Today in History for Year 1995

Months in Year 1995: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 740

Jan 1st - "Glass Menagerie" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 57 perfs
Jan 1st - "Shadow Box" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 49 performances
Jan 1st - Austria, Finland & Sweden act to join European Union
Jan 1st - Centennial of Canadian Mounties presence in Canada's Yukon Territory
Jan 1st - Fernando Henrique Cardoso installed as president of Brazil
Jan 1st - International Year of Tolerance
Jan 1st - Last "Far Side" by cartoonist Gary Larson (started 1980)
Jan 1st - Raman Lamba & Ravi Sehgal score 464 for 1st wicket for Delhi
Jan 1st - for"Tuna Christmas" closes at Booth Theater NYC 20 performances
Jan 1st - The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves.
Jan 2nd - Bus crashes in Luzon Philippines, 29 killed
Jan 2nd - Carquest Bowl 5: South Carolina beats West Virginia, 24-21
Jan 2nd - Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (est 15 billion light years away)
Jan 4th - Newt Gingrich (R) becomes speaker of the House
Jan 5th - AFC beats NFC 41-13 in the pro bowl
Jan 5th - Lockheed C-140 Jetstar crashes at Isfahan Persia, 18 killed
Jan 6th - Atlanta Hawks' Lenny Wilkens becomes NBA's winningest coach (939)
Jan 6th - A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines, leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack.
Jan 7th - "Christmas Carol" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC after 18 perfs
Cartoonist Gary Larson Jan 7th - "Passion" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 280 performances
Jan 8th - "Guys & Dolls" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 1143 perfs
Jan 8th - 15th United Negro College Fund raises $12,200,000
Jan 8th - Mike Schmidt is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
Jan 9th - Ecuador & Peru involve in boundary fight
Jan 9th - Worker accidentally cuts electrial wires at Newark Airport
Jan 10th - "Late Late Show" with Tom Snyder premieres on CBS at 12:30 AM
Jan 11th - 5th TV network (WB) Warner Brothers begins (WPIX-TV in NYC)
Jan 11th - Birmingham Barracudas granted CFL franchise
Jan 11th - DC-9 crashes near Maria La Baya, Colombia: 51 die, 9 yr old girl lives
Jan 11th - NHLPA & owners agree to end NHL strike
Jan 12th - Major earthquake kills 5,092 in Kobe Japan
Jan 12th - Murder trial against OJ Simpson, begins in LA
Jan 12th - Pope John Paul II begins visit to SE Asia
Jan 13th - 26 HNL teams unanimously ratify agreement to end NHL strike
264th Pope John Paul II Jan 13th - America3 becomes 1st all-female crew to win an America's Cup race
Jan 14th - 10,000s South Africans attend state funeral of Joe Slovo
Jan 14th - 16th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 23 awards
Jan 15th - Dawn Coe-Jones wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Golf Champion
Jan 15th - San Diego Chargers beat Pitt Steelers 17-13 for AFC championship
Jan 15th - SF 49ers beat Dallas Cowboys for NFC championship
Jan 15th - Southern Alabama begins using new area code 334
Jan 15th - Western Washington begins using new area code 360
Jan 16th - UPN (Universal-Parmount Network) begins telecasting (WWOR in NYC)
Jan 17th - "Carousel" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 322 performances
Jan 17th - 7.2 earthquake destroys Kobe Japan (5,372 die)
Jan 17th - Australia beat Australia A 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
Jan 17th - LA Rams announce that they are moving to St Louis
Jan 18th - Kumble takes 16-99 in match for Karnataka v Kerala
Jan 18th - Pope John Paul II begins visit to Australia
