• Australian police drama series Blue Heelers premieres on Seven Network.
  
• American animated series Rugrats makes its debut on ABC at 5:30pm.
• Australian authorities request the extradition from Spain of Christopher Skase, who has been held in a hospital on the Spanish island of Majorca since January.
  
• New South Wales state MP John Newman is shot outside his home, in Australia's first political assassination since 1977.
  

Remember these?

MUSIC

• "Cotton-Eyed Joe" has inspired both a partner dance and more than one line dance that is often danced at country dance venues in the U.S. and around the world. In 1994, a version of the song recorded by the Swedish band, Rednex, as "Cotton Eye Joe" became popular worldwide.
  

MOVIES

GAMES

• Super Metroid (SNES), distributed on a 24-megabit cartridge (the largest of its time), called the "best game of all time" by Electronic Gaming Monthly in 2002.

TV

• Australian children's comedy series The Ferals premieres on ABC.