1995 in Sport

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• Jan 1 Raman Lamba & Ravi Sehgal score 464 in cricket for the 1st wicket for Delhi
• Jan 1 61st Orange Bowl: #1 Nebraska beats #3 Miami (FL), 24-17
• Jan 2 81st Rose Bowl: #2 Penn State beats #12 Oregon, 38-20
• Jan 2 61st Sugar Bowl: #7 Florida State beats #5 Florida, 23-17
• Jan 2 24th Fiesta Bowl: #4 Colorado beats Notre Dame, 41-24

• Jan 11 Birmingham Barracudas (based in Alabama) granted CFL franchise, experiment only lasts one season
• Jan 11 NHLPA & owners agree to end NHL strike

• Jan 13 26 HNL teams unanimously ratify agreement to end NHL strike
• Jan 13 America3 becomes 1st all-female crew to win an America's Cup race
• Jan 15 Dawn Coe-Jones wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Golf Champion
• Jan 15 AFC Championship Game: San Diego Chargers beat Pittsburgh Steelers 17-13
• Jan 15 NFC Championship Game: San Francisco 49ers beat Dallas Cowboys 38-28
• Jan 17 Australia beat Australia A 2-0 to win cricket's World Series Cup


• Jan 17 LA Rams announce that they are moving to St Louis
• Jan 20 1994-95 NHL Season begin after a lengthy strike
• Jan 27 Eric Cantona of Manchester United fined and banned from playing football after attacking a fan
• Jan 28 Memphis Mad Dogs granted CFL's 13th franchise
• Jan 29 Super Bowl XXIX: SF 49ers beat San Diego Chargers, 49-26 in Miami, MVP: Steve Young, San Francisco, QB

• Feb 2 Henry Olonga no-balled for throwing in Zimbabwe-Pakistan Test Cricket
• Feb 4 Australian cricketer Dean Jones completes 324* for Victoria v South Australia
• Feb 4 Zimbabwe's 1st Test Cricket victory, over Pakistan by an inning
• Feb 5 NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 41-13

• Feb 6 Greg Blewett scores his 2nd century in his 2nd Test Cricket

• Feb 10 Sun Cayun pole vaults female indoor world record (4.12m)
• Feb 11 Danyon Loader swims world record 400m freestyle (340.46)
• Feb 11 Mark Foster swims world record 50m butterfly (23.55 sec)
• Feb 12 45th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 139-112 at Phoenix
• Feb 12 Jeff Rouse swims world record 50m backstroke (24.37 sec)
• Feb 12 Sun Cayun pole vaults indoor female world record (4.13m)

• Feb 18 Barb Thomas Whitehead wins Cup o' Noodles Hawaiian Ladies' Golf Open
• Feb 19 37th Daytona 500: Sterling Marlin wins (141.71 MPH)
• Feb 21 CFL's Sacramento Gold Miners become San Antonio Texans


• Feb 25 British super middleweight Nigel Benn puts opponent Gerard McClellan in hospital

• Mar 4 Replacement NY Yankees beat NY Mets 2-1
• Mar 9 Baseball awards a franchise to Tampa Bay Devil Rays
• Mar 10 Chiel Meijering's "St Louis Blues" premieres in Arnhem
• Mar 12 Ice Dance Championship at Birmingham UK won by Gritshuk & Platov (RUS)
• Mar 12 42nd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #7 Wake Forest beats #4 North Carolina, 82-80 (OT)
• Mar 12 36th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Arkansas, 95-93 (OT)
• Mar 12 16th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Villanova beats Connecticut, 94-78

• Mar 19 Laura Davis wins LPGA Standard Register PING Golf Tournament
• Mar 19 Michael Jordan rejoins Chicago Bulls after 17 months, beats Pacers
• Mar 19 NBA NY Knicks beat NY Nets in 100th meeting (Knicks 53 Nets 47)

