1995 24 Hours of Le Mans
The 1995 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 63rd Grand Prix of Endurance, and took place on 17 and 18 June 1995 in one of the wettest races in the event's history with about 17 hours of steady rain. The race was won by the #59 McLaren F1 GTR driven by JJ Lehto, Yannick Dalmas and Masanori Sekiya entered in the GT1 category. This was the first Le Mans win for a driver from Finland and for a driver from Japan. It was also McLaren's first win, at its first attempt. Such was the marque's dominance that its cars filled four of the first five places - Ferrari did it with its two cars in 1949, but other manufacturers like Jaguar, Porsche, Ford or Audi achieved their Le Mans fame only after 2, 3 or more years attempting their first win.


1995 24 Hours of Le Mans
The car was already well known for dominating the BPR Global GT Series with customer teams, but the car that won was actually the initial GTR prototype. This was on loan to Lanzante Motorsport, and prepared by McLaren's Unit 12 and overseen by McLaren's Chief Engineer James Robinson to run it on behalf of Kokusai Kaihatsu Racing. Mario Andretti's Courage finished second, having been the sentimental favourite of many in the run-up to the race.


1995 24 Hours of Le Mans
However the reliability of the production-based McLaren helped it defeat the much faster Le Mans prototypes, although in an interview 20 years  later Graham Humphrys (former Spice technical director), who engineered the race winning car, attributed the win to the rain which fell on the circuit overnight, which eased the stress on the car's relatively fragile transmission, and which also saw a remarkable performance by Lehto, who was as much as 30 seconds a lap faster than his rivals at times.


1995 24 Hours of Le Mans
Humphrys also managed to identify the source of the gear selection problems which the Kokusai car and the other McLarens in the race suffered from, working out that the exposed gear linkage mechanism was filling with water and dirt from the wet conditions, and solved the problem by filling the affected area with WD-40 at every pit stop.


1995 24 Hours of Le Mans
The top three spots in GT2 were taken by Honda NSX and two Callaway Corvettes. The class was now showing manufacturer diversity unlike previous year dominated by the Porsche 911 derivatives since the mid-1970s.


1995 24 Hours of Le Mans, Regulations and Entries
With the ongoing good working relationship with IMSA, the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) phased out its LM P1 category, instead drawing up regulations based closely on IMSA's World Sportscar (WSC) class. In return, IMSA agreed to allow turbo-engined cars into WSC, given the number of Group C chassis still in circulation. The LM P2 class was left as is; however, the other classes had the following restrictions, some revised from the previous year:


1995 24 Hours of Le Mans, Regulations and Entries
The previous year's "one-off model" rule, controversially exploited by Porsche in the 1994 race, stayed in place for GT1. However, GT2 cars had to be based on cars in series production since February 1995.


1995 24 Hours of Le Mans, Regulations and Entries
As before, these regulations generated a huge amount of interest, and the ACO received 99 entries. In response, the ACO built 2 further pit bays to increase capacity to 50 cars. They granted 20 well-performing teams an automatic entry, then chose a further 50 to go through qualification for the remaining 30 spots on the grid. It aimed to keep a balance between the WSC and over-represented GT classes, although the lines were now blurring a bit in GT1.


1995 24 Hours of Le Mans, Regulations and Entries
Sportscar specialists Courage, Kremer, WR and Debora returned in WSC/P2, along with the first Ferrari prototype (the 333SP) seen at Le Mans for 23 years, which had been running in the American IMSA championship. Commissioned off Ferrari for the WSC by Giampiero Moretti of Momo Racing


1995 24 Hours of Le Mans, Regulations and Entries
The Japanese returned in force in the GT1 class with Toyota, Nissan, Mazda and Honda all sending works, or works-supported, teams. But the biggest splash came from McLaren: its new F1 GTR supercar had won 6 of the 7 races in the 1995 BPR Global GT series to date. Six of the McLarens from that series arrived, and even the original T-car was hastily prepared for a new Japanese team desperate to be involved.


1995 24 Hours of Le Mans, Regulations and Entries
The McLaren was the fastest road car in the world and a natural choice for Le Mans; Gordon Murray's carbon-fibre design conforming to the minimum weight (1000 kg), minimum size and maximum power-to-weight ratio (with the 6.1L BMW V12 engine) that a good race-car always has. The ACO's air restrictors limited its engine to 636 bhp, just 9 more than the road-going version.


1995 24 Hours of Le Mans, Regulations and Entries
Other returning marques in GT1 included Jaguar, Ferrari and Porsche, with single works entries also from Venturi and Lister. In GT2, the ubiquitous Porsche 911s were up against Callaway, Honda and newcomers Marcos.


1995 24 Hours of Le Mans, Qualification
Qualifying proved to be one of the greatest days for the small French Welter Racing team, rivaling its 400 km/h speed record on the Mulsanne straight in 1988. Ever the builder of small, nimble and very fast prototypes, Gérard Welter's latest version, the WR LM95, was no exception: both cars, driven by William David and Patrick Gonin locked out the front row of the grid for the great race. David was the first driver to take pole on debut. Curiously, it was also the first time that two single-seaters had been on the front row at Le Mans since the 1967 French F1 GP that was run there.


1995 24 Hours of Le Mans, Qualification
Behind them were the three Courages of van der Poele, Wollek and Lagorce, although the van der Poele car was then disqualified from starting for being found 17 kg underweight after an engine change. The Wollek/Andretti/Hélary Courage was the only car in the field where all three drivers lapped in under 4 minutes in practice.


1995 24 Hours of Le Mans, Qualification
Fifth on the grid was the Stuck/Boutsen/Bouchut Kremer K8, then came the first of the GT1 cars: three Ferrari F40s, headed by the Ennea Ferrari Club #41 of Ayles/Monti/Mancini, shocking the McLaren teams by beating out the Kokusai McLaren and the works Venturi. The EuroMotorsport Ferrari prototype was kept out of most of the qualifying while the ACO argued with the team about checking the maximum engine revs - in the end it was 17th on the grid.


1995 24 Hours of Le Mans, Qualification
Fastest in the GT2 class was the best of the Agusta Callaways, in 23rd, well up the grid from the Swiss Porsche of Enzo Calderari in 32nd, and the private Japanese Honda NSX. Back of the grid was the private American team in their overweight Corvette ZR1 in GT1, nearly 20 seconds slower than the Callaway Corvette pole in GT2.


1995 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Start
This was one of the wettest Le Mans on record, but at the start of the race the weather was clear. Five cars, including Boutsen's Kremer, the Giroix Jacadi McLaren (running on a synthetic-alcohol fuel distilled from beets) and Kunimitsu Honda in GT2, had to start from the pit-lane because of last minute issues. At flag-fall the two WR's, and Wollek's Courage, took off and quickly put distance to the rest of the field - nearly half a lap at the end of the first hour.


1995 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Start
Because of the ACO equivalency regulations, their laps were nearly 30 seconds off Eddie Irvine's quickest laps in his Toyota in 1993. John Nielsen in the #49 Dave Price McLaren, and Henri Pescarolo in the #11 Courage led that pursuit battling for fourth. Massimo Sigala in the Ferrari prototype had made rapid progress from its lowly starting position, even passing Nielsen into 4th until stone damage stopped the engine at Arnage on only lap 7.


1995 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Start
The rain arrived at the end of the first hour. It stayed all night and well into Sunday morning, with scattered showers right to the finish. Many cars spun or skated off, caught out on their slick tyres. Both the WRs pitted losing time with faulty windscreens, proving again to be fast but fragile. Worse was to follow in the 5th hour when Gonin aquaplaned off at speed and somersaulted at the Mulsanne kink into a big accident. He was taken to hospital with 4 broken ribs and a broken shoulder-blade and bringing out the safety cars for 37 minutes.


1995 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Start
In the heavy rain, the WSC cars lost their power advantage and upon the restart four of the McLarens were dueling with Wollek's Courage. But when Mario Andretti tangled lapping a Kremer in the Porsche curves and crashed (taking 30 minutes and losing 6 laps to get repaired) it appeared to be a GT1 benefit with a McLaren 1-2-3. The Ferrari was out, Pescarolo's Courage had stopped at Arnage with a flat battery, and the Kremer was proving diabolical to drive in the wet (even regenmeister Hans-Joachim Stuck put it in the wall at the first chicane).


1995 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Start
The Larbre team's Porsche 911 Evos were both running well, keeping up with the McLarens and getting up to fourth. Terrific driving from Toshio Suzuki had got his Nissan Skyline up to an excellent 7th overall until the car's gearbox broke at 11pm. Both Honda GT1s were out: one with a broken clutch and the other crashed heavily in the rain, needing extensive repairs. In GT2, the Kremer and Stadler Porsches had pulled out a 3-lap lead over the Callaways and the Lister.


1995 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Night
Going into the night, the leading WSC car - the other Kremer, driven by Lässig/Konrad/de Azevedo - was running down in 11th. The DPR McLarens alternated the lead according to pit-stops. The rival Gulf Racing McLarens, dominant in the BPR series had been having many problems: series-leader and team-owner Ray Bellm had had an earlier off, losing 7 laps. Worse luck was his teammate Philippe Alliot, who was leading when he got punted off into the barriers by a GT2 Porsche he had just overtaken.


1995 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Night
Bad luck also dogged the Larbre Compétition GT1 Porsches: In the early evening the car, of the team-owner Jack Leconte, had gone off into the Arnage gravel trap. Both Jesús Pareja and Emmanuel Collard had successively got their cars up into 4th overall, but both crashed out into retirement before midnight. The latter crash also took out the GT2-leading Stadler Porsche when Andreas Fuchs misjudged his braking at Mulsanne corner, hitting Collard.


1995 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Night
Meanwhile, the PC Automotive Jaguar was shadowing the McLarens; from starting 22nd on the grid it had moved up to 4th, chased by the Downing Kudzu-Mazda, Stuck's Kremer and Wollek's Courage making a spirited recovery. With the demise of the Porsches, the GT2 race was now between the three Callaways (that became two when Thyrring crashed the 'works' car at the first Mulsanne chicane at 1am) and the private Porsche of Jean-François Veroux that started second to last, but now only a lap behind.


1995 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Night
At 3am, after 9 hours contesting the lead (with a broken window-wiper), the Nielsen/Mass McLaren pitted with a slipping clutch that ultimately proved terminal. The sister car of Andy Wallace and the Bells (father & son) inherited the lead. Wallace did some incredible stints in the rain - some of it on slick tyres. Meanwhile, the dark horse Kokusai team had been inexorably moving up the board. While others spun or pitted, it never missed a beat, and through the night JJ Lehto and Dalmas put in a hard chase getting up to 2nd. The Jaguar gave up with a broken crankshaft at 5am by which time the Courage was back up to third (but 4 laps down), the Jacardi McLaren 4th and Bellm's remaining Gulf McLaren in 5th.


