Timeline 1995: Sep-Dec.
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1995 Sep 1, The
716-acre Limekiln State Park on the California Big Sur coast opened.
(SFEC, 3/30/97, p.T3)
1995 Sep 1, A ribbon-cutting
ceremony was held for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland,
Ohio.
(AP, 9/1/00)
1995 Sep 1, The death penalty in
NY State, signed into law on March 7, became effective.
(www.nycdo.org/)
1995 Sep 1, Moammar Khadafy of
Libya announced the expulsion of all 30,000 Palestinians from Libya.
More than 1,200 ended up in a border camp between Libya and Egypt.
(SFC, 8/22/96, p.E1)
1995 Sep 2, At a military cemetery
on a hill high above Honolulu, President Clinton marked the 50th
anniversary of the end of World War II, saying it taught Americans that
"the blessings of freedom are never easy or free."
(AP, 9/2/00)
1995 Sep 2, Vaclav Neumann (74),
Czech conductor, died.
(www.britannica.com/eb/article-9112233)
1995 Sep 3, Testing Serb will, the
United Nations reopened a route to Sarajevo and threatened more air
attacks if the rebel stranglehold of the Bosnian capital didn’t end.
(AP, 9/3/00)
1995 Sep 4, Attorney William Moses
Kunstler (b.1919) died in NYC. The UCLA attorney spoke out for the
politically unpopular in a controversial career and defended the
Chicago 7.
(SFC, 4/8/96,
p.A3)(www.nndb.com/people/218/000025143/)
1995 Sep 4-1995 Sep 7, Hurricane
Luis hit the Virgin Islands.
(NH, 10/96, p.60)(www.nhc.noaa.gov/1995luis.html)
1995 Sep 4, The Fourth World
Conference on Women opened in Beijing with more than 4,750 delegates
from 181 countries.
(AP, 9/4/00)
1995 Sep 5, O.J. Simpson
jurors heard testimony that police detective Mark Fuhrman had uttered a
racist slur, and advocated the killing of blacks.
(AP, 9/5/00)
1995 Sep 5, First Lady Hillary
Rodham Clinton, addressing the UN-sponsored fourth World Conference on
Women in Beijing, declared it was "time to break the silence" about the
abuse of women.
(AP, 9/5/05)
1995 Sep 5, James "Pigmeat"
Jarrett, pianist, died at 95.
(http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Obituary/1995/music.html)
1995 Sep 5, France under Pres.
Chirac resumed nuclear testing, after a three-year moratorium, in the
French South Pacific atoll of Mururoa. World-wide protests failed to
stop testing.
(WSJ, 9/8/95, p.A8)(AP, 9/5/00)
1995 Sep 6, Baltimore Orioles
shortstop Cal Ripken broke Lou Gehrig’s record by playing his 2,131st
consecutive game.
(AP, 9/6/00)
1995 Sep 6, The Senate Ethics
Committee voted unanimously to recommend expulsion of Oregon Senator
Bob Packwood, accused of sexual and official misconduct.
(AP, 9/6/00)
1995 Sep 6, Los Angeles police
detective Mark Fuhrman invoked his Fifth Amendment right against
self-incrimination as he was called back to the witness stand at the
O.J. Simpson trial.
(AP, 9/6/00)
1995 Sep 6, An Ontario Provincial
Police sniper fatally wounded protester Dudley George (1957-1995) as
police moved in to try to end the occupation of Ipperwash Provincial
Park, on the shores of Lake Huron, by demonstrators who were demanding
the return of the park and adjacent lands to native ownership. The
Chippewas of Kettle and Stony Point First Nation claimed the park lands
as an aboriginal burial ground. In 2007 Ontario said it will return 109
acres to native ownership.
(Reuters, 12/21/07)
1995 Sep 6, Hurricane "Luis" moved
away from the Caribbean after lashing resort islands.
(AP, 9/6/00)
1995 Sep 7, After 27 years in the
Senate, Bob Packwood (Republican, Oregon) announced he would resign,
heading off a vote by colleagues to expel him for allegations of sexual
and official misconduct.
(AP, 9/7/00)
1995 Sep 7, John F. Kennedy Jr.
unveiled his new "George" magazine.
(www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2005/10/09/the_george_effect/)
1995 Sep 7, The space shuttle
"Endeavour" thundered into orbit with five astronauts on a mission to
release and recapture a pair of science satellites.
(AP, 9/7/00)
1995 Sep 8, It was reported that a
lifeless zone in the Gulf of Mexico has grown to more than 7,000 sq.
miles, nearly the size of New Jersey. It was caused by chemical and
fertilizer runoff from US agriculture into the Mississippi River. "An
analysis of data from six major farm states showed a significant
correlation between (farm) subsidies and increased chemical and
fertilizer use." The subsidies encouraged farmers to increase yield on
less acreage.
(WSJ, 9/8/95, p.A10)
1995 Sep 8, Bosnia’s warring sides
reached a compromise in Geneva, agreeing to divide the nation into two
states: one for the rebel Serbs and another for the Muslims and Croats.
(AP, 9/8/00)
1995 Sep 9, Amtrak’s "Broadway
Limited" service between New York and Chicago, begun in 1902,
made its final run.
(AP, 9/9/00)
1995 Sep 9, Bosnian Serbs blamed
UN forces for a shell that killed ten people at a Bosnian Serb hospital
the day before.
(AP, 9/9/00)
1995 Sep 10, NBC’s "ER" won eight
Emmy Awards, but lost best dramatic series to ABC’s "NYPD Blue;" NBC’s
"Frasier" won five awards, including best comedy series.
(AP, 9/10/00)
1995 Sep 10, A plane carrying
members of a skydivers club crashed in Shacklefords, Virginia, killing
ten parachutists, the plane’s pilot and a man on the ground.
(AP, 9/10/00)
1995 Sep 11, The prosecution in
the O.J. Simpson murder trial in Los Angeles reluctantly began its
rebuttal case, as ordered by Judge Lance Ito, after the defense refused
to rest.
(AP, 9/11/00)
1995 Sep 11, In Florida Jimmy Ryce
(9) was kidnapped, raped and murdered. In 1998 Juan Carlos Chavez, a
Cuban ranch hand was convicted. His defense was that he was framed by
his bosses into a confession for fear of being deported. The defense
held that Edward Sheinhaus, the son of Chavez’s bosses, was the killer.
(SFC, 9/19/98, p.A4)
1995 Sep 12, The Belarussian
military border guards shot down a hydrogen balloon during an
international race, killing its two American pilots.
(SFC, 9/2/96, p.A12)(AP, 9/12/00)
1995 Sep 12, Jeremy Brett, English
actor (Sherlock Holmes), died at 59.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0107950/)
1995 Sep 13, The FBI made at least
a dozen arrests, capping a nationwide two-year investigation of
pedophiles and pornographers using the America Online computer network.
(AP, 9/13/00)
1995 Sep 13, "The Drew Carey Show"
premiered on ABC television.
(AP, 9/13/05)
1995 Sep 13, The hole in the
Earth's ozone layer was growing fast and was twice the size it was in
1994. It now reached about the size of Europe.
(WSJ, 9/13/95, p.A-1)
1995 Sep 14, Bosnian Serbs agreed
to move heavy weapons and tanks away from Serajevo. NATO halted bombing
in response.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A14)(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)
1995 Sep 15, Hurricane "Marilyn,"
the third major storm to batter the Caribbean in less than a month, hit
the Virgin Islands with heavy rains and 100 mile-an-hour winds.
(AP, 9/15/00)
1995 Sep 15, The UN Fourth World
Conference on Women adjourned in Beijing after approving a wide-ranging
platform running the gamut from promoting inheritance rights to
condemning rape in wartime. The Beijing Platform, signed by 189 states,
urged a review of all laws that punish women for having abortions.
(AP, 9/15/00)(Econ, 5/19/07, p.65)
1995 Sep 15, A Muslim-Croat
offensive won 1,500 square miles of land. More than 150,000 Serbs fled,
many to Eastern Slovonia.
(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)
1995 Sep 16, Shawntel Smith of
Oklahoma was crowned "Miss America" at the pageant in Atlantic City,
New Jersey.
(AP, 9/16/00)
1995 Sep 16, President Clinton
voiced support for a Senate welfare overhaul plan sponsored by Senate
Majority Leader Bob Dole.
(AP, 9/16/00)
1995 Sep 17, A 3-year old girl,
Stephanie Kuhen, was shot dead in Los Angeles when the car she was
riding in driven by Timothy Stone made a wrong turn into a dead-end
alley in Cypress Park, and happened on a gang setting. Her 2-year old
brother was wounded in the foot. Accused of the murder are Manuel
Rosales Jr., Augustin Lizama, Hugo David Gomez, Marcos Antonio Luna and
Anthony Gabriel Rodriguez. A 6th defendant, Marvin Pech, is expected to
testify for the prosecution.
(SFC, 5/14/96, A20)
1995 Sep 17, Hong Kong held its
last legislative election before the 1997 takeover by China, with some
of Beijing’s fiercest critics the big winners.
(AP, 9/17/00)
1995 Sep 18, President Clinton
began a five-day re-election campaign fund-raising tour that got off to
a rocky start after a deal to convert the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard
to civilian use collapsed at the last minute.
(AP, 9/18/00)
1995 Sep 18, In Hong Kong
pro-democracy candidates won a sweeping victory in the last legislative
election under British rule. Democrats took 70% of the direct vote.
China vowed to disband the legislature.
(SFEC, 6/22/97, p.A14)(SFC, 7/1/97, p.A8)
1995 Sep 19, The New York Times
and The Washington Post published the Unabomber’s manifesto.
(AP, 9/19/00)
1995 Sep 19, The US Senate passed
a welfare overhaul bill.
(AP, 9/19/00)
1995 Sep 19, The US ambassador and
the commander of American forces in Japan apologized for the rape of an
Okinawan schoolgirl committed by three US servicemen.
(AP, 9/19/00)
1995 Sep 19, Orville Reddenbacher
(88), popcorn magnate, died at his home in Coronado, Ca., from drowning
in a bathtub.
(http://nwitimes.com/articles/1995/09/20/export142113.txt)
1995 Sep 20, The US House voted to
drop the national speed limit and let states decide how fast people
should drive.
(AP, 9/20/05)
1995 Sep 20, In a move that
stunned Wall Street, AT&T Corporation announced it was splitting
into three companies.
(WSJ, 9/21/95, p.B-2)(AP, 9/19/00)
1995 Sep 20, Rene Anselmo
(b.1926), founder of PanAmSat (1984), died. “Truth and technology will
triumph over bullshit and bureaucracy.”
(http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/629772)(Econ, 10/04/08, p.86)
1995 Sep 20, Bosnian Serb rebels
pulled back enough heavy weapons from around Sarajevo to keep NATO
airstrikes at bay.
