Timeline 1995: May-Aug.
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1995 May 1,
President Clinton defended his choice for surgeon general, Henry
Foster, as a "pro-life, pro-choice doctor."
(AP, 5/1/00)
1995 May 1, Charges that Qubilah
Shabazz, the daughter of Malcolm X, had plotted to murder Nation of
Islam leader Louis Farrakhan were dropped as jury selection for her
trial was about to begin in Minneapolis.
(AP, 5/1/00)
1995 May 1, The Croatian army
captured the Serb enclave of Western Slavonia in its first major bid to
retake territories occupied in 1991. In reply the Krajina Serbs
launched a rocket attack on Zagreb, the Croatian capital. Milan Martic,
Croatian Serb leader of rebel Serb forces, ordered the shelling of
Zagreb. Martic surrendered to the UN war crimes tribunal in 2002.
(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)(SFC, 11/30/96, p.A15)(SFC,
5/8/02, p.A17)
1995 May 2, President Clinton
agreed to allow some 20,000 Cubans into the United States after months
of detention at Guantanamo Bay, but said any more Cubans who fled their
country would be forcibly repatriated.
(AP, 5/2/00)
1995 May 2, A new scientific
theory predicted an earthquake for the Central Valley of California to
occur by July 9. It was estimated to be about 6.0 in magnitude but did
not happen.
(local newspaper San Luis Obispo, Ca.)
1995 May 2, Serb missiles exploded
in the heart of Zagreb, killing six.
(www.hri.org/news/usa/std/1995/95-05-02.std.html)
1995 May 3, The US government
reported that its Index of Leading Economic Indicators dropped half a
percentage point in March 1995, its biggest tumble in two years.
(AP, 5/3/00)
1995 May 4, India launched the
fourth ASLV-D4 from Sriharikota, successfully placing the SROSS-C2
satellite in orbit.
(www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080048779)
1995 May 4, An Iranian nuclear
official said spent fuel from Iran's Russian-made reactors, potential
raw material for nuclear bombs, would be returned to Russia for
safeguarding.
(AP, 5/4/00)
1995 May 5, As rescue workers
ended their search for bodies in the Oklahoma City bombing, President
Clinton denounced self-styled anti-government militias, saying, "How
dare you call yourselves patriots and heroes."
(AP, 5/5/00)
1995 May 5, Talks collapsed
between the United States and Japan on averting a trade fight over
automobiles.
(AP, 5/5/00)
1995 May 5, Thunderstorms began
tearing through North Texas, claiming two dozen lives.
(AP, 5/5/00)
1995 May 5, Over 100,000 Ghanaians
demonstrated in the streets of Accra for the repeal of an 18%
value-added tax. 4 people were killed from gunfire by government hired
thugs.
(WSJ, 1/04/00, p.A18)
1995 May 6, Long-shot Thunder
Gulch, ridden by Gary Stevens, won the 121st Kentucky Derby.
(AP, 5/6/00)(WSJ, 5/5/97, p.A16)
1995 May 6, Friends and relatives
of the Oklahoma City bombing victims made a pilgrimage to the site of
the attack.
(AP, 5/6/00)
1995 May 6, In London, thousands
of World War II veterans celebrated the 50th anniversary of V-E Day.
(AP, 5/6/00)
1995 May 7, Jacques Chirac, the
conservative mayor of Paris, won France's presidency in his third
attempt, defeating Lionel Jospin in a runoff to end 14 years of
Socialist rule.
(AP, 5/7/00)
1995 May 7, Leaders of 54 nations
that fought on both sides in World War II signed olive leaves in London
in a ceremony of reconciliation.
(AP, 5/7/00)
1995 May 8, A monster storm began
dumping 18 inches of rain on southeast Louisiana, flooding homes and
killing five people.
(AP, 5/8/00)
1995 May 8, Fifty years after Nazi
Germany's capitulation in World War II, leaders representing the
victorious powers gathered in Berlin to remember the dead and pledge
peace for the future.
(AP, 5/8/00)
1995 May 9, President Clinton
arrived in Moscow for a summit with Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
(AP, 5/9/00)
1995 May 9, The United States
returned 13 Cuban boat people to their homeland, the first to be sent
back under a new policy bitterly protested by Cuban-Americans.
(AP, 5/9/00)
1995 May 9, Kinshasa, capital of
Zaire, was placed under quarantine after an outbreak of the Ebola virus.
(AP, 5/9/00)
1995 May 10, Terry Nichols was
charged in the Oklahoma City bombing.
(AP, 5/10/00)
1995 May 10, Former President
Bush’s office released his letter of resignation from the National
Rifle Association in which Bush expressed outrage over its reference to
federal agents as "jack-booted government thugs."
(AP, 5/10/00)
1995 May 10, Britain lifted a
23-year ban on ministerial talks with Sinn Fein, the political wing of
the Irish Republican Army.
(www.cnn.com/almanac/9805/10/)
1995 May 10, One-hundred-four
miners were killed in an elevator accident in Orkney, South Africa.
(AP, 5/10/00)
1995 May 11, A United Nations
conference indefinitely extended the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty,
which was originally set to expire after 25 years. The 5 nuclear
nations agreed this year that steps toward disarmament should not have
to await universal disarmament.
(AP, 5/11/00)(Econ, 6/10/06, p.21)
1995 May 12, President Clinton,
during a stopover in Ukraine, visited Babi Yar, where the Nazis
massacred more than 30,000 Kiev Jews in 1941.
(AP, 5/12/00)
1995 May 13, Army Capt. Lawrence
Rockwood was convicted at his court-martial in Fort Drum, N.Y., of
conducting an unauthorized investigation of reported human rights
abuses at a Haitian prison. Rockwood was dismissed from the military
the next day.
(AP, 5/13/05)
1995 May 14, Myrlie Evers-Williams
was sworn in to head the NAACP, pledging to lead the civil rights group
away from its recent troubles and restore it as a political and social
force.
(AP, 5/14/00)
1995 May 14, The 11th
reincarnation of the Panchen Lama, Gedhun Choikyi Nyima, was announced
by the exiled Dalai Lama. China declared Gyaincain Norbu (5) as the
Panchen Lama.
(SFC, 5/8/97, p.C2)(SFC, 6/19/99, p.A11)(MC, 5/14/02)
1995 May 15, Dow Corning
Corporation filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, citing
potentially astronomical expenses from liability lawsuits.
(AP, 5/15/00)
1995 May 16, The Clinton
administration threatened punitive tariffs that would double the prices
for Japan's most popular luxury cars.
(AP, 5/16/00)
1995 May 16, Some $10 million
worth of computer microprocessors were stolen from Centon, a chip firm
in Irvine, Ca. The massive "Bytes Dust" task force investigation
resulted in the 2000 racketeering trial of the 4 men who masterminded
the heist. Mady Chan, Hoang Ai Le, John That Luong and Hui Chi Luong
were found guilty. 15 more defendants of "The Company" awaited trial.
In 2001 John That Luong was sentenced to 88 years in prison.
(SFC, 3/1/00, p.A26)(SFC, 6/23/00, p.A14)(SFC,
8/14/01, p.C4)
1995 May 16, Aum Shinri Kyo cult
leader Shoko Asahara was found hiding in a secret room at a cult
compound in Kamikuishiki and arrested. A letter bomb exploded in
Tokyo’s city hall and injured an aid of the governor who had advocated
withdrawing Aum’s religious permit. His teachings declared that he was
Christ, that meditation was required for enlightenment, and that
Armageddon is imminent.
(SFC, 4/24/96, p.A8)(SFC, 11/2/96, p.A9)(SFC,
9/29/97, p.A13)
1995 May 17, The US Senate ethics
committee concluded that Sen. Bob Packwood (R-Ore.) had to face a
full-scale Senate investigation of charges that included making
improper advances toward women.
(AP, 5/17/00)
1995 May 17, Jacques Chirac was
sworn in as president of France, ending the 14-year tenure of Socialist
Francois Mitterrand.
(AP, 5/17/00)
1995 May 18, Triumphant US
Republicans pushed a historic budget through the House that they said
would wring an unprecedented $1.4 trillion in savings from federal
budgets over the next seven years.
(AP, 5/18/00)
1995 May 18, Elisha Cook Jr. (91),
actor (Maltese Falcon, Shane), died.
(SC, 5/18/02)
1995 May 18, Alexander Godunov
(45), ballet dancer, was found dead.
(AP, 5/18/00)
1995 May 18, Robert Harris (95),
English actor (Werewolf of London), died.
(http://movies.msn.com/celebs/celeb.aspx?c=219208)
1995 May 18, Elizabeth Montgomery
(62), actress (Bewitched), died in Los Angeles.
(AP, 5/18/00)
1995 May 18, Gordon Reynolds (74),
musician, died.
(http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Obituary/1995/music.html)(www.scottishbluegrass.com/article.htm)
1995 May 19, The Senate voted 99-0
to reject President Clinton's spending blueprint.
(AP, 5/19/00)
1995 May 19, NASA's administrator
unveiled plans to slash thousands of aerospace jobs and to overhaul
virtually every part of the agency.
(AP, 5/19/00)
1995 May 19, AMC Entertainment
Inc. opened the 1st multi-theater film megaplex, the Grand 24, in
Dallas, Texas.
(SFC, 5/19/05, p.C3)(WSJ, 5/13/97, p.B1)
1995 May 19, The world's youngest
doctor in the world came to be as India-born Balamurali Ambati at 17
graduated from Mount Sinai Medical School.
(www.hindunet.org/alt_hindu/1995_May_2/msg00038.html)
1995 May 20, Timber Country won
the Preakness at Pimlico.
