Today in History for Year 1995 (Part 2)

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Historical Events

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Feb 11th - US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge
Feb 11th - West Indies score 5-660 against NZ
Feb 12th - 45th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 139-112 at Phoenix
Feb 12th - Angela Kennedy swims woman's world record 50m butterfly
Feb 12th - Bonnie Blair skates female world record 500m (38.69 sec)
Feb 12th - Dieter Baumann runs European record 3k indoor (7:37.51)
Feb 12th - Jeff Rouse swims world record 50m backstroke (24.37 sec)
Feb 12th - Moses Kiptanui runs world record 3k indoor (7:35.15)
Feb 12th - PRI loses/PAN wins Mexican regional elections
Feb 12th - Sun Cayun pole vaults indoor female world record (4.13m)
Feb 12th - Susan Auch skates female world record 500m (38.94 sec)
Feb 13th - Howard Stern radio show premieres in San Diego CA on KIOZ 105.3 FM
Feb 13th - West Indies beat NZ by innings & 332, Courtney Walsh 13-55
Feb 14th - Roseanne weds bodyguard Ben Thomas
Feb 14th - Wellington 2-498d & 4-475 beat Canterbury 496 & 2-476d
Feb 15th - Burundi premier Anatole Kanyenkiko, resigns
Feb 15th - Dow-Jones closes at record 3986.17
Feb 15th - Population of People's Republic of China hits 1.2 billion
Feb 17th - 11th Soap Opera Digest Awards
Feb 17th - Colin Fergusson found guilty of killing 6 people on the LIRR in NY
Feb 17th - Tiger mgr Sparky Anderson takes unpaid leave due to baseball strike
Feb 17th - Federal judge allows lawsuit claiming US tobacco makers knew nicotine was addictive & manipulated its levels to keep customers hooked
Feb 18th - Angela Kennedy swims world record 100m butterfly
Feb 18th - Barb Thomas Whitehead wins Cup o' Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
Feb 18th - Pamela Anderson (Baywatch) & Tommy Lee (Motley Crue) wed
Feb 18th - Warnecke swims world record 50m freestyle
Feb 19th - 1st broadcast of "Woman of Independent Means" on NBC-TV
Feb 19th - Irina Privalova runs indoor woman's European record 200m (22.10 sec)
Feb 19th - Kenneth Koch wins Bollingen Prize
Feb 19th - Linford Christie runs world record 200m indoor (20.25 sec)
Feb 19th - Linford Christie runs European record 60m indoor (6.47 sec)
Feb 19th - Michael Tippett's "Rose Lake," premieres
Feb 21st - CFL's Sacramento Gold Miners become San Antonio Texans
Feb 21st - RAF-pilot Jo Salter is 1st woman to fly in a tornado
Feb 22nd - Algiers police kill at least 99 prison rioters
Feb 22nd - Steve Fossett completes 1st air balloon over Pacific Ocean (9600 km)
Feb 23rd - "Uncle Vanya" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 29 performances
Feb 23rd - Antoine Nduwayo appointed Premier of Burundi
Feb 23rd - Dow Jones closes above 4,000 for 1st time (4,003.33)
Feb 24th - Dow-Jones hits record 4011.74
Feb 24th - The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
Feb 25th - Bomb attack on train in Assam India (27 soldiers killed)
Feb 25th - British heavyweight Nigel Benn hits Gerard McClellan in hospital
Feb 25th - Moslem fundamentalists shoot 20 shite mosque goers dead
Feb 25th - PBA National Championship Won by Scott Alexander
Feb 26th - London finance house of Barings collapse after losses in Singapore by trader Nick Leeson
Feb 27th - Car bomb explodes in Zakho, North-Iraq (54-80 killed)
Feb 28th - Denver International Airport opens