• Mar 26 24th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Nanci Bowen
• Mar 28 Queensland beat S Aust to win 1st ever cricket Sheffield Shield
• Mar 31 Bombay beat Punjab on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy
• Mar 31 Federal judge orders injunction to end baseball strike
• Apr 1 NY Islanders retire Bobby Nystrom's uniform #23
• Apr 2 14th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: U of Ct Huskies beats TN 70-64

• Apr 2 Baseball season opener delayed until April 26
• Apr 2 Owners accept baseball players proposal, agree to start season 4/26

• Apr 3 57th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA Bruins beats Arkansas 89-78
• Apr 7 Baseball exhibition season begins late due to strike

• Apr 8 148th Grand National: Jason Titley aboard Royal Athlete wins
• Apr 9 59th Masters Golf Tournament: Ben Crenshaw wins, shooting a 274
• Apr 14 India beats Sri Lanka to win the Asia Cricket Cup final in Sharjah
• Apr 14 Rosie Jones wins LPGA Pinewild Women's Golf Championship

• Apr 17 99th Boston Marathon: Cosmas Ndeti of Kenya 1st man in 2:09:22 and Uta Pippig of Germany 1st woman in 2:25:11

• Apr 21 Boston Celtics final game at Boston Gardens, NY Knicks win 98-92
• Apr 22 George Foreman beats Axel Schulz in 12 for heavyweight boxing title in Las Vegas
• Apr 22 NFL Draft: Penn State running back Ki-Jana Carter first pick by Cincinnati Bengals
• Apr 23 Laura Davis wins LPGA Chick-fil-A Charity Golf Championship
• Apr 24 Court orders Darryl Strawberry to pay back $350,000 in taxes
• Apr 26 Baseball season begins after lengthy strike
• Apr 29 KC Royal John Nonely is 70th to HR on his 1st at bat
• Apr 30 Val Skinner wins LPGA Sprint Golf Championship
• May 1 Montreal Canadiens lose 2-0 at Buffalo to miss Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time in 25 years
• May 3 Australia beat West Indies to regain the Frank Worrell Cricket Trophy
• May 5 Last basketball game at Boston Gardens (Magic beats Celtics)
• May 6 121st Kentucky Derby: Gary Stevens on Thunder Gulch wins in 2:01.2
• May 6 Classic Sports Network begins on cable TV
• May 9 Cleveland Indians tie record of scoring 8 runs before making an out, they beat Twins 10-0
• May 10 Real Zaragoza of Spain win 35th European Cup Winner's Cup against Arsenal of England 2-1 in Paris

• May 13 Team New Zealand beats Team Dennis Conner 5-0 to win the America's Cup for the first time

• May 20 120th Preakness: Pat Day aboard Timber Coutry wins in 1:54.4

• May 23 47th time opposing pitchers hit HRs, K Foster (Cubs)/M Freeman (Rocks)
• May 24 3rd UEFA Champions League Final: Ajax beats Milan 1-0 at Vienna
• May 28 Alison Nichols wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
• May 28 White Sox (5) & Tigers (7) combine for record 12 HRs at Tiger Stadium

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• Feb 17 Madison Keys, American tennis player (US Open runner-up 2017), born in Rock Island, Illinois
• May 10 Missy Franklin, American swimmer (5 Olympic gold 2012, 16), born in Pasadena, California
• Jul 5 P.V. [Pusarla Venkata] Sindhu, Indian badminton player, first Indian woman to win a silver medal (2016), born in Hyderabad, India
• Jul 20 Shaquem Griffin, American one-handed NFL player (Sea Hawks), born in St. Petersburg, Florida
• Sep 17 Patrick Mahomes, American NFL quarterback (KC Chiefs), born in Tyler, Texas
• Nov 23 Ariya Jatanugarn, Thai golfer, (British Open 2016, US Open 2018), born in Bangkok, Thailand

• Apr 22 "Extra" TV co-host Arthel Neville (32) weds Carolina Panther running back Derrick Lassic (25) at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church