(AP, 5/20/00)
1995 May 20, President Clinton
announced that the two-block stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue in front of
the White House would be permanently closed to motor vehicles as a
security measure.
(AP, 5/20/00)
1995 May 20, CBS News fired
co-anchor Connie Chung.
(http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/tvbarn/message/148)
1995 May 21, Les Aspin (56),
former US Secretary of Defense, died at a Washington D.C. hospital
after suffering a massive stroke.
(AP, 5/21/00)
1995 May 22, The Supreme Court
ruled 5-4 that states cannot limit service in Congress without amending
the Constitution.
(AP, 5/22/00)
1995 May 22, "The CBS Evening
News" resumed a single-anchor format with Dan Rather, after Connie
Chung was dropped from the broadcast.
(AP, 5/22/00)
1995 May 23, Leland William
Modjeski (37), a graduate student, was shot and wounded on the White
House lawn after scaling a fence with an unloaded gun.
(AP, 5/23/05)
1995 May 23, The nine-story hulk
of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was
demolished. That day, James Nichols, whose brother and a friend were
charged in the Oklahoma bombing, was released from federal custody.
(AP, 5/23/00)
1995 May 24, "Hollywood Madam"
Heidi Fleiss was sentenced to three years in prison and fined $1,500
for running a call-girl ring that catered to the rich and famous.
1995 May 24, Gen. Janvier told the
UN Security Council that the Bosnian government forces were sufficient
to defend Srebrenica, that UN troops should be withdrawn and that NATO
air power was not needed.
(SFC, 6/4/96, p.A12)
1995 May 24, Harold Wilson (79),
former British Prime Minister (1964-70, 74-76), died in London.
(AP, 5/24/00)(MC, 5/24/02)
1995 May 25, NATO warplanes struck
Bosnian Serb headquarters. Serbs answered with swift defiance, storming
UN weapons depots, attacking safe areas and taking peacekeepers as
hostages.
(AP, 5/25/00)
1995 May 25, Dany Robin (68),
French actress (Follow the Boys, Topaz, Julietta), died in a fire in
her Paris apartment.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0732184/bio)
1995 May 25, Dick Curless
(b.1932), singer, songwriter, died.
(http://koti.mbnet.fi/wdd/curlessbio.htm)
1995 May 26, In the tobacco
industry’s largest recall ever, Philip Morris USA halted sales of
several cigarette brands, including some versions of top-selling
Marlboro, because some filters were contaminated.
(AP, 5/26/00)
1995 May 26, Serbs bombarded
Serajevo. On Jun 6 NATO launched 2 air raids against an ammunition dump
in Serb-held central Bosnia.
(SFC, 6/7/96, p.A10)(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)
1995 May 27, Actor Christopher
Reeve was left paralyzed when he was thrown from his horse during a
jumping event in Charlottesville, Virginia.
(AP, 5/27/00)
1995 May 27, In Bosnia General
Mladić launched an assault against the UN observation point of the
Vrbanja bridge. French soldiers Marcel Amaru and Jacky Humboldt were
killed in the operation of liberating the Vrbanja Bridge under siege in
Sarajevo. They became the symbol of the 84 French soldiers, who gave
their lives for Bosnia.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNPROFOR)(http://tinyurl.com/qdsxo)
1995 May 28, Harvard undergraduate
Sinedu Tadesse of Ethiopia stabbed her college roommate, Trang Ho of
Vietnam, 45 times and then hanged herself. In 1997 Melanie Thernstrom
wrote: "Halfway Heaven, Diary of a Harvard Murder" an account of the
incident with extensive background information.
(WSJ, 8/26/97, p.A14)(SFEC,11/16/97, BR p.10)
1995 May 28, Bosnia’s foreign
minister and three colleagues were killed when rebel Serbs shot down
their helicopter.
(AP, 5/28/00)
1995 May 28, An earthquake with a
magnitude of seven-point-five devastated the Russian town of
Neftegorsk, killing at least two-thousand people.
(AP, 5/28/00)
1995 May 29, The last three bodies
entombed in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City were
recovered.
(AP, 5/29/00)
1995 May 29, Margaret Chase Smith
(97), the first woman to serve in both the House and the Senate (R-ME),
died in Skowhegan, Maine.
(AP, 5/29/00)
1995 May 30, In a letter to UN
Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Bosnian Serb leader Radovan
Karadzic demanded guarantees of no further NATO air attacks and de
facto recognition of a self-styled Serb state.
(AP, 5/30/00)
1995 May 31, President Clinton
declared he was ready to permit the temporary use of American ground
forces in Bosnia to help UN peacekeepers move to safer positions if
necessary.
(AP, 5/31/00)
1995 May 31, Senator Bob Dole
(Kansas) accused Hollywood of promoting violence, rape and casual sex
in music and movies saying "the mainstreaming of deviancy must come to
an end."
(AP, 5/31/00)
1995 May, Borders bookstores held
an IPO at $14.50 per share.
(WSJ, 9/3/96, p.A6)
1995 May, In Dallas, Texas, the
AMC Grand Cinema opened with 24 screens for moviegoers.
(WSJ, 5/13/97, p.B1)
1995 May, Larry Lee Hillblom,
co-founder and majority shareholder of DHL Corp., disappeared into the
Pacific Ocean in his World War II vintage seaplane. He was
conservatively valued at 500 million and willed most of his estate to a
charitable trust for medical research. $240 million was set aside for
medical research at UCSF. He named the Bank of Saipan as executor but
left behind a number of illegitimate children in the Philippines and
the Mariana Islands who are laying claim to his estate. In 1998 4
children won $90 million settlements each. Later it was learned that
many of his personal effects in Saipan were buried to avoid DNA tests
for paternity confirmation.
(WSJ, 5/15/96, p.A1,8)(SFEC, 1/11/98, p.A1)(SFEC,
8/16/98, p.A1)(WSJ, 3/20/00, p.A1)
1995 May, In Chile the Ministry of
Agriculture imposed a System of Appellation for the wine industry. New
labels would correctly indicate a wine’s region of origin.
(SFC, 1/8/96, zz-1 p.4)
1995 May, In China a pro-democracy
peace charter was signed by 56 people to coincide with the 6th
anniversary of student demonstrations. Former student leader Li Hai was
detained after signing the peace charter.
(SFC, 1/1/97, p.C2)
1995 May, In Cuba Robert Lee Vesco
was arrested on charges of marketing Trixolane, a cancer and arthritis
drug, without the government’s knowledge.
(SFC, 8/21/96, p.A8)(Econ, 5/31/08, p.91)
1995 May, In Uganda Museveni won
presidential elections in a landslide. The rebel group West Nile Bank
Front began its campaign against Pres. Yoweri Museveni. Uganda’s
population at this time stood at about 15 million.
(SFC, 3/5/96, p.A9)(SFC, 7/2/96, p.A10)(Econ,
2/14/09, p.58)
1995 Jun 1, President Clinton
visited Billings, Montana, where he met with farmers and presided over
a televised town hall meeting.
(AP, 6/1/00)
1995 Jun 1, The US Postal Service
issued a 32 cent stamp honoring the late Marilyn Monroe.
(www.leninimports.com/marilyn_monroe.html)
1995 Jun 1, James Wolfensohn,
Australian-born financier, took over as head of the World Bank. He
served 2 5-year terms. In 2004 Sebastian Mallaby authored “The World’s
Banker,” a view of how the world Bank fared under Wolfensohn.
(SFC, 9/28/99, p.C16)(www.worldbank.org)(SFC,
1/3/05, p.A3)
1995 Jun 2, A US Air Force F-16C
was shot down by a Bosnian Serb surface-to-air missile while on a NATO
air patrol in northern Bosnia; the pilot, Captain Scott F. O’Grady, was
rescued six days later.
(AP, 6/2/00)
1995 Jun 3, Bosnian Serb officials
made contradictory statements about the whereabouts of an American
pilot, a day after his Air Force jet was shot down. Bosnian Serb
military sources claimed that the pilot, later identified as Captain
Scott F. O’Grady, was in Bosnian Serb hands—a claim that proved false.
(AP, 6/3/00)
1995 Jun 3, In Bosnia Mladic
forces seized a Dutch observation post.
(SFC, 6/4/96, p.A12)
1995 Jun 4, At the Tony Awards,
"Sunset Boulevard" won best Broadway musical. "Love! Valour!
Compassion!" by Terrence McNally was chosen best play.
(AP, 6/4/00)(SFC, 7/23/97, p.E1)
1995 Jun 4, Sophie Winter (34),
actress (She's a Good Fighter), died from a misdiagnosed extopic
pregnancy.
(http://tinyurl.com/83sc6)
1995 Jun 4, French General Bernard
Janvier, supreme UN military commander in the former Yugoslavia, met
with Bosnian Serb military commander, Ratko Mladic. He pleaded for the
release of UN captives and offered to halt future NATO air attacks.
Shortly after Yasushi Akashi publicly affirmed that the UN would abide
by peacekeeping principles - shorthand for no more air attacks.
(SFC, 6/7/96, p.A10)
1995 Jun 4, In Sri Lanka the
Tigers blew up a ship chartered by the Int’l. Committee of the Red
Cross.
(SFC, 7/24/96, p.A9)
1995 Jun 5, "Allison," a minimal
hurricane, buffeted the Gulf Coast with 75 mile-per-hour winds,
swamping streets and spinning off tornadoes but causing no major damage.
(AP, 6/5/00)
1995 Jun 5, Trevor Dupuy, founder
of the Dupuy Institute, died. His Washington DC military think-tank
developed software called Tactical Numerical Deterministic Model that
forecast surprisingly accurate casualty figures for the 1991 Gulf War.
