Historical Events in 1995

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• Jan 1 "Glass Menagerie" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 57 performances
• Jan 1 "Shadow Box" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 49 performances

• Jan 1 Austria, Finland & Sweden act to join European Union
• Jan 1 Centennial of Canadian Mounties presence in Canada's Yukon Territory
• Jan 1 Fernando Henrique Cardoso installed as president of Brazil
• Jan 1 International Year of Tolerance

• Jan 1 Raman Lamba (312) & Ravi Sehgal (216) put on an Indian 1st-class record opening partnership 464 in Delhi's innings & 310 run win over Himachal Pradesh in a Ranji Trophy cricket match in Delhi
• Jan 1 "A Tuna Christmas" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 20 performances
• Jan 1 The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves.
• Jan 1 61st Orange Bowl: #1 Nebraska beats #3 Miami (FL), 24-17
• Jan 2 Bus crashes in Luzon Philippines, 29 killed
• Jan 2 Carquest Bowl 5: South Carolina beats West Virginia, 24-21
• Jan 2 Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (est 15 billion light years away)
• Jan 2 81st Rose Bowl: #2 Penn State beats #12 Oregon, 38-20
• Jan 2 61st Sugar Bowl: #7 Florida State beats #5 Florida, 23-17


• Jan 2 24th Fiesta Bowl: #4 Colorado beats Notre Dame, 41-24

• Jan 5 Lockheed C-140 Jetstar crashes at Isfahan, Iran, killing 18
• Jan 5 Bill Fitch becomes the 5th coach in NBA history to register 850 career victories with the LA Clippers' 95-93 home win over Philadelphia 76'ers at the LA Memorial Sports Arena

• Jan 6 A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines, leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack.
• Jan 7 "Christmas Carol" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC after 18 performances
• Jan 7 "Passion" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 280 performances

• Jan 7 Larry Brown posts his 500th career NBA coaching victory, following the Indiana Pacers' 88-83 road win at the Houston Rockets
• Jan 8 "Guys & Dolls" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 1143 performances
• Jan 8 15th United Negro College Fund raises $12,200,000

• Jan 9 Ecuador & Peru involved in boundary fight
• Jan 9 Worker accidentally cuts electrical wires at Newark Airport
• Jan 10 "Late Late Show" with Tom Snyder premieres on CBS at 12:30 AM
• Jan 11 5th TV network (WB) Warner Brothers begins (WPIX-TV in NYC)
• Jan 11 Birmingham Barracudas (based in Alabama) granted CFL franchise, experiment only lasts one season
• Jan 11 DC-9 crashes near Maria La Baya, Colombia: 51 die, 9 yr old girl lives
• Jan 11 NHLPA & owners agree to end NHL strike


• Jan 12 Major earthquake kills 5,092 in Kobe Japan

• Jan 13 26 HNL teams unanimously ratify agreement to end NHL strike
• Jan 13 America3 becomes 1st all-female crew to win an America's Cup race
• Jan 14 10,000 South Africans attend state funeral of Joe Slovo
• Jan 14 16th ACE Cable Awards: John Malone wins the Golden CableACE for outstanding achievements in advancing the development of cable programming

• Jan 14 Vinny Pazienza beats Panamanian boxing legend Roberto Durán in a 12-round unanimous decision in a super middleweight bout in Atlantic City; 2nd time in 6 months Pazienza wears down 43-year-old Duran in a high profile pay-pay-view bout
• Jan 15 Southern Alabama begins using new area code 334
• Jan 15 Western Washington begins using new area code 360
• Jan 15 AFC Championship, Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh: San Diego Chargers beat Pittsburgh Steelers, 17-13
• Jan 15 NFC Championship, Candlestick Park, SF: San Francisco 49ers beat Dallas Cowboys, 38-28
• Jan 16 UPN (Universal-Parmount Network) begins telecasting (WWOR in NYC)
• Jan 17 "Carousel" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 322 performances
• Jan 17 7.2 earthquake destroys Kobe, Japan and kills 5,372
• Jan 17 Australia beat Australia A 2-0 to win cricket's World Series Cup
• Jan 17 LA Rams announce that they are moving to St Louis
• Jan 18 Kumble takes 16-99 in match for Karnataka v Kerala
• Jan 18 Pope John Paul II begins visit to Australia
• Jan 19 Jean-Claude Juncker (28) sworn in as premier of Luxembourg
• Jan 20 "Love! Valor! Compassion!" opens at Walter Kerr NYC for 276 performances
• Jan 20 1994-95 NHL Season begin after a lengthy strike
• Jan 20 Russian ruble drops to 3,947 per dollar (record)

• Jan 22 Palestinian bomb attack in Beit Lid Israel, 21-22 killed
• Jan 25 Jacques Santer succeeds Jacques Delors as chairman of Euro Committee
• Jan 25 Chicago Blackhawks beat Edmonton Oilers, 5-1 in the first NHL game in their new home, the United Center; defenseman Chris Chelios leads scoring with a goal and 2 assists

