Milestones

Sun., April 2, 2000

Ten years ago: In a conciliatory gesture, the president of Lithuania invited Kremlin officials to discuss the republic’s secession drive. The University of Nevada at Las Vegas won the NCAA college basketball championship, defeating Duke 103-73.

Five years ago: Baseball owners accepted the players’ union offer to play without a contract, ending the longest and costliest strike in the history of professional sports. Members of the extremist group Hamas accidentally set off a bomb that tore through their hideout in the Gaza Strip, killing six people.

One year ago: The Labor Department reported that the nation’s unemployment rate fell to a 29-year low of 4.2 percent in March 1999.

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