Milestones

Ten years ago: Demanding equal time, Iraq asked U.S. networks to broadcast a message by President Saddam Hussein in response to President Bush’s videotaped address to the Iraqi people.

Five years ago:In a move that stunned Wall Street, AT&T Corp.

announced it was splitting into three companies. Bosnian Serb rebels pulled back enough heavy weapons from around Sarajevo to keep NATO air strikes at bay.

One year ago: Lawrence Russell Brewer became the second white supremacist to be convicted in the dragging death of James Byrd Jr. in Jasper, Texas. (Brewer was later sentenced to death.) Heavily armed international peacekeepers landed in East Timor, clearing the way for the rest of a UN-approved force charged with restoring order.