Milestones

Tue., Aug. 24, 1999

Ten years ago: Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti banned Cincinnati Reds Manager Pete Rose from major league baseball for gambling. The Voyager 2 space probe flew past Neptune, sending back photographs.

Five years ago: Israeli and PLO negotiators agreed on an accord to give the Palestinians control of health care, taxation, education and other services in West Bank areas still controlled by Israel.

One year ago: The United States and Britain agreed to allow two Libyan suspects in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 to be tried by a Scottish court sitting in the Netherlands. A federal court rejected the Census Bureau’s plans to use statistical sampling for the 2000 census, a decision later upheld by the Supreme Court.

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