** Metropolitan Street Railway's Broadway Line

** Metropolitan Street Railway's Broadway and Columbus Avenue Line

** Metropolitan Street Railway's Broadway and Lexington Avenue Line

** Metropolitan Philip II of Moscow

** Greater St. Louis ( Metropolitan Statistical Area )

** Metropolitan Edison

** Metropolitan Railway – red

** SSR ( Sub Surface Railway ): Metropolitan, District, Circle and Hammersmith & City lines

** Community Safety, Enforcement and Policing, responsible for tackling fare evasion on buses, delivering policing services that tackle crime and disorder on public transport in cooperation with the Metropolitan Police Service's Transport Operational Command Unit ( TOCU ) and the British Transport Police.

** Ten paintings are defaced in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

** At Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 ( a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 ) collides with Northwest Airlines Flight 299 ( a Boeing 727 ) on the runway, killing 8 passengers and 4 crewmembers on Flight 1482.

** Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti marches into the U. S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

** Metropolitan Benjamin ( Fedchenkov ), Orthodox missionary and writer, Exarch of Russian Church in North America ( b. 1880 )

** The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City to the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera, Antony and Cleopatra.

** Northwest Airlines Flight 255 ( a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 ) crashes on takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus, Michigan just west of Detroit killing all but one ( 4-year old Cecelia Cichan ) of the 156 people on board.

** Metropolitan Benjamin ( Fedchenkov ), Orthodox missionary and writer, Exarch of Russian Church in North America ( d. 1961 )

** Peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia ( d. 1646 )

** Jonah Metropolitan of Moscow

** Cyprian, Metropolitan of Moscow ( died 1406 )

** Columbia, Missouri Metropolitan Area

** Columbia, South Carolina Metropolitan Area

** Gerontius, Metropolitan of Moscow, bishop

** Theodosius, Metropolitan of Moscow

** Metropolitan Borough of Hackney, formed in 1900 and abolished in 1965

** Andersonville Commercial Historic District, an historic district in Chicago

** Balboa District, a district of Panamá Province in Panama

** Down District Council

** Java District, district around this town in Georgia

** Mary District, in Mary Province

** Mary, Turkmenistan, capital city of the province, located in Mary District

** The ineligibility of Puerto Rico residents to vote in presidential elections as the U. S. Constitution provides these rights only to states and the District of Columbia.

** Hill District MLK riots ; Pittsburgh, PA

** Waterloo Historic District ( Waterloo, Illinois ), a district listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois

** Waterloo Downtown Historic District, listed on the NRHP in Wisconsin

** U. S. President Bill Clinton orders a cruise missile attack on Iraqi intelligence headquarters in the Al-Mansur District of Baghdad, in response to an Iraqi plot to assassinate former U. S. President George Bush during his visit to Kuwait in mid-April.

** Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District: The U. S. Supreme Court rules that the First Amendment applies to public schools.

** At least 1, 400 people are killed in an earthquake measuring 7. 4 on the Richter Scale, in the Ancash Region and Quiches District in Peru.

** Lynne Abraham, American lawyer ; former District Attorney of Philadelphia ( 1991 – 2010 )

** A U. S. District Court acquits Imelda Marcos on racketeering and fraud charges.

** Under the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington, D. C., a new planned city and capital of the United States, was placed under the jurisdiction of the U. S. Congress.

** United States District Court Judge Harry E. Claiborne becomes the fifth federal official to be removed from office through impeachment.

** Walt Whitman registers the title Leaves of Grass with the clerk of the United States District Court, Southern District of New Jersey, and receives its copyright.

** Loop Retail Historic District, a shopping district in the Chicago Loop

** Bond County Community Unit School District 2

** the former name of Montgomery Land District, Tasmania

** Hackney District ( Metropolis )