LOOKING BACK

1997: breaking the royal reticence over the death of Princess Diana, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II delivered a televised address in which she called her former daughter-in-law “a remarkable person.” Mother Teresa died in Calcutta, India, at age 87; conductor Sir Georg Solti died in France at age 84.

2006: Katie Couric began a five-year run as principal anchor of “The CBS Evening News.”