Today in History for Year 1995 (Part 4)
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Historical Events
Results 301 - 400 of 749
Apr 30th - Val Skinner wins LPGA Sprint Golf Championship
May 1st - "On the Waterfront" opens at Atkinson Theater NYC for 8 performances
May 1st - Steve Waugh scores 200 for Australia v WI at Sabina Park
May 1st - Croatian forces launch Operation Flash during the Croatian War of Independence.
May 2nd - "Hamlet" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 121 performances
May 2nd - Expos bat out of order against Mets in 6th inning
May 2nd - Serb missiles exploded in the heart of Zagreb, killing six
May 3rd - "My Thing of Love" opens at Beck Theater NYC for 16 performances
May 3rd - Australia beat West Indies to regain the Frank Worrell Cricket Trophy
May 3rd - David Bell debuts for the Indians (3rd generation player, Gus & Buddy)
May 5th - Last basketball game at Boston Gardens (Magic beats Celtics)
May 6th - 121st Kentucky Derby: Gary Stevens on Thunder Gulch wins in 2:01.2
May 6th - ABC Bud Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by Mike Aulby
May 6th - Classic Sports Network begins on cable TV
May 7th - "On the Waterfront" closes at Atkinson Theater NYC after 8 perfs
May 7th - Jacques Chirac wins French presidential election
May 7th - Michelle McGann wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
May 7th - Twins beat Indians 10-9 in 17 innings, 6 hours & 36 minutes
May 9th - Cleveland Indians tie record of scoring 8 runs before making an out, they beat Twins 10-0
May 9th - Kinshasa, Zaire under quarantine after an outbreak of Ebola virus
May 10th - 30th Academy of Country Music Awards: Reba McEntire wins
May 10th - Britain lifts a 23-year ban on ministerial talks with Sinn Fein
May 10th - In South Africa, 104 miners killed in an elevator accident
May 11th - In New York City, more than 170 countries decide to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.
May 12th - Dow Jones for 5th straight day of the week sets a new record (4430.59)
May 12th - Jose Mesa gets 1st of his M.L. record 37 consecutive saves
May 12th - Martin Brodeur ties NHL record getting his 3rd playoff shutout in 4
May 13th - 6.5 earthquake hits Greece
May 13th - New Zealand beats US for the America's Cup
May 13th - Chelsi Smith, 21, of USA, crowned 44th Miss Universe Shanna Lynn Moakler, (19-NY), replaces Chelsi Smith as Miss USA
May 14th - "My Thing of Love" closes at Beck Theater NYC after 16 performances
May 14th - 41st McDonald's LPGA Championship won by Kelly Robbins
May 14th - Eddie Murray of Indians hits his 463rd career home run (ties for 18th)
May 14th - Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima 11th reincarnation of Panchen Lama, Tibet's 2nd most sr spiritual leader
May 15th - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
May 16th - Japanese police arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara & charged him with Nerve-gas attack on Tokyo's subways two months earlier
May 18th - WIBC Bowling Queens won by Sandra Postma
May 19th - Emmy 22nd Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 15th time
May 19th - World's youngest doctor, Balamurali Ambati, 17, graduates Mount Sinai
May 20th - 121st Preakness: Pat Day aboard Timber Coutry wins in 1:54.4
May 20th - CBS News fires co-anchor Connie Chung
May 20th - Twins Marty Cordova ties rookie record of HRs in 5 consecutive games
May 21st - Chris Johnson wins Star Bank LPGA Golf Classic
May 22nd - Laverne & Shirley 20th anniversary reunionn special, televised
May 23rd - 47th time opposing pitchers hit HRS, K Foster (Cubs)/M Freeman (Rocks)
May 25th - The Bosnian Serb Army kills 72 youngsters in the Bosnian city of Tuzla.
May 27th - In Culpeper, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition.
