Timeline 1995: Jan-Apr.
Return to home
1995 This is a
year in the sun spot cycle when the number of sunspots was at an
average low. The cycle averages 11.2 years and low points are marked by
low wheat production and higher prices.
(ASCTS, Gamow, p.102)
1995 Jan 1, Gary Larson's "Far
Side" cartoon panel ended a 14-year run.
(SSFC, 11/16/03, BR p.17)
1995 Jan 1, Eugene Wigner (92),
physicist (Nobel prize for physics-1963), died.
(http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1963/wigner-bio.html)
1995 Jan 1, Austria, Finland and
Sweden joined the European Union. Sweden held their elections to the
parliament later that year on 17 September. Austria held its elections
on 13 October, 1996 and Finland on 20 October, 1996.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_European_Union)(Econ,
5/1/04, p.26)
1995 Jan 1, In Bosnia a four month
truce between the Bosnian Serbs and the Bosnian government was brokered
by former Pres. Jimmy Carter.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A14)(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)
1995 Jan 1,
Fred West hanged himself in his London prison while awaiting trial in
the murders of a dozen girls and women. The victims included his wife's
16-year-old daughter and 8-year-old stepdaughter and several young
runaways.
(AP, 1/13/04)
1995 Jan 1, Chile, Egypt,
Guinea-Bissau, Poland and South Korea joined the non-permanent sector
of the Security Council.
(SFC, 1/1/97, p.C1)
1995 Jan 1, Teburoro Tito, the
incoming president of Kiribati, moved the International Date Line a
thousand miles east around Kiribati to allow all of its 33 atolls to be
line the same time zone. Thus the atoll of Kirimati never experienced
Dec 31, 1994.
(SSFC, 12/17/06, p.G5)
1995 Jan 1, Fernando Henrique
Cardoso took office as Brazil's 37th president. He pushed up interest
rates to 25% and stabilized the economy.
(WSJ, 12/15/95, p.A-13)(AP, 1/1/00)
1995 Jan 2, Marion Barry was
inaugurated as mayor of Washington D.C., four years after leaving
office to serve a six-month sentence for misdemeanor drug possession.
(AP, 1/2/00)
1995 Jan 2, Chechen defenders
drove Russian troops out of the capital of Grozny.
(AP, 1/2/00)
1995 Jan 3, Mexican President
Ernesto Zedillo announced an emergency plan for wage and price controls
and budget cuts to stabilize the peso and combat spiraling inflation.
The peso had lost 37% of its value since Dec. 20, 1994.
(WSJ, 1/13/95, p.A3)(AP, 1/3/00)
1995 Jan 4, The 104th Congress
convened, the first entirely under Republican control since the
Eisenhower era; Newt Gingrich was elected speaker of the House.
(SFC, 11/7/98, p.A4)(AP, 1/4/00)
1995 Jan 4, Eduardo Mata (52),
Mexican conductor, died in air crash.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0557996/)
1995 Jan 5, President Clinton
received Republican congressional leaders at the White House, declaring
that "we can do a lot of business together" on reforming the way
government works.
(AP, 1/5/00)
1995 Jan 6, Haitians housed at
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba were sent home by the U.S. military
against the refugees' will and over protests of refugee advocates.
(AP, 1/6/00)
1995 Jan 6, Ramzi Ahmed Yousef and
Abdul Hakim Murad were arrested in Manila, Philippines, when explosives
that they were mixing blew up and alerted the police. In their
apartment were found bomb-making manuals and timers and evidence that
they intended to blow up US jetliners. They were found guilty by a jury
in New York on 9/5/96.
(SFC, 9/6/96, p.C5)
1995 Jan 7, Major General Viktor
Vorobyov, a senior commander leading Russian troops in their advance on
the secessionist capital of Chechnya, was killed by a mortar shell.
(AP, 1/7/00)
1995 Jan 8, "Guys & Dolls"
closed at Martin Beck Theater, NYC, after 1143 performances.
(www.theatredb.com/QShow.php?sid=s0398)
1995 Jan 8, The Inner City Church
in Knoxville, Tenn., burned down. Arson was suspected and
investigations by the FBI and ATF were later begun.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A16)
1995 Jan 8, Russian forces in
Chechnya pounded the capital of Grozny with rocket and mortar fire in
an attempt to scatter Chechen fighters defending the presidential
palace.
(AP, 1/8/00)
1995 Jan 8, In Sri Lanka the
Tigers and government agreed to a truce.
(SFC, 7/24/96, p.A9)
1995 Jan 9, In New York, trials
began for Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman and 11 other defendants accused of
conspiring to wage a holy war against the United States. Nine were
convicted of seditious conspiracy, and two reached plea agreements with
the government.
(AP, 1/9/00)
1995 Jan 9, Severe flooding forced
people to flee resort communities in the hills north of San Francisco.
(AP, 1/9/00)
1995 Jan 9, Peter Cook (57),
English comic and actor (Bedazzled, Beyond the Fringe, The Wrong
Box), died.
(AP, 1/9/05)
1995 Jan 10, President Clinton
declared flood-stricken areas of California major disaster areas.
(AP, 1/10/00)
1995 Jan 10, Russia announced a
48-hour truce in breakaway Chechnya, but the cease-fire fell apart
after a few hours.
(AP, 1/10/00)
1995 Jan 11, President Clinton and
Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama held a low-key summit in
Washington, playing down differences over trade.
(AP, 1/11/00)
1995 Jan 11, A 9-year-old girl
survived a Colombian airliner crash that killed the other 52 people
aboard near the Caribbean resort of Cartagena.
(AP, 1/11/00)
1995 Jan 12, Qubilah Shabazz, the
daughter of Malcolm X, was arrested in Minneapolis on charges that she
had tried to hire a hitman to kill Nation of Islam leader Louis
Farrakhan; the charges were later dropped.
(AP, 1/12/00)
1995 Jan 12, In LA, Ca., Judge Ito
heard defense arguments for questioning racial attitudes of Detective
Mark Fuhrman in the murder trial against OJ Simpson. Fuhrman had found
a bloody glove at O.J.'s estate.
(www.usatoday.com/news/index/nns053.htm)
1995 Jan 12, In Port-au-Prince,
Haiti, an American soldier was killed and another wounded during a
shootout with a former Haitian army officer who also was killed.
(AP, 1/12/00)
1995 Jan 13, The Johnson Grove
Baptist Church in Bells, Tenn., burned down as did the Macedonia
Baptist Church in Denmark, Tenn. Arson was suspected and investigations
by the FBI and ATF were later begun.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A16)
1995 Jan 13, Italy named Treasury
Minister Lamberto Dini its prime minister. He pledged to resign after
approval of a deficit cutting budget.
(AP, 1/13/00)(WSJ, 10/27/95, p.A-1)
1995 Jan 13, Authorities in the
Philippines said they had unearthed a conspiracy by militant Muslims to
assassinate Pope John Paul II during his visit.
(AP, 1/13/00)
1995 Jan 14, Pope John Paul II
addressed a huge rally in Manila, urging young people to reject
cynicism.
(AP, 1/14/00)
1995 Jan 14, Russian troops in the
breakaway republic of Chechnya captured the Council of Ministers
building, a key rebel position in the capital Grozny.
(AP, 1/14/00)
1995 Jan 15, The San Francisco
49ers defeated the Dallas Cowboys 38-28 in the National Football
Conference title game, while the San Diego Chargers upset the
Pittsburgh Steelers 17-13 in the American Football Conference
championship.
(AP, 1/15/05)
1995 Jan 15, San Francisco’s I.
Magnin store on Union Square closed. The first I. Magnin was founded in
1877 on Market St. In 2006 James Thomas Mullane authored “A Store to
Remember,” an illustrated history of the store.
(SSFC, 12/31/06, p.E1,5)
1995 Jan 15, British soldiers
ended daytime patrols in Belfast, Ireland.
(SFC, 6/18/96, p.A8)
1995 Jan 15, Pope John Paul II
celebrated a final Mass during his visit to the Philippines, drawing
millions of people.
(AP, 1/15/00)
1995 Jan 16, In Union, S.C., a
prosecutor announced he would seek the death penalty for Susan Smith,
the woman accused of drowning her sons, 3-year-old Michael and
14-month-old Alex. Smith was later convicted of murder and sentenced to
life in prison.
(AP, 1/16/00)
1995 Jan 17, George W. Bush
(b.1946) began serving as the 46th governor of Texas. Bush had already
picked Alberto Gonzales (b.1955) as his general counsel.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush)(Econ,
7/14/07, p.38)
1995 Jan 17, A magnitude 6.9
earthquake hit the port city of Kobe, Japan. 5,502 people were killed
in the worst earthquake to hit Japan since 1923.
