Historical Events in 1995 (Part 2)

Events 201 - 400 of 619

• Mar 31 Ranji Trophy Cricket Final, Wankhede Stadium, Bombay: Bombay (Sanjay Manjrekar 224 in 6/690) beats Punjab (Vikram Rathour 177 in 372) on 1st innings
• Apr 1 Blackburn Rovers striker Chris Sutton scores fastest goal in English Premier League history when he nets after 12.94 seconds in 2-1 win at Everton
• 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 1 New York Islanders retire Swedish right wing Bobby Nystrom's uniform #23
• Apr 2 Longest strike in American major league sports history (232 days) ends as MLB owners accept players’ offer to return to work without a contract; MLB is first major pro sports league to lose an entire postseason due to labor struggles
• 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 7 Baseball exhibition season begins late due to strike
• Apr 8 American Bruce Seldon defeats by RTD over Tony Tucker in 7 rounds to win vacated WBA boxing title
• Apr 8 BPAA US Open won by Dave Husted

• Apr 10 NYC bans smoking in all restaurants that seat 35 or more

• Apr 13 Yankees beat the Mets 2-0
• Apr 14 India beats Sri Lanka to win the Asia Cricket Cup final in Sharjah
• Apr 18 Houston Post folds after 116 years

• Apr 19 Chopper 4 1st used on WNBC TV (NYC) news

• Apr 21 Boston Celtics final regular season game at Boston Garden, NY Knicks win 98-92
• Apr 21 British sitcom "Father Ted" written by Arthur Mathews & Graham Linehan, starring Dermot Morgan premieres on Channel 4
• Apr 21 FBI arrests Timothy McVeigh in the Oklahoma City bombing case; He is indicted on 160 state offenses and 11 federal offenses, including the use of a weapon of mass destruction [1]
• Apr 22 General Tire World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mike Aulby

• Apr 22 NFL Draft: Penn State running back Ki-Jana Carter first pick by Cincinnati Bengals

• Apr 24 Dow Jones Index hits record 4303.98
• Apr 24 Package bomb, linked to Unabomber, blows up killing Gilbert B Murray
• Apr 26 Baseball season begins after lengthy strike
• 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 Final TV broadcast of "Empty Nest" on NBC TV
• Apr 29 KC Royal John Nonely is 70th to HR on his 1st at bat
• 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 1 "Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)" single released by John Michael Montgomery (Billboard Song of the Year 1995)

• May 1 Future Australian cricket captain Steve Waugh scores career best 200 including 231 partnership with brother Mark (126) in 4th Test win over West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica
• May 1 Montreal Canadiens lose 2-0 at Buffalo to miss Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time in 25 years
• 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 Australia beat West Indies to regain the Frank Worrell Cricket Trophy
• May 3 David Bell debuts for the Indians (3rd generation player, Gus & Buddy)
• May 5 Last basketball game at Boston Garden; Celtics eliminated from playoffs by Orlando Magic, 95-92
• May 6 Classic Sports Network begins on cable TV

• May 7 Revival of Budd Schulberg's stage drama "On the Waterfront", adapted from his screenplay for the 1954 film, closes at the Atkinson Theater, NYC, after 8 performances [1]
• May 7 Twins beat Indians 10-9 in 17 innings, 6 hours & 36 minutes
• May 9 Cleveland Indians tie record of scoring 8 runs before making an out, they beat Twins 10-0
• 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 At 43 years, 162 days Manchester City goalkeeper John Burridge becomes the oldest player to appear in an EPL match, a 3-2 home defeat to Queens Park Rangers

• 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 20 CBS News fires co-anchor Connie Chung

• May 23 47th time opposing pitchers hit HRs, K Foster (Cubs)/M Freeman (Rocks)
• May 25 The Bosnian Serb Army kills 72 youngsters in the Bosnian city of Tuzla

• May 28 48th Cannes Film Festival: "Underground" directed by Emir Kusturica wins the Palme d'Or
• 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 28 White Sox (5) & Tigers (7) combine for record 12 HRs at Tiger Stadium
• Jun 1 68th National Spell Bee: Justin Tyler Carroll wins spelling xanthosis
• Jun 1 Texas Rangers pitcher Kenny Rogers' scoreless inning streak ends at 39 in a 6-3 win over the Minnesota Twins
• Jun 2 John Valentin hits 3 HRs
• Jun 3 1st Blockbuster Entertainment Awards held at Pantages Theatre, Hollywood

• Jun 4 49th Tony Awards: "Love! Valour! Compassion!" (play) & "Sunset Boulevard" (musical) win
• Jun 4 8th Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $1,331,000
• Jun 4 New Zealand creates world record score for a Rugby Union international in thrashing Japan, 145-17 in the World Cup in Bloomfontein, RSA; Marc Ellis 6 tries, Simon Culhane 20 conversions
• 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 9 Wigstock The Movie (1994) premieres in USA
• Jun 10 Orioles Jeff Manto, hits his 4th consecutive homer
• Jun 11 Rondell White has six hits & hits for the cycle in 13-innings

• Jun 13 New Jersey Devils beat Philadelphia Flyers, 4-2 for a 4-2 series win; qualify for their first Stanley Cup Finals Series (beat Detroit Red Wings, 4-0)
• Jun 14 Giants infielder Mike Benjamin goes 6-for-7 in 13-inning 4-3 win
• 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 16 Salt Lake City awarded the XIX Winter Olympics in 2002

• Jun 18 FIFA Women's World Cup Final, Råsunda Stadium, Stockholm, Sweden: Hege Riise & Marianne Pettersen score within 3 minutes of each other to give Norway a 2-0 win over Germany

