proposal by a wide margin.

One year ago: President Clinton publicly apologized for the notorious Tuskegee experiment, in which government scientists deliberately allowed black men to weaken and die of treatable syphilis. The space shuttle Atlantis docked with Russia’s Mir station.