Historical Events in 1995 (Part 3)

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• Aug 21 Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 529 crashes near Carrollton, Georgia, killing 9 crew and passengers

• Aug 23 Indians' Jose Mesa sets record with his 38th consecutive save
• Aug 24 Fire that wipes 6,000 acres begins in Hamptons on Long Island
• Aug 24 Microsoft debuts Windows 95

• Aug 25 Indians' Jose Mesa fails in save attempt after 38th consecutive saves
• Aug 26 Andrew Symonds hits 20 sixes in match for Gloucestershire v Glamorgan

• Aug 27 95th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods
• Aug 27 Worst fire in New York in 80 years ends after 4 days
• Aug 28 Kuwaiti Oil Minister Abdul Mohsen al-Medej announces that his country will increase its oil production capacity to as much as 3.5 million barrels per day by 2005
• Aug 28 Last day of Test Cricket for Richie Richardson
• Aug 28 Northants 7-781 declared defeats Nottinghamshire 527 & 157
• Aug 29 NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
• Aug 30 Cable News Network joins the internet
• Aug 30 Tigers teammates Lou Whitaker & Alan Trammell play in 1,914 game together tying AL record

• Sep 1 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum opens in Cleveland, Ohio
• Sep 1 State of New York reinstates the death penalty

• Sep 2 Southern California begins using new area code 562
• Sep 3 Carolina Panthers lose their debut NFL game in overtime 23-20 to the Atlanta Falcons in front of 58,808 fans at the Georgia Dome
• Sep 3 eBay (Electronic Bay) founded by Pierre Omidyar
• Sep 3 In their NFL debut game the Jacksonville Jaguars fall to the Houston Oilers 10-3; 72,363 fans attend the Jacksonville Municipal Stadium
• Sep 3 Soyuz TM-22, launched into orbit
• Sep 4 Chicago White Sox third baseman Robin Ventura hits grand slams in consecutive innings, the 4th and 5th, of a 14-3 rout of the Texas Rangers

• Sep 4 The Fourth World Conference on Women opens in Beijing with over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance.

• Sep 6 Cal Ripken Jr breaks Gehrig's record, plays in 2,131 straight games

• Sep 7 Sen Bob Packwoord (R-Ore) resigns rather than face expulsion
• Sep 7 STS 69 (Endeavour 9), launches into orbit
• Sep 8 Cleveland Indians clinch 1st AL Central Division title
• Sep 9 "Broadway Limited" last train ride (began in 1902)
• Sep 9 Dean St Station in Brooklyn, is 6th MTA station to close since 1904
• Sep 10 47th Emmy Awards: NYPD Blue, ER, Frasier and Candice Bergen win
• Sep 10 Cleveland's major league sports franchises, NFL Browns & MLB Indians, play simultaneous regular season games in Cleveland for only time, both win; Browns 22-6 v Tampa, Indians 5-3 v Orioles
• Sep 11 Eastern Tennessee begins using new area code 423
• Sep 11 Ohio's Governor Voinovich proclaims "Cleveland Indians Day"
• Sep 11 Soyuz TM-22, lands
• Sep 12 Belarus military shoots down a hydrogen balloon, killing its two American pilots.

• Sep 13 The Kuwaiti Oil Ministry states its intention to seek a 200-million-barrels-per-day increase to its current 2-million-barrels-per-day crude oil production quota at OPEC meeting in Vienna
• Sep 14 Body Worlds opens in Tokyo, Japan

• Sep 18 Space shuttle STS-69 (Endeavour 9), lands
• Sep 19 Colorado Rockies Andres Galarraga becomes 4th team member to hit 30 HRs in the sesaon
• Sep 19 MLB San Diego Padres Ken Caminiti switch hits HRs in 3rd of 4 games
• Sep 19 The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto
• Sep 20 Cincinnati Reds becomes 1st team to clinch NL Central
• Sep 21 The Hindu milk miracle occurs: statues of the Hindu God Ganesh begin drinking milk when spoonfuls were placed near their mouths
• Sep 22 E-3B AWACS crash outside of Elmendorf AFB, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board killed

• Sep 24 Volcano Mount Ruapehu (North Island, NZ) erupts

• Sep 26 Earliest 1st-class cricket in Aust season (Qld v Western Prov)
• Sep 26 Sri Lanka complete 2-1 Test Cricket series win in Pakistan from 0-1
• Sep 28 American singer Bobby Brown escapes injury in gun battle in Roxbury, Massachusetts; his friend Steven Sealy is killed

• Sep 28 Frenchman Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of Comoros (off of southeast Africa) in a coup