(WSJ, 1/18/95, p.A1)(AP, 6/22/02)(SSFC, 4/16/06,
p.F4)
1995 Jan 18, The new San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, designed by Swiss architect Mario Botta, opened.
It’s cost is $63 million and it’s size is 225,000 sq. ft.
(SF E&C, 1/15/95, SFE Mag. p.21)
1995 Jan 18, The death toll
climbed past 6,000 in the earthquake in Kobe, Japan.
(AP, 1/18/00)
1995 Jan 18, South African
President Nelson Mandela's cabinet denied amnesty sought by 3,500
police officers in apartheid's waning days.
(AP, 1/18/00)
1995 Jan 19, Russian troops
regained control of the presidential palace in Grozny, the capital of
the breakaway republic of Chechnya.
(AP, 1/19/00)
1995 Jan 20, The U.S. State
Department announced a partial lifting of economic sanctions against
North Korea.
(AP, 1/20/00)
1995 Jan 20, Bruno Jordan, suit
salesman and brother a drug enforcement officer, was shot dead in El
Paso. In 2002 Charles Bowden authored "Down By the River," an account
of the murder and narcotics traffickers.
(NW, 1/13/03, p.61)
1995 Jan 20, The Mt. Zion AME
Church in Williamsburg Co., S.C.., burned down. Arson was suspected and
investigations by the FBI and ATF were later begun.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A16)
1995 Jan 20, The Japanese
government, criticized for being slow to respond to Kobe's devastating
earthquake, admitted its initial reaction might have been "confused."
(AP, 1/20/00)
1995 Jan 21, President Clinton,
addressing the Democratic National Committee, implored members to "bear
down and go forward" despite results of the 1994 elections.
(AP, 1/21/00)
1995 Jan 22, The Macedonia Baptist
Church in Manning, S.C., burned down. Arson was suspected and
investigations by the FBI and ATF were later begun. Four Klansmen were
later arrested and convicted.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A16)(SFEC, 7/21/98, p.A3)
1995 Jan 22, Rose Fitzgerald
Kennedy died at the family compound in Hyannis Port, Mass., at age 104.
(AP, 1/22/98)
1995 Jan 22, Two Palestinians blew
themselves up at Beit Lid junction in central Israel and killed 21
Israelis. Dozens of others were injured and the Islamic Jihad took
responsibility.
(WSJ, 3/6/96, p. A15)(G&M, 7/31/97, p.A8)(AP,
1/22/00)
1995 Jan 23, The US Supreme Court
ruled that companies accused of firing employees illegally could not
escape liability by later finding a lawful reason to justify the
dismissal.
(AP, 1/23/00)
1995 Jan 23, A French team of
paleontologists led by Michel Brunet on 1/23/95 discovered a lower jaw
with 7 teeth and a separate canine of a hominid from 3.5 to 3 million
years of age. The discovery was made in a dried lake bed of central
Chad and named Australopithecus bahrelghazalia after the Arab name of a
nearby river.
(SFC, 5/23/96, p.A14)
1995 Jan 24, President Clinton
appealed for common ground as he delivered his second State of the
Union address, this time before a Republican-led Congress.
(AP, 1/24/00)
1995 Jan 24, The prosecution gave
its opening statement at the O.J. Simpson murder trial.
(AP, 1/24/00)
1995 Jan 25, The defense gave its
opening statement in the O.J. Simpson trial in Los Angeles, saying
Simpson was the victim of a "rush to judgment" by authorities who had
mishandled evidence and ignored witnesses.
(AP, 1/25/00)
1995 Jan, 25, Extensive flooding
hit the streets of Las Vegas and many casinos had water dripping onto
gambling tables.
(HFA, '96, p.73)
1995 Jan 25, The top of a Chinese
Long March missile disintegrated as it hit supersonic speeds and
destroyed a Hughes Apstar 2 satellite. The debris killed at least 6
villagers.
(SFC, 6/15/98,
p.A5)(www.christusrex.org/www2/china/Hughes/pg7.html)
1995 Jan 26, A little more than
three weeks after Republicans took control of Congress, the House
endorsed a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution designed to
eliminate chronic federal deficits.
(AP, 1/26/00)
1995 Jan 27, About 5,000 mourners
gathered at the site of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz to commemorate
the 50th anniversary of its liberation.
(AP, 1/27/00)
1995 Jan 28, President Clinton was
host to a 5 1/2-hour "work session" of governors, legislators and local
officials, both Democrats and Republicans, to discuss welfare reform.
(AP, 1/28/00)
1995 Jan 29, The San Francisco
49ers became the first team in NFL history to win five Super Bowl
titles, beating the San Diego Chargers, 49-26.
(AP, 1/29/00)
1995 Jan 30, The Smithsonian
Institution abandoned plans for a major exhibit on the atomic bombing
of Hiroshima, yielding to critics who charged the exhibit would have
portrayed America as the aggressor and Japan as the victim in World War
II.
(AP, 1/30/00)
1995 Jan 30, At least 42 people
were killed and nearly 300 wounded when a car bomb blamed on Muslim
insurgents exploded in downtown Algiers.
(AP, 1/30/00)
1995 Jan 31, President Clinton
scrapped a $40 billion rescue plan for Mexico, announcing instead that
he would act unilaterally to provide Mexico with $20 billion from a
fund normally used to defend the U.S. dollar.
(AP, 1/31/00)
1995 Jan 31, The Mt. Calvary
Baptist Church in Hardeman Co., Tenn., burned down. Arson was suspected
and investigations by the FBI and ATF were later begun.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A16)
1995 Jan 31, George Abbott
(b.1887), legendary Broadway producer-director, died in Miami Beach,
Florida, at age 107.
(AP, 1/31/00)
1995 Jan, "The Oxford History of
the American West," was published, 904pp, $39.95.
(WSJ, 1/11/95, A12)
1995 Jan, Roger Penrose wrote
"Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of
Consciousness." The book is an attempt to show that the human mind is
not like a computer program, and that no computer program could
substitute for the mind.
(WSJ, 1/9/95, A10)
1995 Jan, Jed Katz and Phil Marcus
founded Rent Net, a computerized listing of available rental units
across the US. Its web address is http://www.rentfacts.com
(SFC, 5/12/96, p.E-6)
1995 Jan, The US Postal Service
began to allow consumers to use credit cards in postal purchases.
(WSJ, 4/30/96, p.A8)
1995 Jan, In Georgia Andrew Cook
(21) shot and killed Michele Cartagena (19) and Grant Hendrickson (22)
in a lover’s lane. Cook, the son of a former FBI agent, was convicted
and sentenced to death in 1998.
(SFC, 3/20/98, p.A3)
1995 Jan, James “Whitey” Bulger,
top mobster of Boston’s Winter Hill Gang, disappeared with his
girlfriend just days before a warrant was issued for his arrest. He was
linked to 21 murders and in 2000 became a fixture on the FBI’s “Ten
Most Wanted” list.
(SSFC, 1/30/05, p.A13)
1995
Jan, In Nevada the charred body of Ron Rudin (64), a
millionaire real estate developer, was found in the desert. His 5th
wife, Margaret, was suspect but there was insufficient evidence to
arrest her.
(SFC, 2/2/98, p.A3)
1995 Jan, Bosnian Serb leader
Radovan Karadzic reportedly made contact with an arms dealer, Nikolas
Oman, to buy a secret nuclear device of red mercury for $6 million cash
and an additional $60 million from the mortgage of a state-owned
refinery.
(SFEC,12/14/97, p.A25)
1995 Jan, In Lesotho Letsie gave
up the crown to his returned father.
(LVRJ, 11/1/97, p.14A)
1995 Jan, British Lieutenant
General Rupert Smith, UN commander in Bosnia, arrived in the Bosnian
capital and set up an intelligence cell.
(SFC, 6/4/96, p.A12)
1995 Jan, In Peru Manuel Lopez
Paredes was arrested. Police discovered 3.5 tons of cocaine, valued at
more than $600 million, ready for shipment by the family cartel.
(SFC, 8/17/96, p.A12)
1995 Jan-Jun, In Mexico almost
9,000 companies went bankrupt and 1 million Mexicans were thrown out of
work.
(SFC, 8/3/98, p.A13)
1995 Feb 1, The US Federal Reserve
boosted interest rates by 0.5%, the seventh rate hike in a year.
(AP, 2/1/00)
1995 Feb 1, House Republicans
pushed through a bill restricting the US federal government's ability
to impose unfunded mandates on states.
(AP, 2/1/00)
1995 Feb 2, President Clinton
nominated Henry Foster Jr. to succeed fired Surgeon General Joycelyn
Elders; however, Foster's nomination was later defeated in the Senate.
