Page 4: Historical Events In 1995

Feb 07   Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Graham Gooch and Mike Gatting.   

Feb 07   Terrorist Ramzi Yousef is arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan, where he had been hiding for two years, for his part in the World Trade Center bombing   

Feb 08   6.4 earthquake at Trujillo, Colombia (46+ killed).   

Feb 08   B G Hooghoudt, radiotelescope build (Dwingeloo/Westerbork), dies at 70.   

Feb 08   In Ottawa Romeo LeBlanc sworn in as Canada's 25th Governor General   

Feb 09   David Wayne, [Wayne Mcmeekan], US actor (Dallas), dies at 81.   

Feb 09   Former U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright dies in Washington, D.C. at age 89.   

Feb 10   Chelsi Smith, 21, (Texas), crowned 44th Miss USA   

Feb 10   Kenton Kilmer, poet/translator, dies at 85   

Feb 10   US female Figure Skating championship won by Nicole Bobek.   

Feb 11   The space shuttle Discovery touches down at Cape Canaveral, Florida, ending a mission that included docking with the Russian Mir space station.   

Feb 11   US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge.   

Feb 11   West Indies score 5-660 against New Zealand   

Feb 12   Earring George Mayweather, blues harmonica player, dies at 66.   

Feb 12   In this year, PRI loses/PAN claims Mexican regional elections   

Feb 12   Susan Auch skates female world record 500 meter (38.94 seconds)   

Feb 13   A Netherlands tribunal indicts 21 Serbs for atrocities committed at a Bosnian prison camp   

Feb 13   Abdelhafid Said, Algerian student leader, murdered.   

Feb 13   Richard Weber of Chelsea, Quebec and Russian MD Mikhail Mlakhov start 1500 km ski trek from Canada's northernmost point of land to the North Pole.   

Feb 13   West Indies beat New Zealand by innings and 332, Courtney Walsh 13-55   

Feb 14   Alberto Burri, Ital physician/sculptor/painter, dies at 79.   

Feb 14   Roseanne weds bodyguard Ben Thomas   

Feb 15   Burundi premier Anatole Kanyenkiko, steps down.   

Feb 15   Dow-Jones closes at record 3986.17   

Feb 15   Population of People's Republic of China hits 1.2 billion.   

Feb 16   John Everett Allen, US businessman, dies at 91.   

Feb 19   Calder Willingham, novelist/Scriptwriter, dies at 72.   

Feb 19   Linford Christie runs world record 200 meter indoor (20.25 seconds).   

Feb 21   RAF-pilot Jo Salter is inaugural woman to fly in a tornado   

Feb 21   Robert Bolt, Brit playwright (Doctor Zhivago, Bounty), dies at 70   

Feb 21   Steve Fossett, a Chicago stockbroker, is recorded as becoming the inaugural person to make a solo balloon flight across the Pacific, landing in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada   

Feb 22   Algiers police kill at least 99 prison rioters.   

Feb 22   Bloc Quebecois leader Lucien Bouchard returns to the House of Commons where MPs give him a standing ovation; he had lost part of his leg to the so-called flesh-eating disease in late 1993.   

Feb 23   Antoine Nduwayo appointed Premier of Burundi   

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Jan 01   Eugene wigner: Physicist (nobel prize for physics-1963),    

Jan 02   Graham sharp: Ice skater,    

Jan 03   Al duncan: Drummer,    

Jan 04   D elmina davies: Filmmaker,    

Jan 05   Francis lopez: Fren dentist/operetta composer (andalousie),   

Jan 06   Edward sutcliffe: Judge (british central criminal court),    

Jan 07   Arthur leavins: Violinist,    

Jan 08   Carlos monzon: [el macho], arg medium weight boxing champ (1970-77),