Mar 1st - 37th Grammy Awards: All I Want to Do, Streets of Phila, Sheryl Crow
Mar 1st - Belgium ends military conscript
Mar 1st - Jozef Oleksy succeeds Waldemar Pawlak on as premier of Poland
Mar 1st - Julio Maria Sanguinetti sworn in as president of Uruguay
Mar 1st - Part of Houston begins using new area code 261
Mar 1st - Ukraine premier Vitaly Massol, resigns
Mar 2nd - "Smokey Joe's Cafe," opens at Virginia Theater NYC
Mar 2nd - British trader Nick Leeson arrested for collapse of Barings Bank PLC
Mar 2nd - Ferry boat sinks off Sumbe Angola, 42+ killed
Mar 2nd - Space shuttle STS-67 (Endeavour 8), launches
Mar 3rd - Camilla Parker Bowles & her husband Andrew divorce
Mar 4th - 1st NYC Mayor Trophy's High school track meet in 19 years
Mar 4th - Blind teenage boy receives a 'Bionic Eye' at a Washington Hospital
Mar 4th - George Foreman loses WBA boxing title, refusing to fight Tony Tucker
Mar 4th - Michael Johnson runs world record 400m indoor (44.63 sec)
Mar 4th - Replacement NY Yankees beat NY Mets 2-1
Mar 5th - 21st People's Choice Awards: Tim Allen wins
Mar 5th - Estonia Centrumlinkse Coalition party wins parliamentary election
Mar 5th - Graves of czar Nicholas & family found in St Petersburg
Mar 5th - Marc Velzeboer skates world record 3 km short track (5:00.26)
Mar 6th - 9th American Comedy Award: Rodney Dangerfield
Mar 6th - American Express Travel begins charging for domestic air tickets
Mar 6th - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Phoenix AZ on KEDJ 106.3/100.3 FM
Mar 6th - US 4.5 cents equals 156.30 Dutch guilder (record)
Mar 7th - Dollar worth 1.5330 Dutch guilder (record)
Mar 7th - NY becomes 38th state to have the death penalty
Mar 8th - -26°F (-32.2°C) in Bismarck, North Dakota
Mar 8th - -44°F (-42.2°C) in Chosedacharad, Komi-district, on 67°N
Mar 8th - Costis Stephanopoulos becomes president of Greece
Mar 8th - Dutch Liberal Party wins Provincial-National elections
Mar 9th - Baseball awards a franchise to Tampa Bay Devil Rays
Mar 9th - Mexican peso worth 7.55 pesos to a dollar (record)
Mar 9th - President Konstantine Karamanlis (88) of Greece, resigns
Mar 10th - Car bomb explodes in Karachi at shite mosque, 17+ killed
Mar 10th - Chiel Meijering's "St Louis Blues," premieres in Arnhem
Mar 10th - Dow-Jones hits record 4035.64
Mar 11th - -36.8°F (-38.2°C) in Chosedachar, Komi-district, on 67°N
Mar 11th - Pres Nazarbajev disbands Kazachstan parliament
Mar 11th - Sinn Fein party leader, Gerry Adams, arrives in US
Mar 11th - Yolanda Chen hop-skip-jumps world indoor record 15.03m
Mar 12th - Congress party loses India national election
Mar 12th - Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA PING/Welch's Golf Championship
Mar 12th - Ice Dance Championship at Birmingham UK won by Gritshuk & Platov (RUS)
Mar 12th - Ice Pairs Champ at Birmingham won by Radka Kovarikova & Rene Novotny
Mar 12th - Lara scores 139 in ODI v Australia at Port-of-Spain
Mar 12th - Letitia Vriesde runs S Amer indoor record 800m (2:00.35)
Mar 12th - Men's Figure Skating Champions in Birmingham won by Elvis Stojko (CAN)
Mar 12th - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Birmingham won by Chen Lu (CHN)
Mar 13th - 9th Soul Train Music Awards: Boyz II Men, Anita Baker win
Mar 13th - Anti fascist Kazachstan anti-parliament forms
Mar 13th - Hungarian Forint devalued 9%
Mar 13th - Istanbul police shoot dead 16 Alawitische demonstrators

