Today in History for Year 1995 (Part 3)
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Months in Year 1995: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Historical Events
Results 201 - 300 of 749
Mar 14th - 1st time 13 people in space
Mar 16th - Dow-Jones hits record 4069.15
Mar 16th - Manhattan upsets 4th seeded Okla 77-67
Mar 16th - Miss House of Representatives ratifies 13th Amendement-slavery ends
Mar 16th - Mississippi formally abolishes slavery & ratifies 13th Amendment
Mar 16th - World best 7th wkt stand 461 by Bhupinder Singh Jr & P Dharmani
Mar 17th - British pound hits 2.4545 to Dutch guilder (record)
Mar 17th - Sinn-Fein leader Gerry Adams visits White House
Mar 17th - USt approves 1st chicken pox vaccine, Varivax by Merck & Co
Mar 18th - Michael Jordan announces he is ending his 17 month NBA retirement
Mar 18th - STS 67 (Endeavour 8) lands after 16½ days
Mar 18th - Spanish princess Elena (31) weds Jaime de Marichalar y Saenez Tejada
Mar 19th - "Translations" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 25 performances
Mar 19th - "Uncle Vanya" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 29 performances
Mar 19th - 5 die by poison gas in Japanese subway
Mar 19th - Arizona outside of Phoenix begins using new area code 520
Mar 19th - Bonnie Blair skates female world record point total (156.450)
Mar 19th - Finland Social-Democratic Party wins parliamentary election
Mar 19th - Laura Davis wins LPGA Standard Register PING Golf Tournament
Mar 19th - Michael Jordan rejoins Chic Bulls after 17 months, beats Pacers
Mar 19th - NBA NY Knicks beat NY Nets in 100th meeting (Knicks 53 Nets 47)
Mar 19th - Neil Marshall skates world record 3 km (3:54.08)
Mar 20th - Dow-Jones hits 4083.68 (record)
Mar 20th - Poison Gas released in Tokyo subway 12 killed, 4,700 injured
Mar 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
Mar 21st - NJ officially dedicates the Howard Stern Rest Area along Route 295
Mar 21st - NYC agrees to sell it's 2 owned radio stations (WNYC AM & FM)
Mar 22nd - Deputy Gov of Bank of England, Rupert Pennant-Rea, resigns following revelations of his affair with a freelance journalist
Mar 23rd - "How To Succeed in Business..." opens at R Rodgers NYC for 548 perfs
Mar 23rd - Dollar equals 88.41 yen (record)
Mar 25th - Boxer Mike Tyson released from jail after serving 3 years
Mar 26th - "Defending the Caveman," opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 671 perf
Mar 26th - "Moliere Comedies" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 56 perfs
Mar 26th - 15th Golden Raspberry Awards: Color of Night wins
Mar 26th - 24th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Nanci Bowen
Mar 26th - Mashonaland beat Mashonaland U-24 by 165 runs to win Logan Cup
Mar 26th - The Schengen Treaty goes into effect.