(Econ, 9/17/05,
TQp.22)(www.dupuyinstitute.org/tndupuy.htm)
1995 Jun 6, US astronaut Norman
Thagard broke NASA’s space endurance record of 84 days, one hour and 16
minutes, aboard the Russian space station "Mir."
(AP, 6/6/00)
1995 Jun 6, NATO launched 2 air
raids against an ammunition dump in Serb-held central Bosnia. Serb
forces then seized 270 UN peacekeepers, shackled them to potential
targets, and ordered them to plead on camera for the NATO air attacks
to stop.
(SFC, 6/7/96, p.A10)
1995 Jun 7, President Clinton
vetoed his first bill, striking down a Republican plan to cut $16.4
billion in spending.
(AP, 6/7/00)
1995 Jun 7, The maiden flight of
the new Boeing 777 was made from London to Washington.
(WSJ, 1/23/96, p.A12)
1995 Jun 7, Two buses carrying 108
UN peacekeepers freed by the Bosnian Serbs crossed into Serbia.
(AP, 6/7/00)
1995 Jun 8, US Marines rescued
U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O’Grady, whose F-16C fighter jet had
been shot down by Bosnian Serbs on June second.
(AP, 6/8/00)
1995 Jun 8, Mickey Mantle received
a liver transplant at a Dallas hospital; however, the baseball great
succumbed to disease two months later.
(AP, 6/8/00)(HN, 6/8/99)
1995 Jun 9, One week after being
shot down over Bosnia by a Bosnian Serb missile, and a day after being
rescued, US Air Force Captain Scott O’Grady was warmly welcomed by his
comrades at Aviano Air Base in Italy.
(AP, 6/9/00)
1995 Jun 9, UN representative
Akashi summoned Gens. Janvier and Smith to resolve their differences
over military policies in Bosnia. Shortly after Yasushi Akashi publicly
affirmed that the UN would abide by peacekeeping principles - shorthand
for no more air attacks.
(SFC, 6/4/96, p.A10,12)
1995 Jun 10, US Air Force Captain
Scott O’Grady, rescued after being shot down over Bosnia, described his
six-day ordeal at a news conference at Aviano Air Base in Italy, saying
he was no Rambo and no hero.
(AP, 6/10/00)
1995 Jun 10, "Thunder Gulch" won
the Belmont Stakes.
(AP, 6/10/00)
1995 Jun 11, In an unprecedented
joint appearance, President Clinton and House Speaker Newt Gingrich
sparred politely over Medicare and other issues before an audience of
senior citizens in Claremont, New Hampshire.
(AP, 6/11/00)
1995 Jun 11, A bomb exploded at an
outdoor music festival in Medellin, Colombia, spraying shrapnel that
killed at least 28 people and wounded more than 200 others.
(AP, 6/11/03)
1995 Jun 12, The US Supreme Court
dealt a potentially crippling blow to federal affirmative action
programs, ruling Congress was limited by the same strict standards as
states in offering special help to minorities.
(AP, 6/12/00)
1995 Jun 12, Air Force Captain
Scott O’Grady, rescued after being shot down over Bosnia, was treated
to lunch at the White House and a hero’s welcome at the Pentagon.
(AP, 6/12/00)
1995 Jun 13, President Clinton
proposed a ten-year plan for balancing the federal budget, saying in a
televised address his proposal would cut spending by $1.1 trillion.
(AP, 6/13/00)
1995 Jun 13, France announced it
would abandon its 1992 moratorium on nuclear testing and conduct eight
more tests between September and May.
(AP, 6/13/00)
1995 Jun 14, Stephen Yokich was
elected president of the United Auto Workers at the union’s triennial
convention in Anaheim, California.
(AP, 6/14/00)
1995 Jun 14, Shamil Basayev,
Chechen commander, led a hostage raid on the a Russian hospital in
Budyonnovsk [Budennovsk]. Chechen rebels took some 1,500 people hostage
in a hospital in Russia. After a 4-day standoff Sergei Stepashin
ordered troops to storm the hospital and the rebels escaped with some
100 hostages. Some 100-150 people were killed in the fighting.
(SFC, 1/25/97, p.A8)(HN, 6/14/98)(SFC, 5/13/99,
p.A16)(SSFC, 11/10/02, p.A11)
1995 Jun 15, The Summit of 7
leading industrialist nations, G-7, met in Halifax, Canada, for talks
on a unified front against terrorism. President Clinton met with
Japanese PM Tomiichi Murayama on the opening day of a Group of Seven
summit in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
(AP, 6/15/00)(SFC, 6/20/97, p.A16)
1995 Jun 15, At the O.J. Simpson
murder trial, Simpson struggled to don a pair of gloves that
prosecutors said were worn the night Simpson’s ex-wife, Nicole, and her
friend, Ronald Goldman, were murdered.
(AP, 6/15/00)
1995 Jun 16, Salt Lake City was
awarded the XIX Winter Olympic Games for 2002. A scandal later
developed over pay-offs.
(AP, 6/16/00)
1995 Jun 16, Bosnian government
forces aided by Bosnian Croats unleashed a major offensive in hopes of
breaking the Serb stranglehold on Sarajevo.
(AP, 6/16/00)
1995 Jun 17, Russian commandos
stormed a hospital where Chechen rebels were holding more than 1,000
hostages, but the Chechens beat the Russians back.
(AP, 6/17/00)
1995 Jun 18, About 300 inmates
trashed an immigration detention center in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
(AP, 6/18/00)
1995 Jun 18, A private plane
carrying the Angolan soccer team crashed in Luanda, Angola, killing 48
people.
(AP, 6/18/00)
1995 Jun 18, The Bosnian Serbs
announced the resumption of cooperation with the UN. Serbs released the
last 26 UN hostages held since NATO airstrikes. A planned NATO air
strike was vetoed.
(SFC, 6/4/96,
p.A12)(www.washington-report.org/backissues/0995/9509111.htm)(AP,
6/18/00)
1995 Jun 19, The Richmond,
Virginia, Planning Commission approved plans to place a memorial statue
of tennis professional Arthur Ashe.
(HN, 6/19/00)
1995 Jun 19, Jennifer Lea Evans
(21), a vacationing college student, was killed outside a Virginia
Beach nightclub. Navy SEAL trainees Dustin Turner and his best friend,
Billy Joe Brown, were convicted for the same crime. When they were
arrested, each man accused the other of being the killer. In 2009 Brown
said he killed Evans with no help from Turner. Brown said he wanted to
tell the truth after almost 13 years because he had found religion in
prison. A court soon overturned the convictions against Turner (33).
(SFC, 8/5/09,
p.A4)(http://freedusty.com/Story/Dusty_Story.html)
1995 Jun 20, US Air Force Captain
Jim Wang, a radar officer, was cleared of wrongdoing in a friendly fire
attack on 2 US helicopters over northern Iraq in 1994 that resulted in
26 deaths.
(AP, 6/20/00)
1995 Jun 19, Murray Dickie
(b.1924), opera singer, director, died.
(http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Obituary/1995/theatre.html)
1995 Jun 19, Chechen rebels and
more than 100 human shields rode a convoy of buses back to Chechnya
following the end of a hostage drama at a Russian hospital.
(AP, 6/19/00)
1995 Jun 19, Chinese-American
human rights activist Harry Wu was detained as he tried to enter China;
he was jailed for 66 days before being expelled.
(AP, 6/19/00)(SFC, 5/19/96, Z1, p.3)
1995 Jun 20-1995 Jun 21, The Mount
Zion AME Church in Greeleyville, S.C., was destroyed by fire. On the
next day the Macedonia Baptist Church in Bloomville was burned. In 1996
two KKK members, Gary Cox and Timothy Welch, were charged in federal
court for setting the fires. They pleaded guilty on 8/14/96. Former
Klansmen Hubert Rowell and Arthur Haley pleaded guilty to 4 counts of
conspiracy in the fires in Dec 1996. In 1998 the Christian Knights of
KKK and Horace King, Grand Dragon of South Carolina, were ordered to
pay $37.8 million in damages for the burning of the Macedonia Baptist
church.
(SFC, 7/9/96, p.A6)(SFC, 8/15/96, p.A4)(SFC,
12/10/96, p.A3)(SFC, 7/25/98, p.A3)
1995 Jun 21, Dr. Henry Foster lost
a crucial Senate vote in his bid to become surgeon general as only 57
senators voted to cut off debate, three short of the 60 needed. One
last vote the next day also fell short.
(HN, 6/21/98)(AP, 6/21/00)
1995 Jun 21, Larry Griffin was
executed in Missouri for the murder of Quintin Moss (19). Griffin
asserted his innocence until he died. In 2005 the case was re-opened.
{Missouri}
(Econ, 7/23/05, p.31)
1995 Jun 22, US House and Senate
Republicans announced agreement on a compromise seven-year
budget-balancing plan that would cut taxes by $245 billion and slow
spending for Medicare, Medicaid and dozens of other programs.
(AP, 6/22/00)
1995 Jun 22, Riot police stormed a
hijacked jumbo jet in Hakodate, Japan, freeing all 364 people on board
and capturing a lone hijacker.
(AP, 6/22/00)
1995 Jun 22, Nigeria’s former
military ruler Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo and his chief deputy were charged
with conspiracy to overthrow Gen. Sami Abacha’s military government.
(HN, 6/22/00)
1995 Jun 23, Dr. Jonas Salk, the
medical pioneer who developed the first vaccine to halt the crippling
rampage of polio, died in La Jolla, California, at age 80.
