Milestones

Ten years ago: President Bush vetoed stopgap spending legislation passed by Congress following the collapse of a deficit-reducing budget agreement. The space shuttle Discovery blasted off on a four-day mission.

Five years ago: Boeing Co.’s largest group of union workers went on a 69-day strike after voting down a new three-year contract offer. President Clinton delivered an address in which he defended his stewardship of U.S. foreign policy and spoke out against what he said was a spreading mood of isolationism.

One year ago: In Mexico, furious rains sent swollen rivers raging through the streets of the Gulf coast city of Villahermosa and caused mudslides; dozens of deaths were reported in eastern Mexico’s coastal mountain ranges.