1995 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Morning
As dawn broke the rain finally eased off and the Courage started to get very fast, gradually pulling back laps on the McLarens. When Wallace had to pit for fresh brakepads, the lead dropped to less than a minute to the Kokusai McLaren. But then the 53-year-old, 5-time winner, Derek Bell showed why he is considered one of the world's best sports-car racers - with the pressure on, he matched and then beat Lehto's very rapid lap times. The three surviving WSC cars - the Courage, Kremer and Kudzu were chasing.


1995 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Morning
Overshadowed by the McLarens, all the Ferrari F40s had had troubled races after promising so much. However Stéphane Ratel's Pilot Racing Ferrari had been holding 8th position overall for six hours when, just before midday, Michel Ferté connected with Blundell's Gulf McLaren and skidded on debris at the Dunlop chicane, beaching it in the gravel trap. Extracting it took 5 minutes and lost it three places. In GT2, after losing 6 laps at the start, the Kunimitsu Honda had run like clockwork and now its better fuel economy was paying dividends as it overtook the Callaways and settled into the top 10 overall.


1995 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Finish and post-race
With just 2 hours to go, the McLaren's feared delicate transmission struck the leading DPR McLaren which pitted with gear-selection problems. After a 5-minute delay in the pits, Bell Snr slammed it into 6th and rejoined the race. That was all Dalmas needed to take the lead and from there they were never headed. With less than an hour to go, Andretti passed the ailing Harrods McLaren for second place, and soon after overtook Lehto to get onto the lead lap. Handing over to Bob Wollek, they chased hard but in the end just came up short, barely 3 minutes behind. Wallace nursed the DPR McLaren home a lap further behind, five laps ahead of the Gulf and Giroix Jacadi McLarens, and the remaining two WSC cars: the Kremer and Kudzu-Mazda.


1995 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Finish and post-race
In GT2, despite starting from the pitlane, the Kunimitsu Honda came home in front, in 8th overall, comfortably two laps ahead of the Jelinski Agusta Callaway, itself two laps ahead of its sister car. The new Porsche 993 GT2 customer car, despite winning 10 of the 12 BPR races this year, came away empty-handed from Le Mans.


1995 3. divisjon
The 1995 season of the 3. divisjon, the fourth highest association football league for men in Norway.


1995 3. divisjon
Between 22 and 24 games (depending on group size) were played in 19 groups, with 3 points given for wins and 1 for draws. All group winners were promoted to the 2. divisjon, as well as some of the best runners-up.


1995 470 European Championships
The 1995 470-European-Sailing-Championship was held between June 8 and 17 1995. It was discharged before Bastad, Sweden.


1995 470 European Championships
And was extended in both a women's and a men's competition 470-boat class, in which at the men the Britains Merricks / Walker and among women the Ukrainians Taran / Pakholchyk after twelve races the European title won.


1995 A-League, Overview
In 1995, the American Professional Soccer League, which was the de facto highest level of U.S. soccer (officially sanctioned U.S. second division) until MLS commenced, changed its name to the A-League. The league had ended its 1994 season with seven teams and intended to expand to ten for the 1995 season. These plans were stymied when the Fort Lauderdale Strikers, Los Angeles Salsa and Toronto Rockets all folded. This left the league with only four teams. The addition of the New York Centaurs and Atlanta Ruckus gave the league six teams and allowed it to compete for another season.


1995 A-League, Overview
Training camps opened in March and the season began on May 5, 1995, when the Vancouver 86ers defeated the Atlanta Ruckus. By the time the regular season ended on September 10, 1995, the Montreal Impact had topped the chart. However, they were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs by the Ruckus. Seattle defeated Vancouver in the first round, then defeated Atlanta in the final to take their first championship. The league introduced a new scoring system for the regular season. No games ended in a tie. If the score was tied at the end of regulation, every game went to a shootout. A win gained a team three points, a shootout win two points, a shootout loss one point and a loss zero points.


1995 AAA Championships
The 1995 AAA Championships was an outdoor track and field competition organised by the Amateur Athletic Association (AAA), held from 15–16 July at Alexander Stadium in Birmingham, England. It was considered the de facto national championships for the United Kingdom.


1995 ABC Champions Cup
The ABC Champions Cup 1995 was the 6th staging of the ABC Champions Cup, the basketball club tournament of Asian Basketball Confederation. The tournament was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia between September 17 to September 24, 1995.


1995 ABC Championship
The 1995 Asian Basketball Confederation Championship for Men were held in Seoul, South Korea.


1995 ABC Championship for Women
The 1995 Asian Basketball Confederation Championship for Women, was the 16th regional championship held by Asian Basketball Confederation. The competition was hosted by Shizuoka, Japan and took place between July 23 to July 30, 1995. The championship is divided into two levels: Level I and Level II. The last finisher of Level I is relegated to Level II and the top finisher of Level II qualify for Level I 1997's championship.


1995 ABC Under-18 Championship
The ABC Under-18 Championship 1995 is the 13th edition of the ABC's junior championship for basketball. The games were held at Manila, Philippines from March 3–11, 1995.


1995 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament
The 1995 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the 23rd edition of the event known that year as the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament, and was part of the ATP World Series of the 1995 ATP Tour. It took place at the Rotterdam Ahoy indoor sporting arena in Rotterdam, Netherlands, from 27 February through 6 March 1995. Fifthe-seeded Richard Krajicek won the singles title.


1995 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament
The competition saw playing ATP No. 7, Australian Open quarterfinalist and recent Milan titlist Yevgeny Kafelnikov, and Dubai champion and Rotterdam defending finalist Wayne Ferreira. Other seeded players were Australian Open quarterfinalist Andrei Medvedev, Stuttgart Indoor winner Richard Krajicek, Jacco Eltingh, Slava Doseděl and Karel Nováček.


1995 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament, Finals, Doubles
Martin Damm /  Anders Järryd defeated  Tomás Carbonell /  Francisco Roig 6–3, 6–2


1995 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament – Doubles
Jeremy Bates and Jonas Björkman were the defending champions, but chose not to participate that year.


1995 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament – Doubles
Martin Damm and Anders Järryd won in the final 6–3, 6–2, against Tomás Carbonell and Francisco Roig.


1995 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament – Singles
Michael Stich was the defending champion, but chose not to participate that year.


1995 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament – Singles
Richard Krajicek won in the final 7–6(7–5), 6–4, against Paul Haarhuis.


1995 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1995 Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place in Greensboro, North Carolina, at the Greensboro Coliseum. Wake Forest won the tournament, defeating North Carolina, 82–80, in the championship game. Randolph Childress of Wake Forest was named tournament MVP, scoring 107 points in three games, a tournament record that still stands as of 2020.


1995 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament, Games, Finals
Randolph Childress penetrated from the lane, drove right and hit a 10-footer with 4.6 seconds left. North Carolina had one more chance as Pierce Landry inbounded to Jerry Stackhouse, who launched a three-pointer that bounced off the rim and Landry failed to tip in. Childress, who scored a game-high 37 points, broke the ACC Tournament scoring record of Lennie Rosenbluth (1957) and was named Tournament MVP. It was Wake Forest's first conference title since 1962.


1995 AFC Championship Game
The 1995 AFC Championship Game was the championship game for the American Football Conference for the 1995 season. The game was played on January 14, 1996 at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh, home of the Pittsburgh Steelers, who hosted the Indianapolis Colts for the chance to play the winner of the National Football Conference in Super Bowl XXX in Tempe, Arizona.


1995 AFC Championship Game
While it was considered a mismatch between an expected Super Bowl contender (Pittsburgh) and a Cinderella team (Indianapolis) in the week leading up to the game, it turned out to be very competitive, going down to the last play of the game when Colts quarterback Jim Harbaugh threw a Hail Mary pass that was ruled a dropped pass by officials in the end zone by the intended receiver, Aaron Bailey. The dropped pass gave the Steelers a 20–16 victory and sent them to Super Bowl XXX, the team's first Super Bowl appearance since Super Bowl XIV sixteen years earlier.


1995 AFC Championship Game
The game would mark a turning point for both franchises. For Steelers head coach Bill Cowher, it would be the first of only two times the Steelers would advance to the Super Bowl during his 15-year tenure at home, as the team would host the AFC Championship Game five times between 1994 and 2004 but would lose nearly all of them, with the 1995 game being the one exception.


1995 AFC Championship Game
For the Colts, it marked an unexpected period of success in the mid-1990s for a franchise that otherwise struggled between its 1984 move to Indianapolis (as well as the team's last few years in Baltimore before that) and the team drafting Peyton Manning with the number one overall pick in the 1998 NFL Draft.


1995 AFC Championship Game
The game has been ranked among the best Conference Championship games in the history of the National Football League by several publications, including Sports Illustrated, ESPN, AOL, and several local publications throughout the United States. NFL Films would go on to feature the game in both its ongoing NFL Films Game of the Week and NFL's Greatest Games series.


1995 AFC Championship Game, Background
Entering the 1995 NFL season, the Pittsburgh Steelers were expected to compete for the AFC Central title and a trip to the Super Bowl following a 12–4 regular season the year before behind its "Blitzburgh" defense that saw the team upset by the San Diego Chargers 17–13 in the 1994 AFC Championship Game. However, the team got off to a slow start, starting the 1995 season at 3–4 before ripping through the NFL on an eight-game winning streak.


1995 AFC Championship Game, Background
The team's last regular season loss was in Week 17 against the Green Bay Packers, 24–19 at Lambeau Field, a game that had no playoff implications since both teams had already clinched their respective playoff seedings entering the game. The Steelers' 11–5 record was good enough for the AFC Central Division championship (four games ahead of the Cincinnati Bengals and Houston Oilers) and the conference's number 2 seed, earning a first-round bye in the playoffs.


1995 AFC Championship Game, Background
The Colts were coming off an 8–8 season in 1994 that was the team's best record since 1987, when the team won the AFC East with a 9–6 record during the strike-shortened season. Aside from the 1987 season, the Colts had not appeared in the playoffs since 1977 when the team was in Baltimore. Behind veteran quarterback Jim Harbaugh, the 1995 season would change that, as several come-from-behind victories propelled the team to a 9–7 record and the number 5 seed in the AFC playoffs.


1995 AFC Championship Game, Background
When the playoffs started, the Steelers defeated the Buffalo Bills 40–21 in the Divisional round to advance to their second consecutive AFC Championship Game. Meanwhile, the Colts defeated the defending AFC champion San Diego Chargers 35–20 at Jack Murphy Stadium, then pulled off the upset by defeating the top-seeded Kansas City Chiefs 10–7 at Arrowhead Stadium. The upset of the Chiefs meant that the AFC Championship Game would be a home game for the Steelers instead of traveling to Kansas City for the AFC Championship Game. The upset also marked the Colts' first AFC Championship Game appearance in 24 years, since the then-Baltimore Colts lost to the Miami Dolphins 21–0 in 1971.


