Milestones

Mon., Feb. 7, 2000

Ten years ago: The Soviet Union’s Communist Party agreed to let other political parties compete for control of the country, thereby giving up its monopoly on power. An 811-foot tanker, the American Trader, spilled hundreds of thousands of gallons of Alaskan crude oil off the coast of Huntington Beach, Calif..

Five years ago: Ramzi Yousef, the alleged mastermind of the World Trade Center bombing, was arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan, after two years as a fugitive.

One year ago: Jordan’s King Hussein died of cancer at age 63; he was succeeded by his eldest son, Abdullah. NASA launched the Stardust spacecraft on a mission to chase a comet in hopes of collecting a sample of comet dust.

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