Milestones

Ten years ago: In the face of heated student protests, the trustees of all-women Mills College in Oakland, Calif., voted to rescind their earlier decision to admit men.

Five years ago:Triumphant Republicans pushed a historic budget through the House that they said would wring an unprecedented $1.4 trillion in savings from federal budgets over the next seven years. Ballet dancer Alexander Godunov was found dead at age 45.

One year ago: Georgette Smith, a Florida woman left paralyzed from the neck down after being shot by her elderly mother, won the right to be taken off life support. (Smith died the next day, shortly after being taken off a ventilator; her mother, Shirley Egan, was later acquitted of attempted murder.)