1995 AFC Championship Game, Background
The Colts were the first number 5 seed to advance to a conference championship game since the 1990 playoff expansion. It would mark the first time since the 1970 merger that no team that was a member of the American Football League at any point in its history participated in the AFC Championship Game, as both the Colts and Steelers were with the "old" NFL before moving to the newly formed AFC in 1970 to even out the two conferences.


1995 AFC Championship Game, Background
(Since then, only the 2008 AFC Championship Game between the Steelers and their archrivals, the Baltimore Ravens, has the AFC title been played for between two non-AFL teams.) The game was a rematch of the Week 3 contest between the two teams from the previous season, which the Steelers won at home, 31–21. The 1995 AFC Championship Game would be the second of four consecutive seasons in which the two teams met in Pittsburgh, an uncommon sight for non-division rivals.


1995 AFC Championship Game, Game summary
On the Steelers opening drive, Neil O'Donnell's first pass of the game was tipped by defensive tackle Tony Siragusa and intercepted by Jeff Herrod, who returned it to the Pittsburgh 24-yard line. But the Colts drive was halted when Ray Seals tackled running back Lamont Warren for a loss on third down and one. On the next play, Cary Blanchard hit the right upright on his 34-yard field goal, but it still bounced in and the Colts took a 3–0 lead.


1995 AFC Championship Game, Game summary
After each team punted, Pittsburgh's Norm Johnson kicked a field goal to even the game with under two minutes remaining in the first quarter. The field goal occurred after Kordell Stewart dropped a pass in the end zone. Replays showed Colts safety Jason Belser made contact with Stewart just before the ball arrived, but no penalty flag was thrown.


1995 AFC Championship Game, Game summary
In the second quarter, a 30-yard reception by Colts receiver Sean Dawkins set up Blanchard's second field goal. But later on, Pittsburgh drove 80 yards in 17 plays, featuring three third down conversion runs by Kordell Stewart, and scored on O'Donnell's 5-yard third and goal touchdown pass to Stewart with 13 seconds left in the half, making the score 10–6. Replays showed Stewart had put half a foot out of bounds before making the catch, which would have made him an ineligible receiver, but the penalty was not called. As it was during the seven-year period when the NFL didn't implement instant replay, the play could not be challenged and reversed.


1995 AFC Championship Game, Game summary
On Indianapolis' first drive of the second half, they drove 61 yards in nine plays, featuring a 29-yard completion from Jim Harbaugh to tight end Ken Dilger. Blanchard finished the drive with his third field goal to cut their deficit to 10–9. Then after forcing a three and punt, Indy drove 35 yards in nine plays to set up another field goal try, which would have put the Colts up 12–10. But this time Blanchard's 47-yard attempt sailed wide right. Taking over on their own 37, Pittsburgh mounted a drive in Colts territory where Johnson's 37-yard field goal put them back up by four points, at 13–9.


1995 AFC Championship Game, Game summary
Early in the fourth quarter, a long punt return by Steelers receiver Andre Hastings gave them the ball at midfield. But all they got out of their great field position was a missed field goal. After that, Harbaugh threw a 47-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Floyd Turner to take the lead, 16–13. After a Steelers punt, their defense got a big chance when Warren fumbled deep in Colts territory, but guard Joe Staysniak recovered the ball in mid-air to keep the drive going. Later on, defensive back Willie Williams tackled Warren behind the line on third down and one to force a punt, giving Pittsburgh the ball back with 3:03 left in the game.


1995 AFC Championship Game, Game summary
Pittsburgh then marched 67 yards to score the winning touchdown. Running back Byron Bam Morris scored the game-winning 1-yard touchdown run with 1:34 remaining in the game to pull Pittsburgh ahead for good. The drive was aided by O'Donnell's 9-yard completion to Hastings on fourth down and 3 from the 47-yard line, as well as an earlier dropped potential interception that went in and out of the arms of linebacker Quentin Coryatt.


1995 AFC Championship Game, Game summary
On the next play after Hastings' fourth down conversion catch, O'Donnell completed a 37-yard pass to Ernie Mills on the Indianapolis 1-yard line, setting up Morris' 1-yard scoring run. The Colts got the ball back and advanced to the Steelers' 29 with 5 seconds left, narrowly avoiding a turnover when defensive back Chris Oldham dropped a wide open interception. On the game's final play, Harbaugh attempted a hail mary pass which he lofted high and came down into a crowd of players in the end zone, the ball momentarily was against Colts' Aaron Bailey's chest but it hit the turf before he could haul it in.


1995 AFC Championship Game, Game summary
Harbaugh completed 21 of 33 passes for 267 yards and a touchdown.


1995 AFC Championship Game, Aftermath
The missed call on Kordell Stewart's touchdown catch in the second quarter brought some debate following the game on whether or not the league should bring back instant replay, which had been repealed in 1992. Replays at the time demonstrated that there would have been enough evidence to reverse the call and penalize Stewart for an illegal touching foul (stepping out of bounds before catching the pass).


1995 AFC Championship Game, Aftermath
Jim Harbaugh later stated in postgame interviews that the missed call on Stewart and the missed pass interference call on Jason Belser that could have led to a Pittsburgh touchdown instead of a field goal were a "wash". Despite this game, there was no real desire by league owners to reinstate instant replay for 1996. Instant replay would eventually return for the 1999 NFL season, and has since been made a permanent addition of the NFL rules.


1995 AFC Championship Game, Aftermath
The game would mark the only home AFC Championship Game in Bill Cowher's 15-year tenure that the Steelers won, having advanced to the game at home in 1994, 1995, 1997, 2001, and 2004. Except for the 1995 game—which the Steelers almost lost—the other home matchups would be losses. Ironically, the only time the team played for the AFC title on the road during Cowher's tenure, the 2005 matchup against the Denver Broncos at Invesco Field at Mile High, would be the only AFC Championship Game the Steelers won decisively during Cowher's tenure, winning 34–17. It would also be the only year in which the Steelers won the Super Bowl with Cowher as their head coach, defeating the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XL 21–10.


1995 AFC Championship Game, Aftermath
The game would be the last game for Ted Marchibroda in his second stint as the Colts head coach, having coached the Colts from 1975 to 1979 when the team was in Baltimore. Following the Cleveland Browns relocation controversy, the newly christened Baltimore Ravens hired Marchibroda to be their inaugural head coach.


1995 AFC Championship Game, Aftermath
Following him to Baltimore would be ex-Colts Floyd Turner (whose number 88 in Indianapolis would be immediately picked up by Marvin Harrison, who would spend the next 13 years with the Colts) and former University of Pittsburgh standout Tony Siragusa; Siragusa would later pick up a Super Bowl ring when the Ravens won Super Bowl XXXV.


1995 AFC Championship Game, Aftermath
Marchibroda would be fired after the 1998 season and returned to the Colts as a color commentator for their radio network until retiring following the Colts victory in Super Bowl XLI at the end of the 2006 NFL season, after which he became a pre-game commentator for the Colts for a time before Marchibroda's death in January 2016. A native of Franklin, Pennsylvania north of Pittsburgh, Marchibroda's last game as Colts head coach actually came in his hometown, with Marchibroda having played quarterback for the Steelers in the 1950s. Coincidentally, the Steelers infamously kept Marchibroda over future Colts star Johnny Unitas one year during training camp.


1995 AFC Championship Game, Aftermath
The Steelers would play the Dallas Cowboys two weeks later in Super Bowl XXX, renewing the rivalry the two teams had in the 1970s, when the two teams were among the most dominant teams in the NFL. The heavily favored Cowboys would defeat the Steelers 27–17.


1995 AFC Championship Game, Aftermath
The Colts and Steelers would both make the playoffs in 1996, with the Steelers defeating the Colts 42–14 in the Wild Card round. The following year, the two teams met for the fourth consecutive year in Pittsburgh in Week 7, in which the Steelers defeated the struggling Colts 24–22, dropping the Colts to 0–6 en route to a 3–13 season and the team drafting Peyton Manning first overall in the 1998 NFL Draft.


1995 AFC Championship Game, Aftermath
The four consecutive losses in Pittsburgh would be part of a longer losing streak for the Colts, who after defeating the Steelers 41–7 at Pitt Stadium in 1968 lost 12 straight games against the Steelers in Pittsburgh before breaking through with a 24–20 win at Heinz Field in 2008. The Colts finished 0–11 lifetime at Three Rivers Stadium.


1995 AFC Championship Game, Aftermath
Jim Harbaugh, who after retiring worked his way up to being an NFL head coach himself with the San Francisco 49ers, has stated that the 1995 AFC Championship Game continues to haunt him: "Coming that close to your dream of participating in the Super Bowl, and then seeing it brush by your face in an instant, and you walk off the field and you go 'there will be other days'. And then you realize it was the only day." Harbaugh would eventually reach the Super Bowl with the 49ers, only to lose Super Bowl XLVII to the Baltimore Ravens, coached by his brother John Harbaugh.


1995 AFC Women's Championship
The Asian Football Confederation's 1995 AFC Women's Championship was held from 23 September to 2 October 1995 in Malaysia. The tournament was won by for the fifth consecutive time by China in the final against Japan.


1995 AFC Women's Championship, Group stage, Best teams in second place
In 4 team groups record against the bottom team was excluded.


1995 AFL Grand Final
The 1995 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the  Geelong Football Club and Carlton Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 30 September 1995. It was the 99th annual grand final of the Australian Football League (formerly the Victorian Football League), staged to determine the premiers for the 1995 AFL season. The match was attended by 93,670 spectators. The 1995 grand final was won by Carlton by a margin of 61 points. It was Carlton's 16th premiership victory, making it the most successful club in the league's history. The game also marked Carlton's sixteenth consecutive win and twenty-third win for the year overall, then a record.


1995 AFL Grand Final, Background
Both clubs were back in the grand final after recent unsuccessful attempts. Carlton had last played in the grand final in 1993, which it had lost against Essendon; Geelong was back after having lost the previous year's premiership decider. The Cats had finished runners-up in three of the past six grand finals (in 1989, 1992 and 1994), and were looking for its first flag since 1963.


1995 AFL Grand Final, Background
At the conclusion of the home and away season, Carlton had finished first on the AFL ladder with 20 wins and 2 losses, winning the McClelland Trophy. Geelong had finished second with 16 wins and 6 losses.


1995 AFL Grand Final, Background
In the lead-up to the grand final, Carlton defeated the Brisbane Bears by 13 points in the fourth qualifying final, thereby earning the week off, and subsequently defeated North Melbourne by 62 points in the second preliminary final. Geelong defeated Footscray by 82 points in the third qualifying final before defeating Richmond by 89 points in the first preliminary final.


