Today in History for January 1995

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Historical Events

Results 1 - 72 of 72

1st - "Glass Menagerie" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 57 perfs
1st - "Shadow Box" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 49 performances
1st - Austria, Finland & Sweden act to join European Union
1st - Centennial of Canadian Mounties presence in Canada's Yukon Territory
1st - Fernando Henrique Cardoso installed as president of Brazil
1st - International Year of Tolerance
1st - Last "Far Side" by cartoonist Gary Larson (started 1980)
1st - Raman Lamba & Ravi Sehgal score 464 for 1st wicket for Delhi
1st - for"Tuna Christmas" closes at Booth Theater NYC 20 performances
1st - The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves.
2nd - Bus crashes in Luzon Philippines, 29 killed
2nd - Carquest Bowl 5: South Carolina beats West Virginia, 24-21
2nd - Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (est 15 billion light years away)
4th - Newt Gingrich (R) becomes speaker of the House
5th - AFC beats NFC 41-13 in the pro bowl
5th - Lockheed C-140 Jetstar crashes at Isfahan Persia, 18 killed
6th - Atlanta Hawks' Lenny Wilkens becomes NBA's winningest coach (939)
6th - A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines, leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack.
7th - "Christmas Carol" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC after 18 perfs
7th - "Passion" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 280 performances
8th - "Guys & Dolls" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 1143 perfs
8th - 15th United Negro College Fund raises $12,200,000
8th - Mike Schmidt is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
9th - Ecuador & Peru involve in boundary fight
9th - Worker accidentally cuts electrial wires at Newark Airport
10th - "Late Late Show" with Tom Snyder premieres on CBS at 12:30 AM
11th - 5th TV network (WB) Warner Brothers begins (WPIX-TV in NYC)
11th - Birmingham Barracudas granted CFL franchise
11th - DC-9 crashes near Maria La Baya, Colombia: 51 die, 9 yr old girl lives
11th - NHLPA & owners agree to end NHL strike
12th - Major earthquake kills 5,092 in Kobe Japan
12th - Murder trial against OJ Simpson, begins in LA
12th - Pope John Paul II begins visit to SE Asia
13th - 26 HNL teams unanimously ratify agreement to end NHL strike
13th - America3 becomes 1st all-female crew to win an America's Cup race
14th - 10,000s South Africans attend state funeral of Joe Slovo
14th - 16th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 23 awards
15th - Dawn Coe-Jones wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Golf Champion
15th - SD Chargers beat Pitt Steelers 17-13 for AFC championship
15th - SF 49ers beat Dallas Cowboys for NFC championship
15th - Southern Alabama begins using new area code 334
15th - Western Washington begins using new area code 360
16th - UPN (Universal-Parmount Network) begins telecasting (WWOR in NYC)
17th - "Carousel" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 322 performances
17th - 7.2 earthquake destroys Kobe Japan (5,372 die)
17th - Australia beat Australia A 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
17th - LA Rams announce that they are moving to St Louis
18th - Kumble takes 16-99 in match for Karnataka v Kerala
18th - Pope John Paul II begins visit to Australia
19th - Jean-Claude Juncker (28) sworn in as premier of Luxembourg
20th - "Love! Valor! Compassion!" opens at Walter Kerr NYC for 276 perfs
20th - 1994-95 NHL Season begin after a lengthy strike
20th - Russian ruble drops to 3,947 per dollar (record)
21st - 52th Golden Globes: Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks, Jessica Lange
22nd - Palestinian bomb attack in Beit Lid Israel, 21-22 killed
22nd - Pat Bradley wins LPGA HealthSouth Inaugural Golf Tournament
25th - Jacques Santer succeeds Jacques Delors as chairman of Euro Committee
26th - NJ Governor Christine Whitman, dedicates a rest stop to Howard Stern
27th - 69th Australian Womens Tennis: Mary Pierce beats A S Vicario (63 62)
28th - 69th Australian Women's Tennis Open: Mary Pierce beats Vicario (63 62)
28th - 83rd Australian Mens Tennis: Andre Agassi beats Sampras (46 61 76 64)
28th - Memphis Mad Dogs granted CFL's 13th franchise
29th - Andre Agassi defeats Pete Sampras to win Australian Open
29th - Greg Blewett scores century on Test debut vs England, Adelaide
29th - Superbowl XXIX: SF 49ers beat SD Chargers, 49-26 in Miami
29th - Superbowl MVP: Steve Young, San Francisco, QB
30th - 22nd American Music Award: Boyz II Men & Ace of Base win
30th - Belgium's TV channel 2 in Flanders goes on the air
30th - Car bomb explodes in Algiers, 42 killed/296 injured
30th - Kevin Eubanks officially becomes band leader of "Tonight Show"
30th - Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
31st - President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy.

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 3 of 3

4th - María Isabel, Spanish singer
4th - Harry Skinner, English skiier
12th - Laurel McGoff, American singer

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 112

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