• Sep 28 Superhero film "Batman Forever" released in Czech Republic
• Sep 28 Troy Dixon scores cricket century on 1st-class debut for Qld v W Prov
• Sep 29 Indians break 1902 Pirates record for largest lead over 2nd-place team (KC) (27½ games)
• Sep 29 Saleem Elahi scores century on ODI debut, Pakistan v Sri Lanka

• Sep 29 US space probe Ulyssus completes 2nd passage behind Sun
• Sep 30 Cleveland Indian Albert Belle hits his 50th home run of season
• Oct 1 Bermuda begins using new area code 441
• Oct 1 Cleveland Indians end MLB season at 100-44 to set record 30 game margin over 2nd place Kansas City Royals in AL Central final standings
• Oct 1 Future Baseball HOF pitcher Mike Mussina tosses Baltimore Orioles' 5th consecutive MLB shutout in season ending, 4-0 victory over Detroit Tigers

• Oct 1 In the 5th game of the season, Jacksonville Jaguars celebrate first-ever NFL regular season win with a 17-16 victory over the Houston Oilers at the Astrodome
• Oct 1 NY Yankees (AL) and Colorado Rockies (NL) become first wild-card teams in new MLB playoff system; Rox are first team to reach postseason before 7th year; post best ever record for a 3rd-year team, 10 games over .500 (77-67)

• Oct 3 1st first-class match at Hurstville Oval, Sydney (NSW vs Western Australia)
• Oct 3 Former NFL running back, broadcaster and actor O.J. Simpson found not guilty of the murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman in Los Angeles, California
• Oct 3 In a huge 3-way hockey trade of high profile NHL forwards, Claude Lemieux is sent to Colorado Avalanche, Steve Thomas to New Jersey Devils and Wendell Clark to the New York Islanders
• Oct 4 Jim Leyritz homers with a man on in 15th inning to give Yankees 2-0 Division Series lead over Mariners
• Oct 6 51 Pegasi discovered as the first major star, apart from the Sun, to have a planet orbiting around it
• Oct 6 BPAA US Women's Open won by Cheryl Daniels
• Oct 6 Colorodo Avalanche (former Que Nordiques) 1st NHL game, beat Detroit
• Oct 7 Boston's Fleet Center opens, NY Islanders & Boston Bruins tie at 4-4
• Oct 7 Mariners rally from 5-0 to force Game 5 of Division Series vs Yankees

• Oct 8 Edgar Martinez drives home tying & winning runs to rally Mariners to 6-5 win in bottom of 11th to beat Yankees & win AL Division Series
• Oct 10 "Garden District" opens at Circle in the Sq Theater NYC
• Oct 10 Israel begins West Bank pullback, frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
• Oct 10 Most Dutch telephone numbers increase to 10 digits
• Oct 10 Robert E Lucas awarded Nobel Prize in economics
• Oct 11 John Bobbitt has plastic surgery to increase his penis 3 inches
• Oct 11 O.J. Simpson cancels a TV appearance on Dateline
• Oct 13 Nobel Peace Prize awarded jointly to Polish physicist Joseph Rotblat and the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, for their work to reduce and eliminate nuclear weapons

• Oct 14 Atlanta Braves become 1st team to sweep in NL playoff (beat Reds)
• Oct 15 Carolina Panthers win 1st game ever beating NY Jets 26-15
• Oct 16 Allan Donald takes 8-71 as South Africa defeat Zimbabwe
• Oct 16 Brian Lara scores 169 in Sharjah ODI versus Sri Lanka
• Oct 16 Million Man March held in Washington, D.C. (over 830,000 African American men attend)
• Oct 16 ODI in Sharjah WI 7-333 in 50 overs beat Sri Lanka 329 all out
• Oct 17 Keith Moore sentenced to 6 years for robbing Sting of $9,000,000
• Oct 18 NHL Winnipeg Jets sold to Americans who plan to move them to Phoenix
• Oct 20 Sri Lanka beat West Indies to win Sharjah Champions Trophy final
• Oct 20 STS 73 (Columbia 18) launches into orbit
• Oct 21 Addison Vance, 18, of Hickory NC, crowned 7th Ms Venus Swimwear
• Oct 21 Mario Tremblay, selected 22nd NHL coach of Montreal Canadians
• Oct 23 "The MacNeil-Lehrer Report" becomes "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer", upon Robert MacNeil's retirement (currently known as "PBS NewsHour") on PBS
• Oct 24 Total solar eclipse in SW/S Asia (2m09s)

