Milestones
Ten years ago: Vice President Dan Quayle, visiting U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf region, told them he shared their frustration with Saddam Hussein’s refusal to withdraw from Kuwait.
Five years ago: U.S. tank platoons crossed a just-completed pontoon bridge from Croatia to their peacekeeping mission in Bosnia.
One year ago: Russian President Boris Yeltsin announced his resignation. The United States prepared to hand over the Panama Canal to Panama at midnight.