May 1995 in History

Events in History

May 1 Croatian forces launch Operation Flash during the Croatian War of Independence.

May 7 Jacques Chirac wins French presidential election

May 7 Twins beat Indians 10-9 in 17 innings, 6 hours & 36 minutes
May 9 Kinshasa, Zaire under quarantine after an outbreak of Ebola virus
May 10 Britain lifts a 23-year ban on ministerial talks with Sinn Féin
May 10 In South Africa, 104 miners killed in an elevator accident
May 11 More than 170 countries agree to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons [1]
May 12 Dow Jones for 5th straight day of the week sets a new record (4430.59)
May 12 Jose Mesa gets 1st of his M.L. record 37 consecutive saves
May 13 6.5 earthquake hits Greece

May 14 Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima 11th reincarnation of Panchen Lama, Tibet's 2nd most senior spiritual leader

May 15 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
May 16 Japanese police arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara & charged him with Nerve-gas attack on Tokyo's subways two months earlier
May 18 WIBC Bowling Queens won by Sandra Postma
May 19 World's youngest doctor, Balamurali Ambati, 17, graduates Mount Sinai
May 25 The Bosnian Serb Army kills 72 youngsters in the Bosnian city of Tuzla
May 28 Earthquake hits Russian town of Khabarovsk, killing 2,000 people
May 28 Southwestern Florida outside of Tampa begins using new area code 941

May 24 Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein, eldest child of Prince Alois of Liechtenstein, the Regent and Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein, and his wife Princess Sophie of Bavaria, Duchess in Bavaria, born in Portland Hospital, London

May 26 US Secretary of State John Kerry (51) weds philanthropist Teresa Heinz (56) in Nantucket, Massachusetts

May 4 Lewis T Preston, American banker (President of the World Bank 1991-95), dies at 68
May 5 Anthony Wagner, Officer of Arms at the College of Arms in London, dies at 86
May 5 Bernard Benjamin Gillis, British judge, dies at 89
May 5 James Pack, British naval officer and museum curator (POrtsmouth), dies at 81
May 5 Lionel Alexander Bethune [Alastair] Pilkington, British engineer (float glass), dies at 75
May 6 Gottfried von Haberler, Austrian-American economist (international trade), dies at 94
May 6 Hilda Toledano [Maria Pia de Braganca], Portuguese journalist and writer who claimed to be the bastard daughter of King Carlos I of Portugal, dies at 88
May 7 Ernest Harold Martin [Markowitz], American Broadway producer (Feuer & Martin in A Chorus Line), dies at 75
May 7 Lawrence Josset, British engraver, dies at 84
May 8 Jerry Zipkin, American socialite (friend of Nancy Reagan), dies at 80
May 8 Prem Bhatia, Indian journalist and diplomat (friend of Jawaharlal Nehru), dies at 83
May 9 Abha Gandhi, servant to Gandhi, dies at 68
May 9 Charles Montgomery Monteith, Irish publisher, dies at 74
May 10 Hilde Jarecki, German English educationist (Kindertransport, Playgroups), dies at 83
May 11 David Avidan, Israeli poet, dies at 62
May 11 Ivo Samkalden, Dutch Minister of Justice (PvdA), Mayor of Amsterdam (1967-77), dies at 82

May 12 Giorgio Belladonna, Italian bridge player (16 x World C'ships; 10 x European C'ships, Italy open team-of-four), dies of lung cancer at 71
May 12 Reza Abdoh, Iranian born American theater director, dies of AIDs at 32
May 14 Christian B. Anfinsen, American biochemist (Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1972 for ribonuclease,), dies at 79
May 14 Maezumi Hakuyu Taizan Koun, teacher (Zen Buddhism), dies at 64
May 16 Ragnhild Marie Hatton, Norwegian historian, dies at 82
May 17 Paul D. Stoop, American vice-admiral (WW II-Coral Sea), dies at 90
May 19 Robert S. Dietz, American geophysicist who proposed a theory of seafloor spreading in 1961, dies at 80
May 21 Annie M. G. Schmidt, Dutch writer (Fam Doorsnee, Jip & Janneke), dies at 84
May 21 Kieron Walsh, British academic, dies at 46
May 21 Les Aspin, American politician, (Rep-D-Wisc, 1971-93) US Secretary of Defense (1993-95), dies of stroke at 56
May 23 Patricia Ford, Lady Fisher, Irish politician and founder (British Women Caring Trust), dies at 74

May 24 British Prime Minister (Labour: 1964-70, 1974-76), dies of cancer at 79

May 28 Jean Muir, British fashion designer, dies at 66
May 29 Margaret Chase Smith, American politician (U.S. Senator from Maine), dies at 97
May 30 Lofty England, English automotive engineer and race team manager (b.1911)
May 30 Philip Owen A Sherrard, scholar theologian poet/translator, dies at 72
May 30 Thomas Dorrington Tomlinson, British national park warden, dies at 87