(AP, 9/19/00)
1995 Sep 21, US House Republicans
unveiled partial details of their plan for Medicare aimed at achieving
$270 billion in savings over seven years.
(AP, 9/21/00)
1995 Sep 22, Steve Forbes, US
Publishing tycoon, announced a latecomer bid for the Republican
presidential nomination.
(AP, 9/22/00)
1995 Sep 22, Both sides rested in
the O.J. Simpson murder trial.
(AP, 9/22/00)
1995 Sep 22, Time Warner struck a
$7.5 billion deal to buy Turner Broadcasting System Incorporated.
(AP, 9/22/00)
1995 Sep 22, An AWACS plane
carrying US and Canadian military personnel crashed on takeoff from
Elmendorf Air Force Base near Anchorage, Alaska, killing all 24 people
aboard.
(AP, 9/22/00)
1995 Sep 23, In a wide-ranging
interview aboard Air Force One, President Clinton admitted he had
tended in the past to get hung up on details, and pledged to do a
better job in providing reassuring leadership to Americans confused by
tumultuous times.
(AP, 9/23/00)
1995 Sep 23, Guillermo Gaede, an
Intel engineer, was arrested in Phoenix. He had used his computer to
tap into plans for the Pentium & 486 chip manufacturing process and
video taped the information in May 1993. He sent the info to his former
employer Advanced Micro Devices who notified federal authorities. He
claimed to have been double-crossed by the FBI and also to have passed
info from AMD to Cuba, China, North Korea and Iran.
(SFC, 6/25/96, p.A23)
1995 Sep 24, Israel’s Rabin and
the PLO under Arafat, signed a pact, Oslo II, in Taba, Egypt, ending
nearly three decades of Israeli occupation of West Bank cities. They
scheduled a 9/7/97 date for Israel’s departure from the West Bank,
except for Jewish settlements and certain military locations. A final
accord was scheduled for 5/7/99.
(SFC, 1/9/96, p.A10)(AP, 9/24/00)(SFC, 4/30/02, p.A8)
1995 Sep 24, A 16-year-old boy in
Cuers, France, killed 13 people before turning a gun on himself.
(AP, 9/24/00)
1995 Sep 25, Ross Perot announced
he would form a new Independence Party that would field its own White
House candidate and would try to be the swing vote in congressional
races.
(AP, 9/25/00)
1995 Sep 25, A New Zealand
volcano, Mt. Ruapehu, erupted with ash and steam spewed 12 miles high.
There was some discussion over the radio whether this event was a
direct result of the nuclear tests by France cited on 9/8/95.
(WSJ, 9/27/95, p.A16)
1995 Sep 26, The prosecution began
its closing argument in the murder trial of O.J. Simpson.
(AP, 9/26/00)
1995 Sep 26, Bosnia’s warring
factions agreed on guidelines for elections and a future government.
(AP, 9/26/00)
1995 Sep 26, A bond trader at
Japan’s Daiwa Bank was charged with doctoring records to hide $1.1
billion in losses.
(AP, 9/26/00)
1995 Sep 27, The US government
unveiled its redesigned $100 bill, featuring a larger, off-center
portrait of Benjamin Franklin.
(AP, 9/27/97)
1995 Sep 27, At the O.J. Simpson
trial, the prosecution and defense presented dueling summations.
(AP, 9/27/00)
1995 Sep 27-1995 Oct 6, Hurricane
Opal caused at least 50 deaths in Guatemala and Mexico and 20 deaths in
the United States. The storm hit Central America before striking
Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and North Carolina.
(AP, 9/11/04)(www.wunderground.com)
1995 Sep 28, In the US the Freeman
headquarters were moved from Roundup, Mont., to Ralph Clark’s former
ranch near Jordan, Mont.
(SFC, 6/16/96, p.A4)
1995 Sep 28, Israeli Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat signed an accord
to transfer much of the West Bank to the control of its Arab residents.
(AP, 9/28/98)
1995 Sep 29, California Governor
Pete Wilson abandoned his bid for the 1996 Republican presidential
nomination.
(AP, 9/29/00)
1995 Sep 29, The O.J. Simpson
trial was sent to the jury.
(AP, 9/29/00)
1995 Sep 29, Three U-S servicemen
were indicted in the rape of a 12-year-old Okinawan girl and handed
over to Japanese authorities. They were later convicted.
(AP, 9/29/00)
1995 Sep 30, US envoy Richard
Holbrooke, trying to negotiate a Bosnian cease-fire, ended inconclusive
talks with the Sarajevo government and headed for Belgrade to try his
luck with the Serbs.
(AP, 9/30/00)
1995 Sep, The US government came
up with a new proposal security in computer communications, dubbed by
critics as Clipper II.
(Wired, 9/96, p.224)
1995 Sep, The US House voted not
to save $493 million by cutting back production of the B-2 bomber.
House members voting to maintain bomber production were strongly
supported a Northrup Grumman PAC.
(SFEC, 3/2/97, Z1 p.8)
1995 Sep, In Wenatchee, Wa.,
Manuel Hidalgo Rodriguez (33) was sentenced to 5 1/2 years in prison
for alleged rape and child molestation. He was one of 43 people charged
in a series of cases that imprisoned 21 people based on charges by 2
girls aged 10 and 12. Reversals to the convictions began in 1997 and
continued to 1999.
(WSJ, 9/21/99, p.A26)
1995 Sep, The US warned Bosnia to
desist from an offensive against the Serb stronghold of Banja Luka.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A14)
1995 Sep, A global treaty that
barred rich countries from dumping toxic waste in the Third World went
into effect.
(SFC, 6/1/96, p.C1)
1995 Sep, Chen Xitong, former
mayor of Beijing, was stripped of his seat on the Politburo.
(SFC, 9/10/97, p.A9)
1995 Sep, Bob Denard, a French
mercenary soldier, and accomplices overthrew Comoran President Mohammed
Djohar, and put opposition leaders Mohammed Taki and Said-Ali Kemal in
power in the Indian Ocean state. The French army intervened in October
under bilateral accords with the Comoros islands, a former French
colony, and captured the mercenaries. In 2006 Denard was found
guilty for his part in the coup and given a suspended five-year prison
sentence. His 26 accomplices were found guilty but were given suspended
sentences or were not penalized.
(Reuters, 6/20/06)
1995 Sep, In India N. Chandrababu
Naidu took power in Andhra Pradesh state from his father-in-law N.T.
Rama Rao. Rao was the founder of the ethnic based Telugu Desam Party.
www.andrhapradesh.com
(SFC, 2/2/99, p.A9)
1995 Sep, The 500-year-old body of
a young Inca girl was found frozen near the summit of Mt. Ampato, Peru,
by American archeologist Johan Reinhard. In 2005 Reinhard authored “The
Ice Maiden: Inca Mummies, Mountain Gods, and the Sacred Sites in the
Andes.”
(SFC, 5/22/96, p.A8)(Arch, 5/05, p.51)
1995 Sep, Human footsteps that
dated back some 186,000 years were discovered along Langebaan Lagoon
some 60 miles north of Cape Town, South Africa.
(SFC, 8/15/97, p.A3)
1995 Sep, German physicists
created the first atoms of antimatter for 40 billionths of a sec. in
Switzerland.
(WSJ, 1/5/96, p.A1)
1995 Sep, In Israel Adel Kaadan,
an Arab with Israeli citizenship, filed suit when he was not allowed to
move into a Jewish cooperative at Katsir.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, p.A15)
1995 Sep, A Fokker-50
operated by a Malaysian airline crashed on arrival at Tawau, Malaysia
airport, killing 34 people. The plane touched down 500 yards short of
the runway, pulled up and crashed into a shantytown.
(AP, 2/10/04)
1995 Sep, In Northern Ireland
David Trimble became the leader of the Ulster Unionist Party. He
favored a stable government within Northern Ireland and cooperation
with the Irish Republic.
(SFC, 4/11/98, p.A8)
1995 Sep, In Tibet Ngawang
Choepel, a musician on a Fullbright scholarship, was arrested on
grounds of espionage. He had arrived as a Chinese citizen to make a
documentary on folk music and dance.
(SFC, 12/28/96, p.A13)
1995 Oct 1, Sheik Omar
Abdel-Rahman, a blind Egyptian cleric accused of leading a "war of
urban terrorism" against US cities, was convicted with nine other
defendants of seditious conspiracy by a federal jury in New York.
(WSJ, 10/2/95, P.A3)(AP, 10/1/00)
1995 Oct 1, France detonated
another nuclear device, 5 times more powerful than the last one, on
Fangatouga Atoll in the South Pacific.
(WSJ, 10/2/95, P.A1)
1995 Oct 1, An earthquake in
southwestern Turkey killed about 90 people.
(AP, 10/1/00)
1995 Oct 2, O.J. Simpson’s jurors
stunned the courtroom and the nation by reaching verdicts in the
sensational eight-month murder trial in less than four hours. The
decision was kept secret until the following day, when it was announced
that Simpson had been acquitted. Simpson was acquitted in the
double-murder of his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald
Goldman.
(WSJ, 10/4/95, p.A1)(SFEC, 9/8/96, BR p.1)(AP,
10/2/00)
1995 Oct 3, A public government
report cited US government biological and chemical experiments and
called the events "a dark period in our history."
(SFC, 2/21/98, p.A15)
1995 Oct 3, The jury in the O.J.
Simpson murder trial found the former football star innocent of the
1994 slayings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald
Goldman. Simpson was later found liable in a civil proceeding. The
verdict, reached Oct 2, was announced Oct 3.
(AP, 10/3/97)(WSJ, 10/4/95, p.A-1)(SFEC, 9/8/96, BR
p.1)
1995 Oct 3, In Texas three young
crooks stole a suitcase from a walk-in storage locker in North Austin.
The suitcase contained some $80,000 in coins stashed by Gary Karr,
David Roland Waters and Danny Raymond Fry, who were implicated in the
disappearance of atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair.
(SFC, 6/3/00, p.A7)
1995 Oct 3, Pres. Gligorov, leader
of Macedonia, was critically hurt in a car bomb attack in Skopje,
Macedonia.
(WSJ, 10/4/95, p.A1)
1995 Oct 3, The Sri Lankan army
claimed to have killed 200 Tamil Tiger rebels on the northern Jaffa
peninsula.
(WSJ, 10/4/95, p.A1)
1995 Oct 4, Pope John Paul the
Second arrived in the United States for a five-day visit.
(AP, 10/4/00)
1995 Oct 4, Hurricane Opal
battered the Florida panhandle.
