Historical Events for Year 1995 (Part 2)

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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
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


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