May 28th - "Inspector Calls" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 454 performances
May 28th - Alison Nichols wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
May 28th - Dottie Mochrie wins J C Penney/LPGA Skins Golf Game
May 28th - Earthquake hits Russian town of Khabarovsk, killing 2,000 people
May 28th - Southwestern Florida outside of Tampa begins using new area code 941
May 28th - White Sox (5) & Tigers (7) combine for record 12 HRs at Tiger Stadium
Jun 1st - 68th National Spell Bee: Justin Tyler Carroll wins spelling xanthosis
Jun 1st - Rangers' Kenny Rogers scoreless inning streak ends after 39
Jun 2nd - John Valentin hits 3 HRs
Jun 3rd - Expos pitcher Pedro Martinez perfect game is broken up in 10th inning as San Diego's Bip Roberts leads off with a double, Mont wins 1-0
Jun 4th - "Jackie Mason: Politically Incorrect" closes at Golden NYC at 347 perf
Jun 4th - 49th Tony Awards: Love! Valour! Compassion! & Sunset Boulevard win
Jun 4th - 8th Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $1,331,000
Jun 4th - Dale Eggeling wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic
Jun 5th - 29th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson & Reba McEntire
Jun 5th - The Bose-Einstein condensate is first created.
Jun 6th - 1st Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
Jun 7th - The long range Boeing 777 enters service with United Airlines.
Jun 8th - "Buttons on Broadway" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 40 perfs
Jun 8th - Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
Jun 9th - Brady Bunch Movie, (1995), premieres in UK
Jun 9th - Congo (1995), premieres in USA
Jun 9th - Dumb & Dumber (1994), premieres in Sweden
Jun 9th - Killer (1994), premieres in UK
Jun 9th - Kiss of Death (1995), premieres in UK
Jun 9th - Man of the House (1995), premieres in UK
Jun 9th - Neak Sre (1993), premieres in UK
Jun 9th - Party Girl (1995), premieres in USA
Jun 9th - Smoke (1995), premieres in USA
Jun 9th - Wigstock The Movie (1994), premieres in USA
Jun 10th - "Month in the Country" closes at Roundabout Theater NYC after 79 perfs
Jun 10th - 127th Belmont: Gary Stevens aboard Thunder Gulch wins in 2:32
Jun 10th - 65th French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graff beats A.S. Vicario (76 46 60)
Jun 10th - Orioles Jeff Manto, hits his 4th consecutive homer
Jun 11th - 65th French Mens Tennis: Thomas Muster beats Michael Chang (75 62 64)
Jun 11th - Julie Larsen wins Edina Realty LPGA Golf Classic
Jun 11th - Rondell White has six hits & hits for the cycle in 13-innings
Jun 13th - Indians' Dennis Martinez no-hits Balt 11-0
Jun 13th - NJ Devils beat Phila Flyers, to go to their 1st Stanley Cup finals
Jun 14th - 49th NBA Championship: Houston Rockets sweep Orlando Magic in 4 games
Jun 14th - Giants infielder Mike Benjamin goes 6-for-7 in 13-inning 4-3 win
Jun 15th - "Chronicles of a Death Foretold" opens at Plymouth NYC for 55 perfs
Jun 15th - Mark Ilott takes 9-19 incl all lbw hat-trick, Essex v Northants
Jun 15th - Northants all out 46 v Essex & wins game next day
Jun 16th - "Batman Forever" opens with a record $528 million weekend
Jun 16th - Marlins outfielder Andre Dawson hits his 400th NL career HR (429)
Jun 16th - Salt Lake City awarded the XIX Winter Olympics in 2002
