Milestones

Tue., Oct. 26, 1999

Ten years ago: Washington, D.C. attorney Paul Tagliabue was tapped by NFL team owners to be the league’s new commissioner, succeeding Pete Rozelle.

Five years ago: Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel and Prime Minister Abdel Salam Majali of Jordan signed a peace treaty during an extravagant ceremony at the Israeli-Jordanian border.

One year ago: Russian President Boris Yeltsin was ordered by his doctors to cancel a one-day trip to Austria so he could recuperate from high blood pressure and extreme fatigue. The Education Department reported that the default rate on student loans had fallen into single digits for the first time.

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