Today in History for Year 1995 (Part 5)
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Historical Events
Results 401 - 500 of 749
Jun 25th - Betsy King wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic
Jun 25th - Rockies' Andres Galarraga is 4th to HR in 3 consecutive innings
Jun 26th - Gunmen ambush Egyptian pres Hosni Mubarak, escapes unharmed
Jun 26th - Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup.
Jun 27th - Holland's debut in English domestic comp (v Northants, NatWest)
Jun 27th - Mason City Iowa's TV news personality Jodi Huisentruit disappears
Jun 27th - Space shuttle STS-71 (Atlantis 14), launches
Jun 27th - Former WMMS engineer William Alford is sentenced to 10 days & $1,000 fine for cutting feed during Howard Stern's broadcast from Cleveland
Jun 28th - NJ Devils Stanley Cup Victory Party, admidst rumours they were moving to Nashville, goalie Chris Terreri holds up "Nashville? NO WAY!" sign
Jun 29th - George Foreman loses IBF boxing title, refused to fight Axel Schulz
Jun 29th - Memphis Mad Dogs 1st CFL game (vs Calgary Stampeders)
Jun 30th - Indians' Eddie Murray, is 20th to reach 3,000 hits
Jul 1st - "Kiss of the Spider Woman" closes at Broadhurst NYC after 906 perfs
Jul 1st - Kiersten Rickenbach, of NJ, crowned America's Junior Miss
Jul 2nd - "Rose Tattoo" closes at Circle in the Square NYC after 80 perfs
Jul 2nd - 16th US Seniors Golf Open: Tom Weiskopf
Jul 2nd - Michelle McGann wins Youngstown-Warren LPGA Golf Classic
Jul 2nd - Thailand: Banharn Silpa-Archa's party wins election
Jul 4th - Birmingham Barracudas play 1st CFL game (vs Winnipeg)
Jul 5th - Columbia U beats Hartferd College to be 1st US to win Henley Regatta
Jul 6th - Lottie Dod, 15, beats Blanch Bingley at Wimbledon
Jul 7th - Memphis Mad Dogs 1st CFL home game (vs BC Lions)
Jul 7th - Space shuttle STS-71 (Atlantis 14), lands
Jul 8th - 102nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Graf beats Arantxa S Vicario (46 61 75)
Jul 8th - 1st CFL game between 2 US teams, Las Vegas Posse vs Sacramento Gold
Jul 9th - "Play's the Thing" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 75 performances
Jul 9th - 109th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats B Becker (67 62 64 62)
Jul 9th - Jack Nicklaus wins Golf's British Open (4th to win all 4 majors)
Jul 9th - Kathryn Marshall wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
Jul 9th - US international postage rates rise to 60 cents per ounce
Jul 11th - 66th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-2 at Ballpark at Arlington Tx
Jul 11th - All star MVP: Jeff Conine (Fla Marlins)
Jul 13th - Space shuttle STS-70 (Discovery 20), launches
Jul 14th - LA Dodger Ramon Martinez no-hits the Florida Marlins 7-0
Jul 14th - Ramon Martinez pitches a 7-0 no-hitter against the Marlins
Jul 15th - Birmingham Barracudas 1st CFL home game (vs Hamilton)
Jul 15th - Jews take Jerusalem
Jul 15th - Northern Virginia begins using new area code 540
Jul 16th - "Buttons on Broadway" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 40 perfs
Jul 16th - "Chronicles of a Death Foretold" closes at Plymouth NYC after 55 perfs
Jul 16th - 13th Seniors Players Golf Championship: J C Snead
Jul 16th - 50th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Annika Sorenstam
Jul 17th - Forbes Mag announces Bill Gates is the richest man in world ($12.9B)
Jul 18th - DC3 crashes at Antananarivo Madagaskar, 34 die
Jul 20th - The Regents of the University of California vote to end all affirmative action in the UC system by 1997.