Jun 17th - "Who's Tommy" closes at St James Theater NYC after 899 performances
Jun 18th - 95th US Golf Open: Corey Pavin shoots a 280 at Shinnecock Hills NY
Jun 18th - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Rochester International Golf Tournament
Jun 19th - NY Yankees announce agreement with Darryl Strawberry
Jun 20th - Space probe Ulysses begins 2nd passage behind the Sun
Jun 24th - Stanley Cup: NJ Devils sweep Detroit Red Wings in 4 games
Famous Birthdays
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Famous Deaths
Results 301 - 400 of 1,078
Mar 29th - Carl E Jefferson, record company owner, dies at 74
Mar 29th - Eddie Williams Wiggins, alto saxophone/comedian, dies at 78
Mar 29th - James Eric Storrar, fighter Pilot, dies at 74
Mar 29th - John Elliott Terry, film financier, dies at 82
Mar 29th - Baltimora, British singer (b. 1957)
Mar 30th - Graham Anthony Richard Lock, cricketer, dies at 65
Mar 30th - Paul A Rothchild, record producer, dies at 59
Mar 30th - Rozelle Claxton, pianist/arranger, dies at 82
Mar 30th - Tony Lock, cricketer (174 wickets for England), dies
Mar 31st - Carl M Story, fiddler, dies at 78
Mar 31st - Selena, Mexican Grammy winning singer, killed by a fan at 24
Apr 1st - Cheryl Waltz, author/film producer, dies at 50
Apr 1st - Francisco Moncion, dancer, dies at 73
Apr 1st - Johnny Nicholss, footballer, dies at 63
Apr 1st - Lucie Rie, potter, dies at 93
Apr 1st - Richard Pool, naval Officer, dies at 75
Apr 1st - Sampson DeBrier, actor (Inauguration of Pleasure Dome), dies at 86
Apr 1st - Lucy Rie, American potter (b. 1902)
Apr 1st - H. Adams Carter, American Alpine Club President, 10th Mountain Division trainer (b. 1914)
Apr 2nd - Hannes Alfven, physicist (Nobel prize), dies at 86
Apr 2nd - Harvey Penick, premier golf instructor/author, dies at 90
Apr 2nd - Julius Arthur Hemphill, saxophonist, dies at 57
Apr 3rd - David Alexander Reginald Herbert, writer, dies at 86
Apr 3rd - Harvey Pennick, golfer/teacher, dies at 89
Apr 4th - Kenny Everett, disc Jockey, dies at 50
Apr 4th - Peter Brinson, dance educationalist, dies at 67
Apr 4th - Priscilla Lane, actress (Saboteur, Bodyguard), dies at 77
Apr 5th - Christian Pineau, French politician, dies
Apr 6th - Vieno J Sukselainen, PM of Finland (1959-61), dies
Apr 7th - Philip Vincent Belloc Jebb, architect, dies at 68
Apr 8th - Maurice Allom, cricketer (14 Test wickets-NZ debut hat-trick), dies
Apr 9th - James Bullock, colliery manager, dies at 92
Apr 10th - Chen Yun, VPM of China (1949-75, 79-80), dies
Apr 10th - Glyn Jones, writer, dies at 90
Apr 10th - Gunter Guillaume, German politican, dies
Apr 10th - Joseph Anthony "Joe" Richards, singer/actor (Colo Ranger), dies at 44
Apr 10th - Morarji Desai, PM of India (1977-79), dies
Apr 12th - Chris Pyne, trombonist, dies at 56
Apr 13th - Edward Firth Henderson, arabist, dies at 77
Apr 13th - Lawrence Allan Laurie Scott, script writer, dies at 87
Apr 14th - Brian Coffey, poet, dies at 89
Apr 14th - Burl Ives, folk singer/actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), dies at 85
Apr 14th - Donald Keech, entrepreneur, dies at 74
Apr 14th - James Daniel "Danny" Turner, saxophonist, dies at 75
Apr 14th - Michael Scott Montague Fordham, jungian analyst educator, dies at 89
Apr 15th - Cleo Brown, pianist, dies at 91
Apr 15th - Denis Harding, soldier, dies at 79