• Jun 19 NY Yankees announce agreement with Darryl Strawberry
• Jun 20 Space probe Ulysses begins 2nd passage behind the Sun

• Jun 24 Stanley Cup Final, Meadowlands Arena, East Rutherford, NJ: New Jersey Devils beat Detroit Red Wings, 5-2 for a 4-0 series sweep; Devils' first Stanley Cup finals appearance
• 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 Holland's debut in English domestic comp (v Northants, NatWest)
• Jun 27 Mason City Iowa's TV news personality Jodi Huisentruit disappears
• Jun 27 Space shuttle STS-71 (Atlantis 14), launches
• Jun 27 William Alford, engineer for rival radio station WMMS, is sentenced to 10 days & $1,000 fine for cutting feed during Howard Stern's live broadcast from Cleveland
• Jun 28 NBA draft: Maryland power forward Joe Smith first pick by Golden State Warriors
• Jun 28 NJ Devils Stanley Cup Victory Party, admidst rumours they were moving to Nashville, goalie Chris Terreri holds up "Nashville? NO WAY!" sign
• Jun 29 George Foreman loses IBF boxing title for refusing to re-fight Axel Schulz
• Jun 29 Memphis Mad Dogs 1st CFL game (vs Calgary Stampeders)
• Jun 30 Exxon signs a $15.2-billion deal to develop oil and gas fields near Russia's Sakhalin Island
• Jun 30 Indians' Eddie Murray, is 20th to reach 3,000 hits
• Jul 1 All NBA business apart from the Draft is suspended until a new collective bargaining agreement made with the players - no games lost
• Jul 1 Kiersten Rickenbach, of NJ, crowned America's Junior Miss

• Jul 2 Thailand: Banharn Silpa-Archa's party wins election
• Jul 4 Birmingham Barracudas (based in Alabama) play 1st CFL game beating Winnipeg 38-10 but failed experiment only lasts one season
• Jul 6 Venezuelan Congress approves the country's first investment law allowing for foreign participation in oil exploration and production
• Jul 7 Memphis Mad Dogs 1st CFL home game (vs BC Lions)
• Jul 7 Space shuttle STS-71 (Atlantis 14), lands
• Jul 8 1st CFL game between 2 US teams, Las Vegas Posse vs Sacramento Gold
• Jul 8 NHL Draft: Detroit Jr. Red Wings (OHL) defenceman Bryan Berard first pick by Ottawa Senators

• Jul 9 US international postage rates rise to 60 cents per ounce

• Jul 13 Space shuttle STS-70 (Discovery 20), launches
• Jul 14 LA Dodger Ramon Martinez no-hits the Florida Marlins 7-0
• Jul 15 Northern Virginia begins using new area code 540

• Jul 18 DC3 crashes at Antananarivo, Madagascar, 34 die

• Jul 20 The Regents of the University of California vote to end all affirmative action in the UC system by 1997.

• Jul 21 KC Royals set club-record of 22 singles in 15 innings
• Jul 22 Space shuttle STS-70 (Discovery 20), lands
• Jul 22 Susan Smith found guilty of drowning her two children in South Carolina
• Jul 23 Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered and becomes visible to the naked eye nearly a year later
• Jul 25 A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded.
• Jul 27 Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.

• Jul 28 Norwegian Finance Minister Sigbjorn Johnsen says that Norway should not lower its crude oil production in an attempt to boost world oil prices
• Jul 29 Carolina Panthers beat Jacksonville Jaguars in their 1st NFL exhibition game 20-14

• Jul 30 Dominic Cork takes hat-trick in England Test Cricket win v West Indies at Old Trafford

• Jul 31 Walt Disney announces the acquisition of Capital Cities/ABC for $19 billion; network of properties now consists of Disney, ABC Sports, ESPN and ESPN2
• Aug 1 Westinghouse purchases CBS-TV network
• Aug 2 Saudi Arabia's King Fahd issues a decree replacing all members of the Council of Ministers who do not have blood ties to the royal Family
• Aug 3 CNN en Espanol premieres
• Aug 4 Operation Storm begins in Croatia, the Croatian army attacks territory under the Republic of Serbian Krajina in the largest land battle since WWII
• Aug 5 The city of Knin, a significant Serb stronghold, is captured by Croatian forces during Operation Storm. The date is celebrated as the day of victory (Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day) in Croatia.
• Aug 6 Cleveland's major league sports franchises, NFL Browns & MLB Indians, play in Cleveland for 1st time ever; both lose - White Sox 5, Indians 1; Giants 19, Browns 13 (exhibition)
• Aug 6 Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela, co-founder of the Cali Cartel, is arrested in Cali after being betrayed by his bodyguard Jorge Salcedo

• Aug 8 10.75" (27.305 cm) of rainfall at Lockington Dam, Lockington, Ohio (state record)
• Aug 8 Jeff King of Pirates is 16th NL player to HR twice in one inning
• Aug 9 South Africa celebrates the first National Women's Day
• Aug 10 Dodgers leading 2-1 in 9th forfeit game to Cards, fans become unruly
• Aug 12 Lara completes 6th Test Cricket century, 152 at Trent Bridge

• Aug 14 Iran's official news agency, IRNA, reports that Iran has been unable to sell 200 million barrels per day of crude oil since the imposition of a unilateral oil embargo by the US
• Aug 14 Shannon Faulkner becomes 1st woman to attend the Citadel
• Aug 15 "Macarena" single is released by Los del Rio
• Aug 17 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC

• Aug 19 After 5 days Shannon Faulkner quits as 1st woman at the Citadel
• Aug 19 Bruce Seldon TKOs Joe Hipp in 10 for heavyweight boxing title

• Aug 20 Indians' Jose Mesa sets record with his 37th consecutive save

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