Milestones
Ten years ago: Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev told an angry Soviet legislature he would fire government and military officials blocking his reform plans.
Five years ago: Attorney General Janet Reno disclosed she has Parkinson’s disease.
One year ago: 13-year-old Nathaniel Abraham, among the youngest murder defendants in U.S. history, was convicted in Pontiac, Mich., of second-degree murder for shooting a stranger outside a convenience store with a rifle.