Today in History for February 1995

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 75 of 75

1st - Amtrak NY-Tampa run ends
1st - Amy van Dikes swims woman's world record 50 m butterfly (26.73)
1st - Andy & Grant Flower make 269 stand vs Pak, brotherly record
1st - Belgium's TV channel VT4 goes on the air
2nd - "Moliere Comedies" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 56 performances
2nd - Henry Olonga no-balled for throwing in Zimbabwe-Pakistan Test Cricket
2nd - US space shuttle Discovery launched
3rd - STS 63 (Discovery 19), launches into orbit
4th - Dean Jones completes 324* for Victoria v South Australia
4th - Sandra Volker swims female European record 50m backstroke (27.77)
4th - Zimbabwe's 1st Test Cricket victory, over Pakistan by an inning
5th - Japan's Shinshinto Party wins local elections
5th - NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 41-13
5th - Sandra Volker swims female European record 50m backstroke: 27.77
6th - Beachboy Brian Wilson wed Melinda Ledbetter
6th - Darryl Strawberry suspended from baseball for 60 days
6th - Greg Blewett scores his 2nd century in his 2nd Test Cricket
7th - Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Graham Gooch & Mike Gatting
8th - 6.4 earthquake at Trujillo, Colombia (46+ killed)
Baseball Player Darryl Strawberry 9th - "Heiress" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 340 performances
9th - Irina Privalova runs female world record 50m (5.96 sec)
10th - Chelsi Smith, 21, (Texas), crowned 44th Miss USA
10th - Sun Cayun pole vaults female indoor world record (4.12m)
10th - US female Figure Skating championship won by Nicole Bobek
11th - Danyon Loader swims world record 400m freestyle (340.46)
11th - Mark Foster swims world record 50m butterfly (23.55 sec)
11th - Sandra Volker swims European record 50m backstroke (27.67 sec)
11th - Space shuttle STS-63 (Discovery 19), lands
11th - US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge
11th - West Indies score 5-660 against NZ
12th - 45th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 139-112 at Phoenix
12th - Angela Kennedy swims woman's world record 50m butterfly
12th - Bonnie Blair skates female world record 500m (38.69 sec)
12th - Dieter Baumann runs European record 3k indoor (7:37.51)
12th - Jeff Rouse swims world record 50m backstroke (24.37 sec)
12th - Moses Kiptanui runs world record 3k indoor (7:35.15)
12th - PRI loses/PAN wins Mexican regional elections
12th - Sun Cayun pole vaults indoor female world record (4.13m)
12th - Susan Auch skates female world record 500m (38.94 sec)
13th - Howard Stern radio show premieres in San Diego CA on KIOZ 105.3 FM
13th - West Indies beat NZ by innings & 332, Courtney Walsh 13-55
14th - Wellington 2-498d & 4-475 beat Canterbury 496 & 2-476d
15th - Burundi premier Anatole Kanyenkiko, resigns
15th - Dow-Jones closes at record 3986.17
15th - Population of People's Republic of China hits 1.2 billion
17th - 11th Soap Opera Digest Awards
17th - Colin Fergusson found guilty of killing 6 people on the LIRR in NY
17th - Tiger mgr Sparky Anderson takes unpaid leave due to baseball strike
17th - Federal judge allows lawsuit claiming US tobacco makers knew nicotine was addictive & manipulated its levels to keep customers hooked
18th - Angela Kennedy swims world record 100m butterfly
18th - Barb Thomas Whitehead wins Cup o' Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
18th - Pamela Anderson (Baywatch) & Tommy Lee (Motley Crue) wed
18th - Warnecke swims world record 50m freestyle
19th - 1st broadcast of "Woman of Independent Means" on NBC-TV
19th - Irina Privalova runs indoor woman's European record 200m (22.10 sec)
19th - Kenneth Koch wins Bollingen Prize
19th - Linford Christie runs world record 200m indoor (20.25 sec)
19th - Linford Christie runs European record 60m indoor (6.47 sec)
19th - Michael Tippett's "Rose Lake," premieres
21st - CFL's Sacramento Gold Miners become San Antonio Texans
21st - RAF-pilot Jo Salter is 1st woman to fly in a tornado
22nd - Algiers police kill at least 99 prison rioters
22nd - Steve Fossett completes 1st air balloon over Pacific Ocean (9600 km)
23rd - "Uncle Vanya" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 29 performances
23rd - Antoine Nduwayo appointed Premier of Burundi
23rd - Dow Jones closes above 4,000 for 1st time (4,003.33)
24th - Dow-Jones hits record 4011.74
24th - The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
25th - Bomb attack on train in Assam India (27 soldiers killed)
25th - British super middleweight Nigel Benn puts opponent Gerard McClellan in hospital
25th - Moslem fundamentalists shoot 20 shite mosque goers dead
25th - PBA National Championship Won by Scott Alexander
26th - London finance house of Barings collapse after losses in Singapore by trader Nick Leeson
27th - Car bomb explodes in Zakho, North-Iraq (54-80 killed)
28th - Denver International Airport opens