Famous Birthdays

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Famous Deaths

Results 101 - 200 of 1,078

Jan 28th - Philip H Burton, Welsh producer/Richard Burton's teacher, dies at 80
Jan 28th - Walter Ernest Allen, writer/critic, dies at 83
Jan 29th - Arthur Guy Clutton-Brock, English agronomist (Rhodesia), dies at 88
Jan 29th - Chris de Marigny, painter/designer, dies at 52
Jan 29th - Raymond Joseph Cecil, British architect, dies at 69
Jan 29th - Richard Burnell, British rower (Olympics-gold-1948), dies at 77
Jan 29th - Richard Desborough Burnell, oarsman, dies at 77
Jan 30th - George H Poyser, English soccer player (Manchester City), dies at 84
Jan 30th - George Richard James, saxophonist, dies at 88
Jan 30th - Gerald M Durrell, British zoologist/author (Mockery Bird), dies at 70
Jan 31st - George Abbott, playwright/actor/producer (Damn Yankees), dies at 105
Jan 31st - James Johnson, English MP (Labour, 1950..83), dies at 86
Feb 1st - George Abbot, director (Damn Yankees), dies at 107
Feb 1st - John Smith, CEO (Liverpool FC), dies at 74
Feb 1st - Michael Caesar, pope of pot, dies of liver cancer at 52
Feb 2nd - Alexis d'Anjou de Bourbon-Condé, French prince/Russian, dies at 47
Feb 2nd - Andre Frossard, French publicist (Defense of Pope), dies at 80
Feb 2nd - David Kindersley, alphabet Designer/Cutter, dies at 79
Feb 2nd - Donald Pleasance, English actor (Halloween), dies at 75
Feb 2nd - Fred Perry, English tennis star (Wimbledon 1934-36), dies at 85
Feb 2nd - Phillip Borsos, Tasmanian/Canadian director (Mean Season), dies
Feb 2nd - Robert L Haller, coon Dog Trainer, dies at 32
Feb 3rd - John Pinsent, classical scholar, dies at 72
Feb 3rd - Turner Fodrell, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 66
Feb 4th - Betty Davis, British dance teacher of Dame Margot Fonteyn, dies
Feb 4th - Patricia Highsmith, [Mary Patricia Plangman], US/Swiss, dies at 74
Feb 4th - Roel Wiersma, Dutch soccer star (PSV), dies at 62
Feb 5th - Courtenay E Benson, broadcaster, dies at 79
Feb 5th - Doug Mcclure, US rodeo rider/actor (Trampas-Virginian), dies at 59
Feb 5th - Frederick Craig Riddle, violist, dies at 82
Feb 5th - Judith Fluks, Amsterdam's activist, dies
Feb 5th - Kimberley Leston, journalist, dies at 35
Feb 6th - Arthur S Taylor Jr, US drummer/author (Notes on notes), dies at 65
Feb 6th - James Ingram Merrill, US poet (Braving the elements), dies at 68
Feb 7th - Helen Wallis, cartographer/Librarian, dies at 70
Feb 7th - Massimo Pallottino, Ital archaeologist (Etruscologia), dies at 86
Feb 8th - B G Hooghoudt, radiotelescope build (Dwingeloo/Westerbork), dies at 70
Feb 8th - Wilhelm J Soukop, Austrian/British sculptor, dies at 88
Feb 8th - William Fulbright, US politician, dies
Feb 9th - David Wayne, [Wayne Mcmeekan], US actor (Dallas), dies at 81
Feb 9th - J William Fulbright, (Sen-D-Ark)/anti-Vietnam War, dies at 89
Feb 10th - Kenton Kilmer, poet/translator, dies at 85
Feb 10th - Louis Sen A Kaw, Suriname's great dam builder, dies at 75
Feb 10th - Paul Monette, writer, dies at 49
Feb 10th - S van der Linde, church historian, dies at 89
Feb 12th - Earring George Mayweather, blues harmonica player, dies at 66
Feb 12th - L Jansma, Fries publisher (Friese stamp), dies
Feb 12th - Rachid Mimouni, Algerian author (L'Honneur de la Tribu), dies at 49