Jul 21st - Brian Lara completes a pair for West Indians v Kent
Jul 21st - KC Royals set club-record of 22 singles in 15 innings
Jul 22nd - Space shuttle STS-70 (Discovery 20), lands
Jul 22nd - Susan Smith found guilty of drowning her 2 children in SC
Jul 23rd - "Hamlet" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 121 performances
Jul 23rd - 124th British Golf Open: John Daly shoots a 282 at St Andrews Scotland
Jul 23rd - Miguel Indurains wins his 5th Tour de France
Jul 23rd - Tracy Kerdyk wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
Jul 23rd - Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered and becomes visible to the naked eye nearly a year later.
Jul 25th - A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded.
Jul 27th - In Washington, DC, the Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated.
Jul 28th - Art Modell's rep begins secrets talks to move team to Baltimore
Jul 29th - Monica Seles beats Martina Naratilova in her return to tennis
Jul 29th - Carolina Panthers beat Jacksonville Jaguars in their 1st NFL exhibition game 20-14
Jul 30th - Becky Iverson wins LPGA Friendly's Golf Classic
Jul 30th - Dominic Cork takes hat-trick in England Test Cricket win v WI
Jul 30th - Lara completes 5th Test Cricket century, 145 at Old Trafford
Jul 30th - Richie Ashburn and Mike Schmidt enter basaeball's Hall of Fame
Aug 1st - Westinghouse purchases CBS-TV network
Aug 3rd - CNN en Espanol premieres
Aug 4th - Darryl Strawberry joins the NY Yankees
Aug 4th - Operation Storm begins in Croatia.
Aug 5th - The city of Knin, a significant Serb stronghold, is captured by Croatian forces during Operation Storm. The date is celebrated as the day of victory (Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day) in Croatia.
Aug 6th - "Damn Yankees" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 510 performances
Aug 6th - Dottie Mochrie wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mountain
Aug 6th - Indians & Browns play in Cleveland on same day for 1st time ever both lose - Chicago 5, Indians 1; Giants 19, Browns 13 (exhibition)
Aug 6th - Thousands of people in Hiroshima tribute on 50th anniversary of bomb
Aug 8th - Jeff King of Pirates is 16th NL player to HR twice in one inning
Aug 10th - Dodgers leading 2-1 in 9th forfeit game to Cards, fans become unruly
Aug 12th - Lara completes 6th Test Cricket century, 152 at Trent Bridge
Aug 13th - 77th PGA Championship: Steve Elkington shoots a 267 at Riviera Calif
Aug 13th - Beth Daniels wins LPGA PING Welch's Golf Championship
Aug 14th - Shannon Faulkner becomes 1st woman to attend the Citadel
Aug 15th - Keylee Sue Sanders, 18, of Kansas, crowned 13th Miss Teen USA
Aug 17th - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
Aug 18th - Cards reliever Tom Henke earns his 300th career save
Aug 19th - After 5 days Shannon Faulkner quits as 1st woman at the Citadel
Aug 19th - Bruce Seldon TKOs Joe Hipp in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
Aug 19th - Mike Tyson returns to the ring & DQs Peter McNeeley in 38 seconds
Aug 20th - "Play's the Thing" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 75 perfs
Aug 20th - Indians' Jose Mesa sets record with his 37th consecutive save
Aug 20th - Kerrie Webb wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Golf Open
Aug 21st - US marshals move in on Randy Weaver's cabin in Idaho
Aug 22nd - FBI agent Lon Horiuchi shoots at Randy Weaver's cabin in Idaho