(AP, 2/2/00)
1995 Feb 2, The leaders of Egypt,
Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians held an unprecedented summit in
Cairo to try to revive the Mideast peace process.
(AP, 2/2/00)(http://tinyurl.com/255pml)
1995 Feb 3, The space shuttle
Discovery blasted off with a woman, Air Force Lt. Col. Eileen Collins,
in the pilot's seat for the first time in NASA history.
(AP, 2/3/00)
1995 Feb 3, At the O.J. Simpson
trial in Los Angeles, prosecution witness Denise Brown wept on the
stand as she described the humiliation and abuse of her sister, Nicole
Brown Simpson, at the hands of the former football star.
(AP, 2/3/00)
1995 Feb 3, IBM in fashion shed
its dress code in favor of casual wear.
(SFEC, 8/29/99, p.C1)
1995 Feb 4, A standoff between the
United States and China escalated into a trade war, with each country
ordering stiff tariffs against the other.
(AP, 2/4/00)
1995 Feb 5, The White House and
congressional Republicans drew battle lines over President Clinton's
$1.61 trillion budget, with Republicans accusing Clinton of "taking a
walk" and the administration saying Clinton was cutting the deficit
more than any president in history.
(AP, 2/4/00)
1995 Feb 6, President Clinton
unveiled his $1.61 trillion budget for 1996, mixing mild tax relief and
spending reductions.
(AP, 2/6/00)
1995 Feb 6, Siddig Ibrahim Siddig
Ali, the alleged mastermind of a campaign of violence, pleaded guilty
in New York to plotting urban terrorism.
(AP, 2/6/00)
1995 Feb 6, The space shuttle
Discovery flew to within 37 feet of the Russian space station Mir in
the first rendezvous of its kind in two decades.
(AP, 2/6/00)
1995 Feb 6, Pres.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide disbanded the Haitian army and replaced it with
a civilian police force.
(AP, 2/11/04)
1995 Feb 7, Ramzi Yousef, the
alleged mastermind of the World Trade Center bombing, was arrested in
Islamabad, Pakistan, after two years as a fugitive.
(AP, 2/7/00)
1995 Feb 8, US Surgeon General
nominee Henry Foster said in an ABC interview he'd performed 39
abortions, more than three times as many as previously stated.
(AP, 2/8/00)
1995 Feb 8, The U.N. Security
Council approved sending 7,000 peacekeepers to Angola to cement an
accord ending 19 years of civil war.
(AP, 2/8/00)
1995 Feb 8, A 6.4 earthquake at
Trujillo, Colombia, killed over 46 people.
(http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eqlists/sig_1995.html)
1995 Feb 9, A preview of "Heiress"
opened at Cort Theater NYC for 340 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?id=4287)
1995 Feb 9, Former US Sen. J.
William Fulbright (b.1905) died in Washington, DC.
(http://exchanges.state.gov/education/fulbright/fulbbio.htm)
1995 Feb 9, David Wayne (b.1914),
[Wayne Mcmeekan], US actor (Dallas), died.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0915536/)
1995 Feb 10, The US House passed a
GOP crime bill boosting funding for state prisons but requiring states
to get tougher on violent criminals before they could receive any
money.
(AP, 2/10/00)
1995 Feb 11, President Clinton, in
his weekly radio address, threatened to veto any attempt by Republicans
to scrap plans to put 100,000 additional police officers on the streets.
(AP, 2/11/00)
1995 Feb 11, The space shuttle
Discovery landed at Cape Canaveral, Fla., ending a historic rendezvous
mission with Russia's Mir space station.
(AP, 2/11/00)
1995 Feb 12, Jurors in the O.J.
Simpson murder trial toured the scene where Nicole Brown Simpson and
Ronald Goldman had been slain, then visited the estate of the former
football star.
(AP, 2/12/00)
1995 Feb 13, House Speaker Newt
Gingrich ruled out running for the 1996 Republican presidential
nomination.
(AP, 2/13/00)
1995 Feb 13, The Hague War Crimes
Tribunal indicted 21 Serbs for atrocities against Croats and Muslims
interned in a Bosnian prison camp. Zeljko Meakic, Bosnian Serb police
officer, was charged with commanding the Serb Omarska camp in northwest
Bosnia. Dusan Tadic, Bosnian Serb cafe owner, was charged for visiting
Serb-run camps to beat and kill non-Serb inmates.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A14)(SFC, 11/30/96, p.A15)(AP,
2/13/00)
1995 Feb 14, The best-seller
"Rules: Time-Tested Secrets for Making Your Marriage Work" by Ellen
Fein and Sherrie Schneider was first released. The dating strategy
expanded to "Rules III" in 2001 despite divorce plans by Ellen Fein.
(WSJ, 3/23/00, p.B1)
1995 Feb 14, A federal judge
rejected the Justice Department's proposed antitrust settlement with
Microsoft Corporation; U.S. District Judge Stanley Sporkin was later
overruled by an appeals court.
(AP, 2/14/00)
1995 Feb 14, The House passed the
centerpiece of the Republican anti-crime package, voting to create
block grants for local governments while eliminating President
Clinton's program to hire more police. The president later vetoed a
spending authorization bill containing this provision.
(AP, 2/14/00)
1995 Feb 14, Britain’s Sizewell B
nuclear power plant, near Leiston, Suffolk, started generating power.
Construction had started in 1988.
(www.british-energy.com/pagetemplate.php?pid=96)
1995 Feb 14, Nigel Finch, British
filmmaker, died. he had just finished shooting his film "Stonewall."
The film was completed by Christine Vachon.
(SFEC, 7/21/96, DB p.32)
1995 Feb 14, Michael Vincent Gazzo
(b.1923), US actor, playwright (Godfather 2), died.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0311155/)
1995 Feb 15, The FBI arrested
Kevin Mitnick, its "most wanted hacker," and charged him with cracking
security in some of the nation's most protected computers. Mitnick was
released Jan. 21, 2000, after serving five years behind bars.
(AP, 2/15/00)
1995 Feb 15, A fire roared through
a three-story nightclub in Taichung, Taiwan, killing at least 64
people.
(AP, 2/15/00)
1995 Feb 15, Population of
People's Republic of China hit 1.2 billion.
(www.china.org.cn/e-white/familypanning/13-2.htm)(WSJ, 11/20/95, p.A-1)
1995 Feb 16, Four people were
killed when tornadoes tore through rural north Alabama.
(AP, 2/16/00)
1995 Feb 16, In a dark and
defensive address to his nation, Russian President Boris Yeltsin
berated his military leaders for big losses and human rights abuses in
Chechnya, but insisted Russia had to use force to defend its unity.
(AP, 2/16/00)
1995 Feb 17, Federal judge allowed
a lawsuit claiming US tobacco makers knew nicotine was addictive and
manipulated its levels to keep customers hooked.
(http://starbulletin.com/specials/liggett.html)
1995 Feb 17, Colin Ferguson was
convicted of six counts of murder in the December 1993 Long Island Rail
Road shootings. He was later sentenced to a minimum of 200 years in
prison.
(AP, 2/17/00)
1995 Feb 18, The National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People replaced veteran
chairman William Gibson with Myrlie Evers-Williams, the widow of slain
civil rights leader Medgar Evers, after the rank-and-file declared no
confidence in Gibson's leadership.
(AP, 2/18/00)
1995 Feb 19, A day after being
named the new chairwoman of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, Myrlie Evers-Williams outlined her plans
for revitalizing the civil rights organization, saying she intended to
take the group back to its roots.
(AP, 2/19/00)
1995 Feb 19, Calder Willingham
(b.1922), novelist, scriptwriter (The Graduate), died of lung cancer in
New Hampshire.
(www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1244)
1995 Feb 20, An American Marine,
Sgt. Justin A. Harris, died in a helicopter crash during the evacuation
of United Nations forces from Somalia.
(AP, 2/20/00)
1995 Feb 21, The United States and
Mexico signed an agreement to unlock $20 billion in U.S. support to
stabilize the peso, but under tough conditions.
(AP, 2/21/00)
1995 Feb 21, Chicago stockbroker
Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo across the Pacific
Ocean in a balloon, landing in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada.
(AP, 2/21/00)
1995 Feb 21, Robert Bolt (b.1924),
British playwright (Doctor Zhivago, Man for All Seasons, Bounty), died.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0004122/)
1995 Feb 21, Art Kane (b.1925),
photographer, died.
(www.deathleague.com/person.asp?prk=505&msk=0)
1995 Feb 22, Ed Flanders (b.1934),
actor (Dr Westphall-St Elsewhere), committed suicide.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0281130/)
1995 Feb 22, Security forces in
Algiers crushed a prison uprising by Islamic extremists, resulting in
96 deaths by official count.
