Milestones

Thu., Oct. 21, 1999

1879: Thomas Edison invented a workable electric light at his laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J.

1797: The U.S. Navy frigate Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, was launched in Boston’s harbor.

1945: Women in France were allowed to vote for the first time.

Ten years ago: Rescue workers in Oakland, Calif., pulled longshoreman Buck Helm alive from the wreckage of the Nimitz Freeway, part of which had collapsed during the Oct. 17 earthquake. (Helm died less than a month later.)

Five years ago: United States and North Korea signed an agreement requiring the communist nation to halt its nuclear program and agree to inspections.

One year ago: A radical environmental group, the Earth Liberation Front, claimed responsibility for fires that caused $12 million in damage at the nation’s busiest ski resort in Vail, Colo.

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