Today in History for March 1995

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 96 of 96

1st - 37th Grammy Awards: All I Want to Do, Streets of Phila, Sheryl Crow
1st - Belgium ends military conscript
1st - Jozef Oleksy succeeds Waldemar Pawlak on as premier of Poland
1st - Julio Maria Sanguinetti sworn in as president of Uruguay
1st - Part of Houston begins using new area code 281
1st - Ukraine premier Vitaly Massol, resigns
2nd - "Smokey Joe's Cafe," opens at Virginia Theater NYC
2nd - British trader Nick Leeson arrested for collapse of Barings Bank PLC
2nd - Ferry boat sinks off Sumbe Angola, 42+ killed
2nd - Space shuttle STS-67 (Endeavour 8), launches
3rd - Camilla Parker Bowles & her husband Andrew divorce
4th - 1st NYC Mayor Trophy's High school track meet in 19 years
4th - Blind teenage boy receives a 'Bionic Eye' at a Washington Hospital
4th - George Foreman loses WBA boxing title, refusing to fight Tony Tucker
4th - Michael Johnson runs world record 400m indoor (44.63 sec)
4th - Replacement NY Yankees beat NY Mets 2-1
5th - 21st People's Choice Awards: Tim Allen wins
5th - Estonia Centrumlinkse Coalition party wins parliamentary election
5th - Graves of czar Nicholas & family found in St Petersburg
Comedian Tim Allen 5th - Marc Velzeboer skates world record 3 km short track (5:00.26)
6th - 9th American Comedy Award: Rodney Dangerfield
6th - American Express Travel begins charging for domestic air tickets
6th - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Phoenix AZ on KEDJ 106.3/100.3 FM
6th - US 4.5 cents equals 156.30 Dutch guilder (record)
7th - Dollar worth 1.5330 Dutch guilder (record)
7th - NY becomes 38th state to have the death penalty
8th - -26°F (-32.2°C) in Bismarck, North Dakota
8th - -44°F (-42.2°C) in Chosedacharad, Komi-district, on 67°N
8th - Costis Stephanopoulos becomes president of Greece
8th - Dutch Liberal Party wins Provincial-National elections
9th - Baseball awards a franchise to Tampa Bay Devil Rays
9th - Mexican peso worth 7.55 pesos to a dollar (record)
9th - President Konstantine Karamanlis (88) of Greece, resigns
10th - Car bomb explodes in Karachi at shite mosque, 17+ killed
10th - Chiel Meijering's "St Louis Blues," premieres in Arnhem
10th - Dow-Jones hits record 4035.64
11th - -36.8°F (-38.2°C) in Chosedachar, Komi-district, on 67°N
11th - Pres Nazarbajev disbands Kazachstan parliament
11th - Sinn Fein party leader, Gerry Adams, arrives in US
11th - Yolanda Chen hop-skip-jumps world indoor record 15.03m
12th - Congress party loses India national election
12th - Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA PING/Welch's Golf Championship
12th - Ice Dance Championship at Birmingham UK won by Gritshuk & Platov (RUS)
12th - Ice Pairs Champ at Birmingham won by Radka Kovarikova & Rene Novotny
12th - Lara scores 139 in ODI v Australia at Port-of-Spain
12th - Letitia Vriesde runs South American indoor record 800m (2:00.35)
12th - Men's Figure Skating Champions in Birmingham won by Elvis Stojko (CAN)
12th - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Birmingham won by Chen Lu (CHN)
13th - 9th Soul Train Music Awards: Boyz II Men, Anita Baker win
13th - Anti fascist Kazachstan anti-parliament forms
13th - Hungarian Forint devalued 9%
13th - Istanbul police shoot dead 16 Alawitische demonstrators
14th - 1st time 13 people in space
16th - Dow-Jones hits record 4069.15
16th - Manhattan upsets 4th seeded Oklahoma 77-67
16th - Mississippi House of Representatives formally abolishes slavery & ratifies 13th Amendment
16th - World best 7th wkt stand 461 by Bhupinder Singh Jr & P Dharmani
17th - British pound hits 2.4545 to Dutch guilder (record)
17th - Sinn-Fein leader Gerry Adams visits White House
17th - USt approves 1st chicken pox vaccine, Varivax by Merck & Co
Basketball Superstar Michael Jordan 18th - Michael Jordan announces he is ending his 17 month NBA retirement
18th - STS 67 (Endeavour 8) lands after 16½ days
19th - "Translations" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 25 performances
19th - "Uncle Vanya" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 29 performances
19th - 5 die by poison gas in Japanese subway
19th - Arizona outside of Phoenix begins using new area code 520
19th - Bonnie Blair skates female world record point total (156.450)
19th - Finland Social-Democratic Party wins parliamentary election
19th - Laura Davis wins LPGA Standard Register PING Golf Tournament
19th - Michael Jordan rejoins Chicago Bulls after 17 months, beats Pacers
19th - NBA NY Knicks beat NY Nets in 100th meeting (Knicks 53 Nets 47)
19th - Neil Marshall skates world record 3 km (3:54.08)
20th - Dow-Jones hits 4083.68 (record)
20th - Poison Gas released in Tokyo subway 12 killed, 4,700 injured
20th - Beatles song, "Baby It's You," with late John Lennon as lead singer, is released, 1st Fab Four single in more than 30 years
Radio shock jock Howard Stern 21st - NJ officially dedicates the Howard Stern Rest Area along Route 295
21st - NYC agrees to sell it's 2 owned radio stations (WNYC AM & FM)
22nd - Deputy Gov of Bank of England, Rupert Pennant-Rea, resigns following revelations of his affair with a freelance journalist
23rd - "How To Succeed in Business..." opens at R Rodgers NYC for 548 perfs
23rd - Dollar equals 88.41 yen (record)
25th - Boxer Mike Tyson released from jail after serving 3 years
26th - "Defending the Caveman," opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 671 perf
26th - "Moliere Comedies" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 56 perfs
26th - 15th Golden Raspberry Awards: Color of Night wins
26th - 24th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Nanci Bowen
26th - Mashonaland beat Mashonaland U-24 by 165 runs to win Logan Cup
26th - The Schengen Treaty goes into effect.
27th - 67th Academy Awards - "Forest Gump," Jessica Lange & Tom Hanks win
28th - Julia Roberts & Lyle Lovette split-up
28th - Queensland beat S Aust to win 1st ever cricket Sheffield Shield
Actress Julia Roberts 28th - World's largest bank-Japan's Mitsubishi Bank & Bank of Tokyo merge
29th - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Chicago IL on WCKG 105.9 FM
30th - "Arcadia" opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC for 204 performances
31st - 1st game at Coors Stadium Colo (replacement Rockies beat Yanks 4-1)
31st - Bombay beat Punjab on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy
31st - Federal judge orders injunction to end baseball strike

