Milestones

Ten years ago: Iraq urged its people to stockpile oil to avoid shortages should war break out, and Saddam Hussein declared he was “ready to crush any attack.”

Five years ago: The Federal Reserve cut a key interest rate, a day after the biggest one-day stock plunge in four years.

One year ago: Space shuttle Discovery and seven astronauts roared into the night toward the crippled Hubble Space Telescope.