Mar 27th - 67th Academy Awards - "Forest Gump," Jessica Lange & Tom Hanks win
Mar 28th - Julia Roberts & Lyle Lovette split-up
Mar 28th - Queensland beat S Aust to win 1st ever cricket Sheffield Shield
Mar 28th - World's largest bank-Japan's Mitsubishi Bank & Bank of Tokyo merge
Mar 29th - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Chicago IL on WCKG 105.9 FM
Mar 30th - "Arcadia" opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC for 204 performances
Mar 31st - 1st game at Coors Stadium Colo (replacement Rockies beat Yanks 4-1)
Mar 31st - Bombay beat Punjab on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy
Mar 31st - Federal judge orders injunction to end baseball strike
Apr 1st - Carlson Wagonlit Travel Agency begins charging $15 service fee
Apr 1st - NY Islanders retire Bobby Nystrom's uniform #23
Apr 2nd - 14th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion: U of Ct Huskies beats TN 70-64
Apr 2nd - 7th Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus
Apr 2nd - Baseball season opener delayed until April 26
Apr 2nd - NY Police Dept & NY Transit Police merge into one organization
Apr 2nd - North & Western Colorado begins using new area code 970
Apr 2nd - Owners accept baseball players proposal, agree to start season 4/26
Apr 2nd - Sunday NY Times raises price from $2.00 to $2.50
Apr 2nd - Wrestlemania XI in Conn-Lawrence Taylor defeats Bam Bam Bigelow
Apr 3rd - 57th NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: UCLA Bruins beats Arkansas 89-78
Apr 3rd - Howard Stern gets in trouble for disparaging remarks about Selena
Apr 6th - "Having Our Say" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 308 performances
Apr 7th - Baseball exhibition season begins late due to strike
Apr 8th - BPAA US Open won by Dave Husted
Apr 8th - Oliver McCall beats Larry Holmes in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
Apr 9th - "Translations" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 25 performances
Apr 9th - 59th Golf Masters Championship: Ben Crenshaw wins, shooting a 274
Apr 10th - "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 24 perfs
Apr 10th - NYC bans smoking in all restaurants that seat 35 or more
Apr 13th - Yankees beat the Mets 2-0
Apr 14th - India beats Sri Lanka to win the Asia Cricket Cup final in Sharjah
Apr 14th - Rosie Jones wins LPGA Pinewild Women's Golf Championship
Apr 16th - 56th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Ray Floyd wins
Apr 17th - 24th Boston Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:25:11
Apr 17th - 99th Boston Marathon won by Cosmas Ndeti of Kenya in 2:09:22
Apr 18th - Houston Post folds after 116 years
Apr 18th - Quarterback Joe Montana announces his retirement from football
Apr 19th - Chopper 4 1st used on WNBC TV (NYC) news
Apr 19th - Truck bomb at Federal Building in Okla City, kills 168 & injures 500
Apr 21st - Boston Celtics final game at Boston Gardens, NY Knicks win 98-92
Apr 21st - FBI arrested Timothy McVeigh & charge him with Okla City bombing
Apr 22nd - General Tire World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mike Aulby
Apr 22nd - George Foreman beats Axel Schulz in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
Apr 23rd - Laura Davis wins LPGA Chick-fil-A Charity Golf Championship
Apr 23rd - Pres Clinton declares a national day of mourning for Okla City
Apr 24th - Court orders Darryl Strawberry to pay back $350,000 in taxes
Apr 24th - Dow Jones Index hits record 4303.98
Apr 24th - Package bomb, linked to Unabomber, blows up killing Gilbert B Murray
Apr 25th - "Month in the Country" opens at Roundabout Theater NYC for 79 perfs