(AP, 10/4/05)
1995 Oct 5, Seamus Heaney won the
Nobel Prize in literature. His poetic works portray the pain of
sectarian strife and growing up in a Roman Catholic farming family. His
works include: "Death of a Naturalist" (1966), "Door into the Dark"
(1969), "North" (1975), "Field Work" (1979), "The Spirit Level" (1996)
and the Nobel lecture "Crediting Poetry."
(WSJ, 10/6/95, p.A1)(SFEC, 8/25/96, BR p.8)
1995 Oct 5, Pres. Clinton
announced that a cease-fire was agreed on in Bosnia to start on Oct 10,
and that combatants would attend talks in the US. Bosnia’s combatants
agreed to a 60-day cease-fire and new talks on ending their three and
a-half years of battle.
(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)(AP, 10/5/00)
1995 Oct 5, Hurricane Opal killed
15 people in the Florida Panhandle and caused $1.8 bil in insured
property damages.
(WSJ, 10/6/95, p.A1)
1995 Oct 5, In Xaman village,
Guatemala, 11 war refugees were killed by government soldiers. In 1999
25 soldiers were convicted for homicide. 12 soldiers were sentenced to
5 years in prison and the rest to 4 years already served. In 2004 an
officer and 13 soldiers were each sentenced to 40 years in prison for
the Xaman massacre of recently returned civil war refugees.
(SFC, 8/14/99, p.C1)(AP, 7/9/04)
1995 Oct 6, President Clinton
delivered an address in which he defended his stewardship of US foreign
policy and spoke out against what he said was a spreading mood of
isolationism.
(AP, 10/6/00)
1995 Oct 6, Boeing Company’s
largest group of union workers went on a 69-day strike after voting
down a new three-year contract offer.
(AP, 10/6/00)
1995 Oct 7, New York’s Central
Park was transformed into a giant open-air cathedral as Pope John Paul
the Second celebrated Mass before a flock of 130,000.
(AP, 10/7/00)
1995 Oct 7, A 7.0 earthquake
killed 80-100 people on Indonesia's island of Sumatra.
(WSJ, 10/9/95, p.A1)(AP, 10/7/00)
1995 Oct 8, On the final day of
his fourth US pilgrimage, Pope John Paul the Second celebrated Mass at
Oriole Park in Baltimore.
(AP, 10/8/00)
1995 Oct 8, Christopher Keene,
conductor and musician, died at 48.
(www.britannica.com/eb/article-9112164)
1995 Oct 9, The Nobel Prize in
medicine was awarded to Edward Lewis of Caltech, Eric Wieschaus of
Princeton, and Christiane Nuesslein-Volhard of Germany's Max Planck
Inst. They all studied genes in relation to embryonic development. They
unraveled the developmental genetics of the fruit fly Drosophila and
discovered homologs of the same genes in vertebrates.
(WSJ, 10/10/95, p.A1)(NH, 2/97, p.70)
1995 Oct 9, Nation of Islam leader
Louis Farrakhan and former NAACP exec. Benjamin Chavis propose to lead
a march of black men, "the million man march," on Washington DC on Oct.
16.
(WSJ, 10/10/95, p.A1)(SFC, 2/25/97, p.A10)
1995 Oct 9, Saboteurs pulled 29
spikes from a stretch of railroad track, causing an Amtrak train to
derail in Arizona; one person was killed and about 100 were injured.
(AP, 10/9/00)
1995 Oct 9, An earthquake of 7.8
magnitude shakes Mexico's Pacific coast killing at least 90 in southern
Jalisco state. An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.6 shook the west
coast of Mexico, killing 51 people.
(WSJ, 10/10/95, p.A1)(AP, 10/9/00)
1995 Oct 10, World chess champion
Garry Kasparov won a month-long championship match against Viswanathan
Anand.
(AP, 10/10/00)
1995 Oct 10, The Nobel Prize in
Economic Science was awarded to Robert E. Lucas of the Univ. of Chicago
for his theory of "rational expectations." He demonstrated how people’s
fears and expectations can frustrate policymakers’ efforts to shape the
economy.
(WSJ, 10/11/95, p. A1)(AP, 10/10/00)
1995 Oct 10, The Nobel Prize in
chemistry was won by Mario Molina of MIT, F. Sherwood Rowland of UC
Irvine, & Dutch scientist Paul Crutzen for their controversial work
warning that gases once used in spray cans and other items were eating
away Earth’s ozone layer.
(WSJ, 10/11/95, p. A1)(SFC, 5/1/97, p.A7)(SFC,
8/28/98, p.D7)
1995 Oct 10, The Nobel physics
prize went to Martin Perl of Stanford and Frederick Reines (d.1998 at
80) of UC Irvine for discovering the subatomic neutrino particle. Perl
helped discover the tau lepton in 1975, a particle that resembles an
electron but is 30,000 times heavier.
(WSJ, 10/11/95, p. A-1)(SFC, 5/1/97, p.A7)(SFC,
8/28/98, p.D7)
1995 Oct 10, Israel began a West
Bank pullback and freed hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.
(www.cnn.com/almanac/9710/10/)
1995 Oct 10, Paolo Gucci (64),
Italian entrepreneur and accessories designer, died.
(www.britannica.com/eb/article-9112125?tocId=9112125)
1995 Oct 11, Ten Republican
presidential candidates used their first televised forum to politely
compete for support in the New Hampshire primary.
(AP, 10/11/00)
1995 Oct 11, O.J. Simpson backed
out of his live interview with NBC Dateline just hours before air time.
(AP, 10/11/00)
1995 Oct 11, In Bosnia a
cease-fire was declared.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A14)
1995 Oct 12, After a 2-day delay,
the US-brokered cease-fire in Bosnia-Herzegovina went into effect a
minute after midnight. Fighting continued over contested towns in
northwest Bosnia.
(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)(AP, 10/12/00)
1995 Oct 13, The Nobel Peace Prize
was awarded to Polish-born British physicist Joseph Rotblat (1909-2005)
and the Pugwash Conferences (begun in Canada in 1957) for their efforts
to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics.
(AP, 10/13/00)(SFC, 9/2/05, p.B5)(WSJ, 10/16/95, p.
A1)
1995 Oct 14, The Atlanta Braves
won the National League pennant by beating the Cincinnati Reds, 6-to-0,
to complete a four-game sweep.
(AP, 10/14/00)
1995 Oct 14, An armed gunman
seized a bus carrying South Korean tourists in Moscow’s Red Square.
Commandos stormed the bus the next day, killing the gunman and freeing
four remaining hostages.
(AP, 10/14/00)
1995 Oct 15, The Nobel Peace Prize
was awarded to British physicist Joseph Rotblat and the Pugwash
Conferences for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear
arms in international politics.
(WSJ, 10/16/95, p. A1)
1995 Oct 15, Six Israeli soldiers
were killed in Israeli-occupied southern Lebanon in an ambush blamed on
the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah.
(AP, 10/15/00)
1995 Oct 16, A vast throng of
black men gathered in Washington D.C. for the "Million Man March," "A
Day of Atonement," led by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
(AP, 10/16/97)(HN, 10/16/98)
1995 Oct 16, In California the
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory released a $450,000 story that
said leaks from underground gas storage tanks were not as bad as once
believed. The tests did not include the effects of MTBE in leaking into
ground water.
(SFC, 9/15/97, p.A9)
1995 Oct 16, Ethnic riots
continued for a second day in Nairobi, capital of Kenya, between the
Luos and the Nubians.
(WSJ, 10/17/95, A1)
1995 Oct 16, Bosnian Serb leader
Karadzic fired four generals for battlefield losses. Appeals were made
to Serbian leader Milosevic for protection.
(WSJ, 10/17/95, A1)
1995 Oct 16-18, Richard Holbrooke
and other international mediators met in Moscow and traveled to the
main capitals of the former Yugoslavia. The US named the
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, as the site for the
peace talks.
(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)
1995 Oct 17, The Cleveland Indians
won the American League pennant by defeating the Seattle Mariners,
4-to-0, in game six of their playoff series.
(AP, 10/17/00)
1995 Oct 17, President Clinton
told wealthy contributors at a Houston fund-raiser that "you think I
raised your taxes too much. It might surprise you to know that I think
I raised them too much, too"— a statement that drew criticism from both
Republicans and Democrats.
(AP, 10/17/00)
1995 Oct 17, The gasoline additive
MTBE showed up in a second drinking water well in Santa Monica. The
city was later forced to shut down half of its water well supply due to
MTBE.
(SFC, 9/15/97, p.A10)
1995 Oct 17, A bomb exploded
aboard a Paris subway car, wounding 29 people.
(AP, 10/17/00)
1995 Oct 17, In Sri Lanka the army
started the 1st phase of an effort to take full control of the Jaffna
peninsula. Shelling and bombing against civilians often occurred.
(SFC, 7/24/96, p.A9)
1995 Oct 18, President Clinton,
facing political fallout for telling financial contributors that "I
raised your taxes too much," said he had no regrets about the tax
increase package he’d signed into law in 1993.
(AP, 10/18/00)
1995 Oct 19, Ignoring a veto
threat, the US House passed a Republican plan for overhauling Medicare
by raising premiums for the elderly and disabled and saving billions
from hospital and doctor fees.
(AP, 10/19/00)
1995 Oct 19, Firefighters in
western China extinguished a 100 year old blaze in an untapped coal
deposit and saved 5.5 mil. tons of coal reserves in the Baiyanghe mine
in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. The fire had consumed 300,000
tons of coal a year.
(WSJ, 10/20/95, p. A1)
1995 Oct 19, Croatian leader
Tudjman said he will hold forces back from a Serb held area of Croatia
during peace talks.
(WSJ, 10/20/95, p. A1)
1995 Oct 20, France, the United
States and Britain announced a treaty banning atomic blasts in the
South Pacific—but only after France finished testing there the
following year.
(AP, 10/20/00)
1995 Oct 20, Space shuttle
"Columbia" was launched on a research flight that had been delayed six
times.
(AP, 10/20/00)
1995 Oct 20, NATO Secretary
General Willy Claes resigned to face corruption charges in his native
Belgium. He later received a three-year suspended jail sentence.
(AP, 10/20/00)
1995 Oct 20, Tiger guerrillas blew
up two oil depots in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
(SFC, 7/24/96, p.A9)
1995 Oct 20, France's Pres. Chirac
to meet Zeroual, the Algerian military ruler, despite recent bombings
in France.
(WSJ, 10/20/95, p. A1)
1995 Oct 21, The Atlanta Braves
won game one of the World Series, defeating the visiting Cleveland
Indians 3-to-2.
(AP, 10/21/00)
1995 Oct 21, Rioting inmates
surrendered control of a prison dormitory in Greenville, Illinois,
ending a one-day uprising that began after the government ordered
federal prisons locked down nationwide.
