Milestones

Sat., Jan. 22, 2000

Ten years ago: Up to 2 million Azerbaijanis marched through the republic’s capital to mourn those killed when Soviet troops put down a nationalist revolt. A jury in Syracuse, N.Y., convicted graduate student Robert T. Morris of federal computer tampering charges for unleashing a “worm” that crippled a computer network.

Five years ago: Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy died at the Kennedy compound at Hyannis Port, Mass., at age 104.

Twenty-one Israelis were killed and dozens others injured in a suicide bombing in central Israel.

One year ago: Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., abruptly called for dismissal of charges against President Clinton to “end this sad and sorry time for our country.” President Clinton called for spending $2.8 billion to protect the nation from cyber terrorism and chemical and germ warfare. Pope John Paul II arrived in Mexico.

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