1995 Auburn Tigers football team
The 1995 Auburn Tigers football team represented Auburn University in the 1995 NCAA Division I-A football season. Coached by Terry Bowden, they finished with an 8–4 record and a 5–3 mark in the Southeastern Conference (SEC). Auburn played in the 1996 Outback Bowl at the end of the season, marking their first bowl game since 1990. Tigers had been banned from  postseason play the previous two seasons.


1995 Auckland City mayoral election
The 1995 Auckland City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1995, elections were held for the Mayor of Auckland plus other local government positions including twenty-four city councillors. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.


1995 Auckland City mayoral election, Ward results
Candidates were also elected from wards to the Auckland City Council.


1995 Auckland Warriors season
The 1995 Auckland Warriors season was the inaugural season of the newly-formed club. Competing the 1995 Australian Rugby League premiership, they were coached by John Monie and captained by Dean Bell. The Warriors' home ground for their first season was Ericsson Stadium. They finished their first premiership regular season 10th (out of 20), so failed to make the finals.


1995 Auckland Warriors season, Jersey & Sponsors
The Warriors inaugural jersey was produced by Canterbury of New Zealand. The Jersey was blue with a Green, Red and White "V". In part, the colours were based on the traditional Auckland colours of Blue and White. The main sponsor was DB Bitter, with Ansett Australia as the sleeve sponsor. Asics, Coca-Cola and Mitsubishi also had sponsorship deals.


1995 Auckland Warriors season, Fixtures
The Warriors used Ericsson Stadium as their home ground in 1995, and it remained the only Home Ground the club used in the competition until they played a match at Eden Park in 2011.


1995 Auckland Warriors season, Fixtures, Pre-Season
Three pre-season matches were played before the World Sevens and another three were played after the World Sevens.


1995 Auckland Warriors season, Fixtures, World Sevens
The Warriors participated in the 1995 Rugby League World Sevens, losing in the Trophy Quarterfinals.


1995 Auckland Warriors season, Fixtures, World Sevens
Squad: Phil Blake (c), Sean Hoppe, Manoa Thompson, Tea Ropati, Whetu Taewa, Gene Ngamu, Syd Eru, Stephen Kearney, Tony Tatupu, Des Maea.


1995 Auckland Warriors season, Fixtures, Tooheys Challenge Cup
Team: Phil Blake (c), Sean Hoppe, Dean Bell, Manoa Thompson, Whetu Taewa, Martin Moana, Gene Ngamu, Gavin Hill, Duane Mann, Hitro Okesene, Stephen Kearney, Tony Tatupu, Tony Tuimavave. Bench: Tea Ropati, Se'e Solomona, Mike Dorreen, Jason Mackie.


1995 Auckland Warriors season, Fixtures, Regular season
*The Warriors were stripped the 2 competition points from winning this game due to exceeding the replacement limit.


1995 Auckland Warriors season, Ladder
*Auckland Warriors were stripped of 2 competition points due to exceeding the replacement limit in one game.


1995 Auckland Warriors season, Squad
Twenty Eight players were used by the club in 1995.


1995 Auckland Warriors season, Other Teams
The Warriors participated in the ARL's Reserve grade competition that mirrored the senior draw. The Reserve grade side made the top eight, finishing eighth, but lost to Penrith 8-14 in the Quarterfinals.


1995 Auckland Warriors season, Other Teams, Warriors Colts
In addition a Warriors Colts side was fielded in NZRL's Lion Red Cup. The Warrior Colts made the grand final but lost to the North Harbour Sea Eagles.


1995 Auckland Warriors season, Other Teams, Warriors Colts
After trailing 15–2 at halftime the North Harbour Sea Eagles came from behind to defeat the Warrior Colts 28–21 in the second Lion Red Cup Grand Final. The match included an eight-point try scored by Paki Tuimavave in the 48th minute. Tuimavave was tackled high by Aaron Lester while he was grounding the ball. Lester was then sin-binned for back chatting the referee after the incident.


