_ On April 19, 1927, blond bombshell Mae West was confronted by the New York Police Department’s Municipal Vice Squad, sentenced to 10 days in a workhouse on the charge of obscenity for her play titled “Sex,” and fined $500. She later quipped that the only thing that really bothered her about the experience was having to wear cotton underwear._ On April 23, 1940, a fire broke out in the Rhythm Club in Natchez, Mississippi, causing the deaths of more than 200 African Americans due to boarded up windows and a padlocked back door. At the time, it was the ...