Milestones

Ten years ago: Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini called on Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of “The Satanic Verses,” a novel condemned as blasphemous. Union Carbide agreed to pay $470 million to the government of India in a settlement of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak disaster.

Five years ago: President Clinton said his policies had put the country on track for rising prosperity for years to come. At the Winter Olympics in Norway, speedskater Dan Jansen slipped and fell during the 500 meters race.

One year ago: Authorities officially declared Eric Rudolph a suspect in the bombing of a Birmingham, Ala., abortion clinic. Russia’s Ilya Kulik won the men’s figure skating gold medal at the Nagano Olympics.