(AP, 10/21/00)
1995 Oct 21, Maxene Andrews of the
Andrews Sisters died in Hyannis, Massachusetts, at age 79.
(AP, 10/21/00)
1995 Oct 22, The Atlanta Braves
defeated the Cleveland Indians, 4-3, to win the first two games of the
World Series.
(AP, 10/22/05)
1995 Oct 22, President Clinton,
campaigning in San Francisco for California Democrats, demanded that
schools expel gun-toting students after earlier accusing Republicans of
plotting to gut his education package.
(AP, 10/22/00)
1995 Oct 22, The largest gathering
of world leaders in history marked the 50th anniversary of the United
Nations.
(AP, 10/22/05)
1995 Oct 22, Sir Kingsley Amis
(73), British novelist and poet, died in London. His 25 novels included
“Lucky Jim” (1954) and “The Green Man” (1969). His work also included
"The King’s English: A Guide to Modern Usage" and 6 volumes of verse.
In 1998 Eric Jacobs published the biography "Kingsley Amis." In 2000
his son, Martin Amis, authored the memoir: "Experience." In 2007
Zachary Leader authored “The Life of Kingsley Amis.” In 2007 Zachary
Leader authored “The Life of Kingsley Amis.”
(WSJ, 10/23/95, p.A1)(SFEC, 7/19/98, BR p.3)(SFEC,
5/28/00, BR p.1)(AP, 10/22/05)(SSFC, 4/22/07, p.P10)(Econ, 4/21/07,
p.96)
1995 Oct 23, President Clinton met
with Russian President Boris Yeltsin in Hyde Park, New York; the
leaders agreed that Russian troops would help enforce peace in Bosnia,
but remained deadlocked on the issue of NATO command.
(AP, 10/23/00)
1995 Oct 23, A jury in Houston
convicted Yolanda Saldivar of murdering Tejano singing star Selena.
(AP, 10/23/00)
1995 Oct 24, The Cleveland Indians
got their first victory in the World Series, defeating the Atlanta
Braves 7-to-6 in game three.
(AP, 10/24/00)
1995 Oct 24, President Clinton and
Chinese President Jiang Zemin met in New York, trying to stabilize
relations shaken by disputes over human rights, trade and Taiwan.
(AP, 10/24/00)
1995 Oct 25, "Victor/Victoria,"
opened at Marquis Theater NYC for 738 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=4310)
1995 Oct 25, The Atlanta Braves
defeated the Cleveland Indians 5-to-2, taking a three-games-to-one lead
in the World Series.
(AP, 10/25/00)
1995 Oct 25, John J. Sweeney was
elected AFL-CIO president. He soon pledged to his 13 million members
“We will not be a rubber stamp of the Democrats.”
(AP, 10/25/00)(Econ, 5/14/05, p.32)
1995 Oct 25, A commuter train
slammed into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven
students.
(AP, 10/25/00)
1995 Oct 25, Tennis hustler Bobby
Riggs died in Leucadia, California, at age 77.
(AP, 10/25/00)
1995 Oct 25, In Sri Lanka the
Tamil Tiger rebels struggled to halt an army offensive in their Jaffna
stronghold.
(WSJ, 10/26/95, p.A1)
1995 Oct 26, The US House passed,
227-to-203, a Republican balanced-budget bill that would shrink the
federal government, cut taxes and return power to the states.
(AP, 10/26/00)
1995 Oct 26, The Cleveland Indians
won their second game of the World Series by defeating the Atlanta
Braves, 5-to-4, in game five.
(AP, 10/26/00)
1995 Oct 26, Islamic Jihad leader
Fathi Shakaki was shot to death on the Mediterranean island of Malta in
a killing his supporters blamed on Israel.
(LVRJ, 11/1/97, p.17A)(AP, 10/26/05)
1995 Oct 27, The Smithsonian’s
National Zoological Park in Washington unveiled an exhibition called
Think Tank. The exhibit demonstrated learning and thinking by live
animals.
(NH, 8/96, p.26)
1995 Oct 27, William Kreutzer, US
Army sergeant, opened fire on a field of 1300 soldiers at Fort Bragg,
NC. He killed a fellow 82nd Airborne soldier, Major Stephen Badger and
wounded several others. Defense lawyers in 1996 pleaded that he
suffered from depression. He was convicted of pre-meditated murder on
6/11/96. The next day he was sentenced to death. His death sentence was
later overturned. In 2009 Kreutzer pleaded guilty under a deal that
could get him life in prison at most.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A2)(SFC, 6/12/96, p.A2)(SFC,
6/13/96, p.A2)(AP, 10/27/05)(SFC, 3/12/09, p.A6)
1995 Oct 27, Thousands rallied in
Montreal for national unity three days before a referendum on whether
Quebec should secede.
(AP, 10/27/00)
1995 Oct 27, Former South Korean
Pres. Roh Tae Woo confessed that he had created and maintained a
political slush fund. Prosecutors had accused him of amassing some $492
million in secret accounts.
(SFC, 8/26/96, p.A11)
1995 Oct 28, The Atlanta Braves
defeated the Cleveland Indians, 1-0, to win the World Series in Game 6.
(AP, 10/28/00)
1995 Oct 28, The US Senate
approved a GOP package of spending slashes and tax reductions,
52-to-47.
(AP, 10/28/00)
1995 Oct 28, An 18-wheel truck
plunged over an embankment outside Washington DC and spilled 100
gallons of sulfuric acid onto I-95. The driver, Tom Billings, had
fallen asleep.
(WSJ, 5/6/96, p.B-1)
1995 Oct 29, Terry Southern
(b.1924), writer (Candy, The Magic Christian), died of respiratory
failure in NYC. He wrote the screenplays for Dr. Strangelove (1964),
The Cincinnati Kid (1966), Casino Royale (1967), Easy Rider (1969).
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0816143/)
1995 Oct 29, Palestinians burned
American and Israeli flags and swore revenge for the assassination of
Dr. Fathi Shakaki, the leader of the radical Islamic Jihad and a top
architect of terror attacks against Israel. Shakaki was gunned down
three days earlier in Malta, reportedly by Israeli intelligence.
(AP, 10/29/00)
1995 Oct 30, The people of Quebec
rejected an independence referendum by a very narrow margin, 50.6% to
49.4%. It was the 2nd defeat in 15 years. The margin was 50,000 votes
out of 5 million cast.
(WSJ, 11/1/95, p.A1)(SFC, 11/9/96, p.A12)(WSJ,
10/3/00, p.A26)
1995 Oct 31, Stung by defeat in
the secession referendum, Quebec Premier Jacques Parizeau said he would
resign as head of the bitterly divided province at year’s end.
(AP, 10/31/00)
1995 Oct, In Kewanee, Ill., Scott
English, the boyfriend of Tabitha Pollock, killed Jami Pollock (3) as
she and her mother slept. Tabitha Pollock, the mother, was later
convicted of 1st degree murder for not preventing the murder and
sentenced to 36 years in prison. In 2002 the state Supreme Court
overturned the sentence. English was sentenced to life in prison.
(SFC, 11/29/02, p.J3)
1995 Oct, In Pennsylvania Jonny
Gammage died from asphyxiation when police officers subdued him
following a traffic stop in Overbrook. In 1999 the Justice Dept. closed
its case against the officers due to lack of evidence that they used
unreasonable force.
(SFC, 2/19/99, p.A5)
1995 Oct, The Panama Declaration
was signed by the US and 11 other tuna-producing countries. It
permitted the purse seigning method with mandates that the fisherman
assist dolphins in escaping from their tuna nets.
(SFC, 7/30/97, p.A10)
1995 Oct, In Djibouti the
half-burned body of French judge Bernard Borrel was found at the foot
of a ravine 80 kilometers (50 miles) from the town of Djibouti. A
former French military intelligence officer later testified that Borrel
was investigating President Ismael Omar Guelleh, who was then a
candidate for the top job.
(AFP, 7/15/07)
1995 Oct, In Guatemala the
government army led a massacre in the region of Chajul.
(SFC, 9/8/97, p.A9)
1995 Oct, Swiss astronomers Michel
Mayor (b.1942) and Didier Queloz (b.1966) revealed that the spectrum of
light from the star 51 Pegosi shifts on a regular 4.23-day period and
concluded that the shifts were due to a nearby planet.
(SFC, 2/27/97,
p.A6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Mayor)
1995 Oct, Ramadan Abdullah Shallah
took over as head of the Islamic Jihad, based in Damascus, Syria. From
1991 to 1995 Mr. Shallah had been a professor at Tampa’s Univ. of S.
Florida and director of the World Islamic Studies Enterprise.
{www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/477}
1995 Oct, Dr. Kataria organized a
group of 5 people in Bombay to share jokes and laugh. The group grew to
more than 100 laughing clubs across the country.
(WSJ, 9/12/96, p.B1)
1995 Nov 1, The US House voted to
ban so-called "partial birth" abortions by a vote of 288-to-139.
(AP, 11/1/00)
1995 Nov 1, Bosnia peace talks for
the countries of the former Yugoslavia were launched in Dayton, Ohio,
with the leaders of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia present.
(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)(AP, 11/1/00)
1995 Nov 2, Daiwa Bank was
expelled from the US after it was learned that it tried to cover-up
illicit trades by bond trader Toshihide Iguchi who lost some $1.1
billion between 1984-1995. Mr. Iguchi was later sentenced to 4 years in
prison and fined nearly $2.6 million.
(WSJ, 1/8/97, p.A14)(AP, 11/2/00)
1995 Nov 2, A man claiming to have
a bomb hijacked a school bus with 13 learning-disabled children aboard.
He led authorities around Miami-area highways for an hour and a-half
before being fatally shot by police.
(AP, 11/2/00)
1995 Nov 2, In Colombia Alvaro
Gomez Hurtado, head of the main opposition Conservative Party, was
assassinated. In 1998 former Colonel Bernardo Ruiz was charged with the
murder.
(SFC, 10/31/98, p.A13)
1995 Nov 3, President Clinton
dedicated a memorial at Arlington National Cemetery to the 270 victims
of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
(AP, 11/3/00)
1995 Nov 3, The US Labor
Department reported the nation’s unemployment rate had edged down to
five-point-five percent in October, a seven-month low.
(AP, 11/3/00)
1995 Nov 3, Typhoon Angela killed
at least 500 people in the northern Philippines and 200 were reported
missing. Winds hit the main island of Luzon at 167 mph. Typhoon
“Angela” ripped through the Philippines, killing more than 880 people.
(WSJ,11/6/95, p.A-1)(AP, 11/3/00)
1995 Nov 4, Israeli Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin, 73 years old, was killed by a right-wing, 27 year old
Israeli law student, Yigal Amir, at a Tel Aviv peace rally. Shimon
Peres assumed the post of acting Prime Minister. His wife, Leah,
published "Rabin: Our Life, His Legacy in 1997." It was later revealed
the Amir was working under the influence of Avishai Raviv, an agent of
the Shin Bet security service.