• Oct 26 Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Mossad agents assassinate Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shikaki in his hotel in Malta.
• Oct 27 Contract finalizing Cleveland Browns' move to Baltimore is signed

• Oct 27 Latvia applies for membership in the European Union.
• Oct 27 South African fast bowler Meyrick Pringle takes cricket hat-trick in England tour game at Soweto
• Oct 29 Sunday NY News increases price from $1.00 to $1.25
• Oct 30 Québec votes in a referendum to remain part of Canada
• Oct 31 American jam band Phish performs The Who's "Quadrophenia" as a musical costume during a show at the Rosemont Horizon in Rosemont, Illinois
• Oct 31 NHL NJ Devils agree to stay in NJ
• Nov 2 "Busker Alley" musical premieres at St James Theatre, NY
• Nov 2 Spanish Broadcasting System buys NY radio station WPAT-FM for $83.5M
• Nov 3 First NBA game at FleetCenter in Boston; Celtics lose to Milwaukee Bucks, 101-100
• Nov 3 First NBA game at Rose Garden in Portland; Trail Blazers lose 92-80 to Vancouver Grizzlies
• Nov 3 First NBA game at SkyDome in Toronto; Raptors beat New Jersey Nets, 94-79
• Nov 3 With a 105-91 victory over Charlotte at the United Centre, Chicago wins their first of an NBA record 72 games in one season and their first of an NBA record 37 home games won at the start of a season
• Nov 4 KeyArena opens in Seattle, Supersonics beat the LA Lakers 103-89

• Nov 5 First NBA game at General Motors Place in Vancouver; Grizzlies beat Minnesota Timberwolves, 100-98 in OT
• Nov 5 STS 73 (Columbia 18), lands
• Nov 6 Art Modell officially announces Cleveland Browns are moving to Baltimore, Maryland

• 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 German Benetton driver Michael Schumacher crashes in the season-ending Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide but claims second straight F1 World Drivers Championship by 33 points from Damon Hill

• Nov 12 Marino breaks Tarkenton's NFL all-time passing yardage mark of 47,003
• 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

• Nov 16 US Attorney General Janet Reno announces she has Parkinson's disease
• Nov 19 "The Beatles Anthology" documentary series premieres in US on ABC-TV; the 6-hour program airs over three nights that week

• 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

• 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 Dolphins QB Dan Marino sets NFL record with 343rd touchdown pass
• 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
• Nov 29 "Garden District" closes at Circle in the Square Theater, NYC
• Nov 29 CNNfn, a financial network by Turner Enterprises is launched

• Nov 30 Official end of Operation Desert Storm

• Dec 3 England cricket wicket keeper Jack Russell dismisses Clive Eksteen with his record 11th catch in 2nd Test v South Africa in Johannesburg
• Dec 3 Naeem Akhtar takes 10-28 for Rawalpindi B against Peshawar
• Dec 3 Northwestern South Carolina begins using new area code 864
• Dec 4 Atherton (185*) bats for 643 minutes to save Johannesburg Test
• Dec 5 The Sri Lankan government announces the conquest of Tamil stronghold of Jaffna.

• Dec 7 NBA settles strike of referees, refs to return on Dec 12
• Dec 7 US space probe Galileo begins orbiting Jupiter

• Dec 9 61st Heisman Trophy Award: Eddie George, Ohio State (RB)
• Dec 9 The Messel Pit in Germany inscribed on UNECO's World Heritage List as the world richest fossil site for Eocene period (57-36 million years ago) [1]
• Dec 10 1st meeting of NBA expansion teams, Raptors beat Grizzlies 93-81
• Dec 10 Australian cricket opening batsman Michael Slater scores career high 219 (15 x 4, 5 x 6) in innings and 36 run, 1st Test win v Sri Lanka in Perth
• Dec 10 Muralitharan takes 2-224 in Australian innings of 5-617
• Dec 10 Ricky Ponting makes 96 on Test Cricket debut (Aust v Sri Lanka, WACA)
• Dec 10 Worst snowstorm in Buffalo history, 37.9" in 24 hours (Starting Dec 9 at 7 PM, breaks previous record of 25.3" in 1982
• Dec 11 Thomas O Hicks buys NHL Dallas Stars for $84 million
• Dec 12 Amendment to make it illegal to physically desecrate the flag turned down by senate 63-36 (need 2/3 vote)
• Dec 12 CBC announces Radio Canada International service to end on March 31

• Dec 12 NBA referees return to work after striking

• Dec 13 US Federal Court votes that Cable companies must carry local stations
• Dec 14 AIDS patient Jeff Getty receives baboon bone marrow transplant

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