November 1995 in History

Events in History

Nov 2 Spanish Broadcasting System buys NY radio station WPAT-FM for $83.5M

Assassination Attempt

Nov 5 André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien; he is thwarted when the PM's wife locks the door.

20th Prime Minister of Canada Jean Chretien

Nov 5 STS 73 (Columbia 18), lands

Assassination

Nov 6 Israel buries Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated by Jewish extremist Yigal Amir who opposed peace with Palestinians

Nov 7 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Pittsburgh PA on WXDX 105.9 FM
Nov 10 In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop) are hanged by government forces
Nov 12 NY MTA raises subway & bus fares from $1.25 to $1.50
Nov 12 STS 74 (Atlantis 15), launches into orbit
Nov 15 Space shuttle Atlantis docks with orbiting Russian space station Mir

Event of Interest

Nov 16 Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother undergoes hip surgery

Nov 16 US Attorney General Janet Reno announces she has Parkinson's disease
Nov 19 Keelin Curnuck, 23, Ms Venus Swimwear 1994, crowned Miss NY USA
Nov 19 Suicide bomber blasts into Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, kills 16

Event of Interest

Nov 20 Diana, Princess of Wales, admits she cheated on Prince Charles in a TV interview

Nov 20 FDA approves new therapy for use as an initial AIDS treatment, 3TC
Nov 20 NASA Space Shuttle STS 74 (Atlantis 15), lands back at Kennedy Space Center
Nov 21 Dow Jones closes above 5,000 for 1st time
Nov 21 Israel grants jailed US spy Jonathan Pollard citizenship
Nov 22 OPEC states that it will roll over its current oil production quota of 25.42 million barrels per day
Nov 22 Rosemary West found guilty in England of killing 10 women
Nov 24 Ireland votes to end 58-year-old amendment on divorce (50.28% to 49.72%)
Nov 26 New Zealand score 8-348 in 49 overs v India in Nagpur ODI
Nov 28 James Brady, former white house press secretary, suffers a heart attack

Event of Interest

Nov 29 US President Bill Clinton lifts ban on exports of oil from the Alaskan North Slope; the ban was imposed after the oil embargo by Arab oil producers in 1973

Nov 30 Official end of Operation Desert Storm

Weddings in History

Nov 18 Prince Joachim of Denmark (26) weds first wife Alexandra Christina Manley (31) at the Frederiksborg Palace Church in Denmark

Deaths in History

Nov 1 Brian Lenihan, snr, Irish politician and minister, dies at 64
Nov 1 Desmond Shawe-Taylor, British critic and writer (co-author of The Record Guide), dies at 88
Nov 1 James Ralph Darling, teacher, dies at 96
Nov 1 Lex Hixon, religious teacher/author, dies at 53
Nov 2 Alvaro Gomez Hurtado, Colombian politician (helped write Colombian Constitution), assassinated at 76
Nov 2 Florence Greenberg, record company founder, dies at 82
Nov 2 Ivan Metropolitan Ioann Snychev, Russian Orthodox Priest, dies at 68
Nov 2 Ollie Harrington, American cartoonist (Bootsie), dies at 83
Nov 3 Gordon S. Fahrni, Canadian physician and President of the Canadian Medical Association, dies at 108
Nov 4 Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (Difference and Repetition), dies at 70

Yitzhak Rabin (1922-1995)

Nov 4 Prime Minister of Israel (1974-77 and 1992-95) and 1994 Nobel Peace Prize winner, assassinated by Jewish extremist Yigal Amir at 73

Nov 6 Philip Rawson, English curator, artist and teacher, dies at 71
Nov 8 Neil Blaney, Irish politician, dies at 73
Nov 9 F. G. Emmison, British archivist and historian, dies at 88
Nov 10 Boty Goodwin, British artist, dies at 29
Nov 10 Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian writer and environmentalist, dies at 54
Nov 11 Charles Scribner Jr [IV}, American literary publisher, dies at 74
Nov 11 Corneliu Coposu, Romanian politician (Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party), dies while undergoing treatment for lung cancer at 79
Nov 11 Jean-Louis Curtis [Albert Laffitte], French novelist (The Forests of the Night), dies at 78
Nov 11 René Wellek, Czech-American writer (Concepts of Criticism), dies at 92
Nov 12 Curley Fox, American fiddler, dies at 85
Nov 12 Jack Mann, British fighter pilot and hostage, kidnapped by Islamists in Lebanon in May 1989, dies at 81
Nov 14 Jack Finney, American sci-fi and thriller author (The Body Snatchers, Time and Again), dies of pneumonia at 84
Nov 14 John Lee Admiral-Barber, dies at 90
Nov 15 Billy Hughes, British educationist and Labour Party politician, dies at 81
Nov 15 Eve Perrick, British journalist (The Daily Mail), dies at 78
Nov 16 Gwyn A. Williams, Welsh historian and socialist, dies at 70
Nov 17 Edward LeBone Molotlegi, chief of the Bafokeng, dies at 66
Nov 17 John Prickett, teacher/ecumenist, dies at 88
Nov 17 Marguerite Young, writer, dies at 87
Nov 18 Miron Grindea, Romanian-born literary editor (ADAM International Review), dies at 86
Nov 19 Gwen Swire, British social worker, dies at 61
Nov 20 Ahmed Abel-Wadoud Karadawi, Sudanese academic and activist, dies at 50
Nov 20 Robie Macauley, American editor (Houghton Mifflin) and novelist (A Secret History of Time to Come), dies of lymphoma at 76
Nov 21 George Ivan Smith, ustralian radio correspondent, UN diplomat and spokesman, dies at 80
Nov 21 Noel Jones, British diplomat (b. 1940)
Nov 22 John Putz, journalist, dies at 89
Nov 22 Johnnie Tillmon, civil rights activist (National Welfare Rights Association), dies at 69
Nov 22 Norman Potter, English cabinetmaker, designer and writer, dies at 72
Nov 24 Stuart Henry, disc jockey, dies at 53
Nov 26 Charles Warrell, English schoolteacher and creator of the I-Spy books, dies at 106
Nov 26 Max Fernandez, businessman/politician, dies at 52
Nov 26 Sydney D. English pacifist and academic, dies at 79
Nov 26 Terri Jewell, writer, dies at 40
Nov 27 Peter Harrison Swan, bomber pilot/stockbroker, dies at 75
Nov 27 Simon Bailey, 1st British priest to say he had AIDS, dies at 40
Nov 29 Irene Ighodar, Sierra Leonean doctor and social reformer, dies at 79
Nov 29 Stone Cates, fictional character on TV soap General Hospital, dies of AIDS
Nov 30 June Rosemary Thorndycraft, teacher and trade unionist, dies at 66