• Jan 26 With a record 6,254,427 ballots cast by fans in NBA All-Star Voting, Detroit's Grant Hill becomes the first rookie to lead all NBA players in All-Star votes received, earning #1 on 1,289,585 ballots
• Jan 27 Eric Cantona of Manchester United fined and banned from playing football after attacking a fan
• Jan 28 Memphis Mad Dogs granted CFL's 13th franchise

• Jan 29 Greg Blewett scores century on Test debut vs England, Adelaide
• Jan 29 Super Bowl XXIX, Joe Robbie Stadium, Miami, FL: San Francisco 49ers beat San Diego Chargers, 49-26; MVP: Steve Young, SF, QB

• Jan 29 11th Sundance Film Festival: "The Brothers McMullen" and "The Young Poisoner's Handbook" (tie) win Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
• Jan 30 22nd American Music Awards: Boyz II Men & Ace of Base win
• Jan 30 Belgium's TV channel 2 in Flanders goes on the air
• Jan 30 Car bomb explodes in Algiers, killing 42 and wounding 296
• Jan 30 Kevin Eubanks officially becomes band leader of "The Tonight Show"
• Jan 30 Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
• Jan 30 Norway's Statoil announces a newly formed consortium that will supply Norwegian natural gas to the European continent
• Jan 31 President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy.
• Feb 1 Amtrak NY-Tampa run ends
• Feb 1 Zimbabwe batsmen Andy (156) & Grant Flower (201) set world record brotherly stand of 269 to propel Zimbabwe to first ever victory in Test cricket in 1st Test against Pakistan in Harare
• Feb 1 Belgium's TV channel VT4 goes on the air

• Feb 2 "Molière Comedies" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 56 performances
• Feb 2 Henry Olonga no-balled for throwing in Zimbabwe-Pakistan Test Cricket
• Feb 2 US space shuttle Discovery launched
• Feb 3 STS 63 (Discovery 19), launches into orbit
• Feb 4 Australian cricketer Dean Jones completes 324* for Victoria v South Australia
• Feb 4 Sandra Volker swims female European record 50m backstroke (27.77)
• Feb 4 Zimbabwe's 1st Test Cricket victory, over Pakistan by an inning


• Feb 5 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: AFC beats NFC, 41-13; MVP: Marshall Faulk, Indianapolis Colts, RB, HI
• Feb 5 Japan's Shinshinto Party wins local elections

• Feb 6 Greg Blewett scores his 2nd century in his 2nd Test Cricket

• Feb 8 6.4 earthquake at Trujillo, Colombia (46+ killed)
• Feb 9 "Heiress" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 340 performances
• Feb 9 Irina Privalova runs female world record 50m (5.96 sec)
• Feb 9 STS-63 - 2nd mission of US/Russian Shuttle-Mir Program goes into space
• Feb 9 45th Berlin International Film Festival: "The Bait" wins the Golden Bear

• Feb 10 Chelsi Smith, 21, (Texas), crowned 44th Miss USA
• Feb 10 Sun Cayun pole vaults female indoor world record (4.12m)
• Feb 10 US female Figure Skating championship won by Nicole Bobek
• Feb 11 Danyon Loader swims world record 400m freestyle (340.46)
• Feb 11 Mark Foster swims world record 50m butterfly (23.55 sec)
• Feb 11 Sandra Volker swims European record 50m backstroke (27.67 sec)
• Feb 11 Space shuttle STS-63 (Discovery 19), lands
• Feb 11 US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge
• Feb 11 West Indies score 5-660 against NZ
• Feb 12 45th NBA All-Star Game, America West Arena, Phoenix, AZ: West beats East, 139-112; MVP: Mitch Richmond, Sacramento Kings, SG
• Feb 12 Angela Kennedy swims woman's world record 50m butterfly

• Feb 12 Dieter Baumann runs European record 3k indoor (7:37.51)
• Feb 12 Jeff Rouse swims world record 50m backstroke (24.37 sec)
• Feb 12 PRI loses and PAN wins Mexican regional elections
• Feb 12 Sun Cayun pole vaults indoor female world record (4.13m)


• Feb 12 Susan Auch skates female world record 500m (38.94 sec)
• Feb 13 Howard Stern radio show premieres in San Diego CA on XTRA-FM
• Feb 13 West Indies beat NZ by innings & 332, Courtney Walsh 13-55
• Feb 13 3rd ESPY Awards: Steve Young, Bonnie Blair win
• Feb 14 Wellington 2-498d & 4-475 beat Canterbury 496 & 2-476d

• Feb 15 Burundi premier Anatole Kanyenkiko resigns
• Feb 15 Dow-Jones closes at record 3986.17
• Feb 15 Population of People's Republic of China hits 1.2 billion
• Feb 17 11th Soap Opera Digest Awards - "Days of Our Lives" wins
• Feb 17 Colin Fergusson found guilty of killing 6 people on the Long Island Rail Road in NY