Jan 19th - Jean-Claude Juncker (28) sworn in as premier of Luxembourg
Jan 20th - "Love! Valor! Compassion!" opens at Walter Kerr NYC for 276 perfs
Jan 20th - 1994-95 NHL Season begin after a lengthy strike
Jan 20th - Russian ruble drops to 3,947 per dollar (record)
Actor Tom Hanks Jan 21st - 52th Golden Globes: Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks, Jessica Lange
Jan 22nd - Palestinian bomb attack in Beit Lid Israel, 21-22 killed
Jan 22nd - Pat Bradley wins LPGA HealthSouth Inaugural Golf Tournament
Jan 25th - Jacques Santer succeeds Jacques Delors as chairman of Euro Committee
Jan 26th - NJ Governor Christine Whitman, dedicates a rest stop to Howard Stern
Jan 27th - 69th Australian Womens Tennis: Mary Pierce beats A S Vicario (63 62)
Jan 28th - 69th Australian Women's Tennis Open: Mary Pierce beats Vicario (63 62)
Jan 28th - 83rd Australian Mens Tennis: Andre Agassi beats Sampras (46 61 76 64)
Jan 28th - Memphis Mad Dogs granted CFL's 13th franchise
Jan 29th - Andre Agassi defeats Pete Sampras to win Australian Open
Jan 29th - Greg Blewett scores century on Test debut vs England, Adelaide
Jan 29th - Superbowl XXIX: SF 49ers beat San Diego Chargers, 49-26 in Miami
Jan 29th - Superbowl MVP: Steve Young, San Francisco, QB
Jan 30th - 22nd American Music Award: Boyz II Men & Ace of Base win
Jan 30th - Belgium's TV channel 2 in Flanders goes on the air
Champion Tennis Player Pete Sampras Jan 30th - Car bomb explodes in Algiers, 42 killed/296 injured
Jan 30th - Kevin Eubanks officially becomes band leader of "Tonight Show"
Jan 30th - Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
Jan 31st - President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy.
Feb 1st - Amtrak NY-Tampa run ends
Feb 1st - Amy van Dikes swims woman's world record 50 m butterfly (26.73)
Feb 1st - Andy & Grant Flower make 269 stand vs Pak, brotherly record
Feb 1st - Belgium's TV channel VT4 goes on the air
Feb 2nd - "Moliere Comedies" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 56 performances
Feb 2nd - Henry Olonga no-balled for throwing in Zimbabwe-Pakistan Test Cricket
Feb 2nd - US space shuttle Discovery launched
Feb 3rd - STS 63 (Discovery 19), launches into orbit
Feb 4th - Dean Jones completes 324* for Victoria v South Australia
Feb 4th - Sandra Volker swims female European record 50m backstroke (27.77)
Feb 4th - Zimbabwe's 1st Test Cricket victory, over Pakistan by an inning
42nd US President Bill Clinton Feb 5th - Japan's Shinshinto Party wins local elections
Feb 5th - NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 41-13
Feb 5th - Sandra Volker swims female European record 50m backstroke: 27.77
Feb 6th - Beachboy Brian Wilson wed Melinda Ledbetter
Feb 6th - Darryl Strawberry suspended from baseball for 60 days
Feb 6th - Greg Blewett scores his 2nd century in his 2nd Test Cricket
Feb 7th - Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Graham Gooch & Mike Gatting
Feb 8th - 6.4 earthquake at Trujillo, Colombia (46+ killed)
Feb 9th - "Heiress" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 340 performances
Feb 9th - Irina Privalova runs female world record 50m (5.96 sec)
Feb 10th - Chelsi Smith, 21, (Texas), crowned 44th Miss USA
Feb 10th - Sun Cayun pole vaults female indoor world record (4.12m)
Feb 10th - US female Figure Skating championship won by Nicole Bobek
Feb 11th - Danyon Loader swims world record 400m freestyle (340.46)
Feb 11th - Mark Foster swims world record 50m butterfly (23.55 sec)
Baseball Player Darryl Strawberry Feb 11th - Sandra Volker swims European record 50m backstroke (27.67 sec)
Feb 11th - Space shuttle STS-63 (Discovery 19), lands

