Milestones

Ten years ago: Hungary’s Communist Party renounced Marxism in favor of democratic socialism during a party congress in Budapest.

Five years ago: President Clinton ordered Army troops on alert and dispatched an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf after Iraqi troops were spotted moving south toward Kuwait.

One year ago: Matthew Shepard, a gay college student at the University of Wyoming, was beaten, robbed and left tied to a wooden fence post outside of Laramie; he died five days later.