(AP, 2/22/00)
1995 Feb 22, France accused four
American diplomats and a fifth U.S. citizen of spying, and asked them
to leave the country.
(AP, 2/22/00)
1995 Feb 23, Administration
officials said President Clinton would review dozens of affirmative
action programs.
(AP, 2/23/00)
1995 Feb 23, The Dow Jones
industrial average closed above the 4,000 mark for the first time,
ending the day at 4,003.33.
(WSJ, 12/16/96, p.C1) (AP, 2/23/00)
1995 Feb 23, Former U.S. President
Jimmy Carter arrived in Haiti to help prepare for peaceful elections.
(AP, 2/23/00)
1995 Feb 23, James Alfred Wight
(b.1916), Scottish author Yorkshire veterinarian, died. His penname was
James Herriot and his work included "All Creatures Great and Small,"
which was later made into a BBC TV series. His first book was "If Only
They Could Talk." His home and shop in Thirsk was opened for visitors
in 1999.
(www.todayinliterature.com/biography/james.herriot.asp)(SFC, 7/19/99,
p.A22)
1995 Feb 24, Under pressure from
farm-state Republicans, US House leaders abandoned a campaign promise
to disband the food stamp program.
(AP, 2/24/00)
1995 Feb 25, Former President
Jimmy Carter wound up a 54-hour visit to Haiti, denying he'd been given
a chilly reception by Haitians whom he'd helped save from a potentially
bloody U.S.-led intervention.
(AP, 2/25/00)
1995 Feb 26, The United States and
China averted a trade war by signing a comprehensive agreement on
copyright and patent protection.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A12)(AP, 2/26/00)
1995 Feb 26, Barings PLC,
Britain's oldest investment banking firm, was forced into bankruptcy
after an employee in Singapore, Nicholas William Leeson (28),
speculated in derivatives on Tokyo stock prices that resulted in losses
exceeding $1.4 billion.
(WSJ, 2/27/95, p.A-1)(AP, 2/26/00)
1995 Feb 27, Court-appointed
salvagers swarmed into Britain's oldest investment bank to evaluate the
remaining assets of Barings PLC after Nick Leeson, a 28-year-old
trader, ruined the firm by gambling on Tokyo stock prices.
(AP, 2/27/00)
1995 Feb 27, Bernard Cornfield
(b.1927), British financier, died. In 1972 Charles Raw, Bruce Page and
Godfrey Hodgson authored “Do You Sincerely Want to Be Rich: The full
story of Bernard Cornfield and IOS.”
(http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Obituary/1995/misc.html)(http://tinyurl.com/dxlwv)
1995 Feb 28, U.S. Marines swept
ashore in Somalia to protect retreating U.N. peacekeepers.
(AP, 2/28/00)
1995 Feb 28, Denver International
Airport opened after 16 months of delays and $3.2 billion in budget
overruns. A $250 million automated baggage handling system contributed
to the delays. United Airlines gave up on the system in 2005.
(AP, 2/28/98)(WSJ, 6/7/05, p.D5)
1995 Feb 28, In Mexico Raul
Salinas de Gortari was arrested for masterminding the murder of Jose
Francisco Ruiz Sep 28, 1994. He was imprisoned in Almaloya prison,
Mexico’s highest-security facility. In 1998 Raul Salinas was acquitted
of money laundering but remained in jail on murder and
illegal-enrichment charges.
(WSJ, 4/15/96, p.A15)(SFC, 4/8/97, p.A6)(SFC,
5/22/98, p.D4)(SFC, 1/22/99, p.A10)
1995 Feb 28, Max Rudolf (92),
conductor, died.
(www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Rudolf-Max.htm)
1995 Feb, In Argentina Carlos
Menem Jr. (27) was killed in a helicopter crash. It was later reported
that the copter was shot down. A number of witnesses and people
involved in the investigations were also killed. His mother, Zulema
Yoma, later pressed for an investigation and in 1997 staged a sit-in a
police headquarters in Buenos Aires to get a report released that
indicated sniper fire in the crash.
(SFC, 7/24/97, p.A13)
1995 Feb, The Mexican government
identified Subcommander Marcos of the Zapatistas as former university
Prof. Rafael Guillen. A government offensive reduced the amount of
territory controlled by the rebels.
(SFC,12/18/97, p.C2)
1995 Feb, In Zurich, Switzerland,
the police clamped down on the open drug scene and dispersed the
junkies. There were an estimated 30,000 addicts in the country.
(SFC, 7/11/97, p.A11)
1995 Mar 1, At the 37th annual
Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, Sheryl Crow won record of the year for
"All I Wanna Do" while Tony Bennett's "MTV Unplugged" was named best
album.
(AP, 3/1/00)
1995 Mar 1, As of this day Belgian
armed forces consisted of professional volunteers only.
(www.wri-irg.org/co/rtba/archive/belgium.htm)
1995 Mar 1, The Bosnian Serb
government received a $60 million mortgage for the oil refinery in
Srpski Brod from a Liberian-owned company, Orbal Marketing Service Ltd.
[see Jan 1995] Delivery was made to the Bosnian Serbs in late March of
a supposed nuclear device of red mercury at the Gradiska border. It was
discovered to be a swindle.
(SFEC,12/14/97, p.A25)
1995 Mar 1, Jozef Oleksy succeeded
Waldemar Pawlak as premier of Poland.
(http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Waldemar+Pawlak)
1995 Mar 1, Somalia militiamen
loyal to warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid seized control of the Mogadishu
airport after peacekeepers withdrew.
(AP, 3/1/00)
1995 Mar 1, Vitaly Massol, Ukraine
premier, resigned.
(www.ukraine-observer.com/articles/205/612)
1995 Mar 1, Julio Maria
Sanguinetti was sworn in as President of Uruguay.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_Mar%C3%ADa_Sanguinetti)
1995 Mar 2, The US Senate rejected
the balanced-budget amendment; the vote, 65-35, was two votes shy of
the two-thirds majority needed for passage.
(AP, 3/2/00)
1995 Mar 2, Ted Truman, a top
int’l. staffer at the Federal Reserve, reported to Alan Greenspan that
massive dollar sales were driving down the US currency. In response the
Fed and Treasury bought $600 million in marks and yen and repeated the
action next day joined by 13 central banks. The dollar stabilized.
(WSJ, 1/18/05, p.A13)
1995 Mar 2, "Smokey Joe's
Café," previewed on Feb 9, opened at Virginia Theater in NYC.
(www.jimsdeli.com/theater/1997-before/smokey-joes-cafe.htm)
1995 Mar 2, The space shuttle
STS-67 (Endeavour 8) blasted off to study the far reaches of the
universe.
(AP, 3/2/00)
1995 Mar 2, Ferry boat sank off
Sumbe, Angola, and over 42 people were killed.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1995 Mar 2, British trader Nick
Leeson, blamed for the collapse of Barings PLC, was detained in
Germany.
(AP, 3/2/00)
1995 Mar 2, The last U.N.
peacekeepers in Somalia were evacuated.
(AP, 3/2/00)
1995 Mar 3, President Clinton held
a news conference in which he asserted his administration had built a
safer world and stronger economy while Republicans were trying to cut
money for the needy to give tax breaks to the rich.
(AP, 3/3/00)
1995 Mar 3, The dollar plunged to
a new low against the Japanese yen.
(AP, 3/3/00)
1995 Mar 3, Howard Hunter (87), US
leader of Mormon Church (1994-95), died.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1995 Mar 3, Camilla Parker Bowles
and her husband Andrew divorced.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1995 Mar 3, A car bomb exploded at
a mosque in Karachi, Pakistan, and 10 people were killed.
(www.dawn.com/2004/06/09/local4.htm)
1995 Mar 4, President Clinton, in
his weekly radio address, said spending cuts proposed by congressional
Republicans would gut safe-school and anti-drug programs needed to
protect children.
(AP, 3/4/00)
1995 Mar 5, An Australian yacht
broke in two and sank in heavy wind and fierce winds off the Southern
California coast, the first sinking in the history of America's Cup
racing; all 17 crew members were rescued.
(AP, 3/5/00)
1995 Mar 6, The US
Republican-controlled House took up business-backed legislation to
alter the civil legal system over White House objections that some of
the proposals were too extreme. The House passed the measure the
following day.
(AP, 3/6/00)
1995 Mar 7, New York Gov. George
Pataki signed a death penalty bill into law. NY became the 38th state
to adopt the death penalty.