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 28 of 28

Jan 4th - María Isabel, Spanish singer
Jan 4th - Harry Skinner, English skiier
Jan 12th - Laurel McGoff, American singer
Feb 8th - Jordan Todosey, Canadian actress
Mar 23rd - Jan Lisiecki, Canadian Pianist
Mar 27th - Taylor Atelian, American actress
Apr 17th - Paulie Litt, American actor
May 2nd - Kelsey Lewis, American actress
May 12th - Sullivan and Sawyer Sweeten, American actors
May 12th - Luke Benward, American actor
May 15th - Ksenia Sitnik, Belarusian singer
May 24th - Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein
Jun 5th - Troye Mellet, Australian Actor And Singer
Jun 19th - Blake Woodruff, American actor
Jul 9th - Georgie Henley, English actress
Aug 5th - Devo Keenan American cellist
Aug 8th - Malin Reitan, Norwegian singer
Aug 18th - Parker McKenna Posey, American actress
Aug 24th - Runa Tsukishima, Japanese child model
Sep 20th - Sammi Hanratty, American actress
Sep 22nd - Juliette Goglia, American actress
Oct 6th - Jessica Lunsford, American kidnapping victim (d. 2005)
Oct 25th - Conchita Campbell, Canadian actress
Nov 13th - Stella Hudgens, American actress
Nov 16th - Noah Gray-Cabey, American child actor
Dec 6th - Joy Gruttmann, German singer
Dec 14th - Princess Olimpia Preslavska of Bulgaria
Dec 26th - Zach Mills, American actor

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 23 of 23

Jan 7th - Actor-comedian Martin Lawrence (29) weds former Miss Virginia USA Patricia Southall (24) at Norfolk Waterside Marriott in Virginia
Feb 6th - "The Beach Boys" leader and chief songwriter Brian Wilson (52) weds former model Melinda Ledbetter (47) at Palos Verdes in Peninsula, California
Feb 14th - Actress-comedienne Roseanne (42) weds bodyguard Ben Thomas (28) at Caesars Tahoe in Nevada
Feb 19th - "Baywatch" actress Pamela Anderson (27) weds rocker Tommy Lee (32) in Cancun, Mexico
Mar 18th - Spanish princess Elena (31) weds Jaime de Marichalar y Saenez Tejada (31) at the Seville Cathedral in Seville, Spain
Apr 22nd - "Extra" TV co-host Arthel Neville (32) weds Carolina Panther running back Derrick Lassic (25) at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church
May 7th - Eldest son of Shirley Jones and screenplay writer Shaun Cassidy (36) weds actress Susan Diol (30) in Westwood, California
May 20th - "Eagles" singer Don Henley (47) weds model Sharon Summerall (33) in Malibu
May 20th - "Broadcast News" actress Holly Hunter (37) weds cinematographer Janusz Kaminski (35)
May 27th - "Friends" actress Lisa Kudrow (31) weds French advertising executive Michel Stern (37) in Malibu
Jun 10th - Actress-singer Holly Robinson (30) weds NFL Philadelphia Eagle quarterback Rodney Peete (29) in Los Angeles
Jul 1st - Crown Prince of Greece and the oldest son of the deposed King Constantine of Greece, Pavlos (28) weds Robert W. Miller's daughter Marie-Chantal Miller (26) at London's Cathedral of Saint Sophia
Jul 1st - Princess Stephanie of Monaco (30) weds her bodyguard Daniel Ducruet (31) on a civil ceremony in Monaco
Jul 22nd - "True Lies" actor Tom Arnold (36) weds Julie Champnella (25) in Dearborn, Michigan
Aug 8th - "Veronica's Closet" actress Kathy Najimy (38) weds actor Dan Finnerty (25)
Sep 2nd - Actor Charlie Sheen (30) weds model Donna Peele (25) in Malibu, California
Sep 9th - Chynna Phillips weds William Baldwin
Sep 9th - Ice Skater Nancy Kerrigan (25) weds her agent Jerry Solomon (41)
Sep 16th - Stephen Hawkins (53) weds Elaine Mason
Actor Charlie Sheen (Sep 2nd) Sep 30th - "Judging Amy" actress Amy Brenneman (31) weds TV and film director Brad Silberling (32)
Oct 7th - "Cheers" actor Ted Danson (47) weds Academy Award-winning actress Mary Steenbergen (42)
Oct 14th - "Sleep with Me" actress Meg Tilly (35) weds United Artists studio president John Calley (65) in Los Angeles
Oct 21st - "Family Ties" actress Meredith Baxter (48) weds screenwriter Michael Blodgett (56) in Los Angeles

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 2 of 2

Mar 3rd - Camilla Parker Bowles & her husband Andrew divorce
Dec 19th - Queen Elizabeth askes Prince Charles & Diana to divorce

