Milestones

Sat., July 8, 2000

Ten years ago: Sweden’s Stefan Edberg beat Boris Becker of West Germany to capture his second men’s tennis championship at Wimbledon.

Five years ago: Chinese-American human rights activist Harry Wu was arrested in China and charged with obtaining state secrets. (He was later convicted of espionage and deported.) A deadly heat wave began that would claim more than 800 lives, the majority in Illinois. Steffi Graf won the women’s singles title at Wimbledon, defeating Arantxa Sanchez Vicario.

One year ago: An Air Force cargo jet took off from Seattle on a dangerous mission to Antarctica to drop medicine for Dr. Jerri Nielsen, a physician at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Research Center who had discovered a lump in her breast. (The mission was successful; Nielsen was evacuated the following October.

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