1995 Auckland Warriors season, Awards
Tea Ropati won the club's Player of the Year award.


1995 Auckland Warriors season, Super League
The Auckland Warriors, along with seven other clubs, signed with News Limited to form a new competition in 1996, the Super League. Thirteen players signed with the new competition on 2 April 1995, after the Warriors' Round 4 loss to the North Sydney Bears, with coach John Monie having signed in late March. The club as a whole signed with News Limited on 20 April. This decision meant that Auckland Warriors players became ineligible for the New South Wales and Queensland State of Origin sides and the Australian Kangaroos. The New Zealand Rugby League and English Rugby Football League organisations had also signed with News Limited and so the majority of Warriors players were still eligible to represent their countries at the 1995 Rugby League World Cup.


1995 Australia Day Honours
The Australia Day Honours 1995 are appointments to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by Australian citizens. The list was announced on 26 January 1995 by the Governor General of Australia, Bill Hayden.


1995 Australia Day Honours
The Australia Day Honours are the first of the two major annual honours lists, the first announced to coincide with Australia Day (26 January), with the other being the Queen's Birthday Honours, which are announced on the second Monday in June.


1995 Australian Capital Territory general election
Elections to the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly were held on Saturday, 18 February 1995. The incumbent Labor Party, led by Rosemary Follett, was challenged by the Liberal Party, led by Kate Carnell. For the first time, candidates were elected to fill three multi-member electorates using a single transferable vote method, known as the Hare-Clark system. The result was another hung parliament. However the Liberals, with the largest representation in the 17-member unicameral Assembly, formed Government with the support of Michael Moore and Paul Osborne. Carnell was elected Chief Minister at the first sitting of the third Assembly on 9 March 1995.


1995 Australian Capital Territory general election
This election was also the first time that the leaders of both major parties have been female at an Australian federal, state or territory election. It would also be the last time that this occurred until the 2020 Queensland state election.


1995 Australian Capital Territory general election, Candidates
Sitting members at the time of the election are in bold. Tickets that elected at least one MLA are highlighted in the relevant colour. Successful candidates are indicated by an asterisk (*).


1995 Australian Capital Territory general election, Candidates, Brindabella
Eva Cawthorne Annette Ellis Steve Whan Andrew Whitecross* Bill Wood*


1995 Australian Capital Territory general election, Candidates, Brindabella
Sandie Brooke Tony De Domenico* Trevor Kaine* Louise Littlewood Brian Lowe


1995 Australian Capital Territory general election, Candidates, Brindabella
Janice Ferguson (Ind) Margaret Kobier (Ind) Paul Osborne* (Ind) Tony Savage (Ind)


1995 Australian Capital Territory general election, Candidates, Ginninderra
Wayne Berry* Ellnor Grassby Roberta McRae* Jacqueline Shea Fiona Wilson


1995 Australian Capital Territory general election, Candidates, Ginninderra
Lyle Dunne Martin Gordon Cheryl Hill Harold Hird* Bill Stefaniak*


1995 Australian Capital Territory general election, Candidates, Molonglo
Terry Connolly* Simon Corbell Rosemary Follett* David Lamont Marion Reilly Michael Wilson Silvia Zamora


1995 Australian Capital Territory general election, Candidates, Molonglo
Greg Aouad David Ash Kate Carnell* Greg Cornwell* Gary Humphries* Lucinda Spier Gwen Wilcox


1995 Australian Capital Territory general election, Candidates, Molonglo
Mike Boland (Ind) Arthur Burns  Allison Dellit Terry De Luca


1995 Australian Capital Territory general election, Results
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1995 Australian Drivers' Championship
The 1995 Australian Drivers' Championship was open to drivers of racing cars complying with CAMS Formula Brabham regulations and was contested over a three-round series.


1995 Australian Drivers' Championship
Each round consisted of two races, with points were awarded on a 20-16-14-12-10-8-6-4-2-1 basis to the top ten placegetters in each race.