(AP, 6/23/00)
1995 Jun 23, In Mexico Hector "El
Guero" Palma, reputed head of the Sinaloa drug cartel, was arrested
after his plane crashed near Guadalajara. He faced 9 counts of murder
for the killing of 9 relatives and associates of his rival Miguel Angel
Felix Gallardo. Gallardo had earlier decapitated Palma’s first wife and
arranged the murder of his 2 children.
(SFC, 7/18/97, p.A11)
1995 Jun 24, The New Jersey Devils
won the Stanley Cup as they completed a sweep of the Detroit Red Wings.
(AP, 6/24/00)
1995 Jun 24, In his weekly radio
address, President Clinton blamed the failed nomination of Dr. Henry
Foster to be surgeon general on right-wing extremists who, he said,
would "stop at nothing" to outlaw abortion.
(AP, 6/24/00)
1995 Jun 24, Nelson Mandela,
wearing a Springbok rugby shirt and baseball cap, presented the William
Webb Ellis Cup to South African captain Francois Pienaar following the
Springbok win over New Zealand in the Rugby World Cup. This was the
first Rugby World Cup in which every match was held in one country. In
2008 John Carlin authored ”Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the
Game that Made a Nation.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Rugby_World_Cup)(Econ, 9/13/08, p.92)
1995 Jun 25, Warren E. Burger, the
15th chief justice of the United States (1969-86), died in Washington,
D.C., of congestive heart failure at age 87.
(AP, 6/25/97)
1995 Jun 26, President Clinton
observed the 50th anniversary of the United Nations at the site of its
birth in San Francisco.
(AP, 6/26/00)
1995 Jun 26, The Supreme Court
ruled, 6-to-3, that public schools can require drug tests for its
athletes.
(AP, 6/26/00)
1995 Jun 26, In San Francisco a
demonstration occurred on behalf of Abu-Jamal, convicted in the 1981
killing of a Philadelphia police officer. Police arrested 279
demonstrators. In 1996 34 of the demonstrators won small claim
settlements of $1,000 each for lack of probable cause in the
felony-arson arrests where 2 trash bins and a couch were set on fire.
(SFC, 9/19/96, p.A13,16)
1995 Jun 26, In Ethiopia Egyptian
Pres. Hosni Mubarek was attacked on his way to the Organization of
African Unity summit. An Ethiopian court sentenced 3 Egyptian men to
death in 1996 for the attack.
(SFC, 9/21/96, p.A10)
1995 Jun 27, The space shuttle
"Atlantis" blasted off on a historic flight to link up with Russia’s
space station "Mir" and bring home American astronaut Norman Thagard.
(AP, 6/27/00)
1995 Jun 27, The San Francisco
Chronicle received a message from the Unabomber threatening to blow up
a plane by the July Fourth weekend. The Unabomber later called the
threat a prank.
(AP, 6/27/00)
1995 Jun 28, The US House
overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment to protect the
American flag from desecration. However, the amendment was defeated in
the Senate.
(AP, 6/28/00)
1995 Jun 28, Webster Hubbell, the
former number-three official at the Justice Department, was sentenced
to 21 months in prison for bilking clients of the law firm where he and
Hillary Rodham Clinton were partners.
(AP, 6/28/00)
1995 Jun 28, The New York Times
received the Unabomber manifesto.
(SFEC,11/9/97, Z1 p.5)
1995 June 28, Mexican police fired
on a group of peasants at Agua Blancas in Guerrero. An edited video
aired nationally showed that the peasants were armed, but raw video
later showed police shooting unarmed peasants, who were than filmed
with planted weapons on their corpses. 17 peasants from the leftist
Southern Sierra Campesino Organization were killed and 23 others
wounded. In 1996 Virgilia Galeana Garcia testified that Gen. Mario
Arturo Acosta Chaparro was at the scene of the massacre.
(SFC, 4/28/96, A-16)(SFC, 6/15/96, p.C12)(SFC,
9/2/00, p.A14)
1995 Jun 29, Actress Lana Turner
died in Century City, California, at age 74.
(AP, 6/29/00)
1995 Jun 29, The shuttle
"Atlantis" and the space station "Mir" docked in orbit.
(AP, 6/29/00)
1995 Jun 29, A department store in
Seoul, South Korea, collapsed, killing at least 500 people.
(AP, 6/29/00)
1995 Jun 29, Sri Lanka, 12-year
old civil war continued. Nearly 150 people were killed in the bloodiest
day of the war when insurgents stormed Mandaitivu island, not far from
the rebel held Jaffna Peninsula.
(WSJ, 6/29/95, p.A1)
1995 Jun 30, President
Clinton, speaking in Chicago, proposed an even tighter ban on
armor-piercing handgun ammunition known as "cop-killer" bullets.
(AP, 6/30/00)
1995 Jun 30, US vice pres. Al Gore
signed a secret agreement with Viktor Chernomyrdin, prime minister of
Russia, that called for an end to Russian sales of conventional weapons
to Iran by the end of 1999.
(SFC, 10/13/00, p.A14)
1995 Jun 30, Gale Gordon
(89), comic actor, died in Escondido, California.
(AP,
6/30/00)(www.radiohof.org/comedy/galegordon.html)
1995 Jun 30, In a stunning Kremlin
purge, Russian President Boris Yeltsin fired three top security
ministers for the botched handling of a bloody hostage-taking by
Chechen rebels in southern Russia.
(AP, 6/30/00)
1995 Jun, In the US "Batman
Forever" with Tommy Lee Jones grossed a record $52.8 million in its
opening weekend.
(SFC, 5/13/96, p.D-2)
1995 Jun, In San Francisco
Episcopal bishop William Swing sponsored an Interfaith Youth Conference
and publicly announced the United Religions Initiative at the UN’s 50th
anniversary worship service.
(SFEC, 6/22/97, Z1 p.3)
1995 Jun, Kent Weeks, archeologist
at the American Univ. in Cairo, Egypt, was the leader of a team that
discovered the largest tomb in the Valley of the Kings. It was a
multilevel family mausoleum believed to be the burial place for the 48
sons of Ramses II.
(G&M, 2/2/96, p.A22)(SFC, 8/5/96, p.A10)
1995 Jun, Egypt’s Pres. Mubarak
escaped unharmed after his motorcade comes under fire during a trip to
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, en route to an African summit. One of at least
four attempts on his life.
(AP, 7/9/04)
1995 Jun, In Qatar Sheik Hamad Bin
Khalifa al-Thani (45) ousted his father, Sheik Khalifa Bin Hamad
al-Thani, as emir. Sheik Khalifa is suspected of having made off with
$4 billion in the form of unpaid personal loans. The new Emir soon
abolished the information ministry that controlled newspapers and
broadcasting. Sheik Hamad also gave women the right to vote and
introduced satellite television.
(WSJ, 3/21/96, p.A-1)(SFEC, 7/4/99, p.A21)(SFC,
6/19/00, p.A5)(WSJ, 10/24/02, p.A12)
1995 Jun, In South Africa the
death penalty was abolished by the Constitutional Court.
(SFC, 4/23/97, p.A4)
1995 Jul 1, "Kiss of the Spider
Woman" closed at Broadhurst in NYC after 904 performances.
(www.chitarivera.com/productions/kiss_of_the_spider_woman.htm)
1995 Jul 1, Wolfman Jack (57),
rock-and-roll disc jockey, died in Belvidere, North Carolina.
(AP, 7/1/00)
1995 Jul 1, Russian President
Boris Yeltsin’s government survived a critical no-confidence vote.
(AP, 7/1/00)
1995 Jul 1-Aug 15, In Iraq Shiite
political prisoners held at Abu Ghraib were transported to Unit 2100 at
Al Haditha. It was suspected that the prisoners were used for testing
biological agents.
(SFEC, 3/7/99, p.A18)
1995 Jul 2, In Denver,
representatives of 34 countries ended an economic summit by endorsing
an open-market zone throughout the Western Hemisphere—excluding Cuba.
(AP, 7/2/00)(www.sice.oas.org/tunit/SGspeech.asp)y
1995 Jul 3, Irish Republican Army
sympathizers rioted in Northern Ireland’s two largest cities in outrage
over the early parole of a British soldier convicted of killing a Roman
Catholic woman.
(AP, 7/3/00)
1995 Jul
3, Richard "Pancho" Gonzalez (b.1928), tennis great, died of stomach
cancer in Las Vegas, Nevada.
(www.tennisfame.org/enshrinees/pancho_gonzales.html)
1995 Jul 4, The space shuttle
"Atlantis" and the Russian space station "Mir" parted after spending
five days in orbit docked together.
(AP, 7/4/00)
1995 Jul 4, Actress Eva Gabor
(b.1919), Hungarian-born actress, died in Los Angeles, Ca., of
respiratory failure due to complications of food poisoning.
(http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001247/)
1995 Jul 4, British Prime Minister
John Major won re-election as Conservative Party leader.
(AP, 7/4/00)
1995 Jul 4, President Boris
Yeltsin announced that Russian troops would be permanently stationed in
Chechnya.
(AP, 7/4/00)
1995 Jul 5, More than 100 Grateful
Dead fans were injured when a deck on which they were gathered
collapsed at a campground near Wentzville, Missouri.
(AP, 7/5/00)
1995 Jul 6, The prosecution rested
at the O.J. Simpson murder trial in Los Angeles.
