January 1995 in History

Events in History

Event of Interest

Jan 1 Last "The Far Side" by cartoonist Gary Larson (started 1980)

Jan 1 The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves.
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)

Event of Interest

Jan 4 Newt Gingrich (R) becomes speaker of the US House of Representatives

Jan 5 Lockheed C-140 Jetstar crashes at Isfahan, Iran, killing 18
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 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 11 5th TV network (WB) Warner Brothers begins (WPIX-TV in NYC)
Jan 11 DC-9 crashes near Maria La Baya, Colombia: 51 die, 9 yr old girl lives
Jan 12 Major earthquake kills 5,092 in Kobe Japan

Papal Visit

Jan 12 Pope John Paul II begins visit to SE Asia

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

Event of Interest

Jan 14 Mexico pledges profits from state-owned Pemex's $7-billion-per-year oil revenues in an effort to secure US congressional approval of loan guarantees; President Clinton approves a $20-billion U.S. aid package for Mexico

Jan 15 Southern Alabama begins using new area code 334
Jan 15 Western Washington begins using new area code 360
Jan 16 UPN (Universal-Parmount Network) begins telecasting (WWOR in NYC)
Jan 17 7.2 earthquake destroys Kobe, Japan and kills 5,372

Event of Interest

Jan 17 George W. Bush sworn in as Governor of Texas

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 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 29 Greg Blewett scores century on Test debut vs England, Adelaide
Jan 30 Car bomb explodes in Algiers, killing 42 and wounding 296
Jan 30 Norway's Statoil announces a newly formed consortium that will supply Norwegian natural gas to the European continent
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 31 President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy.

Deaths in History

Jan 1 Eugene Wigner, Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician (1963 Nobel Prize for Physics), worked on the Manhattan Project, dies at 92
Jan 1 Frederick "Fred" West, British contractor & serial killer (12 charges of murder), commits suicide in his prison cell at 53
Jan 2 Manuel Rivera, Spanish painter & co-founder (El Paso), dies at 67
Jan 2 Siad Barre, Somalia politician (President, 1969-91), dies at 84
Jan 3 Gerard W Taylor, South African/British surgeon, dies at 74
Jan 3 Robert Nesbitt, English theatre impresario (Royal Variety Show), dies at 88
Jan 4 Brooks Stevens, American automotive designer (1949 Hydra-Glide Harley; 1963 Jeep Wagoneer), dies at 84
Jan 4 Robert Clifford Latham, English Pepys scholar, dies at 82
Jan 4 Sol Tax, American anthropologist (founded the journal Current Anthropology), dies at 87
Jan 5 Mansour Sattari, Iranian Brigadier General and commandant (Iran Air Force), dies at 46
Jan 5 Somerset de Chair, British writer, politician and poet, dies at 83
Jan 6 Edward Sutcliffe, British judge (British Central Criminal Court), dies at 77
Jan 6 Joe Slovo, Latvian/South African attorney/sect-gen (SACR), dies at 68
Jan 7 Murray Rothbard, American economist (b. 1926)
Jan 7 Viktor Vorobyov, Russian general-major, dies in battle during war in Chechnya
Jan 8 Joyce McCartan, Irish peace campaigner, dies at 68

Jan 9 Souphanouvong, President of Laos (1975-87), dies at 85
Jan 10 Elaine Greene, literary Agent, dies at 74
Jan 10 Halton Kathleen Tynan, writer, dies at 57
Jan 11 John AG Gere, English art historian (Raphael & his Circle), dies at 73
Jan 11 Onat Kutlar, Turkish screenplay/producer (Hazal), murdered at 59
Jan 12 George Price, cartoonist (New Yorker), dies at 93
Jan 12 Marion Herbst, German/Dutch jewelry designer, dies at 50
Jan 13 Arnold Smith, painter (Vigelius Prize 1935), dies at 89
Jan 13 Arthur Mervyn Stockwood, Anglican bishop (Southwark England), dies at 81
Jan 14 Stafford WIlliam Somerfield, newspaper editor, dies at 84
Jan 17 Isador Caplan, British lawyer and Aldeburgh Festival pioneer, dies at 82
Jan 17 Urias Nooteboom, Dutch journalist/critic (The Time), dies at 54
Jan 18 Adolf Butenandt, German biochemist (Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1939 for work on sex hormones), dies at 91
Jan 18 Joseph Kagan, Lithuanian-British businessman, and inventor (Gannex raincoats), dies at 79
Jan 19 Eugene Fuller, polymath/linguist, dies at 80
Jan 20 Mehdi Bazargan, director Iranian oil corp/premier (1979), dies at 86
Jan 21 Flavio "Negao" Pires da Conceicao, drug Trafficker, dies at 25
Jan 21 John Halas, Hungarian-American cartoonist and animator (Animal Farm), dies at 82
Jan 22 Mahmoud Sayed Selim, Egyptian moslim leader, shot to death at 29
Jan 22 Margaret Barbara Lambert, British historian (Saar), dies at 88

Jan 22 Nico Adriaans, Dutch AIDS activist, founder of Rotterdam Junkiebond, dies of AIDS at 37
Jan 22 Ronald Harris, British 1st Church Estates Commissioner, dies at 81

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (1890-1995)

Jan 22 American matriarch, mother of JFK, RFK & Ted, dies at 104

Jan 23 Harold Collett Dent, British journalist and educationist, dies at 100
Jan 23 Michael Whalley Wickham, English artist, dies at 91
Jan 23 Peter Luke, British playwright, dies at 75
Jan 24 Ian Prestt, English ornithologist, dies at 65
Jan 24 Victor Reinganum, English artist and illustrator, dies at 87
Jan 24 Wim H Sinnige, Amsterdam PvdA alderman of Finance, dies at 60
Jan 25 Tom Brugman, Dutch puppeteer (Brave Dodo), dies at 62
Jan 26 Bernardo Leighton, Chilian politician (1964-70), dies
Jan 26 Louis Heren, journalist, dies at 65
Jan 27 Halsey S. Colchester, British SAS officer, MI6-spy and priest, dies at 76
Jan 27 Jean Tardieu, French dramatist, dies at 91
Jan 27 Raphael M. Robinson, American mathematician, dies at 83
Jan 27 Willem R "Wim" van der Zee, General Secretary of the Council of Churches of the Netherlands, dies at 64
Jan 28 Barrie Wilson, British religious scholar (How Jesus Became Christian), dies at 59
Jan 28 George Woodcock, Canadian writer of political biography and history (Anarchism: A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements), dies at 82
Jan 28 James P Grant, American director of UNICEF (1980-95), dies at 72
Jan 28 Jim Gilbert, British artist and criminal, dies at 61
Jan 28 Philip Burton, Welsh theater director, acting teacher and mentor to Richard Burton, dies at 90
Jan 28 Walter Allen, English writer and literary critic, dies at 83
Jan 29 Guy Clutton-Brock, English social worker (declared a national hero in Zimbabwe), dies at 88
Jan 29 Ray Cecil, British architect, dies at 69
Jan 30 Gerald Durrell, British naturalist, zoologist and author (My Family and Other Animals), dies at 70
Jan 31 George Stibitz, American mathematician and scientist, dies at 90
Jan 31 James Johnson, English MP (Labour, 1950..83), dies at 86