Milestones

Ten years ago: PTL founders Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker returned to the television pulpit for the first time in two years, broadcasting from a borrowed house in Pineville, N.C.

Five years ago: The new Republican mayor of New York City, Rudolph Giuliani, delivered his inaugural address in which he called for unity while promising to crack down on crime and tackle the city’s budget problems.

One year ago: The defense in the Terry Nichols trial rested its case in the penalty phase after calling nine witnesses who pleaded for his life. (Nichols had already been convicted of conspiracy, which carried a potential death sentence, and involuntary manslaughter for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.)