Aug 23rd - Indians' Jose Mesa sets record with his 38th consecutive save
Aug 23rd - Larry Hagman receives a liver transplant
Aug 24th - Fire that wipes 6,000 acres begins in Hamptons on Long Island
Aug 24th - Windows 95 debuts
Aug 25th - Andrew Symonds scores 254 Gloucs v Glam, world record 16 x 6
Aug 25th - Indians' Jose Mesa fails in save attempt after 38th consecutive saves
Aug 26th - Andrew Symonds hits 20 sixes in match for Gloucs v Glamorgan
Aug 26th - Lara completes 7th Test Cricket century, 179 at The Oval
Aug 27th - "Arcadia" closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC after 204 performances
Aug 27th - 23rd du Maurier Golf Classic: Jenny Lidback
Aug 27th - 95th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods
Famous Birthdays
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Famous Deaths
Results 401 - 500 of 1,078
May 6th - Hilda Toledano (b. 1907)
May 7th - Ernest H Martin, impressario, dies at 75
May 7th - Lawrence Josset, engraver, dies at 84
May 7th - Maria Luisa Bemberg, fil maker, dies at 73
May 7th - Ray McKinley, drummer, dies at 84
May 8th - Carroll Best, bluegrass banjo, dies at 63
May 8th - Jerry Zipkin, socialite, dies at 80
May 8th - Prem Bhatia, journalist, dies at 83
May 8th - Teresa Teng, singer, dies at 41
May 9th - Abha Gandhi, servant to Gandhi, dies at 68
May 9th - Charles Montgomery Monteith, publisher, dies at 74
May 9th - Marshall Royal, jazz Sax/Clarinet, dies at 82
May 9th - Percy Mansell, cricketer (355 runs in 13 Tests for S Afr), dies
May 10th - Harold Berens, comedian, dies at 92
May 10th - Hilde Jarecki, educationist, dies at 83
May 10th - Jimmy Raney, jazz guitarist, dies at 67
May 11th - Arthur Lubin, director (Francis The Talking Mule, Mr Ed), dies at 96
May 11th - David Avidan, poet/writer, dies at 62
May 11th - William John Phillips, actor (Nothing but a Man), dies at 80
May 12th - Arthur Lubin, film director, dies at 95
May 12th - Giorgio Belladonna, bridge champion, dies at 71
May 12th - Reza Abdoh, theatre Director, dies at 32
May 13th - Cecil Marley, cricketer (WICBC pres 1971-74, Jamaican capt 1946), dies
May 14th - Maezumi Hakuyu Taizan Koun, teacher (Zen Buddhism), dies at 64
May 14th - Christian B. Anfinsen, American Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
May 15th - Edouard Dermit, actor (Testament of Orpheus), dies at 69
May 15th - Eric Richard Porter, actor (Crucible, Hennessy), dies at 67
May 15th - Johnny Van Derrick, jazz violinist, dies at 68
May 15th - Perry Lederman, folk singer, dies at 52
May 16th - Lola Flores, singer/actress (Kuma Ching, Faraona), dies at 70
May 16th - Ragnhild Marie Hatton, historian, dies at 82
May 17th - Nathan "Dambuza" Mdledle, singer, dies at 72
May 18th - Alexander Gudonov, Russian dancer/actor (Witness), dies at 45
May 18th - Elisha Cook Jr, actor (Maltese Falcon, Shane), dies at 91
May 18th - Elizabeth Montgomery, actress (Bewitched), dies of cancer at 62
May 18th - Gordon Reynolds, musician, dies at 74
May 18th - Robert Harris, actor (Werewolf of London), dies at 95
May 21st - Kieron Walsh, academic, dies at 46
May 21st - Les Aspin, US sec of Defense (1993-95), dies of stroke at 56
May 21st - Patrick Bowles, writer/translator, dies at 68
May 22nd - Robert Flemyng, actor (Kafka, Rebecca, Funny Face), dies at 83
May 24th - Harold Wilson, British PM (1964-70, 74-76), dies of cancer at 79
May 24th - Mike Pyne, jazz Pianist, dies at 54
