Milestones

Ten years ago: Voters in Mongolia began casting ballots in their Communist-ruled nation’s first multiparty election ever. American Greg Lemond won his third Tour de France title.

Five years ago: Susan Smith was convicted by a jury in Union, S.C., of first-degree murder for drowning her two sons. (She was later sentenced to life in prison.)

One year ago: Family members watched mournfully from the deck of a Navy destroyer as the ashes of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, were cast into the sea off Martha’s Vineyard, consigned to the depths where they died.