Events in History in 1995

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• 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 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)

• 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

• 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 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

• 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.
• Feb 1 Amtrak NY-Tampa run ends
• Feb 2 US space shuttle Discovery launched
• Feb 3 STS 63 (Discovery 19), launches into orbit
• Feb 5 Japan's Shinshinto Party wins local elections
• Feb 8 6.4 earthquake at Trujillo, Colombia (46+ killed)
• 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 10 US female Figure Skating championship won by Nicole Bobek
• Feb 11 Space shuttle STS-63 (Discovery 19), lands
• Feb 11 West Indies score 5-660 against NZ
• 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 PRI loses and PAN wins Mexican regional elections
• 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 NY becomes 38th state to have the death penalty
• Mar 7 US dollar worth record 1.5330 Dutch guilders
• 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 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 11 -36.8°F (-38.2°C) in Chosedachar, Komi-district, on 67°N
• Mar 11 President Nazarbajev disbands Kazakhstan parliament

• Mar 11 Yolanda Chen hop-skip-jumps world indoor record 15.03m
• Mar 12 Congress party loses India national election
• Mar 12 Ice Pairs Championship at Birmingham won by Radka Kovarikova & Rene Novotny
• Mar 12 Letitia Vriesde runs South American indoor record 800m (2:00.35)
• Mar 12 World Ladies' Figure Skating Champ in Birmingham won by Chen Lu (China)
• Mar 12 World Men's Figure Skating Champions in Birmingham won by Elvis Stojko of Canada
• Mar 13 Anti-fascist Kazakhstan anti-parliament forms
• Mar 13 Hungarian Forint devalued 9%
• Mar 13 Istanbul police shoot dead 16 Alawitische demonstrators
• Mar 14 1st time 13 people in space
• Mar 16 Manhattan upsets 4th seeded Oklahoma 77-67
• Mar 16 Mississippi House of Representatives formally abolishes slavery & ratifies 13th Amendment of US Constitution [1]
• Mar 16 World best 7th wkt stand 461 by Bhupinder Singh Jr & P Dharmani
• Mar 17 British pound hits 2.4545 to Dutch guilder (record)
• Mar 17 Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams visits the White House in Washington, D.C.
• Mar 17 US approves 1st chicken pox vaccine, Varivax by Merck & Co
• Mar 18 STS 67 (Endeavour 8) lands after 16½ days
• Mar 19 Arizona outside of Phoenix begins using new telephone area code 520
• Mar 19 Finnish Social Democratic Party wins parliamentary election
• Mar 19 Neil Marshall skates world record 3 km (3:54.08)
• Mar 20 Dow-Jones hits record 4083.68
• Mar 20 Members of the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo release sarin gas on three lines of the Tokyo subway, killing 13 people and injuring over 1,000
• Mar 21 NYC agrees to sell its 2 owned radio stations (WNYC AM & FM)
• Mar 22 Deputy Governor of Bank of England, Rupert Pennant-Rea, resigns following revelations of his affair with a freelance journalist
• Mar 23 Dollar equals 88.41 yen (record)
• Mar 26 Mashonaland beat Mashonaland U-24 by 165 runs to win Logan Cup
• Mar 26 The Schengen Treaty goes into effect.
• Mar 28 World's largest bank-Japan's Mitsubishi Bank & Bank of Tokyo merge
• Mar 29 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Chicago IL on WCKG 105.9 FM
• Apr 1 Carlson Wagonlit Travel Agency begins charging $15 service fee
• Apr 1 Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Rochester, New York on WNVE at 95.1 and 95.5 FM
• Apr 2 North & Western Colorado begins using new area code 970
• Apr 2 NY Police Department & NY Transit Police merge into one organization
• Apr 2 Sunday NY Times raises price from $2.00 to $2.50
• Apr 5 Pages of Codex Argenteus (the Silver Bible), the oldest text in the Gothic language (5th century) stolen from Uppsala University Library, Sweden in broad daylight (recovered a month later)
• Apr 8 BPAA US Open won by Dave Husted
• Apr 10 NYC bans smoking in all restaurants that seat 35 or more
• Apr 18 Houston Post folds after 116 years

• Apr 21 FBI arrests Timothy McVeigh and charge him with the Oklahoma City bombing
• Apr 22 General Tire World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mike Aulby
• Apr 23 President Clinton declares a national day of mourning for Oklahoma City
• Apr 24 Dow Jones Index hits record 4303.98
• Apr 24 Package bomb, linked to Unabomber, blows up killing Gilbert B Murray
• Apr 26 Coors Field, opens in Denver, Rockies beat Mets 11-9 in 14 innings
• Apr 28 Gas explosion in South Korean metro, 103 die
• Apr 28 Sri Lankaan BAE748 crashes at Palaly, 52 die
• Apr 29 Longest sausage ever, at 28.77 miles, made in Kitchener, Ontario
• Apr 30 After 120 years the last 15 A & S department stores close

• May 2 Expos bat out of order against Mets in 6th inning
• May 2 Serbian missiles exploded in the heart of Zagreb, killing six
• May 3 David Bell debuts for the Indians (3rd generation player, Gus & Buddy)

• 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 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
• Jun 1 68th National Spell Bee: Justin Tyler Carroll wins spelling xanthosis
• Jun 2 John Valentin hits 3 HRs
• Jun 4 8th Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $1,331,000
• Jun 5 The Bose-Einstein condensate is first created
• Jun 6 Moses Kiptanui of Kenya runs world 5,000m record 12:55.30 in Rome, Italy
• Jun 7 The long range Boeing 777 enters service with United Airlines
• Jun 8 Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
• Jun 9 "The Brady Bunch Movie" based on the 1970s TV series premieres in UK
• Jun 9 Congo (1995) premieres in USA
• Jun 9 Dumb & Dumber (1994) premieres in Sweden
• Jun 9 Killer (1994) premieres in UK
• Jun 9 Kiss of Death (1995) premieres in UK
• Jun 9 Man of the House (1995) premieres in UK
• Jun 9 Neak Sre (1993) premieres in UK
• Jun 9 Party Girl (1995) premieres in USA
• Jun 9 Smoke (1995) premieres in USA
• Jun 11 Rondell White has six hits & hits for the cycle in 13-innings
• Jun 15 Mark Ilott takes 9-19 incl all lbw hat-trick, Essex v Northants
• Jun 15 Northants all out 46 v Essex & wins game next day
• Jun 20 Space probe Ulysses begins 2nd passage behind the Sun
• Jun 24 Wrapped Reichstag art installation completed by artists Christo and Jeanne Claude; German parliament building completely wrapped by polypropylene fabric [1]
• Jun 25 Rockies' Andres Galarraga is 4th to HR in 3 consecutive innings

• Jun 26 Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup.
• Jun 27 Former WMMS engineer William Alford is sentenced to 10 days & $1,000 fine for cutting feed during Howard Stern's broadcast from Cleveland
• Jun 27 Holland's debut in English domestic comp (v Northants, NatWest)
• Jun 27 Space shuttle STS-71 (Atlantis 14), launches
• Jun 30 Exxon signs a $15.2-billion deal to develop oil and gas fields near Russia's Sakhalin Island

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