• Jun 10 Actress-singer Holly Robinson (30) weds NFL Philadelphia Eagle quarterback Rodney Peete (29) in Los Angeles

• Sep 9 Ice Skater Nancy Kerrigan (25) weds her agent Jerry Solomon (41)

• Jan 2 Graham Sharp, ice skater, dies at 77
• Jan 7 Harry Golombek, chess Grandmaster, dies at 83
• Jan 8 Carlos Monzon, [El Macho], Argentine medium weight boxing champ (1970-77), dies at 52
• Jan 18 Ron Luciano, American baseball umpire (b. 1937)
• Jan 21 Philippe Casado, Moroccan/French cyclist, dies at 30
• Jan 26 Vic Buckingham, English soccer player/trainer (Ajax), dies at 79
• Jan 29 Richard Burnell, British rower (Olympic gold 1948), dies at 77
• Jan 30 George H Poyser, English soccer player (Manchester City), dies at 84
• Feb 1 John Smith, English chairman of Liverpool F.C. (1973-90), dies at 74
• Feb 2 Fred Perry, English tennis player/broadcaster (Wimbledon, 1934-36), dies of broken ribs at 85
• Feb 4 Roel Wiersma, Dutch soccer star (PSV), dies at 62
• Feb 4 Godfrey Brown, British athlete, 4 X 400m runner (Olympic gold 1936), dies at 79
• Feb 28 Keith Rigg, cricketer (8 Tests for Australia 1931-37), dies
• Mar 5 Gregg Hansford, Australian motorcycle and touring car racer, dies at 42
• Mar 9 Ruud van den Hende, Dutch sports reporter, dies at 63
• Mar 13 Leon Day, pitcher (Negro Leagues), dies of heart failure at 78

• Mar 20 Merv Harvey, cricketer (scored 12 & 31 in Test Aus v Eng 46-47), dies
• Mar 23 Davie Cooper, soccer star, dies at 39
• Mar 30 Graham Anthony Richard Lock, cricketer, dies at 65
• Mar 30 Tony Lock, English cricketer and left-arm spinner who took 174 wickets for England, dies at 65
• Apr 1 Johnny Nichols, English football player, dies at 63
• Apr 2 Harvey Penick, premier golf instructor/author, dies at 90
• Apr 3 Harvey Pennick, golfer/teacher, dies at 89
• Apr 8 Maurice Allom, cricketer (14 Test wickets-NZ debut hat-trick), dies
• Apr 17 A R A (Anton) Murray, cricketer (289 runs & 11 wkts in 10 Tests), dies
• Apr 20 R E S Wyatt, cricketer (England capt 16 times), dies
• Apr 21 Bob Wyatt, English cricketer (1927-37), dies at 93
• Apr 21 Stafford Heginbotham, British toymaker (Tebro Toys) and Football Club Chairman, dies at 61
• Apr 23 Howard Cosell, sportscaster (Monday Night Football), dies at 77
• Apr 23 John Stennis, (Sen-D-MS), dies at 93
• Apr 28 Peaches Roy Davis, baseball pitcher, dies at 89
• May 5 Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian influential world chess champion, dies at 83
• May 6 Noel Brotherston, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1956)
• May 9 Percy Mansell, cricketer (355 runs in 13 Tests for South Africa), dies
• May 13 Cecil Marley, cricketer (WICBC pres 1971-74, Jamaican capt 1946), dies
• May 25 Krešimir Ćosić, Croatian basketball player (b. 1948)
• May 30 Bobby Stokes, soccer star, dies at 44
• May 30 Ted Drake [Edward Joseph Drake], English footballer, dies at 82
• Jun 9 Charles Rowe, cricket (scored 0 in only Test for NZ v Aust 1946), dies
• Jun 10 Ron Morrisby, cricketer (prolific batsman for Tasmania 1931-52), dies
• Jun 23 Anatoly Tarasov, Russian ice hockey coach (b. 1918)
• Jun 24 Inshan Ali, West Indian cricketer (WI chinaman bowler 1971-77), dies at 45
• Jul 1 Bruce Mitchell, South African cricket opening batsman (42 Tests), dies at 86
• Jul 3 Eddie Mazur, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens), dies at 65
• Jul 4 Richard "Pancho" Gonzalez, tennis great, dies of stomach cancer at 67
• Jul 15 Eddie J Bush, golf professional, dies at 83
• Jul 16 Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine auto racer (World F1 champion 1951, 1954-57), dies of kidney failure at 84
• Jul 17 Herbert Hippauf, baseball player, dies at 56
• Jul 18 Fabio Casartelli, Italian cyclist (Olympic gold 1992), dies at 24
• Jul 19 James Smiddy, high school basketball coach (1,216 wins), dies at 71
• Jul 21 Jon Boulle, motorcyclist, dies at 59
• Jul 22 Harold Larwood, cricket (98 wkts bowling for Engl 1926-34), dies at 91
• Jul 27 Rick Ferrell, American baseball Hall of Fame catcher, dies at 89
• Aug 2 Brian Smith, British sportscaster, dies
• Aug 3 Harry Craft, baseball manager, dies at 80
• Aug 4 Dick Bartell, baseball player, dies at 87