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 1,076

Jan 1st - Eugene Wigner, physicist (Nobel prize for physics-1963), dies at 92
Jan 1st - Frederick West, Engl contractor/serial killer, commits suicide at 53
Jan 1st - Jess Stacy, US jazz pianist (Great Gatsby), dies at 90
Jan 1st - Ted Hawkins, US blues singer (Watch Your Step), dies at 58
Jan 2nd - Graham Sharp, ice skater, dies at 77
Jan 2nd - Manuel Rivera, Spanish painter/co-founder (El Paso), dies at 67
Jan 2nd - Mohammed Siyad Barre, president of Somalia (1969-91), dies
Jan 2nd - Nancy Kelly, US actress (Bad Seed, Submarine Patrol), dies at 73
Jan 2nd - Siad Barre, general/president of Somalia (1969-91), dies at 84
Jan 3rd - Al Duncan, drummer, dies at 68
Jan 3rd - Byron MacGregor, newscaster, dies at 56
Jan 3rd - Gerard W Taylor, South African/British surgeon, dies at 74
Jan 3rd - Robert Nesbitt, impresario, dies at 88
Jan 4th - D Elmina Davies, filmmaker, dies at 36
Jan 4th - Dorothy Granger, US actress (Hog Wild, Dentist), dies at about 80
Jan 4th - Eduardo Mata, Mexican conductor, dies in air crash at 52
Jan 4th - Jonathan Zeitlyn, artist, dies at 43
Jan 4th - Leonard Hirsch, Brit violinist/conducter (BBC Empire Orch), dies at 92
Jan 4th - Robert Clifford Latham, pepys Scholar, dies at 82
Jan 4th - Sol Tax, American anthropologist (b. 1907)
Jan 5th - Francis Lopez, Fren dentist/operetta composer (Andalousie), dies at 78
Jan 5th - Mansour Satari, brig-gen/commandant (Iran Air Force), dies at 46
Jan 5th - Yahya Ayyash, PLO bomb maker, booby trapped cellular phone at 28
Jan 6th - Edward Sutcliffe, judge (British Central Criminal Court), dies at 77
Jan 6th - James Clay, saxophonist, dies at 59
Jan 6th - Joe Slovo, Latvian/South African attorney/sect-gen (SACR), dies at 68
Jan 6th - Karl Guttmann, Austrian/Dutch playwright/director (Pinter), dies at 81
Jan 7th - Arthur Leavins, violinist, dies at 77
Jan 7th - Harry Golombek, chess Grandmaster, dies at 83
Jan 7th - Larry Grayson, British entertainer (Generation Game), dies at 65 or 71
Jan 7th - Viktor Vorobyov, Russian general-major, dies in battle
Jan 7th - William Larry White Grayson, comedian, dies at 71
Jan 7th - Murray Rothbard, American economist (b. 1926)
Jan 8th - Carlos Monzon, [El Macho], Argentine medium weight boxing champ (1970-77), dies at 52
Jan 8th - Joyce McCartan, peace campaigner, dies at 68
Jan 9th - Peter Cook, English comic/actor (Peter n' Dud, Bedazzled), dies at 57
Jan 9th - Souphanouvong, [Red Prince], president of Laos (1975-87), dies at 85
Jan 10th - Elaine Greene, literary Agent, dies at 74
Jan 10th - Halton Kathleen Tynan, writer, dies at 57
Jan 10th - Souphanouvong, leader of Pathet Lao (1957), dies
Jan 11th - Adrian J "Ad" Kaland, Dutch MP (CDA 1977-93), dies at 72
Jan 11th - John AG Gere, English art historian (Raphael & his Circle), dies at 73
Jan 11th - Onat Kutlar, Turkish screenplay/producer (Hazal), murdered at 59
Jan 11th - Willem N "Pim" Koot, pianist (Concert Building), dies at 76
Jan 11th - Josef Gingold, Russian-American violinist (b. 1909)
Jan 12th - Francis Lopez, songwriter, dies at 77
Jan 12th - George Price, cartoonist (New Yorker), dies at 93
Jan 12th - Marion Herbst, German/Dutch jewelry designer, dies at 50
Jan 13th - Arnold Smith, painter (Vigelius Prize 1935), dies at 89
Jan 13th - Arthur Mervyn Stockwood, bishop, dies at 81
