Milestones

Ten years ago: Leaders of the seven major industrial democracies called at their economic summit in Paris for “decisive action” against global pollution. Conductor Herbert von Karajan died near Salzburg, Austria, at age 81.

Five years ago: The first of 21 pieces of comet Shoemaker-Levy smashed into Jupiter, to the joy of astronomers awaiting the celestial fireworks.

One year ago: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia refused to block Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr from calling President Clinton’s Secret Service protectors before a grand jury.