(AP, 3/7/00)
1995 Mar 7, In a near-party-line
vote, the House passed, 232-193, a business-backed measure designed to
pressure combatants in lawsuits to settle their differences short of
costly trials.
(AP, 3/7/00)
1995 Mar 8, Two United States
diplomats were killed, one injured, when their car was ambushed as they
were driving to the U.S. Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan.
(AP, 3/8/00)
1995 Mar 8, The plummeting dollar
stabilized after Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan called the
decline unwarranted.
(AP, 3/8/00)
1995 Mar 9, US House Republicans
unveiled their long-promised tax cut for families, businesses and
investors.
(AP, 3/9/00)
1995 Mar 9, President Clinton
eased travel restrictions on Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams and invited
him to the White House for St. Patrick's Day.
(AP, 3/9/00)
1995 Mar 9, Los Angeles police
detective Mark Fuhrman took the stand at the O.J. Simpson murder trial,
denying ever meeting a woman who had accused him of making racist
remarks.
(AP, 3/9/00)
1995 Mar 9, President Konstantine
Karamanlis (1907-1998) of Greece, resigned.
(www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/NewPol/Politics2.htm)
1995 Mar 9, Ian Ballantine
(b.1916), US publisher, died of a heart attack. He founded and
published the paperback line of Ballantine Books from 1952 to 1974 with
his wife, Betty.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Ballantine)
1995 Mar 10, The Labor US
Department reported the nation's unemployment rate for February dropped
to 5.4 percent, down 0.003 from the month before.
(AP, 3/10/00)
1995 Mar 10, The Clinton
administration released $3 billion to support Mexico's faltering
economy. Former Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari fled to the
United States.
(AP, 3/10/00)
1995 Mar 10, The book "Blindside:
Why Japan Is Still on Track to Overtake the US by the year 2000," by
Eamonn Fingleton, was published. He argued that the Japanese economic
slump was a ruse to lull rivals into complacency.
(WSJ, 1/11/00, p.A14)
1995 Mar 10, Alexander Hyatt-King
(b.1911), Mozart scholar, died.
(http://tinyurl.com/7wbsj)
1995 March 11, A bridge on I-5
near Coalinga, Ca. was washed away. 14 people lost their lives in the
March floods in California. Damage was estimated at $2 billion.
(HFA, '96, p.73)
1995 Mar 11, President Clinton
nominated Deputy Defense Secretary John Deutch to be CIA director.
(AP, 3/11/00)
1995 Mar 11, Gerry Adams, leader
of the IRA-allied Sinn Fein party, arrived in the United States for a
St. Patrick's Day visit.
(AP, 3/11/00)
1995 Mar 12, President Clinton
declared 39 California counties disaster areas after storms and floods
battered two-thirds of the state.
(AP, 3/12/00)
1995 Mar 12, Gordon B. Hinckley
(1910-2008), a grandson of Mormon pioneers, took over as president and
prophet of the Mormon church.
(AP, 1/28/08)
1995 Mar 12, World leaders wound
up a weeklong summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, committing themselves to
fighting poverty, but differing on how to do so.
(AP, 3/12/00)
1995 Mar 13, Two Americans working
for U.S. defense contractors in Kuwait, David Daliberti and William
Barloon, were seized by Iraq after they strayed across the border;
sentenced to eight years in prison, both were freed the following July.
(AP, 3/13/00)
1995 Mar 13, Istanbul police
killed at least 15 Alawi (Alevi) demonstrators.
(http://tinyurl.com/byu4j)
1995 Mar 14, American astronaut
Norman Thagard became the first American to enter space aboard a
Russian rocket as he and two cosmonauts blasted off board a Soyuz
spacecraft, headed for the Mir space station.
(AP, 3/14/97)
1995 Mar 15, President Clinton
issued an executive order formally blocking a $1 billion contract
between Conoco and Iran to develop a huge offshore oil tract in the
Persian Gulf.
(AP, 3/15/00)
1995 Mar 16, House Republicans
pushed through $17 billion in spending cuts, prompting a veto threat by
the White House.
(www.concordcoalition.org/issues/scorecard/1995_scorecard/description_house.html)
1995 Mar 16, Mississippi formally
ratified 13th Amendment and abolished slavery.
(www.thehistorymakers.com/timeline/index.asp?string=1995)
1995 Mar 16, NASA astronaut Norman
Thagard was welcomed aboard the Russian space station Mir as the first
American to visit the orbiting outpost.
(AP, 3/16/97)
1995 Mar 17, The White House
hosted a St. Patrick's Day reception for Irish Prime Minister John
Bruton which was attended by Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams.
(AP, 3/17/00)
1995 Mar 17, The federal
government approved the nation's first chicken pox vaccine, Varivax by
Merck & Co.
(AP, 3/17/00)
1995 Mar 17, Flor Contemplacion, a
Filipino maid, was hanged in Singapore for murder, despite
international pleas to spare her.
(AP, 3/17/00)
1995 Mar 18, The United States
Catholic Conference's administrative board criticized a Republican
welfare reform plan, saying it would hurt poor children and could push
women to have abortions.
(AP, 3/18/00)
1995 Mar 18, Michael Jordan
announced that he was ending his 17 month NBA retirement.
(www.cnn.com/EVENTS/year_in_review/sports/mar.html)
1995 Mar 18, Spain's Princess
Elena married a banker, Jaime de Marichalar y Saenz de Tejada, in
Seville; it was Spain's first royal wedding in 89 years.
(AP, 3/18/00)
1995 Mar 19, After giving up an
attempt to become a major league baseball player, Michael Jordan
returned to pro basketball with his former team, the Chicago Bulls.
(AP, 3/19/02)
1995 Mar 19, Finnish voters throw
out the center-right coalition government and give the opposition
Social Democratic Party its biggest election victory since World War II.
(AP, 3/19/02)
1995 Mar 19, Palestinian gunmen
opened fire on a bus carrying Jewish settlers, killing two people.
(AP, 3/19/00)
1995 Mar 20, Commentator Pat
Buchanan formally launched his presidential campaign in New Hampshire.
(AP, 3/20/00)
1995 Mar 20, Sidney Kingsley, US
playwright (Pulitzer prize 1934), died.
(MC, 3/20/02)
1995 Mar 20, The Bosnian army,
having gained strength despite an arms embargo, launched a major
offensive in the northeast against Serb positions.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A14)(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)
1995 Mar 20, A gas attack by the
Aum Shinri Kyo cult on Tokyo's subways killed 12 people. More than
5,500 others sickened when packages containing the poisonous gas sarin
leaked on five separate subway trains. Masato Yokoyama, a cult leader,
was sentenced to death in 1999. In 2000 Robert Jay Lifton authored
"Destroying the World To Save It: Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence,
and the New Global Terrorism." In 2001 Haruki Murakami's "Underground:
The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche" was published in English.
In 2004 Shoko Asahara was convicted and sentenced to hang for
masterminding the deadly nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway and other
crimes that killed 27 people.
(SFC, 7/4/96, p.A10)(SFC, 5/27/98, p.A12)(AP,
3/20/97)(SFC, 9/30/99, p.D14)(SFEC, 1/16/00, BR p.9)(SSFC, 4/29/01, DB
p.81)(AP, 2/27/04)
1995 Mar 21, Thousands of Japanese
police raided the offices of a secretive religious group, Aum Shinri
Kyo, in connection with nerve-gas attacks on Tokyo subways that killed
12 people and sickened thousands. In ensuing weeks they found tons of
chemicals used to make sarin nerve gas and evidence of biological
weapons research.
(SFC, 4/24/96, p.A8)(AP, 3/21/00)
1995 Mar 22, Shouting erupted in
the U.S. House of Representatives as Democrats bitterly accused
majority Republicans of trying to ram through a mean-spirited welfare
overhaul bill.
(AP, 3/22/00)
1995 Mar 22, Convicted Long Island
Rail Road gunman Colin Ferguson was sentenced to life in prison for
killing six people.
(AP, 3/22/00)
1995 Mar 23, "How To Succeed in
Business Without Really Trying" opened at the Roy Rodgers NYC for 548
performances.
(SS, 3/23/02)
1995 Mar 23, Secretary of State
Warren Christopher met with Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev in
Geneva; afterward, Kozyrev said the U.S.-Russia "honeymoon has come to
an end," referring to disagreements over Chechnya and nuclear sales to
Iran.
(AP, 3/23/00)
1995 Mar 23, Former Mexican deputy
attorney general Mario Ruiz Massieu, brother of slain Francisco, was
arrested in Newark N.J. after failing to declare $46,000 in cash.
(SFC, 3/13/97, p.A14)(SFC, 7/15/98, p.A8)(SFC,
8/28/99, p.A1)
1995 Mar 24, The House of
Representatives passed, 234-to-199, a welfare reform package calling
for the most profound changes in social programs since the New Deal;
President Clinton criticized the bill, saying it was "weak on work and
tough on children."
