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Rudy Giuliani makes it a focal point of his first term as New York Mayor to clean up the monster ghetto known as Sesame Street.

The FBI sting operation to find out who put the bomp (in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp) comes to a close when the guilty party reveals himself under the pretense that FBI agent Barry Mann would only like to shake his hand. 

Due to Memento-like short-term memory loss, and picking up the same plans over and over, William Levitt builds 6,000 of the exact same house in Levittown, NY.

Investigations into the disappearance of author Ambrose Bierce lead police to rounding up any magician who uses trap doors or secret compartments in their act.

A live broadcast of Playhouse 90 goes to commercial break during one of William Shatner’s trademark dramatic pauses.  Upon returning from the break, viewers are shocked to see that Shatner has yet to reach the next word. 

Minutes before Andy Kaufman is to come out of hiding and put an end to his “death,” he’s hit by a swerving car. The accident results in the loss of his right leg below the knee, and crippling  back pain.  He dies 5 years later after a fall in his Tampa condo causes his ribs to pierce his lung. No one hears his screams for help.

CBS refuses to air an episode of The Nanny deemed “The Abortion Episode.”

Pressure from social groups cause Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York to drop actress Sarah Bernhardt from their advertising campaigns after  it is revealed, that once, at a party, while drunk, in something totally unrelated to what Mutual Life has anything to do with, she said to a guest that she thinks female hysteria is caused by the moon. 

Rutherford B. Hayes is born and instantly forgotten.