(AP, 7/6/00)
1995 Jul 6, At 3:15AM The UN safe
area at Srebrenica came under attack by the Bosnian Serb army’s Drina
corps under Genl. Radislav Krstic, and some 7,500 Muslim men and boys
were killed. The acquisition and delivery of arms was organized by
Yugoslav army officer Mirko Krajisnik, brother to Momcilo Krajisnik,
president of the Bosnian Serb assembly. In 1998 Chuck Sudetic published
"Blood and Vengeance: One Family’s Story of the War in Bosnia." The
book focused on the Srebrenica killings. 300 Dutch troops were later
accused of not preventing the Serbs from overrunning the town. Bosnian
Serb Gen’l. Radislav Krstic was arrested in 1998 for genocide in the
1995 takeover of Srebrenica. In 1999 the UN issued a 155-page report
that admitted its failure to block the massacre. Krstic was convicted
in 2001. In 2003 Bosnian Serb officers Momir Nikolic and Dragan
Obrenovic described the massacre as a well-planned and deliberate
killing operation. In 2003 An Int'l. Court sentenced Col. Dragan
Obrenovic (40) to 17 years in prison for his role in the slaughter of
more than 7,000 men and boys in Srebrenica.
(SFC, 6/4/96, p.A12)(SFC, 8/12/98, p.A14)(SFC,
12/3/98, p.A16)(SFC, 11/16/99, p.A1)(SFC, 3/14/00, p.A10)(SFC, 8/3/01,
p.A1)(SSFC, 10/11/03, p.A14)(AP, 12/11/03)
1995 Jul 7, The space shuttle
"Atlantis" landed at Cape Canaveral, Florida, bringing back American
astronaut Norman Thagard, who’d spent three and a-half months aboard
the Russian space station "Mir."
(AP, 7/7/00)
1995 Jul 7, UN military observers
in Bosnia appealed to the UN to "stop the carnage and damage in a UN
declared safe zone."
(SFC, 6/4/96, p.A12)
1995 Jul 8, Steffi Graf won the
women’s singles title at Wimbledon, defeating Arantxa Sanchez Vicario.
(AP, 7/8/00)
1995 Jul 8, Chinese-American human
rights activist Harry Wu, detained on June 19, was arrested in China
and charged with obtaining state secrets. He was later convicted of
espionage and deported.
(AP, 7/8/00)
1995 Jul 8, A deadly heat wave
began in the midsection of the US. It claimed more than 800 lives, more
than half of them in Illinois.
(AP, 7/8/00)
1995 Jul 8, In Bosnia shelling
resumed and the Dutch abandoned 3 posts under direct fire. 30 Dutch
troops were taken by the Serbs to Bratunac.
(SFC, 6/4/96, p.A12)
1995 Jul 9, Pete Sampras won the
men’s singles title at Wimbledon by defeating Boris Becker, 6-7 (7-5),
6-2, 6-4, 6-2.
(AP, 7/9/00)
1995 Jul 9, The Dutch in Bosnia
again asked for air support but it was refused.
(SFC, 6/4/96, p.A12)
1995 Jul 9, French commandos
boarded the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior Two in the South Pacific.
(AP, 7/9/00)
1995 Jul 10, President
Clinton embraced mandatory ratings for TV programs and legislation to
put parental-control chips in new sets.
(AP, 7/10/00)
1995 Jul 10, The defense opened
its case at the O.J. Simpson murder trial in Los Angeles.
(AP, 7/10/00)
1995 Jul 10, In Burma Aung San
Suu Kyi was released after six years of house arrest. She later charged
that the military regime doesn't want democratic reform.
(SFC, 5/22/96, p.C-1)(WSJ, 11/30/95, p.A1)
1995 Jul 11, Full diplomatic
relations were established between the United States and Vietnam
following an order by Pres. Clinton.
(SFEM, 6/9/96, p.9)(HN, 7/11/98)(SSFC, 8/24/03, p.I6)
1995 Jul 11, Srebrenica, a UN
declared "safe area," fell to the Bosnian Serbs. 7,000 Muslim men
supposedly escaped but were never heard from again. Drazen Erdemovic
(24) later admitted that he participated in killing 70 men at
Srebrenica. Victims were shot in the back in groups of 10 by himself
and fellow soldiers in the Bosnian Serb Army’s 10th Sabotage
Detachment. He was told that he would be killed if he refused to follow
orders. In 1998 the book "The Graves: Srebrenica and Vukovar" was
published with photographs by Gilles Peress and text by Eric Stover.
(SFC, 6/4/96, p.A12)(SFC, 7/7/96, A10) (SFC, 6/1/96,
p.A10)(SFEC, 12/20/98, BR p.6)
1995 Jul 11, Videotape showed Gen.
Ratco Mladic entering Srebrenica.
(SFC, 7/4/96, p.A8)
1995 Jul 11-1995 Jul 16, In
the Srebrenica Massacre buses arrived to take women and children to
Muslim territory, while the Serbs began separating out all men from age
12 to 77 for "interrogation for suspected war crimes". It is estimated
that 23,000 women and children were deported in the next 30 hours while
hundreds of men were held in trucks and warehouses. On 13 July killings
of unarmed Muslims took place in one such warehouse in the nearby
village of Kravica. By July 16 Early reports of massacres emerged as
the first survivors of the long march from Srebrenica began to arrive
in Muslim-held territory. Between July 11 and July 16 more than 7,000
unarmed Muslim men are thought to have been killed by Serbian forces.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/675945.stm)
1995 Jul 12, President Clinton
spelled out school-prayer guidelines, asserting the First Amendment
already guaranteed adequate freedom of religion.
(AP, 7/12/00)
1995 Jul 12, US public debt said
by the Treasury to be $4.93 trillion.
(WSJ, 7/12/95, p.A1)
1995 Jul 12, In Bosnia Momir
Nikolic, an intelligence officer, was nearby when 80-100 prisoners were
decapitated and their headless corpses loaded onto trucks. Nikolic was
arrested in 2002 on charges that he was responsible for the killing of
some 1,000 Muslim males (16-60), who were taken from a UN compound in
Jul 1995. He was also charged for the deaths of 6,000 more prisoners
captured while fleeing from Srebrenica. In 2003 Nikolic pleaded guilty
to war crimes. In 2003 Nikolic accepted that he was on duty when 80-100
prisoners were decapitated and their corpses loaded onto trucks.
Prosecutors recommended 20 years in prison.
(SFC, 4/4/02, p.A8)(AP, 5/6/03)(AP, 10/28/03)
1995 Jul 13, President Clinton
denounced a base-closing list for the damage it would do to California
and Texas, but then approved the package while promising to save jobs
in those states.
(AP, 7/13/00)
1995 Jul 13, Just six days after
the space shuttle "Atlantis" returned, the shuttle "Discovery" blasted
off on a nine-day mission.
(AP, 7/13/00)
1995 Jul 13, In Michigan six union
locals, representing some 2,500 workers of the Detroit Free Press,
Detroit News and Detroit newspapers Inc., went on a strike that lasted
19 months.
(AP, 7/13/00)(www.pww.org/archives96/96-07-13-3.html)
1995 Jul 14, Under pressure from
Congress, FBI Director Louis Freeh removed his friend Larry Potts as
the bureau’s deputy director because of controversy over Potts’ role in
a deadly 1992 FBI siege in Idaho.
(AP, 7/14/00)
1995 Jul 14, Physicists announced
that a new state of matter was formed by using lasers and evaporation
to plunge the temp. of rubidium gas to minus 459.67 degrees F. A full
article on the experiment appeared in the journal Science.
(WSJ, 7/14/95, A-1)
1995 Jul 15, A 19-year-old sales
clerk was rescued after being buried in the rubble of a collapsed
shopping mall in Seoul, South Korea, for 16 days.
(AP, 7/15/00)
1995 Jul 16, William Barloon and
David Daliberti, the two Americans who were imprisoned in Iraq for
crossing the border from Kuwait four months earlier, were released.
(AP, 7/16/00)
1995 Jul 16, Amazon.com went live
on the Internet. The 1st book sold on the site was “Fluid Concepts and
Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of
Thought.”
(SFC, 7/5/05, p.E2)
1995 Jul 16, Stephen Spender
(b.1909), English poet and critic, died. In 2004 John Sutherland
authored “Stephen Spender: The Authorized Biography.”
(HN, 2/28/01)(Econ, 6/19/04, p.81)
1995 Jul 16, Early reports of
massacres in Bosnia emerged as the first survivors of the long march
from Srebrenica began to arrive in Muslim-held territory. Following
negotiations between the UN and the Bosnian Serbs, the Dutch were at
last permitted to leave Srebrenica, leaving behind weapons, food and
medical supplies.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/675945.stm)
1995 Jul 17, Thirty-two people
were injured when a Boston Green Line trolley rammed another train
under Copley Square.
(AP, 7/17/00)
1995 Jul 18, US Senate Republicans
opened a new round of Whitewater hearings.
(AP, 7/18/00)
1995 Jul 18, Opening statements
were presented in the trial of Susan Smith, the South Carolina woman
charged with drowning her two young sons.
(AP, 7/18/00)
1995 Jul 19, Las Vegas
Review-Journal columnist, John L. Smith, authored a book due out Aug,
1999, titled: "Running Scared: The Dangerous Life and Treacherous Times
of Las Vegas Casino King Steve Wynn."
(RNR, 7/19/95, p. 10)
1995 Jul 19, President Clinton
firmly rejected calls for dismantling affirmative action programs.
(AP, 7/19/05)
1995 Jul 19, A pair of House
subcommittees held a joint hearing on the federal government’s raid on
the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas.
(AP, 7/19/00)
1995 Jul 19, The Dow Jones
industrial average ended at 4628.87, down 57.41, after plunging more
than 130 points earlier in the session.