(WSJ, 11/6/95, p.A1)(SFC, 4/21/97, p.A1)(AP,
11/4/97)(SFC,11/6/97, p.D2)
1995 Nov 5, An endless procession
of Israelis filed past the simple wooden coffin of Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin, who’d been assassinated the night before.
(AP, 11/5/00)
1995 Nov 6, Michael Guillen
published his "Five Equations That Changed the World." The book
narrates the stories behind Newton's law of gravity, Daniel Bernoulli's
law of hydrodynamic pressure, Michael Faraday's law of electromagnetic
induction, Rudolf Clausius's law of entropy, and Albert Einstein's law
of mass-energy equivalence.
(WSJ, 11/6/95, p. A20)
1995 Nov 6, Cleveland Browns
owner Art Modell announced plans to move his team to Baltimore.
(AP, 11/6/00)
1995 Nov 6, The US Air Force
launched the most powerful unmanned rocket, Titan 4, with a $1 bil.
Milstar communications satellite for the defense dept.
(WSJ, 11/7/95, p.A1)
1995 Nov 6, Funeral services were
held in Jerusalem for assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin. President Clinton led the US delegation; Arab dignitaries also
attended, including Jordan’s King Hussein and Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak.
(AP, 11/6/00)
1995 Nov 7, In a Japanese
courtroom, three American military men admitted to the ambush-rape of a
12-year-old Okinawan schoolgirl, an attack that outraged the Japanese
and strained security ties between Japan and the US. The men later
received prison sentences ranging from six and a-half to seven years.
(AP, 11/7/00)
1995 Nov 7, John Patrick (b.1905),
screenwriter, died.
(http://entertainment.msn.com/celebs/celeb.aspx?c=144909)
1995 Nov 8, Retired General Colin
Powell embraced the Republican Party, but said he would not run for
president or any other political office in 1996 because it was "a
calling that I do not yet hear."
(AP, 11/8/00)
1995 Nov 8, An air force Fokker 27
crashed in central Argentina’s mountains and killed all 57 on board.
(SFC, 11/1/96, p.A18)
1995 Nov 9, In a pair of telephone
interviews, O.J. Simpson told Associated Press reporter Linda Deutsch
that people have supported rather than shunned him since his acquittal,
and that he has learned that fame and wealth are illusions: "The only
thing that endures is character."
(AP, 11/9/00)
1995 Nov 9, Yasser Arafat made a
secret trip to Israel to offer condolences to the widow of assassinated
PM Rabin.
(SFC, 11/11/04, p.A18)
1995 Nov 10, Dario Kordic,
ex-chairman of the Croatian Party in Bosnia, and Gen’l. Tihomir
Blaskic, former leader of the Bosnian Croat militia, were indicted for
genocide by the UN War Crimes Tribunal for commanding forces
responsible that killed hundreds of Muslims in Central Bosnia in
1992-93.
(SFC, 11/30/96, p.A15)
1995 Nov 10, Searchers in
Kathmandu, Nepal, rescued 549 hikers after a massive avalanche struck
the Himalayan foothills, killing 24 tourists and 32 Nepalese.
(AP, 11/10/00)
1995 Nov 10, In Nigeria the
execution by hanging of Ken Saro-Wiwa, and eight other members of the
Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People was supervised by
military govt. Col. Dauda Musa Komo. This prompted the threat of
economic sanctions by the US and the European Union.
(WSJ, 11/13/95, p.A1)(WSJ, 1/2/98, p.8)
1995 Nov 11, With a partial
government shutdown looming, President Clinton and Republican
congressional leaders clashed over Medicare and bickered over who to
include in compromise budget talks.
(AP, 11/11/00)
1995 Nov 11, Charles Scribner Jr.
(b.1921), publisher, died.
(www.britannica.com/eb/article-9112303)
1995 Nov 11, Choi Jong, a South
Korean adventurer, began a walking trip across the Sahara Desert from
Nouakchott, Mauritania.
(SFC, 6/8/96, p.A12)
1995 Nov 11, In Sri Lanka 2 rebel
suicide bombers killed 15 people in Colombo in an unsuccessful attack
on army headquarters.
(SFC, 7/24/96, p.A9)
1995 Nov 12, CBS replaced a
special whistle blowing interview with Jeffrey Wigand, a former tobacco
company scientist, with a watered down version of the story. The 1999
film "The Insider" was a dramatization of the incident.
(SFEC, 10/24/99, DB p.54)
1995 Nov 12, The space shuttle
"Atlantis" blasted off on a mission to dock with the Russian space
station "Mir."
(AP, 11/12/00)
1995 Nov 12, Israel’s ruling Labor
Party unanimously approved Shimon Peres as its new leader, replacing
slain Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
(AP, 11/12/00)
1995 Nov 13, The US government
braced for imminent partial shutdown as President Clinton vetoed one
budget bill and prepared to reject another in a fiscal standoff with
Republicans.
(AP, 11/13/00)
1995 Nov 13, A car bomb killed 7
people, including five Americans, and injured about 60 at a military
training facility in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
(WSJ, 10/14/95, p.A1)(SFC, 6/27/96, p.A10)(SFEC,
11/10/96, p.T5)(AP, 11/13/00)
1995 Nov 14-1995 Nov 20, The US
government instituted a partial shutdown, closing national parks and
museums while government offices operated with skeleton crews.
(SFC, 9/12/98, p.A12)(AP,
11/14/00)
1995 Nov 14, US Representative
Enid Greene Waldholtz (Republican, Utah) filed for divorce from her
husband, Joe, who was under federal investigation for possible campaign
financing improprieties. Joe Waldholtz spent 22 months in federal
prison.
(AP, 11/14/00)
1995 Nov 14, Jack Finney (84),
author (Body Snatchers, Time and Again), died of pneumonia.
{Writer, usa}
(www.nndb.com/people/836/000044704/)
1995 Nov 15, On the 2nd day of a
government shutdown Monica Lewinsky and Pres. Clinton began a sexual
relationship at the White House. The relationship lasted about 18
months.
(SFC, 1/22/98, p.A3)(SFC, 8/19/98, p.A3)(SFC,
9/12/98, p.A12)
1995 Nov 15, The space shuttle
"Atlantis" docked with the orbiting Russian space station "Mir."
(AP, 11/15/00)
1995 Nov 16, Refusing to yield,
President Clinton threatened anew to veto the latest Republican offer
to end a three-day partial government shutdown; Democrats savaged House
Speaker Newt Gingrich for claiming Clinton had snubbed him recently
aboard Air Force One.
(AP, 11/16/00)
1995 Nov 16, Attorney General
Janet Reno disclosed she has Parkinson’s disease.
(AP, 11/16/00)
1995 Nov 16, Bosnian Serbs Radovan
Karadzic and Gen’l. Ratko Mladic were again indicted for genocide by
the UN War Crimes Tribunal for ordering the slaughter of Muslims after
the takeover of Srebrenica.
(SFC, 11/30/96, p.A15)
1995 Nov 17, Pres. Clinton and
Monica Lewinsky engaged in their 2nd sexual encounter. This occurred
during a phone call to Rep. H. L. "Sonny" Callahan (R., Ala.) to secure
his vote against an attempt to deny funds to commit troops in Bosnia.
(SFC, 9/12/98, p.A12)(WSJ, 9/28/98, p.A28)
1995 Nov 17, The commander of US
forces in the Pacific called the rape of a 12-year-old Okinawan girl
"absolutely stupid" and said in Washington the incident could have been
avoided if the US servicemen involved had simply paid for sex. Admiral
Richard C. Macke later apologized for his remarks, and took early
retirement.
(AP, 11/17/00)
1995 Nov 18, With no relief in
sight from a budget impasse that forced a partial federal shutdown, the
House rebelled against Republican leaders during a raucous Saturday
session and voted to oppose formally adjourning the chamber until
Monday. GOP leaders put the chamber into recess anyway.
(AP, 11/18/00)
1995 Nov 19, The Clinton
administration and Republican congressional leaders reached a deal to
end a six-day budget standoff and resulting partial government shutdown.
(AP, 11/19/00)
1995 Nov 19, A suicide bomber
self-destructed in the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad and killed 15
others. 59 were wounded. Islamic militants opposed to the Cairo regime
claimed responsibility.
(WSJ, 11/20/95, p.A-1)(MC, 11/19/01)
1995 Nov 19, Polish President Lech
Walesa was defeated in his bid for re-election.
(AP, 11/19/00)
1995 Nov 20, Radio stations began
airing a new Beatles recording, "Free As a Bird," which had debuted on
ABC TV the night before.
(AP, 11/20/00)
1995 Nov 20, US Federal employees,
idled during a government shutdown, returned to their jobs.
(AP, 11/20/00)
1995 Nov 20, The US FDA approved
new therapy for use as an initial AIDS treatment, 3TC.
(www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/NEW00519.html)
1995 Nov 20, Olympic figure
skating champion Sergei Grinkov (28) died of a heart attack in Lake
Placid, New York.
(AP, 11/20/00)
1995 Nov 20, BBC Television
broadcast an interview with Princess Diana, who admitted being
unfaithful to Prince Charles.
(AP, 11/20/97)
1995 Nov 20, France conducted its
4th nuclear test at the Mururoa atoll in French Polynesia. [other news
sources indicated a severe earthquake with the epicenter in the Red Sea]
(WSJ, 11/22/95, p.A1)
1995 Nov 21, The Dow Jones
Industrials in the US closed above 5000 for the first time to 5023.55.
(WSJ, 11/22/95, p.A1)(AP, 11/21/97)
1995 Nov 21, The Dayton Peace
Accord, was initialed by the leaders of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia. US
Sec. of State, Warren Christopher and chief mediator Richard Holbrooke
manage to keep the parties talking for over 3 weeks to reach this
agreement to end three and a-half years of ethnic fighting in
Bosnia-Herzegovina. One year deployment of 20,000 US troops as
one-third of a NATO peace keeping force was estimated to cost about
$1.5 bil. The US also planned to contribute $600 mil over three years
to help rebuild Bosnia.
(WSJ, 11/22/95, p.A1,3)(SFC, 10/6/00, p.A19)(AP,
11/21/00)
1995 Nov 21, Former Nazi Capt.
Erich Priebke was extradited from Argentina to Italy to face trial for
his role in the Ardeatine Caves massacre. A court found him guilty in
1996 but released him because too much time had elapsed since the
crime. There was a major uproar and he was again arrested and a 1997
trial convicted him and co-defendant Major Karl Hass. Priebke was
sentenced to 5 years in prison. Hass was convicted but released due to
mitigating circumstances. face charges in the massacre of 335
Italian civilians in Nazi-occupied Rome.