Feb 12th - Terence Beckles, pianist/teacher, dies at 82
Feb 12th - Tony Secunda, rock band manager, dies at 54
Feb 13th - Abdelhafid Said, Algerian student leader, murdered
Feb 13th - Alberto Burri, Ital's physician/sculptor/painter), dies at 79
Feb 13th - Azeddine Medjoubi, head Algerian nationally theater, murdered at 49
Feb 13th - Joan A C Ramsey nee Hamilton, lady Ramsey of Canterbury, dies at 84
Feb 13th - Wilton "Bogey" Gaynair, saxophonist, dies at 68
Feb 14th - Alberto Burri, Ital physician/sculptor/painter, dies at 79
Feb 14th - Michael Vincent Gazzo, US actor/playwright (Godfather 2), dies at 71
Feb 14th - Nigel Lucius Graeme Finch, TV Director/film-maker, dies at 45
Feb 14th - Patricia Highsmith, writer, dies at 74
Feb 14th - Roger de Grey, English chairman of Royal Academy (1984-93), dies at 76
Feb 14th - Siem Suurhoff, TV-director (Behind the News, Sonja), dies at 58
Feb 14th - U Nu, PM of Burma (1948-56, 57-58, 60-62), dies
Feb 14th - U Nu, Burmese politician (b. 1907)
Feb 15th - Francis Taylor, builder, dies at 90
Feb 15th - Joseph Ortiz, French-Algerian extremist/rebel, dies at 77
Feb 15th - Lord Taylor of Hadfield, Brit pres of Taylor Woodrow Group, dies at 90
Feb 15th - Nabila Diahnine, Algerian architect/feminist, murdered at 33
Feb 15th - Sahnoun Jawhari, Tunisian Annahda-leader, dies at 40 in jail
Feb 15th - Viscount Camrose, British large landowner/Conservative, dies
Feb 16th - John Everett Allen, US businessman, dies at 91
Feb 16th - Martin Soames, traveller, dies at 91
Feb 17th - Jan Bart Klaster, music editor (The Slogan), dies at 50
Feb 17th - Thelma Hulbert, painter, dies at 81
Feb 17th - Timothy Hugh Brown, theatre critic, dies at 52
Feb 17th - Uta Graf, singer/teacher, dies at 80
Feb 18th - Calder Willingham, US scriptwriter (End as a Man), dies at 72
Feb 18th - Denny Cordel, rock music producer-Laverack, dies at 51
Feb 18th - Eddie Williams, blues/Jazz Bassist, dies at 82
Feb 18th - John Rhea "Yank" Lawson, trumpeter, dies at 83
Feb 18th - Yank Lawson, US jazz trumpeteer (Stormy weather), dies at 84
Feb 18th - Bob Stinson, American guitarist (b.1959)
Feb 19th - Calder Willingham, novelist/Scriptwriter, dies at 72
Feb 19th - Ian Ball, photographer, dies at 80
Feb 19th - Shlomo Averbach, Israeli ultra-orthodox rabbi, dies at 84
Feb 20th - John Humphreys Whitfield, italianist, dies at 88
Feb 20th - Shlomo Averbach, Rabbi, buried in Jerusalem, 250,000 attend
Feb 21st - Robert Bolt, Brit playwright (Doctor Zhivago, Bounty), dies at 70
Feb 22nd - Ed Flanders, actor (Dr Westphall-St Elsewhere), commits suicide at 60
Feb 22nd - Elfi Althoff-Jacobi, Austrian circus director, dies at 80
Feb 22nd - Lembarek Boumaarafi, Algerian murderer of Pres Boudiaf, dies
Feb 23rd - Art Kane, photographer, dies at 69
Feb 23rd - David Melvin English Franklin, singer, dies at 52
Feb 23rd - James Herriot, Scot author (All Creatures Great & Small), dies at 78
Feb 23rd - Norman Hunter, writer, dies at 95
Feb 23rd - Peter Guy Wykeham Fighter Pilot-Barnes, dies at 79
Feb 24th - Richard Nicholson, musician, dies at 89
Feb 25th - Jack Clayton, British director (Great Gatsby), dies at 73
Feb 25th - Oh Jin Woo, Korean minister of defense, dies
Feb 25th - Terence Weil, cellist/teacher, dies at 73
Feb 27th - Bernard Cornfield, financier, dies at 67


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