• Aug 20 Von McDaniel, baseball player, dies at 56
• Aug 20 William Kennedy, baseball player, dies at 76
• Aug 21 Ken Rickards, West Indies cricketer (104 runs at 34 66 for WI 1948-52), dies at 71
• Aug 21 Len Martin, sports broadcaster, dies at 76
• Aug 21 Manfred Donike, German cyclist and chemist drug test pioneer, dies at 61
• Aug 23 Johnny Carey, Irish professional footballer, dies at 76
• Aug 25 John Brunner, Britsih sci-fi author (100th Millennium), dies at 60
• Sep 3 Alex Brown, snooker player, dies at 87
• Sep 6 Buster Mathis, American heavyweight boxer, dies at 52
• Sep 10 Molly Hide, English cricketer who captained England for 17 years, dies at 81
• Sep 11 Keith Odor, racing Driver, dies at 33
• Sep 13 Harold Sheperdson, soccer Trainer, dies at 76
• Sep 17 Lucien Victor, Belgian cyclist (b. 1931)
• Sep 18 Oleg Tverdokhleb, Ukrainian athlete (b. 1969)
• Sep 25 Dave Bowen, Welsh footballer, dies at 67
• Oct 7 Louis Meyer, Indie 500 racer (3 wins), dies at 91
• Oct 9 Lord Home of Hirsel, cricket (Middlesex player later British PM), dies
• Oct 10 Edward Gill, baseball player, dies at 100
• Oct 13 Golfredo Corradetti, conductor, dies at 79

• Oct 26 Agha Saadat Ali, cricketer (8 not out in 1 inn for Pak 1956), dies
• Nov 2 Alun Edward Islwyn Pask, rugby International, dies at 58
• Nov 2 Sal Gliatto, American baseball player, dies at 93
• Nov 10 Clairmonte Depeiaza, West Indian cricketer (world record partnership v Aust 1955), dies at 67
• Nov 20 Sergei Grinkov, figure skater (Olympic gold), dies of heart attack at 28
• Nov 23 Frank Hammond, tennis umpire, dies of ALS at 66
• Nov 27 Giancarlo Baghetti, racing driver/journalist, dies at 60
• Nov 28 Brunhilde Hendrix, German relay runner (Olympic silver 1960), dies at 57
• Nov 30 Hopper Levett, Kent cricket wicketkeeper (1930-47, Test 1934), dies
• Dec 5 Bill Bruton, American MLB outfielder (NL stolen bases leader 1953-55), dies of heart attack at 70
• Dec 14 Rob Harris, sky surfer, dies while skydiving at 28
• Dec 23 Gabrielle Keiller, collector and golfer, dies at 87
• Dec 25 Jimmy Boucher, cricketer (great Irish all-rounder 1929-54), dies

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