(AP, 3/24/00)
1995 Mar 24, For the first time in
20 years, no British soldiers were patrolling the streets of Belfast,
Northern Ireland.
(AP, 3/24/00)
1995 Mar 24, Joseph Needham
(b.1900), British biochemist and writer, died. His work included the
24-volume “Science and Civilization in China.” In 2008 Simon Winchester
authored “The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric
Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom.”
(WSJ, 5/6/08,
p.D7)(www.iias.nl/iiasn/iiasn5/eastasia/needham.html)
1995 Mar 25, Mike Tyson was
released from the Indiana Youth Center after serving three years for
the 1992 rape of Desiree Washington, a beauty pageant contestant.
(AP, 3/25/00)
1995 Mar 25, Two Americans who had
strayed across the Kuwaiti border into Iraq were sentenced to eight
years in prison. However, David Daliberti and William Barloon were
released by Iraq the following July.
(AP, 3/25/00)
1995 Mar 25, Warren E. Burger,
chief justice of US (1969-86), died.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1995 Mar 26, "Defending the
Caveman" opened at Helen Hayes Theater in NYC for 671 performances.
(SS, 3/26/02)
1995 Mar 26, "Moliere Comedied"
closed at Criterion Theater in NYC after 56 performances.
(SS, 3/26/02)
1995 Mar 26, In the 15th Golden
Raspberry Awards: Color of Night won.
(http://razzies.com/asp/content/XcNewsPlus.asp?cmd=view&articleid=34)
1995 Mar 26, The National Labor
Relations Board, in an extraordinary Sunday session, voted 3-2 to seek
an injunction against baseball owners as a seven-and-a-half-month-old
strike by players continued.
(AP, 3/26/00)
1995 Mar 26, Former US
diplomat-turned-radio talk show host Alan Keyes entered the race for
the Republican presidential nomination.
(AP, 3/26/00)
1995 Mar 26, Uzbek Pres. Karimov's
period in office is extended by three years, to 2000, in a referendum.
(AP, 3/30/04)
1995 Mar 27, The 67th Academy
Awards, held at the Shrine Auditorium in LA, was hosted by David
Letterman. "Forrest Gump" won six Academy Awards, including best
picture and a second consecutive Best Actor Oscar for Tom Hanks;
Jessica Lange won Best Actress for "Blue Sky."
(AP, 3/27/00)(SFC, 3/22/02, p.D1)
1995 Mar 27, Former President
Jimmy Carter announced he had brokered a two-month cease-fire between
Sudan's Islamic government and rebels.
(AP, 3/27/00)
1995 Mar 27, Joanne Marie Mascha,
an Ursuline Sister, was murdered while walking near her motherhouse
just outside Cleveland.
(MT, 3/96, p.10)
1995 Mar 27, In Italy Maurizio
Gucci (46), businessman, was shot to death in Milan. He was the last
family member to have held shares in the Gucci fashion company, now
part of the Bahrain-based Investcorp. In 1997 police arrested his
former wife, a psychic, a doorman, and two hitmen for their roles in
the murder. In 1998 Patrizia Reggiani Martinelli (50) was convicted and
sentenced to 29 years in prison. The psychic got 25, the doorman got
26, the driver got 29 and the gunman got life.
(SFC, 2/1/97, p.A12)(SFC, 11/4/98, p.A13)
1995 Mar 28, Loomis guard Rick
Price was shot in the head and killed during an armored car robbery in
Sonoma, Ca. Bank robber William Crouch was also killed by a second
guard and alleged accomplice Joan Carrafa of Glen Ellen was later
arrested. She was convicted in 1996 for first degree murder.
(SFC, 5/25/96, p.A16)
1995 Mar 28, In Japan, Mitsubishi
Bank and the Bank of Tokyo agreed to a merger to create what was then
the world's largest bank.
(AP, 3/28/00)
1995 Mar 29, The US House of
Representatives rejected, 227-204, a constitutional amendment placing
term limits on lawmakers. The rejected proposal would have limited
terms to 12 years in the House and Senate.
(AP, 3/29/00)
1995 Mar 30, Pope John Paul II
issued the 11th encyclical of his papacy in which he condemned abortion
and euthanasia as crimes that no human laws could legitimize.
(AP, 3/30/00)
1995 Mar 30, In Japan Takaji
Kunimatsu, chief of the National Police Agency, was seriously wounded
by a masked gunman. Two months later a police officer confessed to the
attack. He was a member of the Aum Shinri Kyo cult and said that he was
ordered to carry out the attack. The confession was kept secret until
anonymous newspaper accounts warned of a cover-up in 1996.
(SFC, 10/30/96, p.A1,6)
1995 Mar 30, Tens of thousands of
Rwandan refugees, fleeing violence in Burundi, began a two-day trek to
sanctuary in Tanzania.
(AP, 3/30/00)
1995 Mar 31, US baseball players
agreed to end their 232-day strike after a judge granted a preliminary
injunction against club owners.
(AP, 3/31/00)
1995 Mar 31, President Clinton
briefly visited Haiti, where he declared the U.S. mission to restore
democracy there a "remarkable success."
(AP, 3/31/00)
1995 Mar 31, Mexican-American
singer Selena, 23, was shot to death in Corpus Christi, Texas, by the
founder of her fan club. Yolanda Saldivar was convicted of murder and
sentenced to life in prison.
(AP, 3/31/97)
1995 Mar 31, Fred Cuny (b.1944),
American disaster relief specialist, disappeared in Chechnya and was
never found. He used his training in engineering to do humanitarian
work and worked in countries such as Biafra, Guatemala, Ethiopia, Iraq,
Somalia, and Bosnia. Cuny (50), an envoy for George Soros' Open Society
Institute, was shot and killed by Chechen gunmen. In 1999 Scott
Anderson published "The Man Who Tried to Save the World: The Dangerous
Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Fred Cuny."
(http://www.onlineethics.org/cms/14193.aspx)(SFEC,
6/6/99, BR p.1)
1995 Mar, Authorities arrested 75
people in the biggest dogfighting bust in San Francisco history.
(SFC, 4/14/96, p.C-9)
1995 Mar, Sun Microsystems made a
general release of its new software renamed JAVA from Oak. [2nd source
said May] It was based on C++ language.
(SFEM, 12/8/96, p.8)(WSJ, 8/27/97, p.A1)
1995 Mar, Uniroyal Chemical Corp.
went public.
(WSJ, 5/28/96, R45)
1995 Mar, David Filo and Jerry
Yang, graduates students of Stanford Univ., turned their hobby into a
business. In 1994 they had started a guide to their favorite sites on
the Internet: Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web.” The site
was soon renamed Yahoo: "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle."
(WSJ, 3/6/00, p.B1)(SFC, 7/18/00, p.A8)(WSJ,
2/20/07, p.B5)
1995 Mar, In Louisiana Patsy
Byers, a convenience store clerk, was shot and seriously wounded by
Sarah Edmonson and Benjamin Darrus. The two had just killed a
Mississippi man and later asserted that the film "Natural Born Killers"
inspired their actions.
(SFC, 3/9/99, p.A3)
1995 Mar, Neo-Nazi Gary Lauck of
the US was arrested in Denmark and extradited to Germany for supplying
hate literature and paraphernalia.
(SFC, 8/23/96, p.A18)
1995 Mar, Sen. Robert Torricelli
of the House Intelligence Oversight Committee accused the CIA of a
cover-up in 2 Guatemalan murders. A review in 1996 showed that Alpirez
was on the CIA payroll from 1988-1992 and that he was involved in the
cover-up of the 1990 murder of Michael Devine and had participated in
the 1992 interrogation and likely torture of Efraim Bamaca, a captured
Guatemalan guerrilla, killed in captivity and married to an American
lawyer.
(SFC, 5/4/96, p.A6)(SFC, 5/7/96, p.A10)(SFEC,
11/17/96, p.A13)
1995 Mar, Monya Elson was arrested
in Italy. He was extradited to the US in Aug 1996. In 1993 he had fled
to Italy from the US. He was suspected of masterminding a reign of
terror over Russian immigrants through the 1980s and 1990s. His Monya’s
Brigade operated out of Brighton Beach, New York.
(SFC, 8/24/96, p.A8)
1995 Mar, In Mich. Jonathan
Schmitz shot and killed Scott Amedure 3 days after the 2 appeared on
the "Jenny Jones Show," where Schmitz learned that his secret admirer
was Amedure. Schmitz was convicted of murder in 1996 but the verdict
was overturned due to an error in jury selection. Schmitz was sentenced
to a 25-50 year prison term. In 1999 a jury pronounced a $25 million
verdict against the producers of the show in a wrongful death suit by
the family of Amedure. In Aug 1999 a 2nd jury convicted Schmitz
of murder. Judge Wendy Pots sentenced Schmitz to 25-50 years in prison.
