Today in History for May 1995

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 52 of 52

1st - "On the Waterfront" opens at Atkinson Theater NYC for 8 performances
1st - Steve Waugh scores 200 for Australia v WI at Sabina Park
1st - Croatian forces launch Operation Flash during the Croatian War of Independence.
2nd - "Hamlet" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 121 performances
2nd - Expos bat out of order against Mets in 6th inning
2nd - Serb missiles exploded in the heart of Zagreb, killing six
3rd - "My Thing of Love" opens at Beck Theater NYC for 16 performances
3rd - Australia beat West Indies to regain the Frank Worrell Cricket Trophy
3rd - David Bell debuts for the Indians (3rd generation player, Gus & Buddy)
5th - Last basketball game at Boston Gardens (Magic beats Celtics)
6th - 121st Kentucky Derby: Gary Stevens on Thunder Gulch wins in 2:01.2
6th - ABC Bud Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by Mike Aulby
6th - Classic Sports Network begins on cable TV
7th - "On the Waterfront" closes at Atkinson Theater NYC after 8 perfs
7th - Jacques Chirac wins French presidential election
7th - Michelle McGann wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
7th - Twins beat Indians 10-9 in 17 innings, 6 hours & 36 minutes
9th - Cleveland Indians tie record of scoring 8 runs before making an out, they beat Twins 10-0
9th - Kinshasa, Zaire under quarantine after an outbreak of Ebola virus
10th - 30th Academy of Country Music Awards: Reba McEntire wins
10th - Britain lifts a 23-year ban on ministerial talks with Sinn Fein
10th - In South Africa, 104 miners killed in an elevator accident
11th - In New York City, more than 170 countries decide to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.
12th - Dow Jones for 5th straight day of the week sets a new record (4430.59)
12th - Jose Mesa gets 1st of his M.L. record 37 consecutive saves
12th - Martin Brodeur ties NHL record getting his 3rd playoff shutout in 4
13th - 6.5 earthquake hits Greece
13th - New Zealand beats US for the America's Cup
13th - Chelsi Smith, 21, of USA, crowned 44th Miss Universe Shanna Lynn Moakler, (19-NY), replaces Chelsi Smith as Miss USA
14th - "My Thing of Love" closes at Beck Theater NYC after 16 performances
14th - 41st McDonald's LPGA Championship won by Kelly Robbins
14th - Eddie Murray of Indians hits his 463rd career home run (ties for 18th)
11th Panchen Lama Gedhun Choekyi Nyima 14th - Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima 11th reincarnation of Panchen Lama, Tibet's 2nd most sr spiritual leader
15th - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
16th - Japanese police arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara & charged him with Nerve-gas attack on Tokyo's subways two months earlier
18th - WIBC Bowling Queens won by Sandra Postma
19th - Emmy 22nd Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 15th time
19th - World's youngest doctor, Balamurali Ambati, 17, graduates Mount Sinai
20th - 121st Preakness: Pat Day aboard Timber Coutry wins in 1:54.4
20th - CBS News fires co-anchor Connie Chung
20th - Twins Marty Cordova ties rookie record of HRs in 5 consecutive games
21st - Chris Johnson wins Star Bank LPGA Golf Classic
22nd - Laverne & Shirley 20th anniversary reunionn special, televised
23rd - 47th time opposing pitchers hit HRS, K Foster (Cubs)/M Freeman (Rocks)
25th - The Bosnian Serb Army kills 72 youngsters in the Bosnian city of Tuzla.
27th - In Culpeper, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition.
28th - "Inspector Calls" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 454 performances
28th - Alison Nichols wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
28th - Dottie Mochrie wins J C Penney/LPGA Skins Golf Game
28th - Earthquake hits Russian town of Khabarovsk, killing 2,000 people
28th - Southwestern Florida outside of Tampa begins using new area code 941
28th - White Sox (5) & Tigers (7) combine for record 12 HRs at Tiger Stadium

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 5 of 5

2nd - Kelsey Lewis, American actress
12th - Sullivan and Sawyer Sweeten, American actors
12th - Luke Benward, American actor
15th - Ksenia Sitnik, Belarusian singer
24th - Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 4 of 4

7th - Eldest son of Shirley Jones and screenplay writer Shaun Cassidy (36) weds actress Susan Diol (30) in Westwood, California
20th - "Eagles" singer Don Henley (47) weds model Sharon Summerall (33) in Malibu
20th - "Broadcast News" actress Holly Hunter (37) weds cinematographer Janusz Kaminski (35)
27th - "Friends" actress Lisa Kudrow (31) weds French advertising executive Michel Stern (37) in Malibu