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 2 of 2

23rd - Jan Lisiecki, Canadian Pianist
27th - Taylor Atelian, American actress

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

18th - Spanish princess Elena (31) weds Jaime de Marichalar y Saenez Tejada (31) at the Seville Cathedral in Seville, Spain

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 1 of 1

3rd - Camilla Parker Bowles & her husband Andrew divorce

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 106

1st - Edmund Boyd Fisher, publisher, dies at 56
1st - Vladislav Listyev, Russian TV-journalist, murdered at 38
2nd - Hugo Cole, musician/critic, dies at 77
2nd - Vladislav Listyev, TV journalist, dies at 48
3rd - Gilbert Gadoffre, French scholar, dies at 84
3rd - Howard Hunter, US leader of Mormon Church (1994-95), dies at 87
3rd - Howard Yanks, founder of the Philadelphia folk festival, dies at 65
3rd - Pierre Tisseyre, publisher (Circle du livre de France), dies at 85
3rd - Shiv Verma, soldier, dies at 85
4th - Eden Ahbez, songwriter, dies at 86
5th - Ed Flanders, actor (Dr Westphal-St Elsewhere), dies
5th - Marguerite Kelsey, Engl painter/sculptor model (Haunting), dies at 86
5th - Peter John Norton, naval diplomat/artist, dies at 82
5th - Vivian Stanshall, British musician (Magical Mystery Tour), dies at 51
5th - Gregg Hansford, Australian motorcycle and touring car racer (b. 1952)
6th - David Beinhoff, mayor, dies at 24
6th - Delroy George Wilson, singer, dies at 46
6th - Emile van Moerkerken, photographer (Ice Princess), dies at 78
6th - Helene Weijel, author (In Two Worlds), dies at 44
7th - Don Cook, British foreign correspondent, dies at 74
7th - Jaap van den Hurk, TV-director (NCRV), dies
7th - Jacques Lefebvre, Belgian air force gen, commits suicide at 64
7th - John Arthur Neill Lambert, composer teacher organist, dies at 69
7th - Paul-Emile Victor, French pole explorer, dies at 87
7th - Thijmen Kuijt, resistance fighter/co-found paper (Typhoon), dies at 82
8th - Ota Adler, Czech/British fur trader (Jewish Aid Fund), dies at 83
8th - Paul George Vincent O'Shaughnessy Horgan, novelist, dies at 91
8th - Ingo Schwichtenberg, German drummer (b. 1965)
9th - Ian Ballantine, publisher, dies of heart attack at 79
9th - Ruud van den Hende, Dutch sports reporter, dies at 63
10th - Alexander Hyatt-King, Mozart scholar, dies at 84
10th - Carel Birnie, ballet producer, dies at 69
10th - Hendrik W van Leeuwen, Dutch musician, dies at 79
10th - Richard Baerlein, racing writer, dies at 84
11th - Carel Birnie, found Utrecht Opera/Dutch Dance Theater, dies at 69
11th - Ernest Kabushemeye, Burundese minister of Mijnbouw, murdered
11th - Frank Fidler, artist, dies at 84
12th - Juanin Clay, American actress (b. 1949)
13th - Abdul Ali Mazari, Afghan shite leader, shot to death
13th - John Silverlight, journalist, dies at 75
13th - Leo Kaplan, lawyer (ASCAP), dies at 89
13th - Leon Day, pitcher (Negro Leagues), dies of heart failure at 78
13th - Lorraine Macleod, dancer (Girls Just Want to Have Fun), dies at 65
13th - P C J van Lierde, Dutch vicar-gen of Vatican (1951-91), dies at 87
14th - Gerard Thomas Victory, composer, dies at 73
14th - Johan W "Jo" van Marle, CEO (KNVB, 1980-93), dies at 70