(AP, 3/23/97)(WSJ, 10/3/95, p.A-21) (WSJ, 11/21/95,
p.A-1)(SFC, 7/23/97, p.A9)
(AP, 11/21/02)
1995 Nov 21, France detonated a
fourth underground nuclear blast at its test site in the South Pacific.
(AP, 11/21/00)
1995 Nov 21, Israel granted
citizenship to jailed US spy Jonathan Jay Pollard.
(www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2501/is_n3_v18/ai_19129729/pg_6)
1995 Nov 21-1995 Nov 28, In one
week of sales, `The Beatles Anthology 1' beat sales record in the US:
855,473 copies. Previous record: Michael Jackson's `History', 391,000
copies.
{Pop&Rock, Beatles}
(www.4reference.net/encyclopedias/wikipedia/The_Beatles.html)
1995 Nov 22, The Commerce
Department reported the US trade deficit had narrowed to its lowest
level in nine months.
(AP, 11/22/00)
1995 Nov 22, John Putz (89),
journalist, died.
(http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Obituary/1995/literature.html)
1995 Nov 22, Acting swiftly to
boost the Balkan peace accord, the UN Security Council suspended
economic sanctions against Serbia and eased the arms embargo against
the states of the former Yugoslavia.
(AP, 11/22/00)
1995 Nov 23, Free-lance
photographer Charles Rathbun was booked in Hermosa Beach, Calif., for
investigation of murder in the disappearance of model Linda Sobek.
Rathbun was later convicted of Sobek's murder.
(AP, 11/23/05)
1995 Nov 23, Movie director Louis
Malle died in Beverly Hills, California, at age 63.
(AP, 11/23/00)
1995 Nov 23, Bosnian Serb leader
Radovan Karadzic grudgingly accepted the US-backed peace plan for the
former Yugoslavia after meeting with Serbian President Slobodan
Milosevic.
(AP, 11/23/00)
1995 Nov 23, A wave of violence in
Haiti claimed at least 3 more deaths following President Jean-Bertrand
Aristide's Nov. 7 call for a disarmament campaign.
(AP, 11/23/02)
1995 Nov 24, The American
Visionary Art Museum opened in Baltimore. It was founded by development
consultant Rebecca Hoffberger,43, who succeeded in raising most of the
$7.5 mil for the museum.
(WSJ, 4/3/96, p.A20)(www.avam.org/stuff/whois.html)
1995 Nov 24, Bosnian Serb leader
Radovan Karadzic promised during a televised address to accept a
U-S-brokered peace plan.
(AP, 11/24/00)
1995 Nov 24, Voters in Ireland
narrowly ended a 70-year ban on divorce and approved a constitutional
amendment legalizing divorce and remarriage by 50.23%.
(SFC, 1/18/96, p.A8)(AP, 11/24/00)
1995 Nov 25, In his weekly radio
address, President Clinton appealed to America’s values and interests
as he pleaded for support for the Bosnia peace agreement.
(AP, 11/25/00)
1995 Nov 25, Serbs in the Bosnian
capital Sarajevo took to the streets by the thousands to protest the
peace plan, vowing to fight to the death.
(AP, 11/25/00)
1995 Nov 26, Senior US officials
declared the Dayton treaty on Bosnia was final, rejecting demands from
Bosnian Serbs that provisions relating to the future of Sarajevo be
changed.
(AP, 11/26/05)
1995 Nov 26, Two men set fire to a
subway token booth in Brooklyn, N.Y., fatally burning the clerk inside.
(AP, 11/26/05)
1995 Nov 26, Rebel jets bombed
Kabul, the Afghan capital, killing 35 people and wounding 140 others.
(AP, 11/26/02)
1995 Nov 27, President Clinton
presented his case for sending 20,000 U.S. troops on a peacekeeping
mission to Bosnia, saying in a prime-time address that "in the choice
between peace and war, America must choose peace."
(AP, 11/27/05)
1995 Nov 27, US House Speaker Newt
Gingrich ruled out a 1996 presidential run.
(AP, 11/27/05)
1995 Nov 28, President Clinton
continued to press his case for sending 20,000 US ground troops to
Bosnia. President Clinton signed a $6 billion road bill that ended the
federal 55 mile-an-hour speed limit.
(WSJ, 11/29/95, p.A1)(AP, 11/28/00)
1995 Nov 28, James Brady, former
white house press secretary, suffered a heart attack.
(www.cnn.com/US/Newsbriefs/9512/12-12/)
1995 Nov 29, President Clinton
opened a five-day European trip in London, where he met with Prime
Minister John Major and addressed the British Parliament.
(AP, 11/29/00)
1995 Nov 30, President Clinton
became the first US chief executive to visit Northern Ireland, where he
implored Roman Catholics and Protestants alike not to surrender to the
impulses of "old habits and hard grudges."
(AP, 11/30/00)
1995 Nov 30, It was reported that
global warming over the last 100 years was measured to be one degree
Fahrenheit.
(WSJ, 11/30/95, p.B-12)
1995 Nov 30, Israeli soldiers
fired on hundreds of stone-throwing Palestinians in the West Bank
district of Nablus. In another incident 2 Israeli soldiers were wounded
near the town of Jenin.
(WSJ, 12/1/95, p.A1)
1995 Nov, The US coastguard posted
its Deepwater Mission Analysis Report. This led to a $24 billion
upgrade program of its ships and aircraft.
(Econ, 4/21/07,
p.32)(www.uscg.mil/deepwater/program/history.htm)
1995 Nov, The 32-story, 356-ft
Landmark Hotel, legendary retreat of billionaire Howard Hughes in Las
Vegas, was blown up by Control Demolition Inc.
(SFC, PM, 4/28/96, p.4)
1995 Nov, It was reported that
about 540,000 people will die of cancer this year in the US.
(WSJ, 11/2/95, p.A12)
1995 Nov, Lebanese guerrillas of
the Hezbollah fired rockets into northern Israel. Israeli warplanes
retaliated by hitting rebel strongholds. Hezbollah or Party of God is
the Iranian-backed political and military group that is fighting to
dislodge Israeli soldiers from southern Lebanon.
(WSJ, 11/29/95, p.A1)(SFC, 4/14/96, p.1)
1995 Nov, Hun Sen, leader of the
communist Cambodian People’s Party, arrested the sec. general of
Funcinpec, Prince Norodom Sirivudh, and tried him for terrorism and
coup plotting. The trial was a transparent mockery of justice.
(WSJ, 5/3/96, p.A10)
1995 Nov, In China Bishop Zeng
Jingmu (75) was arrested and sentenced to 3 years of re-education for
holding unauthorized religious services in a home. His allegiance to
the Vatican had already caused him 23 years in jail since the 1950s. He
was released in 1998, 6 months early, prior to a visit by Pres. Clinton.
(SFEC, 5/10/98, p.A24)
1995 Nov, The Barcelona Process,
launched by Euro-Mediterranean Foreign Ministers, formed an innovative
alliance based on the principles of joint ownership, dialogue and
co-operation. It brings together the 27 Members of the European Union
and 12 Southern Mediterranean states. Economic incentives and the
strengthening of civil society were used to encourage reform.
(http://ec.europa.eu/external_relations/euromed/index_en.htm)(Econ,
11/26/05, p.68)
1995 Nov, In France weeks of chaos
in the streets and paralysis to the railways began as Pres. Chirac
tried to end the country’s “special regimes” for public sector pensions.
(Econ, 11/17/07, p.57)
1995 Nov, In Mexico a
congressional commission on government corruption was set up.
(SFC, 9/28/96, p.A9)
1995 Nov, In Peru Lori Helene
Berenson, an American, was arrested on charges of aiding MRTA. She was
convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Also arrested was Nancy
Gilvonio, wife of Nestor Cerpa, a Tupac Amaru rebel.
(SFC, 12/20/96, p.B4)(SFC, 5/3/97, p.A8)
1995 Nov, The government of the
Seychelles Islands passed its Economic Development Act which provided
immunity to investors who place $10 million in "approved" Seychelles
investments. Perks include protection against seizure of assets and in
some cases diplomatic passports.
(WSJ, 5/23/96, p.A12)
1995 Nov, In South Africa the
first McDonald’s restaurant opened in Johannesburg.
(WSJ, 10/22/98, p.B21)
1995 Nov, In Tanzania Pres.
Benjamin William Mkapa took office after being elected president for 5
years in the country’s first multiparty vote. Mkapa ruled to 2005.
(WSJ, 12/10/96, p.A1)(SFC, 8/8/98, p.A12)(Econ,
9/1/07, p.44)
1995 Nov, Zairean Tutsis in Masis
were targeted by authorities, the army and the locals. They were forced
to flee and many were massacred.
(WSJ, 11/15/96, p.A16)
1995 Dec 1, Tens of thousands of
people in Dublin, Ireland, warmly welcomed President Clinton to his
ancestral homeland.
(AP, 12/1/00)
1995 Dec 1, The NATO alliance
chose Spanish Foreign Minister Javier Solana be its new secretary
general.
(AP, 12/1/00)
1995 Dec 2, In Baumholder,
Germany, President Clinton told four-thousand American troops who were
on their way to Bosnia-Herzegovina for peacekeeping duty to strike
"immediately and with decisive force" if threatened.
(AP, 12/2/00)
1995 Dec 2, NASA launched a
US-European observatory on a one billion-dollar mission to study the
sun. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, SOHO, later detected
rivers of charged particles flowing over the surface of the sun and
sunquakes. In 2003 a motor failure crippled a high-gain antenna.
(SFC, 9/4/98, p.A3)(AP, 12/2/00)(BS, 6/26/03, 3A)
1995 Dec 2, Robertson Davies,
Canadian writer, died. His book "The Merry Heart: Reflections on
Reading, Writing and the World of Books" was published posthumously in
1997. His 11 novels included "Fifth Business," "What's Bred in the
Bone," "The Lyre of Orpheus" and “The Cunning Man.” Just before his
death he finished a libretto for the opera "The Golden Ass" based on
the Metamorphoses by Apuleius.
(SFEC, 7/6/97, BR p.1)(WSJ, 5/14/99, p.W8)(WSJ,
2/25/06, p.P6)
1995 Dec 3, President Clinton,
wrapping up a five-day European trip, authorized a vanguard of 700
American troops to open a risky mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
(AP, 12/3/00)
1995 Dec 3, The US and Europe
signed a trans-Atlantic trade and security accord in Madrid, Spain.
(WSJ, 12/4/95, p.A9)
1995 Dec 3, Former South Korean
president Chun Doo-hwan was arrested for his role in a 1979 coup that
was followed by the most violent crackdown in the nation's history.