1995 Australian Drivers' Championship
The championship winner was awarded the 1995 CAMS Gold Star


1995 Australian Formula Ford Championship
The 1995 Australian Formula Ford Championship was a CAMS sanctioned motor racing championship open to Formula Ford racing cars. The championship was the 26th Australian series for Formula Fords, and the third to be contested under the Australian Formula Ford Championship name. The title was won by Jason Bright, driving a Van Diemen RF95.


1995 Australian Formula Ford Championship, Calendar
The championship was contested over an eight round series with two races per round.


1995 Australian Formula Ford Championship, Points system
Championship points were awarded at each race on the following basis:


1995 Australian Formula Ford Championship, Results
The "Dunlop Rookie of the Year" award was won by Mal Rose.


1995 Australian GT Production Car Series
The 1995 Australian GT Production Car Series was an Australian motor racing series for production cars. It was the first and only series to be contested under the Australian GT Production Car Series name. The series was however preceded by the 1994 Australian Super Production Car Series with the Super Production category being renamed to GT Production for 1995  and the series gaining national title status  to become the Australian GT Production Car Championship in 1996. The 1995 series was won by Jim Richards driving a Porsche 968CS and a Porsche 911 RSCS .


1995 Australian GT Production Car Series, Schedule
The series was contested over six rounds with two races per round.


1995 Australian Grand Prix
The 1995 Australian Grand Prix (officially the LX EDS Australian Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 12 November 1995 at the Adelaide Street Circuit, Adelaide. The race, contested over 81 laps, was the seventeenth and final race of the 1995 Formula One season, and the eleventh and last Australian Grand Prix to be held at Adelaide before the event moved to Melbourne the following year. This would also prove to be the last Grand Prix for Mark Blundell, Bertrand Gachot, Roberto Moreno, Taki Inoue and Karl Wendlinger.


1995 Australian Grand Prix
In a race of attrition, all the front-running cars retired except for the pole-sitting Williams-Renault of Damon Hill. Hill won by two clear laps, only the second time this had been achieved in Formula One history. Ligier-Mugen-Honda driver Olivier Panis was second, with Gianni Morbidelli achieving his best-ever F1 result with third in a Footwork-Hart. Of the 23 drivers who started, only eight finished, the lowest number in the 1995 season. As of 2021, this is the last time the race winner lapped every other competitor.


1995 Australian Grand Prix
The race had an attendance of 210,000 – an F1 record until 2000, when 250,000 people attended that year's United States Grand Prix at Indianapolis.


1995 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Pre-race
Heading into the final round of the 1995 Formula One season, both the Drivers' Championship and Constructors' Championship were already settled, with Michael Schumacher having claimed the Drivers' Championship two rounds earlier at the Pacific Grand Prix. It was Schumacher's last race with the Benetton team, before his move to Ferrari for the 1996 season. Benetton had claimed the Constructors' Championship at the previous event, the Japanese Grand Prix, with Williams too many points behind to be able to catch them. It was announced beforehand that it would be the last Formula One event to be held at the Adelaide Street Circuit, with the Australian Grand Prix moving to Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit in Melbourne from the 1996 season.


1995 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Pre-race
In the Friday afternoon qualifying session, Mika Häkkinen in his McLaren car suffered a puncture in his left rear tyre heading towards Brewery Bend. This caused him to lose control, become airborne and crash heavily into a tyre barrier at 120 mph. The impact caused his helmet to strike the steering wheel, fracturing his skull. Within seconds he was attended by two doctors who were stationed at the corner, who found Hakkinen unresponsive and with a blocked airway. Häkkinen later said that he was aware of what had happened immediately after the impact, but subsequently lost consciousness. Unable to establish an airway, the doctors performed an emergency tracheotomy before taking him to the nearby Royal Adelaide Hospital. Häkkinen would recover in time to race the following season.


1995 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Pre-race
The Williams' cars dominated qualifying, with Damon Hill in pole position and David Coulthard alongside him. Schumacher was third in his Benetton, with the Ferrari drivers fourth and fifth, Gerhard Berger ahead of Jean Alesi. Heinz-Harald Frentzen rounded out the top six in his Sauber.