Apr 25th - 16th Emmy Sports Award presentation
Apr 26th - Baseball season begins after lengthy strike
Apr 26th - Coors Field, opens in Denver, Rockies beat Mets 11-9 in 14 innings
Apr 27th - "Indiscretions" opens at Ethel Barrymore Theater NYC for 221 perfs
Apr 27th - Coors Field in Colo opens - Denver Rockies beats Mets 11-9 in 14
Apr 28th - Gas explosion in South Korean metro, 103 die
Apr 28th - Sri Lankaan BAE748 crashes at Palaly, 52 die
Apr 29th - Final TV broadcast of "Empty Nest" on NBC TV
Apr 29th - KC Royal John Nonely is 70th to HR on his 1st at bat
Apr 29th - Longest sausage ever, at 2877 miles, made in Kitchener Ontario
Apr 30th - "Blood Brothers" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 839 perfs
Apr 30th - "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 24 perfs
Apr 30th - "Rose Tattoo" opens at Circle in the Square Theater NYC for 80 perfs
Apr 30th - After 120 years the last 15 A & S dept stores close
Famous Birthdays
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Famous Deaths
Results 201 - 300 of 1,078
Feb 27th - Philip Sherrington, opus Dei Priest, dies at 51
Feb 28th - Herman "Ace" Wallace, blues guitarist/singer, dies at 69
Feb 28th - Keith Rigg, cricketer (8 Tests for Australia 1931-37), dies
Feb 28th - Max Rudolf, conductor, dies at 92
Mar 1st - Edmund Boyd Fisher, publisher, dies at 56
Mar 1st - Vladislav Listyev, Russian TV-journalist, murdered at 38
Mar 2nd - Hugo Cole, musician/critic, dies at 77
Mar 2nd - Vladislav Listyev, TV journalist, dies at 48
Mar 3rd - Gilbert Gadoffre, French scholar, dies at 84
Mar 3rd - Howard Hunter, US leader of Mormon Church (1994-95), dies at 87
Mar 3rd - Howard Yanks, founder of the Philadelphia folk festival, dies at 65
Mar 3rd - Pierre Tisseyre, publisher (Circle du livre de France), dies at 85
Mar 3rd - Shiv Verma, soldier, dies at 85
Mar 4th - Eden Ahbez, songwriter, dies at 86
Mar 5th - Ed Flanders, actor (Dr Westphal-St Elsewhere), dies
Mar 5th - Marguerite Kelsey, Engl painter/sculptor model (Haunting), dies at 86
Mar 5th - Peter John Norton, naval diplomat/artist, dies at 82
Mar 5th - Vivian Stanshall, British musician (Magical Mystery Tour), dies at 51
Mar 5th - Gregg Hansford, Australian motorcycle and touring car racer (b. 1952)
Mar 6th - David Beinhoff, mayor, dies at 24
Mar 6th - Delroy George Wilson, singer, dies at 46
Mar 6th - Emile van Moerkerken, photographer (Ice Princess), dies at 78
Mar 6th - Helene Weijel, author (In Two Worlds), dies at 44
Mar 7th - Don Cook, British foreign correspondent, dies at 74
Mar 7th - Jaap van den Hurk, TV-director (NCRV), dies
Mar 7th - Jacques Lefebvre, Belgian air force gen, commits suicide at 64
Mar 7th - John Arthur Neill Lambert, composer teacher organist, dies at 69
Mar 7th - Paul-Emile Victor, French pole explorer, dies at 87
Mar 7th - Thijmen Kuijt, resistance fighter/co-found paper (Typhoon), dies at 82
Mar 8th - Ota Adler, Czech/British fur trader (Jewish Aid Fund), dies at 83
Mar 8th - Paul George Vincent O'Shaughnessy Horgan, novelist, dies at 91
Mar 8th - Ingo Schwichtenberg, German drummer (b. 1965)
Mar 9th - Ian Ballantine, publisher, dies of heart attack at 79
Mar 9th - Ruud van den Hende, Dutch sports reporter, dies at 63
Mar 10th - Alexander Hyatt-King, Mozart scholar, dies at 84
Mar 10th - Carel Birnie, ballet producer, dies at 69
Mar 10th - Hendrik W van Leeuwen, Dutch musician, dies at 79
Mar 10th - Richard Baerlein, racing writer, dies at 84
Mar 11th - Carel Birnie, found Utrecht Opera/Dutch Dance Theater, dies at 69
Mar 11th - Ernest Kabushemeye, Burundese minister of Mijnbouw, murdered
Mar 11th - Frank Fidler, artist, dies at 84
Mar 12th - Juanin Clay, American actress (b. 1949)