(AP, 12/03/05)
1995 Dec 4, In Texas Diane Zamora
and David Graham, high school sweethearts, killed Adrienne Jones (16).
It was alleged that Jones and Graham had had sex and the murder was
reported as an appeasement to Zamora. Graham went on to the Air Force
Academy at Colorado Springs. The murder remained a mystery until Zamora
confided her story to classmates at the Annapolis Naval Academy in Sep
1996. Zamora later testified that Graham shot and killed Jones. Zamora
was convicted in Feb, 1998, and received a life sentence with possible
parole after 40 years. Graham was convicted in July, 1998, and received
an automatic life sentence.
(SFEC, 2/8/98, p.A6)(SFC, 2/11/98, p.A3)(SFC,
2/18/98, p.A3)(SFC, 7/25/98, p.A3)
1995 Dec 4, In a near-freezing
drizzle, the first NATO troops landed in the Balkans to begin setting
up a peace mission that brought American soldiers into the middle of
the Bosnian conflict.
(AP, 12/4/00)
1995 Dec 5, In the first hint of
movement at the budget talks, White House officials and Democratic
congressional leaders said they were preparing a seven-year
budget-balancing plan.
(AP, 12/5/00)
1995 Dec 5, Stanley Keith Runcorn
(73), a professor in geophysics, was killed by Paul Bradford Cain (26),
a kickboxer, at the Hotel San Diego. Cain was convicted in 1997 of
first-degree murder.
(SFC, 10/3/97, p.A20)
1995 Dec 5, Former South Korean
president Roh Tae-woo, four aides and a dozen top businessmen were
indicted in a bribes-for-favors scandal.
(AP, 12/5/00)
1995 Dec 6, President Clinton
vetoed a seven-year Republican budget-balancing plan.
(AP, 12/6/00)
1995 Dec 6, The US House ethics
committee sent a highly critical letter to House Speaker Newt Gingrich,
saying he had committed three ethics violations.
(AP, 12/6/00)
1995 Dec 6, New York Times
columnist James Reston died in Washington at age 86.
(AP, 12/6/00)
1995 Dec 6, Dmitri Antonovich
Volkogonov (67), ex-Soviet soldier and historian, died. He wrote
biographies of Stalin, Lenin and Trotsky based on archival material of
the Soviet Union. From 1991 until his death he was the head of the
Russian Archive Declassifying Commission.
(www.msu.edu/~daggy/cop/bkofdead/obits-vo.htm)(SFC,
7/7/96, BR p.4)
1995 Dec 7, Under Republican
pressure, President Clinton reluctantly presented a seven-year
balanced-budget plan that was quickly criticized by GOP lawmakers.
(AP, 12/7/00)
1995 Dec 7, Bill Gates announced
Microsoft’s Internet counterattack on Netscape and the browser market.
(WSJ, 11/25/98, p.B1)
1995 Dec 7, A 746-pound probe from
the Galileo spacecraft hurtled into Jupiter's atmosphere, sending back
data to the mothership before it was presumably destroyed.
(WSJ, 1/23/96, p.A1)(AP, 12/7/97)
1995 Dec 7, US paratrooper James
N. Burmeister (21) shot and killed Jackie Burden and Michael James. He
was convicted on Feb 27, 1997 of 1st degree murder and conspiracy in
the hate crime and faced the death penalty. The jury deadlocked 11 to 1
in favor of death so the judge sentenced him to 2 consecutive life
terms in prison. He will have to serve at least 50 years before
becoming eligible for parole. Malcolm Wright, a fellow soldier, was
also charged in the murders and convicted on May 2, 1997.
(SFC, 2/28/97, p.A24)(SFC, 5/3/97, p.A3)
1995 Dec 7, 5000 Serbs protested
in Serajevo against the US brokered peace accord. They were opposed to
control by the Bosnian-Croat federation.
(WSJ, 12/8/95, p.A1)
1995 Dec 8, In New York, an
arsonist killed seven workers and himself at a Harlem clothing store
that had been the target of a racially charged lease dispute.
(AP, 12/8/00)
1995 Dec 8, Four months after the
death of founder Jerry Garcia, The Grateful Dead announced it was
breaking up after 30 years of making music.
(AP, 12/8/00)
1995 Dec 8, There was an accident
at the Japanese Monju prototype fast-breeder nuclear reactor in
the Fukui Prefecture that forced closure. Two tons of non-radioactive,
but violently reactive liquid sodium leaked from the cooling system.
Japan had 51 nuclear power plants that produced 33.8% of its energy
needs.
(WSJ, 12/27/95, p. A7)(SFC, 3/13/97, p.A12)
1995 Dec 9, Rep. Kweisi Mfume (the
Swahili name means conquering son of kings), D-Md., was chosen to head
the NAACP.
(WSJ, 12/11/95, p.A-1)(AP, 12/9/97)
1995 Dec 9, Douglas "Wrong Way"
Corrigan (b.1927), legendary American aviator, died.
(http://tinyurl.com/2e7bn)
1995 Dec 10, The first group of US
Marines arrived in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo to join NATO
soldiers sent to enforce peace in former Yugoslavia.
(AP, 12/10/00)
1995 Dec 11, Utah Congresswoman
Enid Greene Waldholtz held an emotional news conference in which she
publicly addressed the scandal surrounding her personal and campaign
finances and blamed the mess on her estranged husband, Joe.
(AP, 12/11/00)
1995 Dec 11, The Malden Mills
textile manufacturing plant in Lawrence, Mass., burned down. Owner
Aaron Feuerstein retained all his employees on full pay until the plant
was rebuilt. The plants manufactured Polartec and Polarfleece
synthetic fabrics.
(SFEC, 9/8/96, Par p.4)
1995 Dec 12, By only three votes,
the US Senate killed a constitutional amendment giving Congress
authority to outlaw flag burning and other forms of desecration against
Old Glory.
(AP, 12/11/00)
1995 Dec 12, Willie Brown beat
incumbent mayor Frank Jordon to become the first African-American mayor
of San Francisco. California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown was elected
mayor of San Francisco in a victory over Frank Jordan 57 to 43%.
(WSJ, 12/14/95, p.A1)(SFEC, 6/14/98, p.A16) (HN,
12/12/98)
1995 Dec 12, Two French airmen
shot down over Bosnia arrived home after nearly four months as captives
of the Bosnian Serbs.
(AP, 12/11/00)
1995 Dec 13, As President Clinton
flew to Paris to attend the signing of the Bosnian peace accord,
Congress gave him partial backing for his Bosnia policy.
(AP, 12/13/00)
1995 Dec 13, Chinese democracy
activist Wei Jingsheng, who had already spent 16 years in prison, was
sentenced to 14 more. In Nov 1997, Beijing granted Wei medical parole
to travel to the United States for treatment.
(AP, 12/13/97)
1995 Dec 13, Four hostages: Donald
Hutchings, Keith Mangan, Paul Wells and Dirk Hasert, who were seized in
July by Kashmir guerillas, who called themselves Al Faran, were killed.
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. The Al Faran name
was coined to confuse Indian authorities.
(SFC, 5/27/96, p.A6)(SFC, 12/23/96, p.A12)
1995 Dec 14, Shelley Davis,
historian for the IRS for the last 7 years, resigned in protest of the
way the agency was handling its records. The IRS decided to eliminate
the position of historian.
(WSJ, 12/15/95, p.A1)
1995 Dec 14, Microsoft and NBC
announced a joint venture to create MSNBC, a cable channel and Web site
devoted to breaking news. In 2005 NBC raised its stake to 82%.
(http://cbsnews.cbs.com/htdocs/microsoft/timeline1.html)
1995 Dec 14, AIDS patient Jeff
Getty received the first-ever bone-marrow transplant from a baboon. The
experimental procedure at a San Francisco hospital was criticized by
animal rights activists. The transplant failed, but Getty survived.
(AP, 12/14/05)
1995 Dec 14, A way to genetically
improve resistance to leaf blight in rice plants was reported found by
scientists.
(WSJ, 12/15/95, p.A1)
1995 Dec 14, An agreement for
peace in Bosnia, reached at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton,
Ohio, was formally signed. Presidents Alija Izetbegovic of Bosnia,
Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia and Franjo Tudjman of Croatia signed the
Bosnian peace treaty in Paris. The agreement divided Bosnia into 2
autonomous territories and granted 51% of Bosnia to the Muslim-Croat
federation and 49% to the Serbs. Elections were scheduled and a force
of 60,000 Western troops was planned for deployment. A 3-member
presidency and a national parliament was also part of the plan. The
office of High Representative was created to oversee the implementation
of the civilian aspects of the Peace Agreement.
(SFC, 1/19/98, p.A8)(SFC, 9/22/98, p.A8)(AP,
12/14/00)(www.ohr.int/)
1995 Dec 14, Heavy fighting erupts
in Gudermes, Chechnya, when rebels disrupted Kremlin-imposed elections.
At least 267 Chechen civilians were reported killed in the following 10
days.
(AP, 12/14/02)
1995 Dec 15, President Clinton
defied a deadline for turning over a former aide’s Whitewater notes,
prompting a deeply divided Senate investigative committee to vote to
challenge him in federal court. The White House agreed six days later
to turn over the notes.
(AP, 12/15/00)
1995 Dec 15, The US stock market
set a volume record of 636 million shares traded.
(WSJ, 12/18/95, p.A1)
1995 Dec 15, Louis Monier of
Digital Equipment Corp. unveiled the Alta Vista search engine. It used
several hundred “spiders” in parallel to index the web. The engine was
co-invented by Paul Andrew Flaherty (1964-2006) of DEC.
(Econ, 9/18/04, TQ p.33)(SFC, 3/24/06, p.B5)
1995 Dec 15, French rail workers
voted to end a three-week-old strike.
(AP, 12/15/00)
1995 Dec 16, President Clinton and
congressional Republicans traded accusations as their budget impasse
led to a second shutdown of the federal government.
(AP, 12/16/00)
1995 Dec 17, This year's British
Booker Prize in literature was awarded to Pat Barker for "The Ghost
Road," the third novel of a trilogy (1991-1995) that work focused on
psychologist W.H.R. Rivers and poet Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) set
during WW I.
(www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth15)(WSJ,
10/15/97, p.A21)(WSJ, 12/18/95, p.A12)
1995 Dec 17 Eritrea used its
warships to try to seize a disputed island in the mouth of the Red Sea
from Yemen. Yemen sent warplanes to counter the attack.
(WSJ, 12/18/95, p.A1)
1995 Dec 17, Angry voters handed
Russian President Boris Yeltsin a stinging rebuff as Communists and
right-wing nationalists scored big wins in parliamentary elections on a
platform of rolling back democratic reforms.