Apr 16th - Arthur English, comedian, dies at 75
Apr 16th - Cheyenne Brando, daughter of Marlon, commits suicide
Apr 16th - Cyril Enfield, film Director, dies at 80
Apr 16th - Stewart Myles MacPherson, broadcaster, dies at 86
Apr 16th - Iqbal Masih, Pakistani child slave labourer, activist (b. 1982)
Apr 17th - A R A (Anton) Murray, cricketer (289 runs & 11 wkts in 10 Tests), dies
Apr 17th - Nancy Mayhew Youngman, artist/educator, dies at 88
Apr 18th - Arturo Frondizi, President of Argentina (1958-62), dies
Apr 19th - "King" Herbert Whitaker, tenor sax, dies at 66
Apr 19th - Igor Hajek, translator/writer, dies at 64
Apr 19th - J Peter Grace Jr, CEO (W R Grace), dies at 81
Apr 19th - Joseph Peter Grace, businessman, dies at 61
Apr 19th - Kenneth Burslam Gardner, librarian/Orientalist, dies at 70
Apr 20th - Milovan Djilas, Yugoslavian politician (1945-54), dies
Apr 20th - R E S Wyatt, cricketer (England capt 16 times), dies
Apr 20th - Sunil Jayasinghe, Sri Lankan wicketkeeper (1979 World Cup), suicide
Apr 20th - Tessie O'Shea, entertainer, dies at 81
Apr 21st - Robert Elliott Storey Wyatt, cricketer, dies at 93
Apr 21st - Stafford Heginbotham, toymaker/Football Club Chairman, dies at 61
Apr 22nd - Don Pullen, pianist/composer, dies at 53
Apr 22nd - Maggie Kuhn, activist (Gray Panthers), dies at 89
Apr 23rd - Howard Cosell, sportscaster (Monday Night Football), dies at 77
Apr 23rd - John Stennis, (Sen-D-MS), dies at 93
Apr 23rd - Lonesome Sundown, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 66
Apr 23rd - Robert Selby Taylor, bishop, dies at 86
Apr 24th - Douglas Gunsekera, banker, dies at 77
Apr 25th - Art Fleming, game show host (Jeopardy), dies at 74
Apr 25th - Francis Henry Smith, librarian, dies at 85
Apr 25th - Ginger Rogers, actress/dancer (Top Hat, Stage Door), dies at 83
Apr 25th - Joseph Heifitz, film director, dies at 89
Apr 26th - Alexander Knox, actor/writer (Gorky Park, Accident), dies at 88
Apr 27th - Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (b. 1921)
Apr 28th - Andrew Salkey, author editor/broadcaster, dies at 67
Apr 28th - Henry C Rogers, press Agent, dies at 81
Apr 28th - Peaches Roy Davis, baseball pitcher, dies at 89
Apr 29th - Robert Gibb, zoo/theme park creator, dies at 57
Apr 30th - Donald Edwin White, ad copywriter/opera administrator, dies at 59
Apr 30th - Reinaldo de Carvalho, carnival king, dies at 34
May 2nd - Michael Hordern, English actor (b. 1911)
May 3rd - Michael Horden, actor (Fool, Green Man, Scoop), dies at 83
May 4th - Lewis T Preston, banker, dies at 68
May 4th - Louis Krasner, violinist, dies at 91
May 5th - Anthony Wagner, genealogist, dies at 86
May 5th - Bernard Benjamin Gillis, judge, dies at 89
May 5th - Esther Waterhouse, doctor/methodist, dies at 86
May 5th - James Pack, naval officer museum curator, dies at 81
May 5th - Lionel Alexander Bethune [Alastair] Pilkington, engineer, dies at 75
May 5th - Mikhail Moseyevich Botvinnik, world chess champ, dies
May 5th - Thomas Eden Binkley, musician, dies at 63
May 6th - Dona Maria Pia de Braganca, pretender to Port throne, dies at 88
May 6th - Leanoard "Red" Truss, R&B singer, dies at 47
May 6th - Nicholas Palmer, TV writer/producer, dies at 57
May 6th - Noel Brotherston, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1956)

