Milestones
Ten years ago: West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s Christian Democratic Union suffered a major setback in West Berlin municipal elections.
Five years ago: Japan’s Parliament approved watershed measures to stem political corruption. In South Africa, Nelson Mandela kicked off his party’s campaign for the country’s first multiracial elections.
One year ago: A bomb rocked an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., killing Robert Sanderson, an off-duty police officer working as a security guard, and critically injuring Emily Lyons, a nurse.