1995 AFL Grand Final, Background
This grand final was billed as having the potential to be the best in years, with Carlton and Geelong finishing first and second on the ladder respectively and both in really good form. Geelong looked like it had its best chance of winning a premiership since claiming the 1963 flag, after crushing Footscray and Richmond in the previous two weeks of the finals. Carlton, on the other hand, were the standout team of 1995 - the first team ever to win 20 home and away matches.


1995 AFL Grand Final, Match summary
There had been strong pre-game build-up expecting a tight contest; and when the markets opened, Geelong was a slight 8/11 favourite with bookmakers, before Carlton had edged into 8/11 favouritism by the opening bounce. The game itself, however, was a very one-sided affair. Played on a wet and blustery day, the Blues were dominant in all areas of the game.


1995 AFL Grand Final, Match summary
Carlton kicked the first four goals of the game, including three goals in four minutes between the 12th minute and the 16th minute. Geelong kicked two goals in time on of the first quarter to trail by only 13 points at quarter time, but had been thoroughly outplayed and was considered lucky to be so close. Carlton continued to dominate the second quarter, kicking six goals to one such that the game was effectively over by half time, Carlton leading by 40 points.


1995 AFL Grand Final, Match summary
Carlton's Earl Spalding also produced one of the more memorable moments of the game early in the second quarter, when he applied a smother on a Peter Riccardi kick, picked up the ball, and set up a goal for himself. A brawl involving most players erupted after the half-time siren following a clash between Ang Christou and Billy Brownless; at the tribunal later in October, Carlton was fined $25,000, Geelong was fined $30,000 and Barry Stoneham was fined $5,000 for the melee.


1995 AFL Grand Final, Match summary
The game was no different in the second half. Carlton kicked five of the first six goals of the third quarter to extend the lead to twelve goals before two goals in time-on brought the margin back to 59 points at three quarter time, and key Geelong playmaker Peter Riccardi tore his hamstring early in the third term. By time-on in the final quarter, Carlton had extended the margin to a game-high 84 points, before late goals brought the final margin back to 61 points. It was the second successive year that Geelong had been blown out in the grand final, after losing to West Coast the previous year by 80 points.


1995 AFL Grand Final, Match summary
The Norm Smith Medal was won by Greg Williams, who starred as an attacking midfielder. He kicked five goals, including three in the third quarter, and assisted on another three; and he finished the game with 31 disposals, including ten in the opening quarter. Carlton full back Stephen Silvagni also attracted high praise for keeping champion Geelong full forward Gary Ablett, Sr. goalless, the first time Ablett had been kept goalless in a game since 1992. Other dominant players for Carlton included Justin Madden, who won the ruck battle comfortably, as well as Brett Ratten, Anthony Koutoufides, Stephen Kernahan and Craig Bradley.


1995 AFL Grand Final, Match summary
In the post-match ceremony when Carlton players were being awarded their victory medallions, Peter Dean attempted to jump over the railing of the victory dais in celebration, but tripped and fell off it. He was not injured.


1995 AFL Rising Star
The Norwich AFL Rising Star award is given annually to a standout young player in the Australian Football League. The 1995 medal was won by Hawthorn player Nick Holland.


1995 AFL Rising Star, Eligibility
Every round, an Australian Football League rising star nomination is given to a standout young player. To be eligible for the award, a player must be under 21 on January 1 of that year, have played 10 or fewer senior games and not been suspended during the season. At the end of the year, one of the 22 nominees is the winner of award.


1995 AFL draft
The 1995 AFL draft was held at the conclusion of the 1995 Australian Football League (AFL) season.


1995 AFL draft
The AFL draft is the annual draft of new unsigned players by Australian rules football clubs that participate in the main competition of that sport, the Australian Football League.


1995 AFL draft
Clubs receive picks based on the position in which they finish on the ladder during the season, although these picks can be swapped around by teams for trading players.


1995 AFL season
The 1995 Australian Football League season was the 99th season of the elite Australian rules football competition and the 6th under the name 'Australian Football League', having switched from 'Victorian Football League' after 1989.


1995 AFL season
Carlton won its 16th Premiership and at the time was the club with the most VFL/AFL Premierships. This was the debut season of the Fremantle Dockers and the AFL’s first season as a 16-team competition.


1995 AFL season, Ansett Australia Cup
North Melbourne defeated Adelaide 14.9 (93) to 8.15 (63) in the final.


1995 AFL season, Premiership season, Round 16
*Brisbane Bears came from 45 points down at 3 quarter time to beat Hawthorn by 7 points.


1995 ARL season
The 1995 ARL premiership was the 88th season of professional rugby league football in Australia, and the first to be run by the Australian Rugby League following the hand-over of the Premiership's administration by the New South Wales Rugby League. For the first time since the 1988 NSWRL season, the Premiership expanded again, and for the first time ever outside the borders of New South Wales and Queensland, with the addition of four new clubs from North Queensland, Western Australia, South Queenslandand Auckland.


1995 ARL season
This saw a total of twenty teams, the largest number in the League's history, compete during the regular season for the J J Giltinan Shield, which was followed by a series of play-off finals between the top eight teams that culminated in a grand final for the Winfield Cup between the newly re-branded Sydney Bulldogs and the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles.


1995 ARL season
The 1995 season also saw the first major consequences of the Super League war, with the ARL's refusal to select players from the eight clubs (which included every club that had won the premiership since 1988) for State of Origin or Test matches, including the 1995 Rugby League World Cup, who had aligned with News Ltd's proposed Super League.


1995 ARL season, Season summary
1995 would prove to be a year of massive change for the League. In addition to the introduction of four new teams, it was the last year of the premiership's association with Rothmans and the Winfield brand and consequently the final year that clubs competed for the Winfield Cup.


1995 ARL season, Season summary
The storm clouds that had been gathering for some time in the form of rumours and speculation about Super League were to break on 1 April 1995 with a verification that would rain on the game with more force than anyone could have expected. The subsequent Super League war would rock the sport in Australia and set it back almost a decade in terms of its loss of public support and damage to its grass roots values.


1995 ARL season, Season summary
The 1995 season was played in front of a background of legal actions, breaking friendships and with clubs, players and managers all jockeying for position and self-interest. Players who had signed with the new Super League venture were forbidden by the ARL from participating in the 1995 State of Origin. Queensland and New South Wales selectors were limited to selecting players only from ARL-aligned clubs.


1995 ARL season, Season summary
The usual twenty-two regular season rounds were played from March till August. However the large number of teams meant a resulting top eight would battle it out in the finals rather than the usual five. These were Manly, Canberra, Brisbane, Cronulla, Newcastle, Sydney Bulldogs, St. George and North Sydney (who made it in due to Auckland being penalised for an interchange infringement). Cronulla-Sutherland's halfback Paul Green was awarded the 1995 Rothmans Medal. The Dally M Award was given to Canberra's five-eighth, Laurie Daley who was also named Rugby League Week's player of the year. Manly-Warringah's Steve Menzies became the first forward for 50 years to top the season's try-scoring list, while his teammate Matthew Ridge set a club point scoring record of 257 points (11 tries, 106 goals and 1 field goal) to be the league's leading point scorer for the year.


1995 ARL season, Season summary
By the end of the regular season, the ARL's inaugural 20-team competition had set a new record for aggregate match attendances of 3,061,338.


1995 ARL season, Season summary, Advertising
1995 marked the final year of the New South Wales Rugby League's sponsorship arrangement with Rothmans and Winfield due to the Federal Government's blanket ban on cigarette advertising in Australia effective from 1 January 1996. It was consequently the final year of a seven-year association with Tina Turner and the end of an era in Australian sports marketing.


1995 ARL season, Season summary, Advertising
With a lock-up-your-daughters, kick-off your suspenders, red-blooded Tina Turner marketing blitz, the ARL had stuck it right up the other footy codes.


1995 ARL season, Season summary, Advertising
As in 1994 the New South Wales Rugby League and its advertising agency Hertz Walpole returned to the original 1989 recording of The Best by Turner to underscore the season launch advertisement. Footage from the studio bluescreen shoot taken during Turner's 1993 Sydney visit was used in the final advertisements. The enduring images are of Turner performing the song on an elevated stage in front of the fluttering banners of the 20 clubs that would participate in 1995's expanded competition.


1995 ARL season, Season summary, Teams
When the Australian Rugby League began taking bids for additional teams to begin playing in 1995, it was expected that only two teams would enter. The Auckland Warriors were the first club to be accepted, with the final place being fought for by South Queensland, North Queensland and Perth. The Australian Rugby League later announced that all three clubs had been accepted, taking the number of teams from 16 in 1994 to 20 in 1995, the highest it had ever been and would ever be.


1995 ARL season, Season summary, Teams
With the addition of the Auckland Warriors, North Queensland Cowboys, South Queensland Crushers and Western Reds the 1995 season involved an unprecedented twenty clubs, including five Sydney-based foundation teams, another six from Sydney, one from Newcastle, one from Wollongong two from Brisbane, one from Gold Coast, one from Townsville, one from Auckland, one from Canberra and one from Perth, who all contested the premiership, making it the largest competition in terms of participation in Australia's history.


1995 ARL season, Season summary, Teams
We haven't brought these teams into the Winfield Cup just to see them dropped after one season


1995 ARL season, Season summary, Teams
With the storm that would be the Super League war already brewing in the background, three clubs based in Sydney suburbs, in an effort to position themselves favourably as battle lines were being drawn up, re-branded themselves for the 1995 season with less geographically distinct names: the Balmain Tigers became the 'Sydney Tigers', the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs became the 'Sydney Bulldogs', and the Eastern Suburbs Roosters became the 'Sydney City Roosters'.


1995 ARL season, Season summary, Teams
8th seasonGround: Marathon StadiumCoach: Malcolm "Mal" ReillyCaptain: Mark Sargent → Paul Harragon


1995 ARL season, Season summary, Teams
1st seasonGround: Suncorp StadiumCoach: Bill Gardner → Bob LindnerCaptain: Mario Fenech → Trevor Gillmeister


1995 ARL season, Season summary, Teams
88th seasonGround: Sydney Football StadiumCoach: Ken ShineCaptain: Lee Jackson → Craig Field


1995 ARL season, Finals
A new finals system involving eight teams instead of the previous five was introduced for the expanded 1995 competition. The final eight was to be made of four clubs who would ultimately prove loyal to the Australian Rugby League (Manly-Warringah, St. George, North Sydney and Newcastle) and four clubs who would join Super League's rebel ranks (Sydney Bulldogs, Canberra, Brisbane and Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks). The Grand Final was played out by a team from each faction, being the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles and the Sydney Bulldogs.


1995 ARL season, Finals, Grand Final
Having finished in sixth place at the end of the regular season, the Bulldogs managed a history-making finals surge, winning three sudden death matches to make the grand final. Canterbury were ahead at half-time 6-4. They lost the scrum count 3-5 and the penalty count 9-10. Manly's 22-3 season win/loss record was the best not to have secured the premiership.