1995 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Race
The race took place in the afternoon from 14:00 ACDT (UTC+10:30). Hill lost the lead to Coulthard at the start. Schumacher also lost ground at the start, with Berger moving into third and Alesi moving into fourth. Schumacher made his way back up to third, overtaking Alesi on lap one, before overtaking Berger a few laps later. Coulthard kept the lead until the first round of pitstops. However, he came into the pitlane too fast, locking his front tyres and running into the pitwall. He was forced to retire from the race. A few laps later, Forti's Roberto Moreno had spun and caused terminal damage to his suspension in the same place where Coulthard had crashed earlier.


1995 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Race
After the first round of pitstops, Schumacher and Alesi collided, with both retiring. Schumacher's Benetton team-mate, Johnny Herbert took second place briefly before coming in for his first stop later than many of the other drivers, while surviving a potential accident in which he missed the pit entry and rejoined the track. Berger was promoted to second, but his Ferrari encountered an engine problem, forcing him to retire. This promoted Frentzen to second, but he too retired due to a gearbox problem.


1995 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Race
With many of the front-runners out, Hill led at the front, even with a 22-second botched pit stop, with Herbert second. Jordan driver Eddie Irvine rounded out the top three, before retiring after losing all of his pneumatic pressure. Herbert was still second, and looked set as a result to claim third place in the Drivers' Championship. However, he was forced out of the race as his Benetton suffered a driveshaft failure. Olivier Panis was now second in his Ligier a lap behind Hill, with Footwork driver Gianni Morbidelli third, two laps down.


1995 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Race
With a few laps remaining, Panis' Ligier was suffering an oil leak, and Hill lapped him for a second time on his way to victory. Panis remained second, with Morbidelli third for his only career podium, and the first podium for the Footwork/Arrows team in six years. Behind the top three, Mark Blundell was fourth in the sole McLaren, with Mika Salo fifth in the Tyrrell. Pedro Lamy had a mid-race spin, but recovered to take sixth in his Minardi – his only Formula One point, and Minardi's last until the 1999 European Grand Prix. Only eight cars finished the race, with Pedro Diniz seventh place being Forti's best Formula One finish. The eighth place for Pacific also equalled their best result since the 1995 German Grand Prix. The race was televised by Channel 9 in Australia and by the BBC in the UK.


1995 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Race
The race marked the end of Pacific Racing, as the team went back to International Formula 3000 for 1996. In a last gasp effort, Pacific tried to have their test driver Oliver Gavin in the seat, but he was not granted an FIA Super License and shareholder Bertrand Gachot raced instead. It was only the second time in Formula One history that the winner won by two laps– the first time was at the 1969 Spanish Grand Prix when Jackie Stewart won.


1995 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Race
Hill, who had been criticised for his performances in all of the three previous races, was praised by commentator Murray Walker for this performance, with Walker saying that, with Schumacher and Coulthard's imminent moves to Ferrari and McLaren respectively, Hill would be a strong favourite to win the title in 1996 if he could continue to perform in the way he had done so in this particular race. This would also be the last race for a V12 engine. Only Ferrari used this configuration, but would switch to a more fuel-efficient V10 engine for 1996.


1995 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Race
Although he failed to finish, by competing in the race Gerhard Berger became the only driver to have driven in all 11 Formula One Grands Prix held in Adelaide. He had driven for Arrows-BMW (1985), Benetton-BMW (1986), Ferrari (1987, 1988, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995) and McLaren-Honda (1990, 1991, 1992), winning the race for Ferrari in 1987 (as well as claiming pole position and fastest lap) and McLaren in 1992.


1995 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Race
The post-race concert was headlined by American rock band Bon Jovi, who performed at the Victoria Park Racecourse as part of their These Days Tour.


1995 Australian Individual Speedway Championship
The 1995 Australian Individual Speedway Championship was held at the Gosford Speedway in Gosford, New South Wales on 27 January 1995.


