Milestones

Ten years ago: The Soviet Union won the first gold medal of the Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, in the women’s air rifle event, while U.S. divers picked up silver and bronze medals in women’s platform.

Five years ago: Kimberly Clarice Aiken of South Carolina was crowned Miss America at the pageant in Atlantic City, N.J.

One year ago: Two gunmen opened fire on a group of German tourists in front of the Egyptian Museum in downtown Cairo, killing nine tourists and a bus driver. Voters in Wales narrowly approved a British government offer to set up a Welsh assembly. Media mogul Ted Turner pledged to spend $1 billion on United Nations causes.