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

Historical Events

Results 1 - 56 of 56

2nd - 17th ACE Cable Awards
3rd - "Company" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 68 performances
3rd - "Holiday" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 49 performances
3rd - 84th Davis Cup: USA beats Russia in Moscow (3-2)
3rd - Beth Daniels/Davis Love III wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
3rd - Jack Russell takes 11 catches in Test Cricket v S Africa, a record
3rd - Naeem Akhtar takes 10-28 for Rawalpindi B against Peshawar
3rd - Northwestern South Carolina begins using new area code 864
4th - Atherton (185*) bats for 643 minutes to save Johannesburg Test
5th - The Sri Lankan government announces the conquest of Tamil stronghold of Jaffna.
6th - 6th Billboard Music Awards
6th - Michael Jackson collapses will rehearsing for an HBO special
7th - NBA settles strike of referees, refs to return on Dec 12
7th - US space probe Galileo begins orbiting Jupiter
9th - 61st Heisman Trophy Award: Eddie George, Ohio State (RB)
10th - 1st meeting of NBA expansion teams, Raptors beat Grizzlies 93-81
10th - Kelly Robbins & Tammie Green wins LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches
10th - Michael Slater scores 219 v Sri Lanka at the WACA
10th - Muralitharan takes 2-224 in Australian innings of 5-617
10th - Ricky Ponting makes 96 on Test Cricket debut (Aust v Sri Lanka, WACA)
10th - Worst snowstorm in Buffalo history, 37.9" in 24 hours (Starting Dec 9 at 7 PM, breaks previous record of 25.3" in 1982
11th - Thomas O Hicks buys NHL Dallas Stars for $84 million
12th - CBC announces Radio Canada International service to end on March 31
12th - Israeli PM Shimon Peres address both house of US congress
12th - NBA referees return to work after striking
12th - Amendment to make it illegal to physically desecrate the flag turned down by senate 63-36 (need 2/3 vote)
13th - Christopher Reeves released from physical rehab center
13th - US Federal Court votes that Cable companies must carry local stations
14th - "Les Miserables" opens at Cable Hall, Helsinki
14th - AIDS patient Jeff Getty recieves baboon bone marrow transplant
14th - Yugoslav Wars: The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris by leaders of various governments.
15th - Playboy goes back on sale after 36 year ban in Ireland
15th - The European Communities Court of Justice hands down the "Bosman ruling", giving EU footballers the right to a free transfer at the end of their contracts, with the provision that they are transferring from one UEFA Federation to another.
17th - "School after Scandal" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 23 perfs
19th - Queen Elizabeth askes Prince Charles & Diana to divorce
20th - "Paul Roebson" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 14 performances
20th - American Flight 965 crashes in Columbia, 159 die, 5 survive
20th - NATO begins peacekeeping in Bosnia.
21st - Martina Ertl of Germany wins her 3rd giant slalom world cup
21st - SF Giants announce plans to build a new stadium to open in 2000
21st - The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control.
22nd - David Cone signs $19.5 million 3 year contract with NY Yankees
26th - Muttiah Muralitharan no-balled for throwing (SL v Aust, MCG)
26th - Paul Adams becomes S Afr's youngest Test Cricket player, 18 yrs 340 ds
27th - Boon completes his 21st Test Cricket century (110 v SL, MCG)
30th - Carquest Bowl 6: North Carolina beats Arkansas, 20-10
30th - The lowest ever United Kingdom temperature of -27.2°C was recorded at Altnaharra in the Scottish Highlands. This equalled the record set at Braemar, Aberdeenshire on February 11, 1895 and January 10, 1982.
31st - "Danny Gans on Broadway" closes at Neil Simon NYC
31st - "Having Our Say" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 308 performances
31st - "Heiress" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 340 performances
31st - "Paul Roebson" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 14 performances
31st - "Racing Demon" closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC after 48 perfs
31st - "Tempest" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 71 performances
31st - 62nd Sugar Bowl: Virginia Tech beats Texas
31st - Cartoonist Bill Watterson ends his "Calvin & Hobbes" comic strip
31st - Matthew Elliott scores separate cricket century same day for Victoria

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 3 of 3

6th - Joy Gruttmann, German singer
14th - Princess Olimpia Preslavska of Bulgaria
26th - Zach Mills, American actor