(AP, 7/19/00)
1995 Jul 20, Baseball
Hall-of-Famers Duke Snider and Willie McCovey pleaded guilty in New
York to tax evasion.
(AP, 7/20/00)
1995 Jul 20, Leaders of the
University of California voted to drop affirmative action policies on
admissions and hiring.
(AP, 7/20/00)
1995 Jul 21, At a 16-nation
conference in London, the United States and NATO allies warned Bosnian
Serbs that further attacks on UN safe havens would draw a "substantial
and decisive response."
(AP, 7/21/00)
1995 Jul 21, Elleston Trevor,
British author, died.
(www.britannica.com/eb/article-9112339?tocId=9112339)
1995 Jul 22, Susan Smith was
convicted by a jury in Union, South Carolina, of first-degree murder
for drowning her two sons. She was later sentenced to life in prison.
(AP, 7/22/00)
1995 Jul 22, In San Luis Obispo,
15-year-old Elyse Pahler was murdered by 3 teenagers of the death metal
band called "Hatred" patterned after the group "Slayer." Her body was
not found for 8 months until revealed by Joseph Fiorella (16), who
received a 26 year to life sentence in 1997 as part of a plea bargain.
Royce Casey (18) and Jacob Delashmutt still faced trial as adults.
Death metal was a sub-genre of heavy metal that featured explicit
lyrics dealing with murder, torture and occult practices.
(SFC, 3/8/96, p.A15)
1995 Jul 23, American amateur
astronomers first reported the discovery of the comet bearing their
names: Hale-Bopp. Reconstruction of the orbit indicated that the comet
repeatedly enters the inner solar system every 3,000 years or so. It
travels in an orbit perpendicular to the solar system in an elongated
ellipse that is about 33 million miles from the sun at its farthest
point. Its closest approach to Earth will be on March 23, 1997. The
nearest pass will be on April 1.
(Nat. Hist., 3/96, p.55)(SFEC, 10/27/96, p.A17)
1995 Jul 23, The United Nations
ordered the first combat unit from its rapid reaction force to Sarajevo
to take out any rebel Serb guns that fire at U.N. peacekeepers.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1995 Jul 24, A Palestinian suicide
bomber blew up a crowded commuter bus in Tel Aviv and killed six
Israelis and wounded 28. Hamas took responsibility.
(WSJ, 3/6/96, p. A15)(G&M, 7/31/97, p.A8)(AP,
7/24/00)
1995 Jul 25, A bomb exploded at
the Paris subway St. Michel station, killing 8 people and injuring some
200. The Armed Islamic Group claimed responsibility. In 1999 five
people linked to Algerian militants were sentenced to 10-year prison
terms for the attacks. 16 others received lesser sentences. In 2002
Boualem Bensaid and Smain Ait Ali Belkacem, Islamic militants, were
convicted and sentenced to life in prison for their roles in the
bombings. British police arrested Rachid Ramda (25) at the request of
the French government due to his connections with Bensaid. In 2005
Ramda was still in Belmarsh prison awaiting extradition. In 2007 Ramda
(38) was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for
22 years.
(www.emergency.com/frncboms.htm)(AP, 7/25/00)(Econ,
10/22/05, p.61)(AP, 10/26/07)
1995 Jul 25, Two weeks after
overrunning Srebrenica, Bosnian Serbs took over the safe area of Zepa.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A14)(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)
1995 Jul 25, Radovan Karadzic and
Gen’l. Ratko Mladic and 22 other Serbs were indicted for genocide by
the UN War Crimes Hague Tribunal for commanding forces responsible for
sniping in Serajevo and for genocide and crimes against humanity. Also
indicted was Milan Martic, Croatian Serb leader of rebel Serb forces,
for ordering the shelling of Zagreb in May ‘95.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A14)(SFC, 11/30/96, p.A15)(AP,
7/25/00)
1995 Jul 26, The US Senate voted
69-to-29 to unilaterally lift the UN embargo on arms shipments to
Bosnia.
(AP, 7/26/00)
1995 Jul 26, Former Michigan
Governor George W. Romney died at age 88.
(AP, 7/26/00)
1995 Jul 27, The Korean War
Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington by President Clinton and
South Korean President Kim Young-sam.
(AP, 7/27/98)
1995 Jul 27, Miklos Rozsa (88),
Hungarian movie composer (Atomic Cafe, Fedora), died.
(www.sospeso.com/contents/composers_artists/rozsa.html)
1995 Jul 28, A jury in Union,
South Carolina, rejected the death penalty for Susan Smith, sentencing
her instead to life in prison for drowning her two young sons. Smith
was eligible for parole after 30 years.
(AP, 7/28/00)
1995 Jul 28, In Sri Lanka the
Tamil Tigers lost some 400 guerrillas in a raid on Weli Oya army camp
where only 2 soldiers died.
(SFC, 7/24/96, p.A9)
1995 Jul 28, Vietnam joined the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations. ASEAN was established in
Bangkok in 1967 by the five original member countries: Indonesia,
Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand.
(www.aseansec.org/64.htm)
1995 Jul 29, President Clinton and
Republicans marked the 30th anniversary of Medicare by accusing one
another of putting the program’s future at risk.
(AP, 7/29/00)
1995 Jul 30, Russia and Chechen
rebels signed an agreement calling for a gradual withdrawal of Russian
troops and the disarmament of rebel fighters.
(AP, 7/30/00)
1995 Jul 31, The Walt Disney
Company agreed to acquire Capital Cities-ABC Inc. in a $19 billion
deal. The deal included the ESPN sports cable network.
(AP, 7/31/97)(Econ, 9/18/04, p.70)
1995 Jul, Monica Lewinsky began
employment as an intern in the White House Chief of Staff’s office.
(SFC, 9/12/98, p.A12)
1995 Jul, Nataly I, a Panamanian
tuna boat, was stopped 780 miles west of Peru by the US Coast Guard and
found to contain 12 tons of cocaine worth some $700 million.
(WSJ, 7/10/97, p.A13)
1995 Jul, Drazen Erdemovic (24),
an ethnic Croat, participated in killing 70 men at Srebrenica. He later
admitted that victims were shot in the back in groups of 10 by himself
and fellow soldiers in the Bosnian Serb Army’s 10th Sabotage
Detachment. He was told that he would be killed if he refused to follow
orders. In Nov 1996, the UN War Tribunal sentenced him to ten years in
prison.
(SFC, 6/1/96, p.A10)
1995 Jul, Pakistan’s PM Benazir
Bhutto, under pressure from army commanders, began peace talks with the
MQM. The talks foundered, then restarted, only to reach another
deadlock. At year's end the two sides were still hurling accusations at
each other.
(www.britannica.com/eb/article-9112820/PAKISTAN)
1995 Jul, The Serbs overran the
safe area of Zepa. The Hague Tribunal indicted Karadzic and his
military commander Gen. Ratko Mladic for genocide and crimes against
humanity.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A14)
1995 Jul, Forensic experts in 1998
began exhuming 274 bodies in the village of Donja Glumina. They were
believed to be Bosnian Muslims killed in Srebrenica by Serbs in Jul
1995.
(SFC, 10/12/98, p.A8)
1995 Jul, A UN War Crimes Tribunal
in the Hague issued indictments. Dusko Sikirica, who commanded a camp
at Prijedor in 1992 where over 3,000 Bosnian Muslims and Croats were
killed and tortured, was among the indicted. Sikirica was arrested in
2000.
(SFC, 6/26/00, p.A12)(WSJ, 6/26/00, p.A1)
1995 Jul, Serb troops made some
video tapes of their killings. In 2005 a video was shown by the War
Crimes Tribunal that displayed the murder of 6 civilians including
Azmir Alispahic (16) on Mount Treskavica near Pale.
(AP, 6/3/05)
1995 Jul, In Vancouver, Canada, at
the Int’l. AIDS Conference researchers said that at least 10
genetically different sub-types of HIV-1 were identified. HIV-2 was
another strain principally found in Africa.
(SFEC, 10/8/96, A4)
1995 Jul, In Colombia Santiago
Medina, Pres. Samper’s campaign treasurer, testified that $6 million
was solicited from the Cali drug cartel.
(SFC, 6/13/96, p.C3)
1995 Jul, The Ebola virus killed
244 people in Kikwit, Zaire.
(WSJ, 12/11/95, p.A1)(SFC, 5/5/99, p.A11)
1995 Jul, Four hostages: Donald
Hutchings, Keith Mangan, Paul Wells and Dirk Hasert were seized by
Kashmir guerillas, who call themselves Al Faran. In May ‘96 a Muslim
insurgent, who claimed to have been involved, said the men were killed
and buried in the mountains in Dec. The captured rebel Nasir Mehmood
said in a police report that the hostages were killed Dec 13, 1995 by
guerrillas of Harkat-ul-Ansar, a group based in Pakistan. The Al Faran
name was coined to confuse Indian authorities. The Harkatul Mujahedeen
kidnapped the tourists.
(SFC, 5/27/96, p.A6)(SFC, 12/23/96, p.A12)(SFC,
4/8/98, p.A12)(WSJ, 10/12/01, p.A6)
1995 Jul, In Kenya paleontologist
Richard Leakey began a new political party, Safina, as an alternative
to KANU (Kenya African National Union) and FORD-Kenya (Forum for
Restoration of Democracy).
(SFC, 10/17/96, A8)
1995 Jul, In Malaysia, Irene
Fernandez, head of the human rights group Tenaganita, published a
report after interviewing immigrant inmates on prison conditions. 71
deaths have been caused by alleged abuse.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A15)
1995 Aug 1, In the second TV
network takeover in as many days, Westinghouse Electric Corporation
struck a deal to buy CBS for $5.4 billion. A day earlier, Walt Disney
had agreed to acquire Capital Cities-ABC for $19 billion.
