Historical Events 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 Raman Lamba (312) & Ravi Sehgal (216) put on an Indian 1st-class record opening partnership 464 in Delhi's innings & 310 run win over Himachal Pradesh in a Ranji Trophy cricket match in Delhi
• 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 Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (est 15 billion light years away)

• Jan 5 Bill Fitch becomes the 5th coach in NBA history to register 850 career victories with the LA Clippers' 95-93 home win over Philadelphia 76'ers at the LA Memorial Sports Arena
• 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 7 Larry Brown posts his 500th career NBA coaching victory, following the Indiana Pacers' 88-83 road win at the Houston Rockets
• 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 Birmingham Barracudas (based in Alabama) granted CFL franchise, experiment only lasts one season
• Jan 11 DC-9 crashes near Maria La Baya, Colombia: 51 die, 9 yr old girl lives
• Jan 11 NHLPA & owners agree to end NHL strike

• Jan 12 Major earthquake kills 5,092 in Kobe, Japan

• Jan 12 Pope John Paul II arrives on his second visit to the Philippines on trip to South East Asia
• 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 14 10,000 South Africans attend state funeral of Joe Slovo

• 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 17 LA Rams announce that they are moving to St Louis
• Jan 18 Kumble takes 16-99 in match for Karnataka v Kerala

• Jan 19 Jean-Claude Juncker (28) sworn in as premier of Luxembourg
• Jan 20 1994-95 NHL Season begin after a lengthy strike
• 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 Chicago Blackhawks beat Edmonton Oilers, 5-1 in the first NHL game in their new home, the United Center; defenseman Chris Chelios leads scoring with a goal and 2 assists
• Jan 25 Jacques Santer succeeds Jacques Delors as chairman of Euro Committee

• Jan 26 With a record 6,254,427 ballots cast by fans in NBA All-Star Voting, Detroit's Grant Hill becomes the first rookie to lead all NBA players in All-Star votes received, earning #1 on 1,289,585 ballots
• 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 Greg Blewett scores century on Test debut vs England, Adelaide

• Jan 30 Belgium's TV channel 2 in Flanders goes on the air
• Jan 30 Car bomb explodes in Algiers, killing 42 and wounding 296
• Jan 30 Jazz guitarist Kevin Eubanks officially becomes bandleader of "The Tonight Show"
• 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 US President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy
• Feb 1 Amtrak NY-Tampa run ends
• Feb 1 Belgium's TV channel VT4 goes on the air

• Feb 1 Zimbabwe batsmen Andy (156) & Grant Flower (201) set world record brotherly stand of 269 to propel Zimbabwe to first ever victory in Test cricket in 1st Test against Pakistan in Harare
• Feb 2 Henry Olonga no-balled for throwing in Zimbabwe-Pakistan Test Cricket
• Feb 3 STS 63 (Discovery 19), launches into orbit
• Feb 4 Archaeologist Kent R. Weeks crawls inside KV5, the tomb of the sons of Ramases II, to discover the largest tomb ever found in the Valley of the Kings [1]
• Feb 4 Australian cricketer Dean Jones completes 324* for Victoria v South Australia
• Feb 4 Sandra Volker swims female European record 50m backstroke (27.77)
• Feb 4 Zimbabwe's 1st Test Cricket victory, over Pakistan by an inning
• Feb 5 Japan's Shinshinto Party wins local elections
• Feb 5 Philip Glass' Symphony No. 3, for string orchestra, premieres with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, in Künzelsau, Germany
• Feb 6 Greg Blewett scores his 2nd century in his 2nd Test Cricket

• 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 Sun Cayun pole vaults female indoor world record (4.12m)
• Feb 11 Danyon Loader swims world record 400m freestyle (340.46)
• Feb 11 Sandra Volker swims European record 50m backstroke (27.67 sec)
• Feb 11 Space shuttle STS-63 (Discovery 19), lands
• Feb 11 West Indies score 5-660 against NZ

• Feb 12 Dieter Baumann runs European record 3k indoor (7:37.51)
• Feb 12 Jeff Rouse swims world record 50m backstroke (24.37 sec)
• Feb 12 PRI loses and PAN wins Mexican regional elections
• Feb 12 Sun Cayun pole vaults indoor female world record (4.13m)
• Feb 12 Susan Auch skates female world record 500m (38.94 sec)
• Feb 13 3rd ESPY Awards: Steve Young, Bonnie Blair win
• 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 British composer Michael Tippett's last major work "Rose Lake," premieres at Barbican Hall in London, with the London Symphony led by Colin Davis

• Feb 19 Irina Privalova runs indoor woman's European record 200m (22.10 sec)
• Feb 19 Kenneth Koch wins Bollingen Prize for One Train (1994) and On The Great Atlantic Rainway: Selected Poems 1950-1988 (1994)
• Feb 19 Linford Christie runs world record 200m indoor (20.25 sec) and European record 60m indoor (6.47 sec)
• Feb 21 CFL's Sacramento Gold Miners become San Antonio Texans
• 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 British super middleweight Nigel Benn puts opponent Gerard McClellan in hospital
• 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 "Smokey Joe's Cafe" opens at Virginia Theater NYC
• 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 Joe Mullen becomes 2nd NHL player to appear in 300 NHL games with 3 different teams when he plays for the Penguins in a 6-3 loss in Buffalo; Pittsburgh 379, St. Louis 301, Calgary 345
• 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 4 Replacement NY Yankees beat NY Mets 2-1
• 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 Baseball awards a franchise to Tampa Bay Devil Rays
• 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 10 Chiel Meijering's "St Louis Blues" premieres in Arnhem
• 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 Dance Championship at Birmingham UK won by Gritshuk & Platov (RUS)
• 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 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 American Bonnie Blair skates female world record point total (156.450)
• Mar 19 Arizona begins using new telephone area code 520, outside of Phoenix
• Mar 19 Finnish Social Democratic Party wins parliamentary election
• Mar 19 Michael Jordan rejoins NBA Chicago Bulls after 17 months trying a career in baseball; he scores 19 poimts in 103-96 loss to the Pacers in Indianapolis
• Mar 19 NBA NY Knicks beat NY Nets in 100th meeting (Knicks 53 Nets 47)
• 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 New Jersey officially dedicates the Howard Stern Rest Area along Route 295
• 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 Nabisco Dinah Shore Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Nanci Bowen wins her only major title, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Susie Redman; her sole LPGA Tour victory
• 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
• Mar 31 Federal judge Sonia Sotomayor of US District Court in NYC issues an injunction against Major League Baseball owners in move that effectively ends 232-day strike

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