Mar 13th - Abdul Ali Mazari, Afghan shite leader, shot to death
Mar 13th - John Silverlight, journalist, dies at 75
Mar 13th - Leo Kaplan, lawyer (ASCAP), dies at 89
Mar 13th - Leon Day, pitcher (Negro Leagues), dies of heart failure at 78
Mar 13th - Lorraine Macleod, dancer (Girls Just Want to Have Fun), dies at 65
Mar 13th - P C J van Lierde, Dutch vicar-gen of Vatican (1951-91), dies at 87
Mar 14th - Gerard Thomas Victory, composer, dies at 73
Mar 14th - Johan W "Jo" van Marle, CEO (KNVB, 1980-93), dies at 70
Mar 14th - William A Fowler, US nuclear/astro physicist (Nobel 1983), dies at 83
Mar 15th - Carlos Menem Jr, son of Argentine pres, dies at 26
Mar 16th - Albert Maurice Hackett, playwright/screenwriter, dies at 95
Mar 16th - Clan Fraser of Lovat, soldier/Landowner, dies at 83
Mar 16th - Lord Lovat, [Shimi], Scottish landowner, dies at 83
Mar 16th - Sydney Simone, band leader, dies at 80
Mar 17th - Ahmad Khomeini, youngest son of Iran ayatollah Khomeini, dies at 48
Mar 17th - Donald Baverstock, television Producer, dies at 71
Mar 17th - Marcus Jan Adriani, biologist/director (Weevers' Duin), dies at 56
Mar 17th - Rick Aviles, US comic/actor (Ghost), dies of AIDS
Mar 17th - Ronnie Kray, English gangster (The Firm), dies at 61
Mar 17th - Sunnyland Smart, jazz/blues singer/pianist (Delta Blues), dies at 87
Mar 18th - Charles Drain, singer, dies at 65
Mar 18th - Frederic Ramsey Jr, folklorist/author, dies at 80
Mar 18th - Heinrich Sutermeister, Swiss composer (Raskolnikov), dies at 84
Mar 19th - Fernand Lodewick, literature historian (Literature), dies at 85
Mar 19th - Gerard Tebroke, 5/10 km-dasher, dies at 45
Mar 19th - Kenneth Norman Joseph Loveless, priest folk musician, dies at 83
Mar 20th - Merv Harvey, cricketer (scored 12 & 31 in Test Aus v Eng 46-47), dies
Mar 20th - Rachida Hammadi, Algerian TV journalist, murdered at 32
Mar 20th - Sidney Kingslei, playwright, dies at 88
Mar 20th - Sidney Kingsley, US playwright (Pulitzer prize 1934), dies at 88
Mar 21st - Daan Wildschut, Dutch painter/author, dies at 81
Mar 21st - Etienne Martin, French sculptor, dies at 82
Mar 21st - Norman Schwartz, record Producer, dies at 66
Mar 21st - Robert Urquhart, actor (Dunkirk, Bulldog Breed), dies at 72
Mar 22nd - Peter Woods, newsreader, dies at 64
Mar 23rd - Alan Barton, singer (Smokie, Black Lace), dies in a bus crash
Mar 23rd - Daniel George "Danny" Apolinar, composer/songwriter, dies at 61
Mar 23rd - Davie Cooper, soccer star, dies at 39
Mar 23rd - Irving Shulman, author/screenwriter, dies at 81
Mar 23rd - Ripley L. Ingram, singer, dies at 65
Mar 23rd - Robert Turner, winner of 1st All-American Soap Box Derby, dies at 72
Mar 23rd - Russell Reading Braddon, author, dies at 74
Mar 24th - Anthony Standerwick Heal, businessman, dies at 88
Mar 24th - Joey Long, blues/cajun guitarist, dies at 62
Mar 24th - Trevor Oswald Ling, religious Studies Professor, dies at 75
Mar 25th - James Gardner, designer, dies at 87
Mar 25th - Peter Herbert Penwarden, priest, dies at 73
Mar 25th - Warren E Burger, chief justice of US (1969-86), dies
Mar 25th - James Coleman, American sociologist (b. 1926)
Mar 25th - Krešimir Ćosić, Croatian basketball player (b. 1948)
Mar 26th - Rapper-E (Eazy Eric Wright), dies at 31
Mar 27th - Albert Drach, writer, dies
Mar 27th - Bernard Cornfeld, Romanian/US financier (Fund of Funds), dies at 67
Mar 27th - Chet Gierlach, music publisher/composer, dies at 75
Mar 27th - Rene Allio, film Director, dies at 70
Mar 28th - Hugh Edward R O'Connor, actor (In the Heat of the Night), ODs at 32
Mar 28th - Jack Regan, broadcaster, dies at 53
Mar 28th - Vivienne Byerley, publicist, dies at 88