(AP, 8/1/00)
1995 Aug 1, NATO threatened major
air strikes if any more "safe areas" were attacked in Bosnia.
(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)
1995 Aug 2, Hurricane "Erin" came
ashore near Vero Beach, Florida; the storm was blamed for eleven deaths.
(AP, 8/2/00)
1995 Aug 2, China ordered the
expulsion of two US Air Force officers it said were caught spying on
military sites.
(AP, 8/2/00)
1995 Aug 3, Wisconsin Gov. Tommy
Thompson announced an end to welfare offices in the state at the site
of a new jobs center in Racine.
(SFC, 9/1/97, p.A3)
1995 Aug 3, A Palestinian, Eyad
Ismoil, was flown to the United States from Jordan to face charges he’d
driven a bomb-laden van into New York’s World Trade Center. The 1993
explosion killed six people and injured more than one-thousand; Ismoil
is serving a life sentence.
(AP, 8/3/00)
1995 Aug 4, A US judge ruled that
Oregon's assisted-suicide law, approved by the voters last Nov., is
unconstitutional. The law would have allowed doctors to prescribe
lethal doses of drugs for dying patients.
(WSJ, 8/4/95, p.B-1)
1995 Aug 4, That 1% of Americans
own 40% of the nation's wealth is uncontested as fact.
(WSJ, 8/4/95, p.A11)
1995 Aug 4, J. Howard Marshall II,
Texas oil tycoon and alumnus of Haverford College, Pa., died. In 1994
Marshall married Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith (26). In 2002, a
federal judge ruled that the dying 90-year-old truly loved his then
26-year-old wife and awarded her $88 million in a court fight with
Marshall’s son. In 2004 an appeals court reversed the judgement.
(www.lasc.org/opinions/97cc1718.opn.pdf)(AP,
12/31/04)
1995 Aug 4, Croatia launched an
offensive against Krajina, Operation Storm, and captured in days a
region that Serb rebels had held for 4 years. Most of its province of
Krajina, including the Serb stronghold Knin, was taken in a 3-day
offensive. Some 3,000 shells were fired into Knin and less than 250 hit
military targets. Some 100,000 Croatian Serbs were driven from the
area. Up to 600 Serb civilians were killed. A report on the events was
published in 1999: "Report on the Military Operation Storm and its
Aftermath" by the Croatian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A14)(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)(SFEC,
3/21/99, p.A17)(SFC, 4/27/99, p.A10)
1995 Aug 5, Secretary of State
Warren Christopher arrived in Hanoi, Vietnam, to "build a bridge of
cooperation." Christopher was the first US secretary of state to visit
Vietnam since the war and the first ever to go to Hanoi.
(AP, 8/5/00)
1995 Aug 6, Thousands of people in
Hiroshima, Japan, set glowing lanterns afloat in rivers, capping a day
of tributes on the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing.
(AP, 8/6/00)
1995 Aug 7, Ten days before he was
to be put to death for the murder of a police officer, black activist
and radio reporter Mumia Abu-Jamal won a reprieve from the original
trial judge in Philadelphia. As of 2008, his legal appeals are still
unsettled and he is a prisoner at State Correctional Institution Greene
near Waynesburg, Pennsylvania.
(AP,
8/7/00)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumia_Abu-Jamal)
1995 Aug 8, President Clinton,
during a visit to Baltimore, ordered all companies doing business with
the federal government to report the pollution they cause.
(AP, 8/8/00)
1995 Aug 8, Hussein Kamel
al-Majid, formerly Iraq's industry minister, defected to Jordan with
his brother and their wives, both of whom were daughters of Saddam
Hussein. He vowed to topple Saddam and said that Sadam Hussein had
planned to invade Kuwait and Saudi Arabia this month and that Iraq had
been three months away from testing an atomic bomb before the Gulf War
began.
(WSJ, 8/21/95, p.A1)(SFC, 9/4/96, p.A8)
1995 Aug 9, Netscape
Communications went public and was valued at $2.2 billion.
(WSJ, 11/25/98, p.B1)
1995 Aug 9, A Boeing 737 belonging
to Guatemala’s Aviateca airline hit the Chichontepec volcano in El
Salvador on a flight from Miami and killed all 65 on board.
(SFC, 11/1/96, p.A18)
1995 Aug 9, Jerry Garcia,
guitarist and lead singer of the Grateful Dead, died in San Francisco
of a heart attack at age 53. In 1999 Blair Jackson authored "Garcia: An
American Life." In 2002 Dennis McNally authored "A Long Strange Trip:
The Inside History of the Grateful Dead."
(WSJ, 8/11/95, p.A7)(AP, 8/9/97)(SFEC, 8/29/99, BR
p.1)(SSFC, 8/11/02, p.M1)
1995 Aug 10, Norma McCorvey, "Jane
Roe" of the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, announced
she had joined the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue.
(AP, 8/10/97)
1995 Aug 10, Timothy McVeigh and
Terry Nichols were charged with eleven counts in the Oklahoma City
bombing. McVeigh was later convicted of murder. He was executed by
lethal injection on June 11, 2001, at the US Federal Penitentiary in
Terre Haute, Indiana. McVeigh (33) stated that his only regret was not
completely leveling the federal building. Nichols was convicted of
conspiracy and involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to life in prison.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_McVeigh#Execution)(AP, 8/10/00)
1995 Aug 11, President Clinton
banned all US nuclear tests, calling his decision
"the right step as we continue pulling back from the
nuclear precipice."
(AP, 8/11/00)
1995 Aug 11, Pres. Clinton vetoed
a congressional move to end the arms embargo on Bosnia and sent Envoy
Richard Holdbrooke on a new peace mission.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A14)(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)
1995 Aug 12, In a methodical,
daylong procession, Republican presidential candidates courted Ross
Perot’s followers at a United We Stand America conference in Dallas.
(AP, 8/12/00)
1995 Aug 13, Baseball Hall of
Famer Mickey Mantle died at a Dallas hospital of rapidly spreading
liver cancer at the age of 63.
(AP, 8/13/97)
1995 Aug 13, Hans-Christian Ostro,
a 27-year-old Norwegian who had come to India to study dance was found
dead in the Pahalgam district with his severed head balanced between
his thighs, close to the sight of a previous kidnapping by Kashmir
guerillas.
(SFC, 5/27/96, p.A6)
1995 Aug 14, Shannon Faulkner
officially became the first female cadet in the history of The Citadel,
South Carolina's state military college. She quit the school less than
a week later, citing the stress of her court fight, and her isolation
among the male cadets.
(AP, 8/14/97)
1995 Aug 15, The Justice
Department agreed to pay 3.1 million dollars to white separatist Randy
Weaver and his family to settle their claims over the killing of
Weaver’s wife and son during a 1992 siege by federal agents at Ruby
Ridge, Idaho.
(AP, 8/15/00)
1995 Aug 15, The St. John Baptist
Church in Lexington 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 Aug 15, John Cameron Swayze
(89), pioneering TV journalist and Timex watch pitchman, died in
Sarasota, Fla.
(AP, 8/15/05)
1995 Aug 16, The US government
more than doubled its estimate of rapes or attempted rapes in the US
each year, to 310,000, a finding praised by leaders of women’s groups.
(AP, 8/16/00)
1995 Aug 16, Rebel soldiers in Sao
Tome overthrew Pres. Miguel Trovoada. This is a two-island nation off
the west coast of Africa.
(WSJ, 8/16/95, p. A1)
1995 Aug 17, James B. McDougal,
McDougal’s ex-wife, Susan H. McDougal, and Arkansas Governor Jim Guy
Tucker were indicted by the Whitewater grand jury. James McDougal was
convicted on 18 of 19 counts of fraud and conspiracy; Tucker was found
guilty on one count of fraud and one count of conspiracy; Susan
McDougal was convicted on four fraud-related charges. James B.
McDougal’s sentencing was delayed when the court suggested he testify
against the Clintons. He died of a heart attack in federal prison in
Fort Worth, Texas, on March 8, 1998. Susan H. McDougal was sentenced to
two years in prison, probation, community service and $305,000 in fines
and restitution. She received a full Presidential pardon from outgoing
President Bill Clinton in the final hours of his presidency on January
20, 2001. Jim Guy Tucker was convicted of three counts of felony; due
to his poor health, he was sentenced to four years probation and 18
months of house detention and $325,000 in fines and restitution.
(AP,
8/17/01)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McDougal)
1995 Aug 18, Shannon Faulkner,
who’d won a two-and-a-half-year legal battle to become the first female
cadet at The Citadel, quit the South Carolina military college after
less than a week, most of it spent in the infirmary. After her
departure, the male cadets openly celebrated on the campus. By May
2005, The Citadel's Corps of Cadets included 118 female cadets, 6% of
the total student population.
(AP,
8/18/00)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_Faulkner)
1995 Aug 18, Premier John Swan of
Bermuda promised to resign after voters rejected a vote for
independence from Britain with 76% voice.
(WSJ, 8/18/95, p.A1)
1995 Aug 19, Three top US
diplomats heading to peace talks in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, were
killed when their armored vehicle plunged off a muddy road and
exploded.
(AP, 8/19/00)
1995 Aug 20, The remnants of an
American peace delegation headed home from Bosnia-Herzegovina with the
bodies of three diplomats killed in an accident.
(AP, 8/20/00)
1995 Aug 20, The Algerian
government planned presidential elections for Nov. 16, but Muslim
militants vowed to derail the plans. Some 40,000 people have been
killed since the government cancelled elections in 1992.