(AP, 12/17/00)
1995 Dec 17, Isa Yusuf Alptekin
(b.1901), exiled Uighur head of the Islamic Republic of East Turkestan
(Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China), died in Turkey.
(Econ, 7/11/09,
p.14)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isa_Alptekin)
1995 Dec 18, The Dow industrials
dropped 101.52 points, its biggest one-day loss in four years amid
investor worries over the budget stalemate between Congress and
President Clinton.
(AP, 12/18/00)
1995 Dec 18, A powerful fertilizer
bomb was found outside an Internal Revenue Service office in Reno,
Nevada, but fizzled before its lit fuse could do much damage.
(AP, 12/18/00)
1995 Dec 18, Queen Elizabeth asked
Prince Charles and Diana to divorce.
(www.princess-diana.com/diana/curriculumvitae.htm)
1995 Dec 18, A chartered Zairean
plane crashed in northern Angola killing 139 [141] people. Five people
survived. The plane was a Lockheed Electra, an old plane with a
capacity of 99. It was owned by Trans Service Airlift, a private
company.
(WSJ, 12/20/95, p.A1)
1995 Dec 19, The Federal Reserve
cut a key interest rate, turning fears to cheers on Wall Street a day
after the biggest one-day stock plunge in four years.
(AP, 12/19/00)
1995 Dec 19, A gunman opened fire
inside a Bronx, New York, shoe store, killing five people.
(AP, 12/19/00)
1995 Dec 19, Yigal Amir, the
confessed assassin of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, went on
trial.
(AP, 12/19/00)
1995 Dec 20, An American Airlines
Boeing 757, Flight 965 jet crashed in Columbia with 164 people on
board. Four survivors were reported. It smashed into a mountain near
Cali enroute from Miami. It was later reported that pilots had entered
an incorrect code for the approach to Cali.
(WSJ,12/22/95,p.A1)(SFC,5/12/96, p.A14)(SFC,
4/18/00, p.A5)(WSJ, 11/13/01, p.A14)
1995 Dec 20, Three teenagers were
found shot through the head on a remote logging road in Lane County,
Oregon. One was a 15-year old girl, who was also raped. Later Jonathon
Wayne Susbauer, 22, and Conan Wayne Hale, 20, were arrested.
Authorities taped a confession by Hale while he confessed to a Roman
Catholic priest. Catholic leaders in Portland have requested that the
tape be destroyed.
(SFC, 5/11/96, p.A3)
1995 Dec 20, In
Bosnia-Herzegovina, NATO began its peacekeeping mission, taking over
from the United Nations.
(AP, 12/20/00)
1995 Dec 21, The House approved
sweeping welfare reform which President Clinton said he would veto. He
later signed a revamped version.
(AP, 12/21/00)
1995 Dec 21, A train collision
outside Cairo, Egypt, claimed 75 lives.
(AP, 12/21/00)
1995 Dec 21, The city of Bethlehem
passed from Israeli to Palestinian control.
(AP, 12/21/97)
1995 Dec 22, The Senate approved a
wide-ranging Republican plan to overhaul the nation’s welfare system,
52-to-47, but without enough votes to override President Clinton’s
promised veto.
(AP, 12/22/00)
1995 Dec 22, The Mt. Zion Baptist
Church in Boligee, Ala., burned down. Arson was suspected and
investigations by the FBI and ATF were later begun.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A16)
1995 Dec 22, Actress Butterfly
McQueen, who’d played the scatterbrained slave Prissy in "Gone With the
Wind," died at age 84.
(AP, 12/22/00)
1995 Dec 23, The charred bodies of
16 members of a doomsday cult, the Order of the Solar Temple, were
found outside Grenoble, France. The same cult lost 53 members in 1994
in ritual killings in Switzerland and Canada.
(WSJ, 12/26/95, p. A1)(AP, 12/23/00)
1995 Dec 23, A fire killed 540,
including 170 children, in Dabwali, India, 125 miles northwest of New
Delhi when a tent ignited during a year-end school party.
(WSJ, 12/26/95, p. A-1)(AP, 12/23/97)
1995 Dec 24, In a Christmas
message to U.S. troops in Bosnia, President Clinton praised their peace
mission to a land exhausted by war.
(AP, 12/24/05)
1995 Dec 24, Fire broke out at the
Philadelphia Zoo, killing 23 rare gorillas, orangutans, gibbons and
lemurs.
(AP, 12/24/05)
1995 Dec 24, British playwright
John Osborne ("Look Back in Anger") died at age 65.
(AP, 12/24/00)
1995 Dec 25, The Mt. Moriah
Baptist Church in Hillsborough, N.C., burned down. Arson was suspected
and investigations by the FBI and ATF were later begun.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A16)
1995 Dec 25, Dean Martin (b.1917),
singer, comedian, actor, died at age 78 in Beverly Hills, Ca. In 1998
Brian Gunn published "Rat Pack Confidential: Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter,
Joey & the Last Great Show Biz Party," a biography of Frank
Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop.
(WSJ, 12/26/95, p. A1)(AP, 12/25/97)(SFC, 5/16/98,
p.A1)(SFEC, 7/5/98, BR p.5)
1995 Dec 25, An ailing Pope John
Paul the Second cut short his traditional Christmas greetings, telling
crowds he was fighting to regain his health.
(AP, 12/25/00)
1995 Dec 25, In South Africa
supporters of the Zulu nationalist Inkatha Freedom Party carried out a
Christmas massacre where 18 supporters of the African National Congress
(ANC) were killed in the KwaZulu-Natal province. 600 members of
Inkatha, a Zulu nationalist group, were responsible. In 1998 5 of the
13 men convicted in the massacre were freed from prison.
(WSJ, 12/26/95, p. A-1)(SFC, 12/23/98, p.C2)
1995 Dec 26, Israel turned dozens
of West Bank villages over to the Palestinian Authority in a smooth
transfer of power.
(AP, 12/26/00)
1995 Dec 26, Floods in eastern
South Africa killed at least 130.
(WSJ, 12/27/95, p. A1)
1995 Dec 26, Heavy snow covered
much of Northern Europe and Japan.
(WSJ, 12/27/95, p. A1)
1995 Dec 27, France set off a
fifth nuclear bomb at a South Pacific Atoll.
(WSJ, 12/28/95, p. A1)
1995 Dec 27, Israeli jeeps sped
out of the West Bank town of Ramallah, capping a seven-week pullout
giving Yasser Arafat control over 90 percent of the West Bank's 1
million Palestinian residents and one-third of its land.
(AP, 12/27/05)
1995 Dec 28, President Clinton
vetoed a $265 billion defense bill, saying it would waste money on an
unneeded missile defense system. Congress failed to override the veto.
(AP, 12/28/00)
1995 Dec 28, CompuServe obeyed a
German order to suspend member access to 200 Internet newsgroups deemed
pornographic.
(AP, 12/28/00)
1995 Dec 29, Japan’s finance
minister (Masayoshi Takemura) announced the resignation of the deputy
finance minister (Kyosuke Shinozawa) over several scandals, including
the ministry’s cover-up of trading losses at Daiwa Bank’s New York
office.
(AP, 12/29/00)
1995 Dec 30, A US military
policeman, Martin John Begosh, became the first American injured in
NATO’s fledgling Bosnia peace mission when his Humvee hit an anti-tank
mine.
(AP, 12/30/00)
1995 Dec 30, The Salem Baptist
Church in Gibson Co., Tenn., burned down. Arson was suspected and
investigations by the FBI and ATF were later begun.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A16)
1995 Dec 31, Pres. Clinton and
Monica Lewinsky engaged in their 3rd sexual encounter. By this time
Lewinsky was a member of the staff of the Office of legislative Affairs.
(SFC, 9/12/98, p.A12)
1995 Dec 31, The first US tanks
crossed a pontoon bridge over the Sava River from Croatia to Bosnia to
start the deployment of 20,000 US troops under IFOR, the Implementation
Force under NATO command.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A14)
1995 Dec 31, Cartoonist Bill
Watterson ended his "Calvin & Hobbes" comic strip.
(http://edition.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/10/24/reclusive.cartoonist.ap/)
1995 Dec 31, Bosnian government
officials and Bosnian Serb leaders signed a UN-brokered cease-fire
agreement.
(AP, 12/31/00)
1995 Dec 31, Russian ground forces
launched a ferocious assault on the Chechen capital of Grozny.
(AP, 12/31/00)
1995 Dec, The US announced that it
would withdraw from the UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
by Jan 1, 1997.
(SFC, 2/17/96, p.A14)
1995 Dec, Newt Gingrich was named
"Man of the year" by Time Magazine.
(SFC, 11/7/98, p.A4)
1995 Dec, Digg, an Internet-based
provider of content submitted by users, went live. Kevin Rose and Jay
Adelson founded Digg.com, a web-based news site using collaborative
editing to focus on news in technology.
(SFC, 6/23/06, p.D5)(WSJ, 2/10/07, p.P4)
1995 Dec, A wave of strikes
lasted weeks as the French government struggled to establish cuts to
rein in its $65.5 bil. deficit. Led by the railroad workers, the
strikes bring transport to a halt. France was attempting to restructure
its finances in time to meet the deadline for European monetary union
in 1999.
(WSJ, 11/30/95, p.A-12)(Econ, 9/22/07, p.63)
1995 Dec, India began a
broad-based vaccination program against polio.
(SFEC, 1/26/97, p.A14)
1995 Dec, In Russia the 450 seats
of the Duma were divided into two parts: party and single seats. On the
party side the Communist won 21.5% of the seats. Alexander Lebed was
elected to the State Duma.
(WSJ, 12/20/95, p.A1)(SFC, 10/18/96, A18)
1995 Dec, In Singapore Nick
Leeson, responsible for the fall of Barings PLC, pleaded guilty to
fraud and was sentenced to 6 ½ years in prison. He was released
in 1999.
(WSJ, 7/2/99, p.A10)
1995 Dec, Prime Minister Tansu
Ciller, head of the True Path Party, quit after the Welfare Party,
which pledged to impose Islamic principles, drew the largest number of
votes in parliamentary elections (21%). The leader of the Welfare Party
was Necmettin Erbakan. The Motherland leader was Mesut Yilmaz.
(WSJ, 12/26/95, p. A-1)(WSJ, 12/27/95, p. A-1)(WSJ,
4/16/99, p.A12)
1995 Dec, Turkey grappled with an
11-year old Kurdish insurgency under President was Suleyman Demirel.
(WSJ, 12/27/95, p. A-1)
1995 Dec, In the United Arab
Emirates a Lebanese Christian man was flogged and imprisoned for
marrying a Muslim citizen studying in the US. The couple had married in
Lebanon.
(SFEC, 12/1/96, p.T9)
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