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The 7th District Police Station, on Maxwell Street in Chicago, Illinois, was used as the picture of the precinct house in the opening credits of Hill Street Blues. 
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| After being kept indoors at an Illinois zoo for about three decades, a citizens' campaign secured Ziggy the elephant a new home. |
| L'Année philologique (The Year in Philology) annually gathers scholarly work related to ancient Greece and Rome from approximately 2,000 sources. |
| For many years, Municipal Warehouse No. 1 at the Port of Los Angeles stored the railcar that carried Winston Churchill's body to burial. |
| Although Harold McCarter Taylor was a theoretical physicist and mathematician who worked with Ernest Rutherford, he is best known for a three-volume work on Anglo-Saxon architecture. |
| The Woodard Bay Natural Resource Conservation Area is the location of a new type of habitat conservation program focused on restoring the native Olympia oyster. |
| The National Youth Orchestra of Wales has the distinction of being the first national youth orchestra in the world and is Europe's longest-standing national youth orchestra. |
| The potato disease Zebra chip has cost the Texas economy over US$125 million and threatens similar economic harm across the U.S. and Guatemala. |
| The Bateleur (pictured) is the official symbol of Kiang West National Park in The Gambia. |
| Michigan Wolverines men's basketball has a 16–0 record at Crisler Arena, its home stadium, during the National Invitation Tournament. |
| Plans to build the Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant in the vicinity of Minsk were halted after the Chernobyl accident. |
| Thyrocopa is a genus of flightless moth endemic to Hawaii. |
| The Patrick Tavern, built in 1793, is the oldest building in New York's Aurora Village-Wells College Historic District. |
| The Phylax Society, the first German Shepherd Dog club, disbanded because members could not agree whether the dogs should be bred for working or appearance. |
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