1995 Australian Individual Speedway Championship
Jason Crump won his first Australian Championship, joining his father Phil Crump to be the only father/son combination to win the Australian Championship. 1991 champion Craig Boyce finished second following a runoff with triple defending champion Leigh Adams after both finished on 13 points. Jason Lyons finished in fourth place while dual South Australian Champion Shane Parker defeated Stephen Davies in a runoff to claim the final available place in the Overseas Final.


1995 Australian Masters
The 1995 Australian Masters was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 14 and 16 September 1995 at the Bentleigh Club in Melbourne, Australia.


1995 Australian Masters
Anthony Hamilton won the tournament by defeating Chris Small 8–6 in the final.


1995 Australian Men's Hardcourt Championships
The 1995 Adelaide International was a men's tennis tournament held in Adelaide, Australia and played on outdoor hard courts. The event was  part of the ATP World Series of the 1995 ATP Tour. It was the 18th edition of the tournament and was held from 2 January through 9 January 1995.


1995 Australian Men's Hardcourt Championships
Jim Courier won his 1st title of the year, and 15th of his career.


1995 Australian Men's Hardcourt Championships, Finals, Doubles
Jim Courier /  Patrick Rafter defeated  Byron Black /  Grant Connell, 7–6, 6–4


1995 Australian Men's Hardcourt Championships – Doubles
Andrew Kratzmann and Mark Kratzmann were the defending champions, but did not participate this year.


1995 Australian Men's Hardcourt Championships – Doubles
Jim Courier and Patrick Rafter won the title, defeating Byron Black and Grant Connell 7–6, 6–4 in the final.


1995 Australian Men's Hardcourt Championships – Singles
Jim Courier defeated Arnaud Boetsch 6–2, 7–5 to secure the title.


1995 Australian Open
The 1995 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at Flinders Park in Melbourne in Victoria in Australia. It was the 83rd edition of the Australian Open and was held from 16 through 29 January 1995.


1995 Australian Open, Seniors, Men's Doubles
Jared Palmer /  Richey Reneberg defeated  Mark Knowles /  Daniel Nestor 6–3, 3–6, 6–3, 6–2


1995 Australian Open, Seniors, Women's Doubles
Jana Novotná /  Arantxa Sánchez Vicario defeated  Gigi Fernández /  Natasha Zvereva 6–3, 6–7(3–7), 6–4


1995 Australian Open, Seniors, Mixed Doubles
Natasha Zvereva /  Rick Leach defeated  Gigi Fernández /  Cyril Suk 7–6(7–4), 6–7(3–7), 6–4


1995 Australian Open, Juniors, Boys' Doubles
Luke Bourgeois /  Lee Jong-min defeated  Nicolas Kiefer /  Ulrich Jasper Seetzen 6–2, 6–1


1995 Australian Open, Juniors, Girls' Doubles
Corina Morariu /  Ludmila Varmužová defeated  Saori Obata /  Nami Urabe 6–1, 6–2


1995 Australian Open (snooker)
The 1995 Australian Open was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 17 and 19 September 1995 at the Bentleigh Club in Melbourne, Australia. The tournament featured many of the same players that participated in the 1995 Australian Masters several days earlier.


1995 Australian Open (snooker)
Anthony Hamilton won the tournament by defeating Chris Small 9–7 in the final.


1995 Australian Open – Men's Doubles
The 1995 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at Flinders Park in Melbourne in Victoria in Australia. It was the 83rd edition of the Australian Open and was held from 16 through 29 January 1995.


1995 Australian Open – Men's Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


1995 Australian Open – Men's Singles
Andre Agassi defeated defending champion Pete Sampras 4–6, 6–1, 7–6(8–6), 6–4 in the final to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1995 Australian Open. Agassi was making his Australian Open debut. He would go on to win three more editions of the tournament in 2000, 2001, and 2003.