1995 ARL season, Finals, Grand Final
At game's end Lamb enjoyed the rare honour of celebrating as a retiring victorious skipper, although he surprisingly returned for the 1996 season.


1995 ARL season, Finals, Grand Final
The performance of Eddie Ward, refereeing his first grand final, was subject to some post match controversy. Rugby League Week commented: "Two of Canterbury's three tries appeared to have resulted from borderline passes, another came on the seventh tackle, and a fourth - which in fact was a fair try - was disallowed"


1995 ARL season, Finals, Grand Final
Sydney Bulldogs 17 (Tries: Price, Hughes, Silva. Goals: Halligan 2/5. Field Goal: Lamb.)


1995 ARL season, Player statistics
The following statistics are as of the conclusion of Round 22.


1995 AT&T Challenge
The 1995 AT&T Challenge was an ATP men's tennis  tournament held in Atlanta, Georgia, United States that was part of the World Series of the 1995 ATP Tour. It was the 11th edition of the tournament and was held from May 1 through May 7, 1995. Second-seeded Michael Chang won his second consecutive singles title at the event.


1995 AT&T Challenge, Finals, Doubles
Sergio Casal /  Emilio Sánchez defeated  Jared Palmer /  Richey Reneberg 6–7, 6–3, 7–6


1995 ATP Buenos Aires – Doubles
Sergio Casal and Emilio Sánchez were the defending champions, but lost in the first round this year.


1995 ATP Buenos Aires – Doubles
Vincent Spadea and Christo van Rensburg won the title, defeating Jiří Novák and David Rikl 6–3, 6–3 in the final.


1995 ATP Buenos Aires – Singles
Carlos Moyà defeated Félix Mantilla 6–0, 6–3 to win the 1995 ATP Buenos Aires singles competition. Àlex Corretja was the defending champion.


1995 ATP Challenger Series
The ATP Challenger Series is the second tier tour for professional tennis organised by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). The 1995 ATP Challenger Series calendar comprised 86 tournaments, with prize money ranging from $25,000 up to $125,000.


1995 ATP Championship Series, Single Week
The 1995 ATP Championship Series, Single Week was a series of tennis tournaments that was part of the 1995 ATP Tour, the elite tour for professional men's tennis organised by the Association of Tennis Professionals. It formed the tier below the Grand Slam tournaments.


1995 ATP Championship Series, Single Week, Tournaments
Note: Although the Monte Carlo Masters is billed as taking place in Monte Carlo, it is held in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, a commune of France adjacent to Monaco.


1995 ATP German Open
The 1995 German Open was a men's tennis tournament played on clay courts that was part of the Super 9 series of the 1995 ATP Tour. It was the 89th edition of the tournament and took place at the Rothenbaum Tennis Center in Hamburg, Germany, from 8 May to 15 May 1995. Andrei Medvedev won the singles title.


1995 ATP German Open, Finals, Doubles
Wayne Ferreira /  Yevgeny Kafelnikov defeated  Byron Black /  Andrei Olhovskiy, 6–1, 7–6


1995 ATP German Open – Doubles
Scott Melville and Piet Norval were the defending champions, but competed this year with different partners. Melville teamed up with Rick Leach and lost in second round to Marc-Kevin Goellner and Tom Kempers, while Norval teamed up with Gary Muller and lost in first round to Wayne Arthurs and Neil Broad.


1995 ATP German Open – Doubles
Wayne Ferreira and Yevgeny Kafelnikov won the title by defeating Byron Black and Andrei Olhovskiy 6–1, 7–6 in the final.


1995 ATP German Open – Doubles, Seeds
The first four seeds received a bye into the second round.


1995 ATP German Open – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


1995 ATP St. Pölten
The 1995 ATP St. Pölten, also known as OTV Raiffeisen Grand Prix for sponsorship reasons, is a men's tennis tournament played in St. Poelten, Austria on outdoor  clay courts. The tournament was held from 19 June until 26 June 1995 and was part of the ATP World Series of the 1995 ATP Tour.


1995 ATP St. Pölten
First-seeded Thomas Muster won the singles title, his 4th win at the event after 1994, 1993, and 1988.


1995 ATP St. Pölten, Finals, Doubles
Bill Behrens /  Matt Lucena defeated  Libor Pimek /  Byron Talbot 7–5, 6–4


1995 ATP Tour
The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Tour is the elite tour for professional tennis organized by the ATP. The ATP Tour includes the Grand Slam tournaments (organized by the International Tennis Federation (ITF)), the ATP Championship Series, Single-Week, the ATP Championship Series, the ATP World Series, the ATP World Team Cup, the Davis Cup (organized by the ITF), the ATP Tour World Championships and the Grand Slam Cup (organized by the ITF).


1995 ATP Tour, Schedule
This is the complete schedule of events on the 1995 ATP Tour, with player progression documented from the quarterfinals stage.


1995 ATP Tour World Championships
The 1995 ATP Tour World Championships (also known for the singles event as the IBM-ATP Tour World Championship for sponsorship reasons) were tennis tournaments played on indoor carpet courts. The event marked the 26th edition of the year-end singles championships and the 22nd edition of the year-end doubles championships, where both were part of the 1995 ATP Tour. The singles event took place at the Frankfurt Festhalle in Frankfurt, Germany, from November 14 to November 19, 1995, and the doubles event in Eindhoven, Netherlands, from November 22 to November 26, 1995.


1995 ATP Tour World Championships, Finals, Doubles
Grant Connell /  Patrick Galbraith defeated  Jacco Eltingh /  Paul Haarhuis, 7–6(8–6), 7–6(8–6), 3–6, 7–6(7–2).


1995 ATP Tour World Championships – Doubles
Jan Apell and Jonas Björkman were the defending champions, but failed to qualify that year.


1995 ATP Tour World Championships – Doubles
Grant Connell and Patrick Galbraith won in the final 7–6(8–6), 7–6(8–6), 3–6, 7–6(7–2), against Jacco Eltingh and Paul Haarhuis.


1995 ATP Tour World Championships – Doubles, Draw, Group A
Standings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.


1995 ATP Tour World Championships – Doubles, Draw, Group B
Standings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.


1995 ATP Tour World Championships – Singles
Pete Sampras was the defending champion, but lost in the semifinals to Michael Chang.


1995 ATP Tour World Championships – Singles
Boris Becker won in the final 7–6(7–3), 6–0, 7–6(7–5), against Michael Chang.


1995 ATP Tour World Championships – Singles, Draw, White Group
Standings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.


1995 ATP Tour World Championships – Singles, Draw, Red Group
Standings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.


1995 Abierto Mexicano Telcel
The 1995 Abierto Mexicano Telcel was a men's tennis tournament held in Mexico City, Mexico. It was the third edition of the tournament and was part of the ATP World Series of the 1995 ATP Tour. It was played on outdoor clay courts and was held from 27 February through 5 March 1995. Thomas Muster won his third consecutive singles title at the event and earned $43,200 first-prize money.


1995 Abierto Mexicano Telcel, Finals, Doubles
Javier Frana /  Leonardo Lavalle defeated  Marc-Kevin Goellner /  Diego Nargiso 7–5, 6–3


1995 Abierto Mexicano Telcel – Doubles
Francisco Montana and Bryan Shelton were the defending champions, but lost in the quarterfinals to Javier Frana and Leonardo Lavalle.


1995 Abierto Mexicano Telcel – Doubles
Frana and Lavalle won the title by defeating Marc-Kevin Goellner and Diego Nargiso 7–5, 6–3 in the final.


1995 Abierto Mexicano Telcel – Singles
Thomas Muster was the two-time defending champion and successfully defended his title, defeating Fernando Meligeni in the final, 7–6(7–4), 7–5.


1995 Abruzzo regional election
The Abruzzo regional election of 1995 took place on 23 April 1995.


1995 Abruzzo regional election
For the first time the President of the Region was directly elected by the people, although the election was not yet binding and the President-elect could have been replaced during the term.


1995 Abruzzo regional election
Antonio Falconio (Italian People's Party) was elected President of the Region, defeating Piergiorgio Landini (Forza Italia) by a narrow margin.


1995 Academy League
The 1995 Academy League was the second tier/division of British speedway. It was effectively the same division of teams that had competed in the 1994 British League Division 3 but was renamed because the British League Division 1 and 2 had merged.


1995 Academy League, Summary
The title was won by Berwick Bandits who had also won the previous season's Division 3 title.


1995 Academy League, Academy League Knockout Cup
The 1995 Academy League Knockout Cup was the 28th edition of the Knockout Cup for tier two teams.


1995 Academy League, Academy League Knockout Cup
It was only the tier two competition because the Division 1 & 2 had merged, this meant that the newly formed Academy League was tier two of British speedway at the time. Berwick Bandits were awarded the Cup following a first leg final victory, Stoke did not hold the second leg.


1995 Acura Classic
The 1995 Acura Classic was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Manhattan Country Club in Manhattan Beach, California in the United States that was part of Tier II of the 1995 WTA Tour. It was the 22nd edition of the tournament and was held from August 7 through August 13, 1995. Second-seeded Conchita Martínez won the singles title and earned $79,500 first-prize money.


1995 Acura Classic, Finals, Doubles
Gigi Fernández /  Natasha Zvereva defeated  Gabriela Sabatini /  Larisa Savchenko 7–5, 6–7, 7–5


1995 Acura Classic – Doubles
Julie Halard and Nathalie Tauziat were the defending champions but lost in the semifinals to Larisa Neiland and Gabriela Sabatini.


1995 Acura Classic – Doubles
Gigi Fernández and Natasha Zvereva won in the final 7–5, 6–7, 7–5 against Neiland and Sabatini.


1995 Acura Classic – Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated. The top four seeded teams received byes into the second round.


1995 Acura Classic – Singles
Amy Frazier was the defending champion but did not compete that year.


1995 Acura Classic – Singles
Conchita Martínez won in the final 4–6, 6–1, 6–3 against Chanda Rubin.


1995 Acura Classic – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated. All sixteen seeds received a bye to the second round.


1995 Advanta Championships of Philadelphia
The 1995 Advanta Championships of Philadelphia was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Philadelphia Civic Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States that was part of the Tier I category of the 1995 WTA Tour. It was the 13th edition of the tournament and was held from November 6 through November 12, 1995. First-seeded Steffi Graf won the singles title and earned $148,500 first-prize money.


1995 Advanta Championships of Philadelphia, Finals, Doubles
Lori McNeil /  Helena Suková defeated  Meredith McGrath /  Larisa Savchenko 4–6, 6–3, 6–4


1995 Advanta Championships of Philadelphia – Doubles
Gigi Fernández and Helena Suková were the defending champions, but competed this year with different partners.


