Milestones

Ten years ago: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration began a quarantine of all fruit imported from Chile after traces of cyanide were found in two Chilean grapes. The space shuttle Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on a five-day mission.

Five years ago: The Israeli Cabinet outlawed two Jewish extremist groups, Kach and Kahane Lives, branding them terrorist organizations.

One year ago: Sgt. Maj. Gene McKinney, once the Army’s top enlisted man, was acquitted at his court-martial of pressuring military women for sex, but was convicted of trying to persuade his chief accuser to lie.