(WSJ, 8/21/95, p.A-1)
1995 Aug 20, In Firozabad, India,
a speeding passenger train crashed into a train that had stalled after
hitting a cow and some 358 people were killed.
(SFC, 6/4/98, p.A15)(SFC, 8/3/99, p.A8)(AP, 8/20/00)
1995 Aug 20, Liberian warlords
agreed in Nigeria to end hostilities in six-year old civil war, which
had killed 150,000 people. The Economic Community of West African
States brokered a peace treaty between two warring movements.
(WSJ, 8/21/95, p.A-1)(SFC, 5/4/96, p.A-8)(AP, 7/1/03)
1995 Aug 20, A plebiscite declared
the independence of Seborga (in Northern Italy) by a vote of 304 to 4.
Giorgio Carbone was elected as Georgio I, Prince-for-Life.
(SFEC, 3/30/97, p.T6)
1995 Aug 21, ABC News settled a
$10 billion libel suit by apologizing to Philip Morris for reporting
the tobacco giant had manipulated the amount of nicotine in its
cigarettes.
(AP, 8/21/00)
1995 Aug 21, A commuter plane
crashed near Carrollton, Georgia. Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight
529 enroute to Gulfport, Miss., crashed with 29 people aboard. 10 died.
In 2001 Gary M. Pomerantz authored "Nine Minutes, Twenty Seconds: The
Tragedy & Triumph of ASA Flight 529."
(AP, 8/21/00)(SSFC, 10/21/01, p.R4)
1995 Aug 21, A Palestinian suicide
bomber blew up a bus in Jerusalem and killed 4 Israelis, 1 American,
and wounded more than 100 people. Hamas took responsibility.
(WSJ, 3/6/96, p. A15)(G&M, 7/31/97, p.A8)
1995 Aug 21, In Thailand Prince
Thitiphan Yugala (60) was poisoned by his new wife Chalasai Yugala
(23), aka Luk Pla (Baby fish). He died after 8 days and Luk Pla ran off
with Uthet Choopwa (19), a chestnut peddler. She had become his lover
at 14 and wife at 23. In 2002 she was sentenced to 6 years in prison.
(SFC, 2/20/02, p.A2)
1995 Aug 22, Congressman Mel
Reynolds (Democrat, Illinois) was convicted in Chicago of sexual
misconduct involving an underage campaign volunteer. Reynolds was
sentenced to five years in prison; he was later convicted of lying to
obtain loans and of illegally siphoning campaign money for personal
use. Reynolds was later sentenced to five years in prison; he ended up
serving 2 1/2.
(AP, 8/22/05)
1995 Aug 22, Meles Zenawi was
elected PM of the Ethiopian Federal Democratic Republic.
(www.brandt21forum.info/BioAfricaCom-Zenawi.htm)
1995 Aug 23, During a memorial
service at Fort Myer, Virginia, President Clinton eulogized three US
diplomats killed in a road accident near Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina,
and vowed to carry on the struggle for peace in the Balkans.
(AP, 8/23/00)
1995 Aug 23, Alfred Eisenstaedt
(96), "Life" magazine photographer, died on Martha’s Vineyard. His
picture of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square became one of the
best-known images of America's joy at the end of World War Two.
(AP,
8/23/00)(www.cnn.com/EVENTS/year_in_review/passages/)
1995 Aug 24, Microsoft Corporation
began selling its highly publicized Windows 95 personal computer
software. The Windows 95 operating system was priced at $89 for an
upgrade.
(WSJ, 4/4/00, p.A16)(AP, 8/24/00)
1995 Aug 24, Harry Wu, Chinese
human rights activist and writer, was sentenced to 15 years in prison
by Chinese law and then expelled from China. China expelled Harry Wu,
hours after convicting him of spying.
(SFC, 5/19/96, Z1, p.3)(AP, 8/24/00)
1995 Aug 25, Chinese-American
human rights activist Harry Wu, safely back on US soil after two months
in Chinese detention, said the spying case against him was "all lies,"
and vowed to seek compensation from China.
(AP, 8/25/00)
1995 Aug 26, In his weekly radio
address, President Clinton explained his decision to impose a two-year
moratorium on mining claims on 4500 acres of federal land near the
northeast corner of Yellowstone National Park, saying the land was
"more priceless than gold."
(AP, 8/26/00)
1995 Aug 26, The Jordan Marsh and
A&S (Abraham & Straus) stores were absorbed into Macy's East.
(http://tinyurl.com/755s4)
1995 Aug 26, John Costello
(b.1943), British historian, died.
(www.ihr.org/jhr/v20/v20n2p40_Douglas.html)(http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Obituary/1995/misc.html)
1995 Aug 26, Evelyn Wood (86),
speed reading guru, died in Tucson, Arizona. The Evelyn Wood Reading
Dynamics became popular in the late 1950s.
(www.readfaster.com/evelynwood.asp)(WSJ, 7/25/06,
p.D1)
1995 Aug 27, American and Chinese
officials agreed to begin planning a fall summit between President
Clinton and Chinese President Jiang Zemin.
(AP, 8/27/00)
1995 Aug 27, A wildfire in the
Hamptons, the largest in 50 years, ended after 4 days. A 16-alarm at
the St. George Hotel complex began in Brooklyn.
(www.emergency.com/hampton.htm)(www.fdnewyork.com/stgeorge.asp)
1995 Aug 28, Chase Manhattan and
Chemical Banking announced a $10 billion deal to create the biggest
bank in the nation.
(AP, 8/28/00)
1995 Aug 28, California Governor
Pete Wilson formally entered the GOP presidential race.
(AP, 8/28/00)
1995 Aug 28, A mortar shell tore
through a crowded market in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, killing 38
people and triggering NATO airstrikes against the Bosnian Serbs.
Bosnian Serb shells hit Serajevo near the main market and killed 37
people and wounded 85 others.
(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)(HTNet, 8/28/99)(AP, 8/28/00)
1995 Aug 29, At the O.J. Simpson
murder trial in Los Angeles, without the jury present, tape recordings
of police detective Mark Fuhrman were played in which Fuhrman could be
heard spouting racial invectives.
(AP, 8/29/00)
1995 Aug 29, The West pounded the
Bosnian Serbs with artillery and air attacks in hopes of bludgeoning
them into serious peace talks.
(AP, 8/30/00)
1995 Aug 29, In Tbilisi, Georgia,
the motorcade of Eduard Shevardnadze was attacked as he left for the
ceremonial signing of the new constitution.
(SFC, 2/10/98, p.A12)y
1995 Aug 30, Cable News Network
joined the internet ("This is CNN").
(www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/CNN20/story/viewpoint/woelfel.essay/)
1995 Aug 30, Bosnian Serbs gave
Serbian Pres. Slobodan Milosevic authority to negotiate for them. The
West pounded the Bosnian Serbs with artillery and air attacks in hopes
of bludgeoning them into serious peace talks.
(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)(AP, 8/30/00)
1995 Aug 30, At a lavish opening
ceremony in Beijing, organizers of a major women’s conference vowed to
fight for empowerment and equality.
(AP, 8/30/00)(www.iisd.org/women/beijfact.htm)
1995 Aug 31, At the O.J. Simpson
trial in Los Angeles, Judge Lance Ito ruled the defense could play only
two examples of police detective Mark Fuhrman’s racist comments from
taped conversations with a screenwriter.
(AP, 8/31/00)
1995 Aug 31, NATO planes and UN
artillery blasted Serb targets in Bosnia for a 2nd day in response to
the market attack in Serajevo.
(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)
1995 Aug, Margaret Lesher sold the
Lesher media empire, 27 daily and weekly papers, to Knight-Ridder for
$360 million.
(SFEM, 9/14/97, p.30)
1995 Aug, In Austin, Texas,
Madalyn Murray O’Hair, leader of United Secularists of America,
disappeared with her son and granddaughter and more than $600,000 in
funds from her various organizations. Her diaries, some 2,000 pages,
were scheduled to be auctioned in 1999. The IRS filed an affidavit in
1999 against David Waters and 3 others in relation to suspected murders
and theft. In 1999 Waters (52) was sentenced to 60 years in prison for
skimming over $50,000 from the atheist organization. Waters was later
given another 8 year sentence on a federal weapons charge. [See Oct 3.]
In 2001 bones were found on the ranch where she was believed to have
been buried following an agreement between Waters and prosecutors. All
3 bodies were identified in Mar.
(SFEC, 3/3/97, p.A4)(SFC, 1/12/99, p.A4)(SFC,
5/27/99, p.A3)(SFC, 8/12/99, p.3)(SFC, 8/21/99, p.A3)(SSFC, 1/28/01,
p.A2)(WSJ, 3/16/00, p.A1)
1995 Aug, The Afghan Taliban
militia forced down a Russian Ilyushin-76 cargo plane with 7 Russian
airmen at Kandahar.
(SFC, 8/15/96, p.C3)
1995 Aug, In Brazil Pres. Cardoso
introduced Law 9140, which acknowledged military responsibility for 136
deaths under previous governments.
(SFC, 6/14/96, p. A17)
1995 Aug, Florene May Schoenborn
(1903-1995), daughter of David May the founder of May Department
Stores, died and left her valuable art collection to New York museums.
(SFC, 11/26/96, p.D5)
1995 Aug, The extremist radical
party of Serbia under Vojislav Seselj published a manifesto titled:
"How To Solve the Problem of Kosovo." It advocated firing Albanian
workers, encouraging Serbian colonization, military occupation and
buffer zones along the Albanian and Macedonian borders.
(SFEC, 6/27/99, p.A7)
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