1995 Advanta Championships of Philadelphia – Doubles
Fernández teamed up with Natasha Zvereva and lost in quarterfinals to tournament winners Lori McNeil and Helena Suková.


1995 Advanta Championships of Philadelphia – Doubles
Suková teamed up with Lori McNeil and successfully defended her title, by defeating Meredith McGrath and Larisa Neiland 4–6, 6–3, 6–4 in the final.


1995 Advanta Championships of Philadelphia – Singles
Anke Huber was the defending champion, but lost in semifinals to Lori McNeil.


1995 Advanta Championships of Philadelphia – Singles
Steffi Graf won the title by defeating Lori McNeil 6–1, 4–6, 6–3 in the final.


1995 Advanta Championships of Philadelphia – Singles, Seeds
The top four seeds received a bye into the second round.


1995 Aerobic Gymnastics World Championships
The 1st Aerobic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Paris, France on 16 and 17 December 1995.


1995 Aerobic Gymnastics World Championships, Results, Medal table
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1995 African Cup Winners' Cup
The 1995 African Cup Winners' Cup football club tournament was won by Jeunesse Sportive de Kabylie in two-legged final victory against Julius Berger FC (now renamed to Bridge Boys FC). This was the twenty-first season that the tournament took place for the winners of each African country's domestic cup. Twenty-eight sides entered the competition, with KAC Marrakech and Horoya AC withdrawing before the 1st leg of the first round and Étoile du Congo withdrawing after the 1st leg of the first round. Another two teams withdrew during further stages of the competition; Wallidan before the 1st leg of the second round and AS Marsa before the 1st leg of the quarterfinals. No preliminary round took place during this season of the competition.


1995 African Cup of Champions Clubs
The 1995 African Cup of Champions Clubs was the 31st edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CAF region (Africa), the African Cup of Champions Clubs. It determined that year's club champion of association football in Africa.


1995 African Cup of Champions Clubs
Orlando Pirates from South Africa won that final, and became for the first time CAF club champion.


1995 African Cup of Champions Clubs, Second round
1 The match was abandoned at 70' with Mbilinga FC leading 4–0, after Real Banjul walked off the pitch to protest the officiating. Real Banjul were ejected from the competition and banned from CAF competitions for one year.


1995 African Cup of Champions Clubs, Top scorers
The top scorers from the 1995 African Cup of Champions Clubs are as follows:


1995 African Judo Championships
The 1995 African Judo Championships were the 2nd edition of the African Judo Championships, organised by the African Judo Union and were held in Harare, Zimbabwe 1995.


1995 African Junior Athletics Championships
The 1995 African Junior Athletics Championships was the second edition of the biennial, continental athletics tournament for African athletes aged 19 years or younger. It was held in Bouaké, Ivory Coast, from 20–22 July. A total of 36 events were contested, 19 by men and 17 by women.


1995 African Junior Athletics Championships
Agnes Afiyo of Ghana, the runner-up in the women's javelin throw, was determined to be male in 1999 following medical testing. It is not known whether the medals from this competition were reassigned as a result.


1995 African U-17 Championship
The 1995 African U-17 Championship, was the first U-17 football competition organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF). The tournament took place in Mali. It also served as CAF's  qualifier for the 1995 FIFA U-17 World Championship.


1995 African U-17 Championship, Knock-out stage, Semi-finals
For winning their semi-finals, Ghana and Nigeria qualified for the 1995 FIFA U-17 World Championship with Guinea and Mali meeting in the third place match for the third and final place in the 1995 FIFA U-17 World Championship.


1995 African U-17 Championship, Knock-out stage, Third place match
For winning the third place match, Guinea qualified for 1995 FIFA U-17 World Championship with Mali missing out.


1995 African Women's Championship
The 1995 Women's African Football Championship was the second staging of the CAF Women's Championship, the women's football championship of Africa (CAF). It determined the CAF's single qualifier for the FIFA Women's World Cup 1995 — the winner Nigeria. Eight teams were scheduled originally to play in the tournament, but two of them withdrew, causing only six teams to compete actively for the right to represent Africa in the World Cup.


1995 African Women's Championship
In the tournament, 55 goals were scored in 10 matches.


1995 African Women's Championship, Awards, Team statistics
Team(s) rendered in italics represent(s) the host nation(s). The competition's winning team is rendered in bold. (1) – Total games lost not counted in total games played (total games lost = total games won)(2) – Total number of games drawn (tied) for all teams = Total number of games drawn (tied) ÷ 2 (both teams involved)


1995 African Youth Championship
The African Youth Championship 1995 was a soccer tournament held in Nigeria. It also served as qualification for the 1995 FIFA World Youth Championship.


1995 African Youth Championship, Qualification, Preliminary round
Benin, Botswana, Cape Verde, Congo, Liberia, Mauritania and Swaziland withdrew. As a result, Senegal, Lesotho, Guinea-Bissau, Togo, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone and Madagascar advanced to the next round.


1995 African Youth Championship, Qualification, First round
Kenya, Madagascar, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Zaire and Zimbabwe withdrew. As a result, Cameroon, Mauritius, Morocco, Burundi, Zambia and Ethiopia advanced to the next round.


1995 African Youth Championship, Qualification, Second round
Guinea also went through to the main tournament because Nigeria would qualify as host.


1995 African Youth Championship, Qualification to World Youth Championship
The two best performing teams qualified for the 1995 FIFA World Youth Championship.


1995 Afro-Asian Cup of Nations
The 1995 Afro-Asian Cup of Nations was the sixth edition of the Afro-Asian Cup of Nations, it was contested between Uzbekistan, winners of the 1994 Asian Games, and Nigeria, winners of the 1994 African Cup of Nations. Nigeria won 4–2 on aggregate.


1995 Air Canada Cup
The 1995 Air Canada Cup was Canada's 17th annual national midget 'AAA' hockey championship, which was played April 19 – 25, 1995 at Sherbrooke, Quebec. The Thunder Bay Kings defeated the Red Deer Chiefs in the championship game to win the gold medal. The Gouverneurs de Ste-Foy won the bronze medal. Future National Hockey League players competing in this tournament were Brad Leeb and Derek Morris.


1995 Air Force Falcons football team
The 1995 Air Force Falcons football team represented the United States Air Force Academy in the 1995 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team was led by 12th-year head coach Fisher DeBerry and played its home games in Falcon Stadium. It finished the regular season with an 8–4 record overall and a 6–2 record in the Western Athletic Conference, making the team conference co-champions. The team was selected to play in the Copper Bowl, which it lost 41–55 to Texas Tech.


1995 Air St. Martin Beech 1900 crash
On December 7, 1995, a chartered twin-turboprop Beechcraft 1900D commuter aircraft registered as F-OHRK and owned and operated by Air Saint Martin crashed near Belle-Anse, Haiti. The flight was en route from Cayenne, French Guiana and Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and had been chartered by the Government of France to return illegal immigrants to Haiti from French territory. There were no survivors among its 18 passengers and 2 crew members.


1995 Air St. Martin Beech 1900 crash
Investigators determined that F-OHRK had drifted ten nautical miles off course. The aircraft collided with a mountain at 5,030 feet (1,530 m) after having been cleared by air traffic control to descend to 4,000 feet.


1995 Ais Gill rail accident
The 1995 Ais Gill rail accident occurred near Aisgill, Cumbria, UK, at about 18:55 hrs on 31 January 1995 when a class 156 Super-Sprinter was derailed by a landslide on the Settle-Carlisle Railway line and was subsequently run into by a similar train travelling in the opposite direction. The Guard of the first train was fatally injured in the collision.


1995 Ais Gill rail accident, Events
A Class 156 Super-Sprinter formed the 1626 Carlisle to Leeds via Settle service (headcode 2H88). It could only proceed as far as Ribblehead railway station, about 12 miles north of Settle, as the lines from Ribblehead to Settle were blocked by flooding; so it had to return to Carlisle. The driver changed cabs as the train was now heading northbound instead of southbound, and proceeded back over the Ribblehead Viaduct, and on to Aisgill Summit, the highest point on the line at 1,169 feet (356 m) above sea level. It was dark and raining heavily.


1995 Ais Gill rail accident, Events
Near Aisgill Summit itself the train hit a landslide. It derailed across both tracks, and the cabin lights went off. The injured driver managed to radio Crewe Control Room. The conductor escorted passengers into the rear unit, which was across the northbound track. He then returned to see the driver who was still in the cab. Either the conductor or the driver (it is not known which) changed the lights from white to red to warn oncoming trains of the obstruction but no other action was taken.


1995 Ais Gill rail accident, Events
Meanwhile, another Super-Sprinter train forming the 1745 Carlisle to Leeds service (headcode 2H92) had set off from Kirkby Stephen railway station around five miles to the north. About a quarter of a mile before the derailed train, the driver saw its red lights and made an emergency brake application, but there was no chance of stopping before impacting the derailment. The collision killed the conductor of the derailed train, and seriously hurt several passengers: 30 people on the trains suffered some kind of injury. The signalman at Settle Junction signal box was informed of the accident by the conductor of the 2H92 service and the emergency services were then alerted.


1995 Ais Gill rail accident, Inquiry
The official inquiry concluded that the conductor of 2H88 failed in his paramount duty to protect his train in the event of an incident by laying down detonators and displaying a red flag one mile from the obstruction. The time between the initial derailment and the subsequent collision was about six or seven minutes which would have allowed a much greater warning time to be given to the second train, and might have prevented the collision or at least reduced its impact.


1995 Ais Gill rail accident, Inquiry
The inquiry noted that a transcript of the call made from the driver of the train that hit the landslide. In his communications with the control centre at Crewe, the call ended with a control saying "we will take care of all of that, driver." This may have given the false impression that the southbound service that hit the first stricken service, would be warned appropriately and so the guard set about tending to the needs of his passengers. The chairman of the inquiry, Mr E N Clarke, said that protecting the train should have been the priority of the guard.


1995 Ais Gill rail accident, Inquiry
Further recommendations were made concerning the inadequate communications between Railtrack Control Rooms and inefficient use of the National Radio Network. A "group call" to all trains in the vicinity of the incident could have been made by the Control Room and might have alerted the second train to the obstruction in time to prevent the collision.


1995 Ais Gill rail accident, Other incidents
In 1999 a similar incident occurred on the Settle and Carlisle line at Crosby Garrett, north of Kirkby Stephen, where a landslide caused a Carlisle-bound Sprinter to derail. The driver set off a warning horn mounted on the track, and although a southbound goods train hit the Sprinter, nobody was seriously hurt. This took place during bad weather conditions similar to the 1995 incident.


1995 Akron Zips football team
The 1995 Akron Zips football team represented Akron University in the 1995 NCAA Division I-A football season as members of the Mid-American Conference. They were led by first-year head coach Lee Owens. The Zips played their home games at the Rubber Bowl in Akron, Ohio. They finished the season with a record of 2–9 overall and 2–6 in MAC play to tie for seventh place.