• Feb 17 Federal judge allows lawsuit claiming US tobacco makers knew nicotine was addictive & manipulated its levels to keep customers hooked
• Feb 19 1st broadcast of "Woman of Independent Means" on NBC-TV
• Feb 19 Irina Privalova runs indoor woman's European record 200m (22.10 sec)
• Feb 19 Kenneth Koch wins Bollingen Prize
• Feb 19 Linford Christie runs world record 200m indoor (20.25 sec) and European record 60m indoor (6.47 sec)
• Feb 19 Michael Tippett's "Rose Lake," premieres
• Feb 19 37th Daytona 500: Sterling Marlin wins for 2nd straight year; 3rd driver to achieve back-to-back titles (Richard Petty, Cale Yarborough)
• Feb 21 CFL's Sacramento Gold Miners become San Antonio Texans
• Feb 21 RAF-pilot Jo Salter is 1st woman to fly in a tornado
• Feb 22 Algiers police kill at least 99 prison rioters
• Feb 22 Steve Fossett completes 1st air balloon over Pacific Ocean (9600 km)
• Feb 23 "Uncle Vanya" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 29 performances
• Feb 23 Antoine Nduwayo appointed Premier of Burundi
• Feb 23 Dow Jones closes above 4,000 for 1st time (4,003.33)
• Feb 24 The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
• Feb 25 Bomb attack on train in Assam India (27 soldiers killed)
• Feb 25 British super middleweight Nigel Benn puts opponent Gerard McClellan in hospital
• Feb 25 Muslim fundamentalists shoot 20 Shiite mosque goers dead


• Feb 25 PBA National Championship Won by Scott Alexander
• Feb 26 London finance house Barings collapses after huge losses in Singapore by rogue trader Nick Leeson
• Feb 27 Car bomb explodes in Zakho, North-Iraq (54-80 killed)
• Feb 28 Denver International Airport opens
• Feb 28 The US Pentagon announces that it monitored Iranian installation of surface-to-air Hawk missiles in the Strait of Hormuz

• Mar 1 Belgium ends military conscription
• Mar 1 Jozef Oleksy succeeds Waldemar Pawlak on as premier of Poland
• Mar 1 Julio Maria Sanguinetti sworn in as president of Uruguay
• Mar 1 Part of Houston begins using new area code 281
• Mar 1 Ukraine premier Vitaly Massol resigns
• Mar 2 "Smokey Joe's Cafe" opens at Virginia Theater NYC
• Mar 2 British trader Nick Leeson arrested for collapse of Barings Bank PLC
• Mar 2 Ferry boat sinks off Sumbe Angola, 42+ killed
• Mar 2 Space shuttle STS-67 (Endeavour 8), launches
• Mar 2 Joe Mullen becomes 2nd NHL player to appear in 300 NHL games with 3 different teams when he plays for the Penguins in a 6-3 loss in Buffalo; Pittsburgh 379, St. Louis 301, Calgary 345
• Mar 4 1st NYC Mayor Trophy's High school track meet in 19 years
• Mar 4 Blind teenage boy receives a 'Bionic Eye' at a Washington Hospital

• Mar 4 Michael Johnson runs world record 400m indoor (44.63 sec)
• Mar 4 Replacement NY Yankees beat NY Mets 2-1

• Mar 5 Estonia Centrumlinkse Coalition party wins parliamentary election

• Mar 5 Marc Velzeboer skates world record 3 km short track (5:00.26)

• Mar 6 American Express Travel begins charging for domestic air tickets
• Mar 6 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Phoenix AZ on KEDJ 106.3/100.3 FM
• Mar 7 US dollar worth record 1.5330 Dutch guilders
• Mar 7 NY becomes 38th state to have the death penalty


• Mar 8 -26°F (-32.2°C) in Bismarck, North Dakota
• Mar 8 -44°F (-42.2°C) in Chosedacharad, Komi-district, on 67°N
• Mar 8 Dutch Liberal Party wins Provincial-National elections
• Mar 9 Baseball awards a franchise to Tampa Bay Devil Rays
• Mar 9 Mexican peso worth 7.55 pesos to a dollar (record)
• Mar 9 President Konstantine Karamanlis (88) of Greece, resigns
• Mar 10 Car bomb explodes in Karachi at shiite mosque, 17+ killed
• Mar 10 Chiel Meijering's "St Louis Blues" premieres in Arnhem
• Mar 11 -36.8°F (-38.2°C) in Chosedachar, Komi-district, on 67°N
• Mar 11 President Nazarbajev disbands Kazakhstan parliament
• Mar 11 Sinn Féin party leader, Gerry Adams, arrives in US
• Mar 11 Yolanda Chen hop-skip-jumps world indoor record 15.03m
• Mar 12 Congress party loses India national election
• Mar 12 Ice Dance Championship at Birmingham UK won by Gritshuk & Platov (RUS)
• Mar 12 Ice Pairs Championship at Birmingham won by Radka Kovarikova & Rene Novotny
• Mar 12 Lara scores 139 in ODI v Australia at Port-of-Spain
• Mar 12 Letitia Vriesde runs South American indoor record 800m (2:00.35)
• Mar 12 World Men's Figure Skating Champions in Birmingham won by Elvis Stojko of Canada
• Mar 12 World Ladies' Figure Skating Champ in Birmingham won by Chen Lu (China)

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