(SFC, 4/2/99, p.A3)(SFC, 5/8/99, p.A1)(SFC, 8/27/99,
p.A13)(SFC, 9/15/99, p.A6)
1995 Mar, In the US Eugenio
Perente-Ramos, leader of the leftist cult that called itself the
Provisional Communist Party or the National Labor Federation, died.
(SFC, 11/13/96, p.A3)
1995 Mar, Secret negotiations took
place in Mexico between Pres. Ernesto Zedillo and his predecessor
Carlos Salinas They struck a deal to protect Salinas from prosecution
or interrogation on corruption and murder charges. The episode was
described in the book "Bordering On Chaos: Guerrillas, Stockbrokers,
Politicians and Mexico’s Road to Prosperity" by Andres Oppenheimer.
(SFC, 6/3/96, BR p.12)
1995 Mar, In Nigeria retired
Gen’l. Olusegun Obasanjo, former head of state, was arrested by the
military junta on suspicion of complicity in an alleged coup.
(WSJ, 1/2/98, p.8)
1995 Mar, The Korean Peninsula
Energy Development Organization (KEDO) was formed. It was charged with
building 2 light-water reactors in North Korea.
(WSJ, 1/30/03, p.A1)
1995 Apr 1, Aaron, a
computer-driven robot began painting a new 25 sq. ft canvas on a daily
basis. It was designed and programmed by Harold Cohen, a San Diego
computer scientist. The event was scheduled to start in Boston at 300
Congress St. and go to May 29.
(WSJ, 3/28/95, p.A24)
1995 Apr 1, More than 1,500
mourners attended a vigil for Mexican-American singer Selena in Corpus
Christi, Texas, where she had been shot to death the day before.
(AP, 4/1/00)
1995 Apr 1, U.N. peacekeepers
officially took over from the U.S.-led multinational force in Haiti.
(AP, 4/1/00)
1995 Apr 1, With U.S. Defense
Secretary William Perry looking on, Ukraine began the process of
dismantling its nuclear missiles.
(AP, 4/1/00)
1995 Apr 2, Baseball owners
accepted the players' union offer to play without a contract, ending
the longest and costliest strike in the history of professional sports.
(AP, 4/2/98)
1995 Apr 2, The NYC Police Dept
and Transit Police merged into one organization.
(www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/transportation/tpd.html)
1995 Apr 2, Members of the
extremist group Hamas accidentally set off a bomb that tore through
their hideout in the Gaza Strip, killing six people.
(AP, 4/2/00)
1995 Apr 3, UCLA defeated
Arkansas, 89-78, to win the NCAA basketball championship.
(AP, 4/3/00)
1995 Apr 3, Former United Way of
America President William Aramony was convicted in Alexandria, Va., of
25 counts of fraud for stealing nearly $600,000 dollars from the
nation's biggest charity.
(AP, 4/3/00)
1995 Apr 4, Francisco Martin
Duran, who had raked the White House with semiautomatic rifle fire in
October 1994, was convicted in Washington of trying to assassinate
President Clinton. Duran was later sentenced to 40 years in prison.
(AP, 4/4/00)
1995 Apr 4, Sen. Alfonse D'Amato,
R-N.Y., used a mock Japanese accent to ridicule O.J. Simpson trial
judge Lance Ito on a nationally syndicated radio program. He apologized
two days later on the Senate floor.
(AP, 4/4/00)
1995 Apr 4, Fierce fighting
continues in Algeria as Muslim revolutionaries struggle against the
military regime in power. It is estimated that over 1,000 people are
being killed per month. France backs the military regime who, stopped
free elections last year when it was clear that the Muslim
fundamentalists were going to win.
(NPR)
1995 Apr 4, It was reported that
Nuclear Matrix Proteins that act as a type of scaffolding for DNA were
being used as markers for cancer. They were also thought to help turn
genes off and on.
(WSJ, 4/4/95, B-1)
1995 Apr 5, The House of
Representatives passed, 246-188, a tax-cut bill, the final major item
in the Republicans' "Contract with America."
(AP, 4/5/00)
1995 Apr 6, The US Senate
unanimously approved a $16 billion package of cuts in social programs.
Earlier in the day, Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, R-N.Y., apologized on the
Senate floor for lampooning O.J. Simpson trial judge Lance Ito on a
nationally syndicated radio program by employing a mock Japanese accent.
(AP, 4/6/05)
1995 Apr 7, President Clinton
threatened to veto a lengthy list of bills passed by the
Republican-controlled House if they were not modified in the Senate.
(AP, 4/7/00)
1995 Apr 7, In a prime-time
television address, House Speaker Newt Gingrich declared the GOP
"Contract with America" was only a beginning.
(AP, 4/7/00)
1995 Apr 8, Former Secretary of
Defense Robert S. McNamara, in an interview with AP Network News and
"Newsweek" magazine to promote his memoir “In Retrospect,” called
America's Vietnam War policy "terribly wrong."
(AP,
4/8/00)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_McNamara)
1995 Apr 9, Women’s rights
supporters rallied near the U.S. Capitol to protest violence against
women.
(AP, 4/9/00)
1995 Apr 9, Two Palestinians blew
themselves up outside two Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip and
killed seven Israeli soldiers and an American, Alisa Flatow (20). The
Islamic Jihad and Hamas took responsibility. In 1998 a US district
court judge ordered the government of Iran to pay $247 million in
damages to the family of Flatow.
(WSJ, 3/6/96, p. A15)(G&M, 7/31/97, p.A8)
1995 Apr 9, Alberto Fujimori was
re-elected president of Peru.
(AP, 4/9/00)
1995 Apr 10, Sen. Bob Dole
launched his third bid for the White House in Topeka, Kansas.
(AP, 4/10/00)
1995 Apr 10, The Unabomber sent a
letter to the New York Times claiming responsibility for the killing of
Thomas Mosser.
(SFEC,11/9/97, Z1 p.5)
1995 Apr 10, NYC enacted the Smoke
Free Air Act which banned smoking in all restaurants that seated 35 or
more.
(http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/10/2/199)
1995 Apr 11, Pres. Clinton
expressed sympathy for Pakistan's anger over the blocked sale of
American fighter jets, telling visiting PM Benazir Bhutto that it was
"not right" for the United States to keep the planes and refuse to give
the money back. Pakistan received jets in 2005.
(AP, 4/11/00)(Reuters, 3/26/05)
1995 Apr 12, In a move that
stunned the business world, billionaire Kirk Kerkorian and former
Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca made an unsolicited $22.8 billion-dollar
bid to buy the nation's third largest automaker; Chrysler responded
that it wasn't for sale.
(AP, 4/12/00)
1995 Apr 13, Bob Dornan became the
seventh GOP presidential contender.
(AP, 4/13/05)
1995 Apr 13, A federal appeals
court opened the way for Shannon Faulkner to become the first woman to
undergo military training at The Citadel.
(AP, 4/13/00)
1995 Apr 14, The UN Security
Council (Resolution 986) gave permission to Iraq, still under sanctions
for its invasion of Kuwait, to sell $2 billion dollars' worth of oil to
buy food, medicine and other supplies. Iraq later rejected the offer.
(AP, 4/14/00)(SFC, 9/24/02, p.A12)
1995 Apr 14, Actor-singer Burl
Ives died in Anacortes, Wash., at age 85.
(AP, 4/14/00)
1995 Apr 15, In his weekly radio
address, President Clinton asked Congress to protect a short list of
key legislation, saying he was giving the highest priority to welfare
reform, targeted tax cuts and a crime bill preserving the assault
weapons ban.
(AP, 4/15/00)
1995 Apr 16, In his Easter Sunday
message, Pope John Paul II sent a message of peace to victims of
unrest, including the Palestinians and Kurds.
(AP, 4/16/00)
1995 Apr 16, Cleo Brown (b.1909),
boogie pianist, died in Denver, Colorado.
(www.musicweb-international.com/encyclopaedia/b/B269.HTM)
1995 Apr 17, President Clinton
signed an executive order stripping the classified label from most
national security documents that were at least 25 years old.
(AP, 4/17/00)
1995 Apr 17, An Air Force jet
exploded and crashed in a wooded area in eastern Alabama, killing eight
people, including an assistant Air Force secretary and a two-star
general.
(AP, 4/17/00)
1995 Apr 18, Quarterback Joe
Montana retired from professional football.
