Milestones
Ten years ago: The Senate Armed Services Committee voted against recommending the nomination of John Tower to become secretary of defense.
Five years ago: Military chiefs of Bosnia’s Muslim-led government and their second-strongest foes, Bosnia’s Croats, signed a truce. Russia’s new parliament took a swipe at President Boris Yeltsin by granting amnesty to leaders of the 1991 Soviet coup and the hard-liners who’d fought him in 1993.
One year ago: Forty-two people were killed, some 2,600 homes and businesses damaged or destroyed, by tornadoes in central Florida.