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 1 of 1

8th - Jordan Todosey, Canadian actress

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 3 of 3

6th - "The Beach Boys" leader and chief songwriter Brian Wilson (52) weds former model Melinda Ledbetter (47) at Palos Verdes in Peninsula, California
14th - Actress-comedienne Roseanne (42) weds bodyguard Ben Thomas (28) at Caesars Tahoe in Nevada
19th - "Baywatch" actress Pamela Anderson (27) weds rocker Tommy Lee (32) in Cancun, Mexico

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 92 of 92

1st - George Abbot, director (Damn Yankees), dies at 107
1st - John Smith, CEO (Liverpool FC), dies at 74
1st - Michael Caesar, pope of pot, dies of liver cancer at 52
2nd - Alexis d'Anjou de Bourbon-Condé, French prince/Russian, dies at 47
2nd - Andre Frossard, French publicist (Defense of Pope), dies at 80
2nd - David Kindersley, alphabet Designer/Cutter, dies at 79
2nd - Donald Pleasance, English actor (Halloween), dies at 75
2nd - Fred Perry, English tennis star (Wimbledon 1934-36), dies at 85
2nd - Phillip Borsos, Tasmanian/Canadian director (Mean Season), dies
2nd - Robert L Haller, coon Dog Trainer, dies at 32
3rd - John Pinsent, classical scholar, dies at 72
3rd - Turner Fodrell, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 66
4th - Betty Davis, British dance teacher of Dame Margot Fonteyn, dies
4th - Patricia Highsmith, [Mary Patricia Plangman], US/Swiss, dies at 74
4th - Roel Wiersma, Dutch soccer star (PSV), dies at 62
5th - Courtenay E Benson, broadcaster, dies at 79
5th - Doug Mcclure, US rodeo rider/actor (Trampas-Virginian), dies at 59
5th - Frederick Craig Riddle, violist, dies at 82
5th - Judith Fluks, Amsterdam's activist, dies
5th - Kimberley Leston, journalist, dies at 35
6th - Arthur S Taylor Jr, US drummer/author (Notes on notes), dies at 65
6th - James Ingram Merrill, US poet (Braving the elements), dies at 68
7th - Helen Wallis, cartographer/Librarian, dies at 70
7th - Massimo Pallottino, Ital archaeologist (Etruscologia), dies at 86
8th - B G Hooghoudt, radiotelescope build (Dwingeloo/Westerbork), dies at 70
8th - Wilhelm J Soukop, Austrian/British sculptor, dies at 88
8th - William Fulbright, US politician, dies
9th - David Wayne, [Wayne Mcmeekan], US actor (Dallas), dies at 81
9th - J William Fulbright, (Sen-D-Ark)/anti-Vietnam War, dies at 89
10th - Kenton Kilmer, poet/translator, dies at 85
10th - Louis Sen A Kaw, Suriname's great dam builder, dies at 75
10th - Paul Monette, writer, dies at 49
10th - S van der Linde, church historian, dies at 89
12th - Earring George Mayweather, blues harmonica player, dies at 66
12th - L Jansma, Fries publisher (Friese stamp), dies
12th - Rachid Mimouni, Algerian author (L'Honneur de la Tribu), dies at 49
12th - Terence Beckles, pianist/teacher, dies at 82
12th - Tony Secunda, rock band manager, dies at 54
13th - Abdelhafid Said, Algerian student leader, murdered
13th - Alberto Burri, Ital's physician/sculptor/painter), dies at 79
13th - Azeddine Medjoubi, head Algerian nationally theater, murdered at 49