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 77 of 77

2nd - Michael Hordern, English actor (b. 1911)
3rd - Michael Horden, actor (Fool, Green Man, Scoop), dies at 83
4th - Lewis T Preston, banker, dies at 68
4th - Louis Krasner, violinist, dies at 91
5th - Anthony Wagner, genealogist, dies at 86
5th - Bernard Benjamin Gillis, judge, dies at 89
5th - Esther Waterhouse, doctor/methodist, dies at 86
5th - James Pack, naval officer museum curator, dies at 81
5th - Lionel Alexander Bethune [Alastair] Pilkington, engineer, dies at 75
5th - Mikhail Moseyevich Botvinnik, world chess champ, dies
5th - Thomas Eden Binkley, musician, dies at 63
6th - Dona Maria Pia de Braganca, pretender to Port throne, dies at 88
6th - Leanoard "Red" Truss, R&B singer, dies at 47
6th - Nicholas Palmer, TV writer/producer, dies at 57
6th - Noel Brotherston, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1956)
6th - Hilda Toledano (b. 1907)
7th - Ernest H Martin, impressario, dies at 75
7th - Lawrence Josset, engraver, dies at 84
7th - Maria Luisa Bemberg, fil maker, dies at 73
7th - Ray McKinley, drummer, dies at 84
8th - Carroll Best, bluegrass banjo, dies at 63
8th - Jerry Zipkin, socialite, dies at 80
8th - Prem Bhatia, journalist, dies at 83
8th - Teresa Teng, singer, dies at 41
9th - Abha Gandhi, servant to Gandhi, dies at 68
9th - Charles Montgomery Monteith, publisher, dies at 74
9th - Marshall Royal, jazz Sax/Clarinet, dies at 82
9th - Percy Mansell, cricketer (355 runs in 13 Tests for S Afr), dies
10th - Harold Berens, comedian, dies at 92
10th - Hilde Jarecki, educationist, dies at 83
10th - Jimmy Raney, jazz guitarist, dies at 67
11th - Arthur Lubin, director (Francis The Talking Mule, Mr Ed), dies at 96
11th - David Avidan, poet/writer, dies at 62
11th - William John Phillips, actor (Nothing but a Man), dies at 80
12th - Arthur Lubin, film director, dies at 95
12th - Giorgio Belladonna, bridge champion, dies at 71
12th - Reza Abdoh, theatre Director, dies at 32
13th - Cecil Marley, cricketer (WICBC pres 1971-74, Jamaican capt 1946), dies
14th - Maezumi Hakuyu Taizan Koun, teacher (Zen Buddhism), dies at 64
14th - Christian B. Anfinsen, American Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
15th - Edouard Dermit, actor (Testament of Orpheus), dies at 69
15th - Eric Richard Porter, actor (Crucible, Hennessy), dies at 67
15th - Johnny Van Derrick, jazz violinist, dies at 68
15th - Perry Lederman, folk singer, dies at 52
16th - Lola Flores, singer/actress (Kuma Ching, Faraona), dies at 70
16th - Ragnhild Marie Hatton, historian, dies at 82
17th - Nathan "Dambuza" Mdledle, singer, dies at 72
18th - Alexander Gudonov, Russian dancer/actor (Witness), dies at 45
18th - Elisha Cook Jr, actor (Maltese Falcon, Shane), dies at 91
18th - Elizabeth Montgomery, actress (Bewitched), dies of cancer at 62
18th - Gordon Reynolds, musician, dies at 74
18th - Robert Harris, actor (Werewolf of London), dies at 95
21st - Kieron Walsh, academic, dies at 46
21st - Les Aspin, US sec of Defense (1993-95), dies of stroke at 56
21st - Patrick Bowles, writer/translator, dies at 68
22nd - Robert Flemyng, actor (Kafka, Rebecca, Funny Face), dies at 83
24th - Harold Wilson, British PM (1964-70, 74-76), dies of cancer at 79
24th - Mike Pyne, jazz Pianist, dies at 54
25th - Dany Robin, actress (Follow the Boys, Topaz, Julietta), dies at 68
25th - Dick Curless, singer/songwriter, dies at 63
25th - Krešimir Ćosić, Croatian basketball player (b. 1948)
26th - Isadore "Friz" Freling, cartoon director (Sylvester), dies at 88
26th - Ron Weatherburn, jazz pianist, dies at 61
26th - Severn Darden, comedian (Second City), dies at 65
27th - C W Stubblefield, music promoter, dies at 64
27th - Ulyses Simpson Kay, composer, dies at 78
28th - Daniela Rocca, actress (Battle of Austerlitz), dies at 57
28th - Henning Kronstam, dancer, dies at 60
28th - Jean Elizabeth Leuckert Muir, designer dressmaker, dies at 66
28th - Jean Muir, (Dress Queen), British model, dies at 66
29th - Margaret Chase Smith, 1st woman Rep & Sen (R-Me), dies at 97
30th - Bobby Stokes, soccer star, dies at 44
30th - Philip Owen A Sherrard, scholar theologian poet/translator, dies at 72
30th - Ted Drake, soccer star, dies at 82
30th - Thomas Dorrington Tomlinson, Brit national park warden, dies at 87
30th - Lofty England, English automotive engineer and race team manager (b.1911)
31st - Tim Mara, owner (NY Giants), dies at 59