(AP, 4/18/00)
1995 Apr 18, President Clinton
held a prime-time news conference in which he said he was satisfied
that he remained relevant in a Republican-dominated capital, and
challenged Congress to send him an acceptable welfare bill by July 4.
(AP, 4/18/00)
1995 Apr 18, The Houston Post
closed after 116 years.
(AP, 4/18/00)
1995 Apr 19, At 9:02 A.M. Oklahoma
City, USA, a large car bomb exploded at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal
Building killing 168 people, and injuring 500 including many children
in the building’s day care center. Within a week a suspect, Timothy
McVeigh, was caught and charged. Two suspects, Timothy McVeigh and
Terry Nichols, faced trial. McVeigh was arrested during a routine
traffic stop 78 miles from Oklahoma City on weapons charges the same
day. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, were later convicted of charges
related to the bombing. Michael Fortier, a key government witness and
friend of Nichols and McVeigh, was sentenced to 12 years in prison in
1998 for failing to warn authorities, lying to the FBI, transporting
stolen weapons and conspiring to fence stolen weapons. In 1999
Fortier's sentence was overturned and a more lenient sentence was
ordered under manslaughter guidelines. In Oct a new 12-year sentence
was issued. McVeigh was later convicted of federal murder charges and
executed.
(NPR, 4/19/95)(SFC, 4/29/97, p.A2)(SFC, 5/28/98,
p.A3)(SFC, 7/1/99, p.A3)(SFC, 10/9/99, p.A7)(AP, 4/19/06)
1995 Apr 19, J. Peter Grace Jr.
(81), CEO (W R Grace), died.
(www.sec.gov/litigation/investreport/34-39157.txt)
1995 Apr 19, In Spain a failed
ETA car-bomb attempted to kill conservative opposition leader and
future Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar.
(AP, 3/22/06)
1995 Apr 19, In Sri Lanka the
Tigers broke the truce and blew up 2 navy boats and killed 12 sailors
in the port of Trincomalee.
(SFC, 7/24/96, p.A9)
1995 Apr 20, In the aftermath of
the Oklahoma City bombing, the FBI announced it was looking for two men
suspected of renting the truck used to carry the explosive; rescue
teams suspended the search for survivors so that the remaining
structure of the Alfred P. Murrah Building could be shored up.
(AP, 4/20/00)
1995 Apr 21, The FBI arrested
former soldier Timothy McVeigh at an Oklahoma jail where he had spent
two days on minor traffic and weapons charges; he was charged in
connection with the Oklahoma City bombing two days earlier in which
over 200 people were killed by a truck bomb that exploded in front of a
Federal building.
(AP, 4/21/00)(HN, 4/21/99)
1995 Apr 22, Jane Kenyon (47),
poet, died in New Hampshire. In 1996 William Bolcom premiered a song
cycle, Briefly It Enters, based on 9 of her poems in Ann Arbor, Mich.
In 2005 Joyce Peseroff edited “Simply Lasting: Writers on Jane Kenyon.”
(SFC, 10/17/96, E1)(www.poems.com/halinter.htm)
1995 Apr 22, Maggie Kuhn (89),
activist (Gray Panthers), died at her home in Pennsylvania.
(http://search.eb.com/women/articles/Kuhn_Maggie.html)
1995 Apr 22, In Africa, Rwandan
government troops killed thousands of Hutu refugees in Kibeho. The
Tutsi-led government troops cleared a huge refugee camp that they said
was full of Hutu extremists. Human rights officials said that at least
4,000 Hutus were killed, many shot, and many trampled. Tutsi officers
involved received only token punishments.
(SFC, 4/8/99, p.C3)(HN, 4/22/99)(SFC, 4/8/02, p.A6)
1995 Apr 23, Pres. Clinton
declared a national day of mourning for the victims of the Oklahoma
City blast.
(AP, 4/23/00)
1995 Apr 23, Sportscaster Howard
Cosell died in New York at age 77.
(AP, 4/23/00)
1995 Apr 23, Former Sen. John C.
Stennis (D-Miss.) died in Jackson, Miss., at age 93.
(AP, 4/23/00)
1995 Apr 23, Hideo Murai, head of
the science ministry of the Aum Shinri Kyo cult, was stabbed and
killed. Police suspected that a cult leader ordered his murder so that
he would not testify about Aum’s nerve gas production.
(SFC, 4/24/96, p.A8)
1995 Apr 24, Dow Jones Index hit a
record 4303.98.
(www.finfacts.com/Private/curency/djones.htm)
1995 Apr 24, California Forestry
Assoc. Pres. Gilbert P. Murray, 47, was killed by a mail bomb at his
headquarters in Sacramento. The bomb was attributed to the Unabomber.
Gilbert B. Murray, chief lobbyist for the wood products industry, was
killed by a package bomb linked to the Unabomber. Theodore Kaczynski
was later sentenced to four lifetimes in prison for a series of
bombings that killed three men and injured 29 others.
(WSJ, 4/5/96, p.A-2)(AP, 4/24/05)
1995 Apr 25, Show business legend
Ginger Rogers died in Rancho Mirage, Calif., at age 83.
(AP, 4/25/00)
1995 Apr 26, The US Supreme Court
led by Chief Justice William Rehnquist overturned a federal law banning
gun possession near schools on the grounds that it was beyond the scope
of congress power to regulate interstate commerce.
(SSFC, 9/4/05, p.A3)(http://tinyurl.com/6zlv6)
1995 Apr 26, One week after the
Oklahoma City bombing, Americans observed a minute of silence in honor
of the victims.
(AP, 4/26/00)
1995 Apr 27, Former Orange County,
Calif., Treasurer Robert Citron pleaded guilty to six counts of
defrauding investors in the county investment pool.
(AP, 4/27/00)
1995 Apr 27, Willem Frederik
Hermans (b.1921), Dutch author, died. His 1966 novel “Beyond Sleep” was
considered to be one of the founding works of modern Dutch literature.
In 2007 an English translation became available.
(WSJ, 1/7/07,
p.P8)(http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Frederik_Hermans)
1995 Apr 28, In Taegu, South
Korea, a gas line exploded in the middle of an intersection crowded
with morning traffic, killing 101 people.
(AP, 4/28/00)
1995 Apr 28-1995 Apr 29, In Sri
Lanka Tigers used anti-aircraft missiles for the first time and downed
2 air force transport planes that killed 90 people.
(SFC, 7/24/96, p.A9)
1995 Apr 29, 10 days after the
blast, rescue workers in Oklahoma City continued the grim task of
searching for bodies and pulling debris from the Alfred P. Murrah
Federal Building, where 168 people died.
(AP, 4/29/00)
1995 Apr 30, President Clinton
announced he would end U.S. trade and investment with Iran, denouncing
the Tehran government as "inspiration and paymaster to terrorists."
(AP, 4/30/00)
1995 Apr 30, Federated merged the
A&S (Abraham & Straus) stores into Macy's, Bloomingdale's and
Stern's.
(http://tenant-search.net/dealmakers/1995%20Issues/DM042195.asp)
1995 Apr 30, More than 10,000
soldiers, students and children in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam,
celebrated the 20th anniversary of the end of the war.
(AP, 4/30/00)
1995 Apr, Don Grolnick
(1948-1996), pianist, songwriter and producer, was musical director for
the Rainforest Foundation concert at Carnegie Hall. An album by his
Latin jazz group, Medianoche, was to be released in 8/96.
(SFC, 6/4/96, p.A19)
1995 Apr, In Bosnia the
intelligence cell of Gen. Smith determined that Mladic was preparing
for a major push to seize the 3 eastern safe areas: Srebrenica, Zepa
and Gorazde.
(SFC, 6/4/96, p.A12)
1995 Apr, Aurora Castillo (d.1998
at 84) was one of the winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize for
her work in East Los Angeles.
(SFC, 5/16/98, p.A21)
1995 Apr, Seventeen lawmakers from
the Belarussian Peoples Front (BNF), who refused to leave the
parliament in protest of Lukashenko’s call to dump the red and white
flag, were beat up by police and dragged out.
(SFC, 9/2/96, p.A14)
1995 Apr, In the Philippines Abu
Sayyaf rebels raided the market town of Ipil. The looted banks, seized
dozens of "human shields," and executed 54 villagers.
(WSJ, 9/25/01, p.A12)
1995 Apr, Uganda broke off ties
with Sudan.
(SFC, 12/7/96, p.A10)
1995 Apr, In Zaire the parliament
passed a resolution that prevented refugees from Rwanda and Burundi
from obtaining Zairean citizenship.
(WSJ, 11/15/96, p.A16)
Go to http://www.timelinesdb.com
Go to 1995 B