1995 Akron Zips football team
This season was the last year of the Steel Tire rivalry series between Akron and Youngstown State, who'd met every year since 1967. The two teams are scheduled to meet next on September 5, 2020.


1995 Alabama Crimson Tide football team
The 1995 Alabama Crimson Tide football team represented the University of Alabama for the 1995–96 college football season, competing in the Western Division in the Southeastern Conference. The team played their home games at Bryant–Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama. Gene Stallings led the Crimson Tide to an 8–3 record. Due to NCAA sanctions, no bowl appearance was made.


1995 Alabama Crimson Tide football team
The early-season victory over Southern Miss came in dramatic fashion, as Alabama completed a 36-yard pass on 4th down for a go-ahead touchdown with under 30 seconds left in the game. The three games Alabama lost were also particularly noteworthy. The game against Arkansas featured a last-minute 4th-and-goal touchdown pass by Arkansas, giving them the win; however, replays later showed the ball was clearly trapped. This call, along with a missed twelve-men-on-the-field penalty on Arkansas' final drive led to the suspension of the officiating crew the following week.


1995 Alabama Crimson Tide football team
The 41–14 blowout loss to Tennessee marked the Vols first win over the Tide since 1985, ending Alabama's 9-game unbeaten streak. The season-ending loss at Auburn also featured a questionable last-minute call regarding a pass. Alabama QB Freddie Kitchens had apparently hit Curtis Brown for a late go-ahead touchdown, but officials ruled Brown out of bounds.


1995 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt
Despite seven turnovers, Alabama was able to use a 23 point 4th quarter to survive a scare against Vanderbilt.


1995 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Southern Miss
For the second week in a row, Alabama would have to use a 4th quarter comeback to prevent an upset. Down 20–17 and facing a 4th and 16, Brian Burgdorf threw a 35 yard touchdown pass to Toderick Malone to give Alabama their first lead and the eventual win.


1995 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Arkansas
Despite holding a 9 point lead in the third quarter, Alabama could not hold on and would lose to Arkansas for the first time since the join the SEC in 1992.


1995 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Georgia
Bama defensive lineman Shannon Brown blocked a Georgia 27-yard field goal attempt. Deshea Townsend caught the ball and ran 90 yards for a touchdown. Defensive back Cedric Samuel returned a fumble 25 yards for a touchdown. DB Kevin Jackson took an interception back 36 yards for another score. UGA quarterback Hines Ward completed one pass and threw an interception before being replaced.


1995 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, North Carolina State
Alabama would extend their non-conference winning streak to 19 as they would beat the Wolfpack on Homecoming.


1995 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Tennessee
For the first time since 1985, Tennessee would beat Alabama. The lose of 27 points was the largest margin of defeat at Legion Field since Tennessee replicated that score in 1969.


1995 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Ole Miss
The Alabama defense scored the first nine points of this game. Dwayne Rudd sacked the Ole Miss quarterback who fumbled the ball out of the back end zone for a safety. Later in the first quarter, linebacker Ralph Staten would return an interception 61 yards for a touchdown.


1995 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, North Texas
After sleep walking through the first half, Alabama would use 28 points in the second half to pull away and win their 20th straight non conference game.


1995 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, LSU
Early in the fourth quarter, Deshea Townsend intercepted a Jamie Howard pass and returned it 17 yards to the LSU 21-yard line. A few plays later, Dennis Riddle would convert a 2-yard touchdown run that proved to be the difference in Alabama's 10-3 win.


1995 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Mississippi State
For the first time all year, Alabama would not commit a turnover in a game and would use their defense to win for the second week in a row.


1995 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Auburn
Despite gaining a season high 478 yards of offense and a valiant comeback effort in the second half, Alabama could not score enough points to beat Auburn.


1995 Alamo Bowl
The 1995 Alamo Bowl was the third edition of the college football bowl game and matched the #19 Texas A&M Aggies of the Southwest Conference and the #14 Michigan Wolverines of the Big Ten Conference. Part of the 1995–96 bowl schedule, it was held on Thursday night, December 28, at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.


1995 Alamo Bowl
Texas A&M scored first on a nine-yard run by running back Eric Bernard to take a 7–0 lead. Michigan answered with a 41-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Brian Griese to wide receiver Amani Toomer, tying the game. Texas A&M scored again following a 27-yard field goal by kicker Kyle Bryant, and Texas A&M reclaimed the lead at 10–7.


1995 Alamo Bowl
In the second quarter, Remy Hamilton kicked a 28-yard field goal for Michigan to tie the game at ten. Bryant kicked his second field goal of the game, a 49-yarder before half to give Texas A&M a 13–10 halftime lead. In he third quarter, Bryant added another 47-yard field goal to increase the lead to 16–10.


1995 Alamo Bowl
Michigan's 26-yard field goal from Hamilton closed the margin to three, but Bryant added field goals of 31 and 37 yards to put the game out of reach, giving Texas A&M a 22–13 lead with 22 seconds left in the game. Griese's 44-yard touchdown pass to Toomer pulled Michigan to within 22–20 with only five seconds left.


1995 Alamo Bowl
This was the final bowl win for the Southwest Conference, which disbanded the following spring. In the final AP poll, Texas A&M climbed to fifteenth and Michigan fell to seventeenth.


1995 Alaska Boeing E-3 Sentry accident
The Alaska Boeing E-3 Sentry accident was the September 22, 1995 crash of a United States Air Force Boeing E-3 Sentry airborne early warning aircraft with the loss of all 24 crewmembers on board. The aircraft, serial number 77-0354 with callsign Yukla 27, hit birds on departure from Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska, United States. With the loss of thrust from both of the left engines the aircraft crashed into a wooded area less than a mile from the end of the runway.


1995 Alaska Boeing E-3 Sentry accident, Accident
The Sentry was being operated by the 962d Airborne Air Control Squadron and was scheduled for a training sortie with the callsign Yukla 27. The aircraft was to depart from runway 06 and was waiting while a Hercules transport aircraft took off ahead of it. With its crew unaware that the Hercules had disturbed a flock of Canada geese, the Sentry lined up and started its departure roll. As the E-3 rotated it ingested multiple birds into its number 1 and 2  engines .


1995 Alaska Boeing E-3 Sentry accident, Accident
The crew started to dump fuel and initiated a turn to the left to return to the airfield, but with a full fuel load and having lost two engines on the same wing, it was unable to maintain altitude. After the aircraft reached 250 feet it descended and crashed into a hilly, wooded area, and exploded.


1995 Alaska Boeing E-3 Sentry accident, Investigation
The investigation concluded that the probable cause was the ingestion of Canada Geese into the number 1 and 2 engines. Other factors included the insufficient efforts of the air base to deter the birds, and the failure of the air traffic control tower to report to both the Sentry and the airfield management that birds were present on the airfield.


1995 Alaska Boeing E-3 Sentry accident, Investigation
The sequence of events during impact was also determined. The aircraft struck the ground nose first and slid to the top of a hill, where the empennage (tail section) broke off. "As the [aircraft] cleared the second hill, it rolled over. The fuselage broke up as the [aircraft] rolled. The outboard right wing impacted on the left side of the wreckage, the right-hand wing broke off and the rotodome section impacted on its back, breaking up the rest of the aircraft."


1995 Alaska Boeing E-3 Sentry accident, Investigation
Investigators reviewed the flight and wreckage path of the accident aircraft. "The [aircraft] lifted off and flew approximately [1.28 kilometers (0.8 mile)] before contacting trees," the report said. "The [aircraft] then flew approximately [0.72 kilometers (0.45 mile)] before making contact with the ground and crashing in a fireball."


1995 Alaska Boeing E-3 Sentry accident, Aircraft
The Boeing E-3 Sentry serial number 77-0354 was built as an E-3A variant with the Boeing construction number 21554 and line number 933. It first flew on July 5, 1978 and was delivered to the United States Air Force on January 19, 1979. It was later modified by Boeing to E-3B standard.


1995 Alaska Boeing E-3 Sentry accident, Aircraft
This aircraft was used on the first day of the Desert Storm air war, with its crew controlling the intercept and shootdown of four Iraqi fighter aircraft in far western Iraq.


1995 Alaska Boeing E-3 Sentry accident, Aircraft
The aircraft was also involved in the April 14, 1994 Black Hawk shootdown incident in Iraq, during which its crew were controlling two F-15 fighter aircraft that shot down a pair of US Army UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters, killing 26 military and civilian personnel.


1995 Alaska Milkmen season
The 1995 Alaska Milkmen season was the 10th season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).


1995 Alaska Milkmen season, Summary
The Milkmen started their season by losing their first four games and were the last team to enter the semifinal round by winning their last four remaining matches in the eliminations for a five-win, five-loss card. In the semifinals, Alaska earn a playoff for a second finals berth via win-five of eight games, following a 102–92 win over Purefoods on the last day of the semifinal round on May 2. Three nights later on May 5, Alaska finally ended Purefoods' run of seven consecutive finals appearance in the All-Filipino tournament with a 115–89 rout.


1995 Alaska Milkmen season, Summary
The Milkmen played the Sunkist Orange Juicers (formerly Swift last season) for the second straight time in a championship series, this time for the All-Filipino Cup crown. Their title series went all the way to a Game Seven and Alaska was so close of repeating as champions if not for Vergel Meneses' heroics in the regulation period, the deciding game went into overtime and the Milkmen lost to the Juicers, 78–87.


1995 Alaska Milkmen season, Summary
Alaska was able to secure the services of Derrick Hamilton, who last played for the Pepsi Hotshots back in 1990, as their import in the Commissioners Cup. After scoring just 21 points in his debut where the Milkmen lost to Sta.Lucia, 97–101 in overtime, Hamilton bounces back to score 40 points in his next game as Alaska scored its first win against his former team Pepsi Mega, 113–106 on June 13. The Milkmen raced to four wins and two losses and handed San Miguel Beermen their first loss in five games in a 102–101 win on June 27.


1995 Alaska Milkmen season, Summary
The Milkmen finish third behind Sunkist and Sta.Lucia after the eliminations. In the one-round quarterfinals, Alaska and Sta.Lucia ended up tied with 10 wins and five losses and they played each other in the best-of-five semifinal series. The Realtors had beaten the Milkmen in three meetings in the conference prior to their series but Alaska surprisingly had an easier time scoring a 3–0 sweep and march into their fourth straight finals appearance. They went on to play the Sunkist Orange Juicers for the third consecutive time in a championship series. Alaska ended up bridesmaid for the second straight conference by losing to Sunkist in six games.


