December 1995 in History

Events in History

Event of Interest

Dec 7 Irish poet Seamus Heaney receives the Novel Prize for Literature at a ceremony in Stockholm [1] [2]

Dec 7 US space probe Galileo begins orbiting Jupiter
Dec 9 The Messel Pit in Germany inscribed on UNECO's World Heritage List as the world richest fossil site for Eocene period (57-36 million years ago) [1]
Dec 10 Muralitharan takes 2-224 in Australian innings of 5-617
Dec 10 Worst snowstorm in Buffalo history, 37.9" in 24 hours (Starting Dec 9 at 7 PM, breaks previous record of 25.3" in 1982
Dec 12 Amendment to make it illegal to physically desecrate the flag turned down by senate 63-36 (need 2/3 vote)

Event of Interest

Dec 12 Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres addresses both houses of the US Congress

Dec 13 US Federal Court votes that Cable companies must carry local stations
Dec 14 AIDS patient Jeff Getty receives baboon bone marrow transplant

Dayton Agreement

Dec 14 The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris by leaders of various governments ending the conflict in the former Yugoslavia including Slobodan Milošević, Alija Izetbegović, Franjo Tuđman and Bill Clinton

Dec 15 Playboy goes back on sale after 36 year ban in Ireland
Dec 16 The official adoption of the name "Euro"

Election of Interest

Dec 17 René Préval wins the Haiti presidential elections for the Fanmi Lavalas party

Dec 20 American Flight 965 crashes into a mountain in Buga, Colombia, 159 die, 5 survive
Dec 20 NATO begins peacekeeping in Bosnia
Dec 21 Martina Ertl of Germany wins her 3rd giant slalom world cup
Dec 21 The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control.
Dec 26 Muttiah Muralitharan no-balled for throwing (SL v Aust, MCG)
Dec 30 Carquest Bowl 6: North Carolina beats Arkansas, 20-10
Dec 30 Lowest ever UK temperature recorded of -27.2°C iat Altnaharra in the Scottish Highlands, equaling the record set at Braemar, Aberdeenshire on February 11, 1895 and January 10, 1982
Dec 31 Cartoonist Bill Watterson ends his "Calvin & Hobbes" comic strip after 10 years, believing he had achieved all he could in the medium

Birthdays in History

Dec 14 Princess Olimpia Preslavska of Bulgaria, born in London

Divorces in History

Charles & Diana

Dec 19 Queen Elizabeth asks Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales, to divorce

Deaths in History

Dec 1 Koos Schuur, Dutch writer, poet (Novemberland), translator, and editor (Het Woord), dies at 79
Dec 2 Francis Joseph Quinn, academic, dies at 90
Dec 2 Mária Telkes, Hungarian-American biophysicist ('the Sun Queen' who invented solar energy technologies), dies at 94 [1]
Dec 2 Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist essayist/dramatist, dies at 82
Dec 2 Stanley Devon, British photographer (British press photographer of the year 1948, 50), dies at 88
Dec 4 Adrianne Jones, killed by David Graham & Diane Zamora, at 16
Dec 5 Gwen Harwood, Australian poet (The Lion's Bride), dies at 75
Dec 5 Lisa McPherson, former Scientologist (b. 1959)
Dec 5 Robert Charles Evans, mountaineer/doctor, dies at 77
Dec 5 Stanley Keith Runcorn, British geophysicist (reversals of earth's magnetic field), dies at 73
Dec 5 Victor Collin Matthews, British businessman, dies on 76th birthday
Dec 6 Dmitri Volkogonov, Russian historian (biographies of Stalin and Lenin) and colonel general, dies at 67
Dec 6 James Reston, American journalist (New York Times), dies at 86
Dec 6 John Trevor Key, British photographer, dies of a brain tumor at 48
Dec 6 Leslie Wilkinson, journalist, dies at 97
Dec 7 Larry Bartlett, photographer, dies at 42

Dec 7 Tom Burns, British-Chilean publisher and editor, dies at 89
Dec 8 Carl Marsden, bodyguard, dies at 36
Dec 8 Ernest L. Boyer, American educator and chancellor (NY's State Universities-SUNY), dies at 67
Dec 8 Mikki Doyle, journalist, dies at 79
Dec 9 Benny Lee, entertainer, dies at 84
Dec 9 Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan, American aviator, dies at 88
Dec 9 Hugh Armstrong Clegg, English industrial relations academic, dies at 75
Dec 9 Vitali Viktorovich Savitsky, biologist/politician, dies at 40
Dec 10 Gillian Rose, philosopher/writer, dies at 48
Dec 10 John Francis Boyd, journalist, dies at 85
Dec 10 Mary Madge Lascelles, literary critic/poet, dies at 95
Dec 10 Phillip Piratin, communist, dies at 88
Dec 12 David Lincoln Lightbown, politician, dies at 63
Dec 12 David Marshall, Singaporean politician (Chief Minister of Singapore 1955-56, pushed self-governance for Singapore), dies at 97
Dec 12 James Altgens, JFK assassination photographer, dies at 76
Dec 12 Lindsay Oliver John Boynton, furniture historian, dies at 61
Dec 12 Mohyedin Alempour, tajik artist/journalist, dies at 50
Dec 13 Evangeline Bruce, American society hostess and writer, dies at 81
Dec 15 Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado, Deputy Prime Minister of Spain (1976-81) and Minister of Defense (1977-79), dies at 83
Dec 16 Johnny Moss, American poker player (b. 1907)

Dec 17 Lila Clark Knapp, publisher, dies at 63
Dec 18 Chaim Pearl, rabbi, dies at 76
Dec 18 Georgio Fini, restaurateur, dies at 70
Dec 18 Konrad Zuse, German engineer and computing pioneer (b. 1910)
Dec 18 Ross Thomas, author, dies at 69
Dec 19 Harold Watkinson, British politician/businessman, dies at 85
Dec 19 Janet Wilder, stuntwoman, dies at 29
Dec 19 Ruth Nita Barrow, 1st female Governor-General of Barbados (1990-95), dies at 79
Dec 20 John Henry Jacques, English co-operative retailer, and politician, dies at 90
Dec 21 Robert Francis Vere Heuston, professor of law, dies at 72
Dec 21 Trenchard Cox, British museum director, dies at 90
Dec 22 James Meade, English economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (b. 1907)
Dec 23 David Land, impresario and theatre producer, dies at 77
Dec 24 Harry McLevy, Scottish trade unionist, dies at 59
Dec 25 Emmanuel Levinas, Lithuanian-French Jewish philosopher, dies at 89
Dec 28 Harold Collison, British trade unionist (agriculture workers), dies at 86
Dec 29 Madeleine Barot, French activist and theologian, dies at 86
Dec 29 Nello Celio, President of Switzerland (1972), dies at 81
Dec 29 Philip Idenburg, Dutch statistician, dies at 94
Dec 30 Heiner Müller, German dramatist (Ten Days That Shook The World; The Battle), and theater director, dies of throat cancer at 66
Dec 30 Roger W Suddards, solicitor, dies at 65
Dec 31 Calvin/Hobbes, (comic strip), dies
Dec 31 John Powell, campaigner, dies at 75