Actress Suzanne Somers arrested (and strip searched!) for writing bad checks. She was not prosecuted.

The town of Cicero, IL agrees to donate $10,000 towards the printing of KKK literature to be mailed to its residents, in return for the Klan not holding a scheduled rally.

"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans." (Bill Clinton showing his true colors, quoted in USA Today)

Vice President Dan Quayle sends a Secret Service agent proxy into a Chilean tourist shop to purchase a wooden male, anatomically correct "peekaboo" statuette.

Actress Suzanne Somers arrested (and strip searched!) for writing bad checks. She was not prosecuted.

A B-47 bomber drops a nuclear bomb in the town of Mars Bluff in South Carolina. While it did not detonate a nuclear explosion, conventional explosives within the bomb left a 75 foot crater, destroying one house and damaging five others.

Germany enters Austria in the "Anschluss", to annex it as part of Grossdeutchland.

After a series of premonitional earthquakes near Mount Etna, the largest volcano in Europe spectacularly erupts, destroying the Sicilian town of Nicolosi and killing 20,000 people.