LOOKING BACK

1969: the Boeing 747 jumbo jet got its first public preview as 191 people, most of them reporters and photographers, flew from Seattle to New York City.

1990: composer Aaron Copland died in North Tarrytown, New York, at age 90. Actor Bob Cummings died in Woodland Hills, California, at age 80.

1993: Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was shot to death by security forces in Medellin.