Milestones
Ten years ago: On Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average ended the day above 2,800 for the first time, at 2,810.15.
Five years ago: Chechen defenders drove Russian troops out of the capital of Grozny. Marion Barry was inaugurated as mayor of Washington, D.C., four years after leaving office to serve a six-month sentence for misdemeanor drug possession.
One year ago: A U.N.-chartered cargo plane carrying nine people was downed in Angola’s central highland war zone; there were no survivors.