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 92 of 92

2nd - Francis Joseph Quinn, academic, dies at 90
2nd - Roxie Roker, actress (Helen Willis-Jeffersons), dies at 66
2nd - Stanley Devon, photographer, dies at 88
2nd - [William] Robertson Davies, novelist essayist/dramatist, dies
3rd - Jimmy Jewel, comedian, dies at 82
3rd - Robertson Davies (author), dies at 82
3rd - Roxie Roker, actress (Claudine)/mother of Lenny Kravitz, dies at 66
4th - Adrianne Jones, killed by David Graham & Diane Zamora, at 16
4th - Itzhak Rabin, PM of Israel (1968-73), assassinated
5th - Robert Charles Evans, mountaineer/doctor, dies at 77
5th - Robert Parrish, film director editor/actor (Casino Royale), dies at 79
5th - Victor Collin Matthews, businessman, dies on 76th birthday
5th - Gwen Harwood, Australian poet (b. 1920)
5th - Lisa McPherson, former Scientologist (b. 1959)
6th - Dmitri Antonovitch Volkogonov, soldier/historian, dies at 67
6th - James "Scotty" Barrett Reston, journalist, dies at 86
6th - John Trevor Key, photographer, dies at 48
6th - Kathleen Harrison, actress (Fast Lady, Big Money), dies at 103
6th - Leslie Wilkinson, journalist, dies at 97
6th - [Schaff] Claire Polin, composer, dies at 69
7th - Larry Bartlett, photographer, dies at 42
7th - Tom Burns, editor, dies at 89
8th - Carl Marsden, bodyguard, dies at 36
8th - Ernest LeRoy Boyer, educator, dies at 67
8th - John Gillett, film researcher, dies at 70
8th - Mikki Doyle, journalist, dies at 79
9th - Benny Lee, entertainer, dies at 84
9th - Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan (aviator), dies
9th - Hugh Armstrong Clegg, industrial relations academic, dies at 75
9th - Toni Cade Bambara, filmmaker, dies at 56
9th - Vitali Viktorovich Savitsky, biologist/politician, dies at 40
9th - Vivian Blaine, actress (Guys & Dolls), dies of heart failure at 74
10th - Darren Robinson, singer, dies at 28
10th - Gillian Rose, philosopher/writer, dies at 48
10th - John Francis Boyd, journalist, dies at 85
10th - Mary Madge Lascelles, literary critic/poet, dies at 95
10th - Phillip Piratin, communist, dies at 88
11th - Arthur Mullard, comedian, dies at 82
11th - John Heawood, actor singer/choreographer (Pleasure Garden), dies at 75
11th - Robert Shelton (Shapiro), journalist, dies at 69
12th - Andrew Olle, broadcaster, dies at 48
12th - David Lincoln Lightbown, politician, dies at 63
12th - David Saul Marshall, diplomat lawyer/politician, dies at 97
12th - James Altgens, JFK assassination photographer, dies at 76
12th - Lindsay Oliver John Boynton, furniture historian, dies
12th - Mary Bruce, dance Teacher, dies at 95
12th - Mohyedin Alempour, tajik artist/journalist, dies at 50
13th - Evangeline Bruce, hostess, dies at 81
13th - Nancy LaMott, singer, dies at 43
14th - Don Anthony, bandleader/songwriter, dies at 85
14th - Eric Brown, architect, dies at 84
14th - Rob Harris, sky surfer, dies while skydiving at 28
15th - James Geoffrey Cutcliffe Hepburn, tap-dancer/socialist, dies at 88
15th - Manuel Gutierrez Mellado, PM of Defense of Spain (1977-81), dies at 83
16th - Nina Verchinina, dancer choreographer/teacher, dies at 85
16th - Johnny Moss, American poker player (b. 1907)
17th - Lila Clark Knapp, publisher, dies at 63
18th - Chaim Pearl, rabbi, dies at 76
18th - Georgio Fini, restaurateur, dies at 70
18th - Ross Thomas, author, dies at 69
18th - Konrad Zuse, German engineer and computing pioneer (b. 1910)
18th - Brian Brockless, English organist (b. 1926)
19th - Dame Ruth Nita Barrow, governor-general of Barbados, dies at 79
19th - Harold Watkinson, politician/businessman, dies at 85
19th - Janet Wilder, stuntwoman, dies at 29
20th - John Henry Jacques, co-operative retailer, dies at 90
20th - Madge Sinclair, actress (Star Trek IV, Conrack, Convoy), dies at 55
21st - Robert Francis Vere Heuston, professor of law, dies at 72
21st - Trenchard Cox, museum director, dies at 90
22nd - Butterfly McQueen, actress (Gone With the Wind), dies in a fire at 84
22nd - James Meade, English economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (b. 1907)
23rd - David Land, impressario, dies at 77
23rd - Gabrielle Keiller, collector/golfer, dies at 87
23rd - Patric Reginald Lawrence Knowles, actor (Chisum, Mutiny), dies at 84
24th - Geoffrey Pinnington, journalist, dies at 76
24th - Harry McLevy, trade unionist, dies at 59
25th - Dean Martin, singer/actor (Return to Me), dies at 78
25th - Emmanuel Levinas, philosopher, dies at 89
25th - Jimmy Boucher, cricketer (great Irish all-rounder 1929-54), dies
25th - Nikolai [Nicolas Leonidovich] Slonimsky, musicologist, dies at 101
27th - Jeremy John Beadle, writer/broadcaster, dies at 39
27th - Peter Refn, Danish journalist/director (Violets are Blue), dies at 54
27th - Shura Cherkassky, pianist, dies at 86
28th - Harold Francis Collison, trade unionist, dies at 84
29th - Hope Clara Chenhalls, food inspector, dies at 85
29th - Louise Chaplin, actress, dies at 87
29th - Madeleine Barot, resistance heroine, dies at 86
29th - Nello Celio, president of Switz (1972), dies at 81
30th - Heiner Muller, dramatist, dies at 66
30th - Roger W Suddards, solicitor, dies at 65
31st - Calvin/Hobbes, (comic strip), dies
31st - John Powell, campaigner, dies at 75