Milestones

Ten years ago: President Bush attended a parade in New York City celebrating the bicentennial of the American presidency.

Five years ago: The counting of ballots began in South Africa’s first all-race elections. Some 100,000 men, women and children fleeing ethnic slaughter in Rwanda crossed into neighboring Tanzania.

One year ago: President Clinton questioned the conduct of Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr and dismissed Republican challenges to his own character as “high-level static” during a news conference.

United and Delta airlines formed an alliance that would control one-third of all U.S. passenger seats. A man set himself on fire and shot himself to death on a Los Angeles area freeway in a scene captured on live television.