Milestones

Sat., Jan. 23, 1999

Ten years ago: Surrealist artist Salvador Dali died in his native Spain at age 84.

Five years ago: Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, visiting Japan, met with Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa, who promised to go through with a scheduled summit with President Clinton. The Dallas Cowboys and the Buffalo Bills won their respective NFL conference playoffs to set up a Super Bowl rematch.

One year ago: Fighting scandal allegations involving Monica Lewinsky, President Clinton assured his Cabinet that he was innocent. A judge in Fairfax, Va., sentenced Mir Aimal Kasi to death for an assault rifle attack outside CIA headquarters in 1993 that killed two men and wounded three other people.

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