May 25th - Dany Robin, actress (Follow the Boys, Topaz, Julietta), dies at 68
May 25th - Dick Curless, singer/songwriter, dies at 63
May 26th - Isadore "Friz" Freling, cartoon director (Sylvester), dies at 88
May 26th - Ron Weatherburn, jazz pianist, dies at 61
May 26th - Severn Darden, comedian (Second City), dies at 65
May 27th - C W Stubblefield, music Promoter, dies at 64
May 27th - Ulyses Simpson Kay, composer, dies at 78
May 28th - Daniela Rocca, actress (Battle of Austerlitz), dies at 57
May 28th - Henning Kronstam, dancer, dies at 60
May 28th - Jean Elizabeth Leuckert Muir, designer dressmaker, dies at 66
May 28th - Jean Muir, (Dress Queen), British model, dies at 66
May 29th - Margaret Chase Smith, 1st woman Rep & Sen (R-Me), dies at 97
May 30th - Bobby Stokes, soccer star, dies at 44
May 30th - Philip Owen A Sherrard, scholar theologian poet/translator, dies at 72
May 30th - Ted Drake, soccer star, dies at 82
May 30th - Thomas Dorrington Tomlinson, Brit national park warden, dies at 87
May 30th - Ted Drake, English footballer (b. 1912)
May 30th - Lofty England, English automotive engineer and race team manager (b.1911)
May 31st - Tim Mara, owner (NY Giants), dies at 59
Jun 1st - Prudence Hyman, dancer, dies at 80
Jun 1st - Ronald Anthony "Tony" Clegg, property trader, dies at 58
Jun 3rd - Alastair Webster Mackie, poet/teacher, dies at 69
Jun 3rd - Dilys Powell, film Critic, dies at 93
Jun 3rd - Estelle Brody, actress (Safari, Kitty, Plaything), dies at 94
Jun 3rd - Frank Waters, writer, dies at 92
Jun 3rd - Jean-Patric Manchette, thriller writer, dies at 52
Jun 4th - Ernest Borneman, sexual researcher psychotherapist, dies at 80
Jun 4th - Herta Ryder, literary agent, dies at 77
Jun 4th - Paul WIlliams, climber, dies at 49
Jun 4th - William J Law, sailor, dies at 84
Jun 5th - Bettina Vernon-Warren, dancer, dies at 75
Jun 6th - Imam Elissa, singer, dies at 76
Jun 6th - James Anderson, writer, dies at 41
Jun 7th - Joseph Tomelty, actor/playwright (Bedevilled, Moby Dick), dies at 84
Jun 7th - Hsuan Hua, influential Buddhist master in the United States (b. 1918)
Jun 8th - Juan Carlos Ongania, pres of Argentina (1966-70), dies
Jun 8th - Lord Erskine of Rerrick, peer, dies at 69
Jun 8th - Sheikh Iman, singer, dies at 76
Jun 9th - Charles Rowe, cricket (scored 0 in only Test for NZ v Aust 1946), dies
Jun 9th - Frank Chacksfield, conductor/arranger, dies at 81
Jun 9th - Walter Landor, designer, dies at 81
Jun 10th - Ernest Anderson, publicist, dies at 85
Jun 10th - Masaya Hanai, businessamn, dies at 82
Jun 10th - Ron Morrisby, cricketer (prolific batsman for Tasmania 1931-52), dies
Jun 11th - Lovelace Watkins, singer, dies at 58
Jun 11th - Luigi Innocenti, designer, dies at 71
Jun 12th - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, pianist, dies at 75
Jun 13th - David Parry, guitarist, dies 53
Jun 14th - Anthony Joly de Lotbiniere, television producer, dies at 69
Jun 14th - Gesualdo Bufalino, novelist, dies at 74
Jun 14th - Gordon Greig, journalist, dies at 63
Jun 14th - Roger Joseph Zelazny, sci-fi writer, dies of cancer at 60
Jun 14th - Rory Gallagher, Irish rock guitarist (See Here), dies at 47
Jun 15th - Charles Bennett, screenwriter, dies at 95
Jun 16th - Jack Wagner, actor/voice (Disneyland, Walt Disney World), dies
Jun 17th - Claire Sterling, journalist, dies at 75
Jun 18th - Arthur John Howard, actor (Frieda, Last Holiday, Paradiso), dies at 85

