On this day, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry was arrested on charges of possession of cocaine at the then-Vista International Hotel downtown.

FBI agents caught Barry on a hidden camera smoking crack cocaine with a former girlfriend, Rasheeda Moore, an informant who agreed to cooperate with the authorities in exchange for a reduced sentence on an earlier drug conviction.

“The bitch set me up!” Barry yelled as police hauled him away. The incident played over and over on television.