1995 Alaska Milkmen season, Summary
Sean Chambers returns anew and the Alaska Milkmen are ready to defend the title they won from last season. The Grandslam-seeking Sunkist and Alaska were on top of the standings after the eliminations and looks headed for a fourth encounter in the championship round. On November 14, the Milkmen gave the Orange Juicers their worst defeat in the semifinals in a 115–91 win.


1995 Alaska Milkmen season, Summary
Two weeks later on November 28 with the first finals berth at stake, Alaska repeated over Sunkist, 111–105, for their 13th victory in 17 games and advances into their fifth straight finals stint dating back to last season's Commissioners Cup. The Milkmen watch the Juicers stumbled and lost their last three semifinal outings while giving the San Miguel Beermen a free ride to the championship series. Alaska retains the Governors Cup title and avoid finishing bridesmaid in all three conferences of the season by winning the last two games in a 4–3 series triumph over San Miguel Beermen, taking the deciding seventh game by 13 points.


1995 Albany Firebirds season
The 1995 Albany Firebirds season was the sixth season for the Albany Firebirds. They finished the 1995 Arena Football League season 7–5 and lost in the semifinals of the AFL playoffs to the Tampa Bay Storm.


1995 Albany Firebirds season, Schedule, Playoffs
The Firebirds were seeded seventh overall in the AFL playoffs, despite winning their division.


1995 Algarve Cup
The 1995 Algarve Cup was the second edition of the Algarve Cup, an invitational women's association football tournament. It took place between 14  and 19 March 1995 in Portugal with Sweden winning the event defeating Denmark, 1-0, in the final game. Norway ended up third defeating the USA, 7-5 following penalty shootout, in the third prize-game.


1995 Algarve Cup, Format
The number of invited countries was increased from six to eight with Italy and the Netherlands appearing in their first Algarve Cup tournament.


1995 Algarve Cup, Format
The eight invited teams were split into two groups that played a round-robin tournament. On completion of this, the fourth placed teams in each group played each other to determine seventh and eighth place, the third placed teams in each group played each other to decide fifth and sixth place, the second placed teams in each group played to determine third and fourth place and the winners of each group would compete for first and second place overall.


1995 Algarve Cup, Format
Points awarded in the group stage followed the standard formula of three points for a win, one point for a draw and zero points for a loss.


1995 Algarve Cup, Seventh Place
Hosts Portugal again appeared in the play-off for last place, facing newcomers Italy and being defeated 4–1 with two of the Italians' goals being scored in the final two minutes of play.


1995 Algarve Cup, Fifth Place
The Netherlands finished in sixth place on their first appearance at the Algarve Cup, losing to the 1994 sixth placed team Finland in a penalty shootout.


1995 Algarve Cup, Third Place
For the second year running, Norway faced the United States in their last game of the tournament. With the score at 3–3 after full-time, a period of sudden death extra-time was played that failed to see another goal. Norway won the following penalty shootout 4–2 to finish third overall in the final tournament standings.


1995 Algarve Cup, Final
Sweden had played Denmark in the previous year's competition to decide third place and defeated them again on this occasion to finish as overall winners of the tournament.


1995 Algerian Super Cup
The 1995 Algerian Super Cup is the  4th edition of Algerian Super Cup, a football match contested by the winners of the Championnat National and 1994–95 Algerian Cup competitions. The match was scheduled to be played on 31 August 1995 at Stade 5 Juillet 1962 in Algiers between 1994–95 Championnat National winners JS Kabylie and 1994–95 Algerian Cup winners CR Belouizdad.


1995 Algerian presidential election
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1995 Algerian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Algeria on 16 November 1995, in the midst of the Algerian Civil War. The result was a victory for Liamine Zeroual,  head of the High Council of State at the time, who won 61% of the vote. The Armed Islamic Group of Algeria threatened to kill anyone who voted, with the slogan "one vote, one bullet", but (official) voter turnout was 74.9%.


1995 Algerian presidential election, Conduct
Delegations of observers came from the Arab League, the African Union, and the United Nations, and reported no major problems. The Armed Islamic Group had threatened to kill voters, but the elections passed with few attacks. Voter turnout was high, despite the three largest parties of the 1991 parliamentary elections (the Islamic Salvation Front, National Liberation Front and Socialist Forces Front) calling for a boycott.


1995 All England Open Badminton Championships
The 1995 Yonex All England Open was the 85th edition of the All England Open Badminton Championships. It was held from 14 to 18 March 1995, in Birmingham, England.


1995 All England Open Badminton Championships
It was a five-star tournament and the prize money was US$125,000.


1995 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship
The 1995 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship was the third season of Japan Automobile Federation GT premiere racing, and the second under the promotion of the GT Association (GTA). It was marked as well as the thirteenth season of a JAF-sanctioned sports car racing championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. Once again, the GT1 class champion was the #1 Calsonic Nissan Skyline GT-R driven by Masahiko Kageyama, and the GT2 class champion was the #70 Gaikokuya Nissan Skyline driven by Yoshimi Ishibashi and Kaoru Hoshino.


1995 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship
1995 saw the Toyota Supra win its first race in the GT1 category, at Sendai Hi-Land Raceway. The victory came just a week after Masanori Sekiya, driver of the winning Castrol TOM's Toyota Supra, became the first Japanese driver to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans overall. The series made its first official visit to Suzuka Circuit on April 2, 1995.


1995 All-Africa Games
The 6th All-Africa Games were played from 13 to 23 September 1995 in Harare, Zimbabwe. 46 countries participated in eighteen sports.


1995 All-Africa Games
South Africa, having previously been banned from competition by the other African nations, was invited to the games for the first time after the fall of Apartheid.


1995 All-Africa Games
With a record 6000 athletes participating in the games the games were in danger of growing unmanageable. Juan Antonio Samaranch, asked the organizers not to try to copy the Olympic Games, because of the financial and organizational costs.


1995 All-Africa Games
Petty controversy again entered the games. An Egyptian woman handball player was accused of being a man and the Egyptian team protested that the lace sleeves worn by the South African gymnasts were too "sexy".


1995 All-Africa Games
Mozambiques World Champion 800 meter runner Maria de Lurdes Mutola won her speciality in Harare.


1995 All-Africa Games
Of the 17 sports on the program 8 were open to participation by women: athletics, basketball, gymnastics, handball, swimming, table tennis, tennis and volleyball. Women's diving and netball were to be included but were reduced to demonstration sports due to a lack of entries.


1995 All-Africa Games
At the closing ceremonies the torch was passed to Johannesburg, South Africa to begin preparations for the VIIth All-Africa Games in 1999.


1995 All-Africa Games, Athletics
Discus thrower Adewale Olukoju and sprinter Mary Onyali became the first athletes to win four All-Africa gold medals. Onyali won the 100 and 200 metres races, and together with Josphat Machuka, Kenya (5000 metres and 10000 metres) they became the only athletes to win more than one event.


1995 All-Africa Games, Athletics
In addition, Nigeria won three of the four relay races; 4x400 metres for men and women as well as men's 4x100 metres.


1995 All-Africa Games, Athletics
Some new women's events were added: 5000 metres, marathon and triple jump.


1995 All-Africa Games, Soccer
The soccer tournament was won by Egypt, who became the first team to win this tournament twice.


1995 All-Atlantic Coast Conference football team
The 1995 All-Atlantic Coast Conference football team consists of American football players chosen by various selectors for their All-Atlantic Coast Conference ("ACC") teams for the 1995 college football season. Selectors in 1995 included the Associated Press (AP).


1995 All-Big East Conference football team
The 1995 All-Big East Conference football team consists of American football players chosen by various selectors for their All-Big East Conference ("Big East") teams for the 1995 NCAA Division I-A football season. Selectors in 1995 included the Football News (FN).


1995 All-Big East Conference football team
Six teams placed more than two players on the first team as follows:


1995 All-Big Eight Conference football team
The 1995 All-Big Eight Conference football team consists of American football players chosen by various organizations for All-Big Eight Conference teams for the 1995 NCAA Division I-A football season. The selectors for the 1995 season included the Associated Press (AP) and the Big Eight Conference coaches (Coaches). The 1995 team was the final All-Big Eight football team due to the conference's merger in 1996 with four teams from the Southwest Conference to form the Big 12 Conference.


1995 All-Big Eight Conference football team
Four teams from the Big Eight Conference finished among the top ten in the final AP Poll of the 1995 season, and players from those teams dominated the All-Big Eight selections. The four ranked teams were:


1995 All-Big Eight Conference football team
Troy Davis of Iowa State and David Thompson of Oklahoma State were the consensus first-team running backs. Stephen Alexander of Oklahoma was the consensus first-team tight end.


1995 All-Big Eight Conference football team, Key
Bold = Consensus first-team selection of both the Associated Press and Coaches


1995 All-Big Ten Conference football team
The 1995 All-Big Ten Conference football team consists of American football players chosen as All-Big Ten Conference players for the 1995 NCAA Division I-A football season. Separate teams were selected by the Big Ten Conference football head coaches ("Coaches") and by a media panel ("Media").


1995 All-Big Ten Conference football team
The 1995 Northwestern Wildcats football team won the Big Ten championship. Northwestern linebacker Pat Fitzgerald was selected as the consensus Defensive Player of the Year by both the Coaches and Media. Fitzgerald went on to become Northwestern's head football coach, a position he has held since 2006. In addition to Fitzgerald, the Wildcats had five other players selected as first-team honorees: running back Darnell Autry, defensive back Chris Martin, offensive linemen Rob Johnson and Ryan Padgett, and kicker Sam Valenzisi. Head coach Gary Barnett also won the Big Ten's Dave McClain Coach of the Year award.


1995 All-Big Ten Conference football team
Despite finishing second in the conference, the 1995 Ohio State Buckeyes football team under head coach John Cooper led all other teams with seven first-team honorees. The Ohio State contingent was led by running back Eddie George who was the consensus selection as the Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year. George also won the 1995 Heisman Trophy. The other Ohio State players receiving first-team honors were quarterback Bobby Hoying, wide receiver Terry Glenn, offensive tackle Orlando Pace, tight end Rickey Dudley, linebacker Mike Vrabel and defensive back Shawn Springs. George and Pace have both been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.


1995 All-Big Ten Conference football team
The 1995 Michigan Wolverines football team under head coach Lloyd Carr also landed six players on the All-Big Ten first team. Michigan's honorees were linebacker Jarrett Irons, defensive tackle Jason Horn, defensive backs Charles Woodson and Charles Thompson, and offensive linemen Jon Runyan and Rod Payne. Woodson was named by the Coaches as the Big Ten Freshman of the Year in 1995, and he went on in 1997 to become the first defensive player to win the Heisman Trophy.


1995 All-Big Ten Conference football team
Penn State under head coach Joe Paterno also landed three players on the first team. They were wide receiver Bobby Engram, offensive lineman Jeff Hartings and defensive back Brian Miller. Running back Curtis Enis was honored by the Media as the Big Ten Freshman of the Year.