13th - Joan A C Ramsey nee Hamilton, lady Ramsey of Canterbury, dies at 84
13th - Wilton "Bogey" Gaynair, saxophonist, dies at 68
14th - Alberto Burri, Ital physician/sculptor/painter, dies at 79
14th - Michael Vincent Gazzo, US actor/playwright (Godfather 2), dies at 71
14th - Nigel Lucius Graeme Finch, TV Director/film-maker, dies at 45
14th - Patricia Highsmith, writer, dies at 74
14th - Roger de Grey, English chairman of Royal Academy (1984-93), dies at 76
14th - Siem Suurhoff, TV-director (Behind the News, Sonja), dies at 58
14th - U Nu, PM of Burma (1948-56, 57-58, 60-62), dies
14th - U Nu, Burmese politician (b. 1907)
15th - Francis Taylor, builder, dies at 90
15th - Joseph Ortiz, French-Algerian extremist/rebel, dies at 77
15th - Lord Taylor of Hadfield, Brit pres of Taylor Woodrow Group, dies at 90
15th - Nabila Diahnine, Algerian architect/feminist, murdered at 33
15th - Sahnoun Jawhari, Tunisian Annahda-leader, dies at 40 in jail
15th - Viscount Camrose, British large landowner/Conservative, dies
16th - John Everett Allen, US businessman, dies at 91
16th - Martin Soames, traveller, dies at 91
17th - Jan Bart Klaster, music editor (The Slogan), dies at 50
17th - Thelma Hulbert, painter, dies at 81
17th - Timothy Hugh Brown, theatre critic, dies at 52
17th - Uta Graf, singer/teacher, dies at 80
18th - Calder Willingham, US scriptwriter (End as a Man), dies at 72
18th - Denny Cordel, rock music producer-Laverack, dies at 51
18th - Eddie Williams, blues/Jazz Bassist, dies at 82
18th - John Rhea "Yank" Lawson, trumpeter, dies at 83
18th - Yank Lawson, US jazz trumpeteer (Stormy weather), dies at 84
18th - Bob Stinson, American guitarist (b.1959)
19th - Calder Willingham, novelist/Scriptwriter, dies at 72
19th - Ian Ball, photographer, dies at 80
19th - Shlomo Averbach, Israeli ultra-orthodox rabbi, dies at 84
20th - John Humphreys Whitfield, italianist, dies at 88
20th - Shlomo Averbach, Rabbi, buried in Jerusalem, 250,000 attend
21st - Robert Bolt, Brit playwright (Doctor Zhivago, Bounty), dies at 70
22nd - Ed Flanders, actor (Dr Westphall-St Elsewhere), commits suicide at 60
22nd - Elfi Althoff-Jacobi, Austrian circus director, dies at 80
22nd - Lembarek Boumaarafi, Algerian murderer of Pres Boudiaf, dies
23rd - Art Kane, photographer, dies at 69
23rd - David Melvin English Franklin, singer, dies at 52
Novelist James Herriot (23rd) 23rd - James Herriot [Alfred Wight], Scottish author (All Creatures Great & Small), dies at 78
23rd - Norman Hunter, writer, dies at 95
23rd - Peter Guy Wykeham Fighter Pilot-Barnes, dies at 79
24th - Richard Nicholson, musician, dies at 89
25th - Jack Clayton, British director (Great Gatsby), dies at 73
25th - Oh Jin Woo, Korean minister of defense, dies
25th - Terence Weil, cellist/teacher, dies at 73
27th - Bernard Cornfield, financier, dies at 67
27th - Philip Sherrington, opus Dei Priest, dies at 51
28th - Herman "Ace" Wallace, blues guitarist/singer, dies at 69
28th - Keith Rigg, cricketer (8 Tests for Australia 1931-37), dies
28th - Max Rudolf, conductor, dies at 92