Jan 13th - Maxwell Henley Harris, Austrian poet/publisher (Critics), dies at 73
Jan 13th - Ruby Starr, vocalist (Grey Ghost), dies of brain tumor at 44
Jan 14th - Alexander Gibson, Brit conductor/founder (Scottish Opera), dies at 68
Jan 14th - Alexander Gibson, conductor, dies at 69
Jan 14th - Mark Finch, film festival organizer, dies at 33
Jan 14th - Stafford WIlliam Somerfield, newspaper editor, dies at 84
Jan 15th - Sollie McElroy, singer, dies at 61
Jan 16th - William Dillard, trumpeter/singer, dies at 83
Jan 17th - Isador Caplan, lawyer/Aldeburgh Festival pioneer, dies at 82
Jan 17th - Urias Nooteboom, Dutch journalist/critic (The Time), dies at 54
Jan 18th - Adolph F J Butenandt, German bio-chemist (Nobel 1939), dies at 91
Jan 18th - Charles Baskerville, vocalist, dies at 54
Jan 18th - Joseph Kagan, businessman, dies at 79
Jan 18th - Ron Luciano, American baseball umpire (b. 1937)
Jan 19th - Eugene Fuller, polymath/linguist, dies at 80
Jan 19th - Gene MacLellan, Canadian composer and singer (b. 1938)
Jan 20th - John Halas, Hungarian/US cartoonist (Animal Farm), dies at 81
Jan 20th - Mehdi Bazargan, director Iranian oil corp/premier (1979), dies at 86
Jan 20th - Robert Shaw, town Planner, dies at 81
Jan 21st - Flavio "Negao" Pires da Conceicao, drug Trafficker, dies at 25
Jan 21st - John Halas, animator, dies at 82
Jan 21st - Philippe Casado, Moroccan/French cyclist, dies at 30
Jan 22nd - Christopher Francis Palmer, orchestrator/Author, dies at 48
Jan 22nd - Mahmoud Sayed Selim, Egyptian moslim leader, shot to death at 29
Jan 22nd - Margaret Barbara Lambert, British historian (Saar), dies at 88
Jan 22nd - Nico Adriaans, founder of Rotterdam Junkiebond, dies of AIDS at 37
Kennedy Family Matriarch Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (Jan 22nd) Jan 22nd - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, mother of pres JFK, RFK, & Ted, dies at 104
Jan 22nd - Jerry Blackwell, American professional wrestler (b. 1949)
Jan 23rd - Harold Collett Dent, journalist/educationist, dies at 100
Jan 23rd - Ken Hill, playwright/director, dies at 57
Jan 23rd - Michael Whalley Wickham, artist, dies at 91
Jan 23rd - Peter Ambrose Cyprian Luke, playwright, dies at 75
Jan 24th - Ian Prestt, English ornithologist, dies at 65
Jan 24th - Victor Reinganum, artist, dies at 87
Jan 24th - Wim H Sinnige, Amsterdam PvdA alderman of Finance, dies at 60
Jan 25th - Peter Black, TV critic, dies at 82
Jan 25th - Tom Brugman, Dutch puppeteer (Brave Dodo), dies at 62
Jan 25th - William Sylvester, actor (2001, Devil Doll, Blind Corner), dies at 72
Jan 26th - Bernardo Leighton, Chilian politician (1964-70), dies
Jan 26th - Geoffrey Penwill Parsons, piano accompnaist, dies at 65
Jan 26th - Louis Heren, journalist, dies at 65
Jan 26th - Vic Buckingham, English soccer player/trainer (Ajax), dies at 79
Jan 27th - Geoffrey Parsons, Australian/British pianist, dies at 65
Jan 27th - Halsey S Colchester, British SAS/MI6-spy/priest, dies at 76
Jan 27th - Jean Tardieu, author, dies at 91
Jan 27th - Willem R "Wim" van der Zee, gen-sec Council of Churches, dies at 64
Jan 28th - Barrie Wilson, academic, dies at 59
Jan 28th - George Woodcock, author, dies at 82
Jan 28th - James P Grant, US director of UNICEF (1980-95), dies at 72
Jan 28th - Jim Gilbert, artist, dies at 61