Milestones

Ten years ago: President Bush, on the first visit to Czechoslovakia by a U.S. president, told a cheering crowd of 100,000 in Prague that “America will stand with you” through hard times ahead.

Five years ago: The commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific called the rape of a 12-year-old Okinawan girl “absolutely stupid” and said the incident could have been avoided if the U.S. servicemen involved had simply paid for sex. (Adm. Richard C. Macke later apologized for his remarks, and took early retirement.)

One year ago: Officials close to the investigation into the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 said a relief co-pilot alone in the cockpit had said, in Arabic: “I made my decision now; I put my faith in God’s hands” just before the jetliner began its fatal plunge.