Page 5: Historical Events In 1995

Feb 23   Art Kane, photographer, dies at 69   

Feb 23   On Wall Street, The Dow Jones industrial average closes above 4000 for the inaugural time, ending the day at 4003.33   

Feb 24   Dow-Jones hits record 4011.74   

Feb 24   Richard Nicholson, musician, dies at 89.   

Feb 25   Bomb attack on train in Assam India (27 soldiers killed)   

Feb 25   Jack Clayton, British director (Great Gatsby), dies at 73   

Feb 25   Moslem fundamentalists shoot 20 Shiite mosque goers dead   

Feb 26   Barings, England's oldest investment banking company, fails after a securities broker loses over $1 billion gambling on Tokyo stock prices   

Feb 27   Bernard Cornfield, financier, dies at 67   

Feb 27   Car bomb explodes in Zakho, North-Iraq (54-80 killed)   

Feb 28   Denver International Airport opens   

Feb 28   In Fredericton New Brunswick, a judicial report on sexual abuse of boys at Kingsclear Training Centre released; critical of bureaucratic indifference that allowed abuse to continue for almost 30 years.   

Feb 28   US Marines land in Somalia to protect the retreating UN peacekeeping force.   

Mar 01   37th Grammy Awards All I Want to Do, Streets of Philadelphia, Sheryl Crow   

Mar 01   37th Grammy Awards: All I Want to Do, Streets of Philadelphia, Sheryl Crow   

Mar 01   Belgium ends military conscript   

Mar 01   Jozef Oleksy succeeds Waldemar Pawlak on as premier of Poland   

Mar 01   Part of Houston begins using new area code 261.   

Mar 01   Ukraine premier Vitaly Massol, steps down   

Mar 02   British trader Nick Leeson arrested for collapse of Barings Bank PLC.   

Mar 02   Ferry boat sinks off Sumbe Angola, 42+ killed   

Mar 02   Hugo Cole, musician/critic, dies at 77   

Mar 02   Space shuttle STS-67 (Endeavour 8), launches   

Mar 02   The NASA space shuttle Endeavour blasts off on a mission to study the far reaches of space   

Mar 02   The UN evacutes the last of its peacekeeping forces from Somalia   

Mar 03   Camilla Parker Bowles and her husband Andrew divorce.   

Mar 03   Gilbert Gadoffre, French scholar, dies at 84   

Mar 04   Blind teenage boy receives a 'Bionic Eye' at a Washington Hospital   

Mar 04   George Foreman loses WBA boxing title, refusing to fight Tony Tucker   

Mar 04   Michael Johnson runs world record 400 meter indoor (44.63 seconds)   

Mar 05   21st People's Choice Awards Tim Allen claims   

Mar 05   21st People's Choice Awards: Tim Allen claims   

Mar 05   Canadian Airborne Regiment officially disbanded at laying-up of the colors ceremony at Canadian Forces Base Petawawa; 660 paratroopers dismissed   

Mar 05   Graves of czar Nicholas and family are discovered in St Petersburg   

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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),