14th - William A Fowler, US nuclear/astro physicist (Nobel 1983), dies at 83
Swimmer Florence Chadwick (15th) 15th - Florence Chadwick, American swimmer, dies at 86
15th - Carlos Menem Jr, son of Argentine pres, dies at 26
16th - Albert Maurice Hackett, playwright/screenwriter, dies at 95
16th - Clan Fraser of Lovat, soldier/Landowner, dies at 83
16th - Lord Lovat, [Shimi], Scottish landowner, dies at 83
16th - Sydney Simone, band leader, dies at 80
17th - Ahmad Khomeini, youngest son of Iran ayatollah Khomeini, dies at 48
17th - Donald Baverstock, television Producer, dies at 71
17th - Marcus Jan Adriani, biologist/director (Weevers' Duin), dies at 56
17th - Rick Aviles, US comic/actor (Ghost), dies of AIDS
17th - Ronnie Kray, English gangster (The Firm), dies at 61
17th - Sunnyland Smart, jazz/blues singer/pianist (Delta Blues), dies at 87
18th - Charles Drain, singer, dies at 65
18th - Frederic Ramsey Jr, folklorist/author, dies at 80
18th - Heinrich Sutermeister, Swiss composer (Raskolnikov), dies at 84
19th - Fernand Lodewick, literature historian (Literature), dies at 85
19th - Gerard Tebroke, 5/10 km-dasher, dies at 45
19th - Kenneth Norman Joseph Loveless, priest folk musician, dies at 83
20th - Merv Harvey, cricketer (scored 12 & 31 in Test Aus v Eng 46-47), dies
20th - Rachida Hammadi, Algerian TV journalist, murdered at 32
20th - Sidney Kingsley, US playwright (Pulitzer prize 1934), dies at 88
21st - Daan Wildschut, Dutch painter/author, dies at 81
21st - Etienne Martin, French sculptor, dies at 82
21st - Norman Schwartz, record Producer, dies at 66
21st - Robert Urquhart, actor (Dunkirk, Bulldog Breed), dies at 72
22nd - Peter Woods, newsreader, dies at 64
23rd - Alan Barton, singer (Smokie, Black Lace), dies in a bus crash
23rd - Daniel George "Danny" Apolinar, composer/songwriter, dies at 61
23rd - Davie Cooper, soccer star, dies at 39
23rd - Irving Shulman, author/screenwriter, dies at 81
23rd - Ripley L. Ingram, singer, dies at 65
23rd - Robert Turner, winner of 1st All-American Soap Box Derby, dies at 72
23rd - Russell Reading Braddon, author, dies at 74
24th - Anthony Standerwick Heal, businessman, dies at 88
24th - Joey Long, blues/cajun guitarist, dies at 62
24th - Trevor Oswald Ling, religious Studies Professor, dies at 75
25th - James Gardner, designer, dies at 87
25th - Peter Herbert Penwarden, priest, dies at 73
25th - Warren E Burger, chief justice of US (1969-86), dies
25th - James Coleman, American sociologist (b. 1926)
26th - Rapper-E (Eazy Eric Wright), dies at 31
27th - Albert Drach, writer, dies
27th - Bernard Cornfeld, Romanian/US financier (Fund of Funds), dies at 67
27th - Chet Gierlach, music publisher/composer, dies at 75
27th - Rene Allio, film Director, dies at 70
28th - Hugh Edward R O'Connor, actor (In the Heat of the Night), ODs at 32
28th - Jack Regan, broadcaster, dies at 53
28th - Vivienne Byerley, publicist, dies at 88
29th - Carl E Jefferson, record company owner, dies at 74
29th - Eddie Williams Wiggins, alto saxophone/comedian, dies at 78
29th - James Eric Storrar, fighter Pilot, dies at 74
29th - John Elliott Terry, film financier, dies at 82
29th - Baltimora, British singer (b. 1957)