1995 Australian Open – Men's Singles
A memorable moment occurred in the quarterfinal match between Sampras and Jim Courier. Sampras had fought from a two-set deficit to level the match at 2–2. Shortly after winning the first game of the fifth set, Sampras was overcome with grief over his then-coach, Tim Gullikson. (Gullikson had suffered several seizures while touring with Sampras in Europe in late 1994. Shortly before Sampras' match against Courier, Gullikson had collapsed during a practice session after suffering another seizure, with tests proving inconclusive at Epworth Hospital and being flown home to Chicago for further tests.)


1995 Australian Open – Men's Singles
During the fifth set of the match, Sampras retired to his chair and broke down in tears. When he returned, Courier offered to finish the match the next day. Sampras declined and then won the match. Gullikson was later diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer and would pass away in May 1996.


1995 Australian Open – Men's Singles, Seeds
The seeded players are listed below. Andre Agassi is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.


1995 Australian Open – Men's Singles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


1995 Australian Open – Men's Singles Qualifying
This article displays the qualifying draw for men's singles at the 1995 Australian Open.


1995 Australian Open – Mixed Doubles
Larisa Neiland and Andrei Olhovskiy were the defending champions but lost in the first round to Natasha Zvereva and Rick Leach.


1995 Australian Open – Mixed Doubles
Zvereva and Leach won in the final 7–6 (7–4), 6–7 (3–7), 6–4 against Gigi Fernández and Cyril Suk.


1995 Australian Open – Mixed Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


1995 Australian Open – Women's Doubles
The 1995 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at Flinders Park in Melbourne in Victoria in Australia. It was the 83rd edition of the Australian Open and was held from 16 through 29 January 1995.


1995 Australian Open – Women's Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


1995 Australian Open – Women's Singles
Fourth-seeded Mary Pierce defeated Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 6–3, 6–2 in the final to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 1995 Australian Open. Steffi Graf was the defending champion, however, she did not defend the title and withdrew due to an injury.


1995 Australian Open – Women's Singles
This was also notable as the first Grand Slam appearance of future world No. 1 and Grand Slam champion Martina Hingis, competing in the main draw. She lost in the second round to Kyōko Nagatsuka.


1995 Australian Open – Women's Singles, Seeds
The seeded players are listed below. Mary Pierce is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.


1995 Australian Open – Women's Singles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


1995 Australian Open – Women's Singles Qualifying
This article displays the qualifying draw for women's singles at the 1995 Australian Open.


1995 Australian Production Car Championship
The 1995 Australian Production Car Championship was a CAMS sanctioned national motor racing title for drivers of Group 3E Series Production Cars.


1995 Australian Production Car Championship, Calendar
The title was contested over a six round series with two races per round.


1995 Australian Production Car Championship, Calendar
Championship points were awarded on a 20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1 basis to the top ten finishers in each race. A separate Class B award was open to drivers of Group 3E cars of up to 1.6 litre engine capacity with points awarded on a 9-6-4-3-2-1 basis to the top six Class B finishers in each race.


1995 Australian Sports Sedan Championship
The 1995 Australian Sports Sedan Championship was a CAMS sanctioned Australian motor racing title for Group 2D Sports Sedans. The title, which was the 11th Australian Sports Sedan Championship, was won by Cameron McLean driving a Greenfield Mowers Racing BMW M3.


1995 Australian Sports Sedan Championship, Championship results
Note: Only the top four championship positions are shown in the above table.


1995 Australian Super Touring Championship
The 1995 Australian Super Touring Championship was a CAMS sanctioned motor racing championship for 2 Litre Super Touring Cars. It was the third series for 2 litre Super Touring Cars to be contested in Australia, but the first to use the Australian Super Touring Championship name. It began on 5 March 1995 at Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit and ended on 26 August at Eastern Creek Raceway after eight rounds.


1995 Australian Super Touring Championship
The Drivers Championship was won by Paul Morris (BMW 318i), the Manufacturers Championship by BMW, the Teams Championship by BMW and the TOCA Privateers Cup by Graham Moore (Opel Vectra).


1995 Australian Super Touring Championship, Teams and drivers
The following teams and drivers competed in the 1995 Australian Super Touring Championship.


1995 Australian Super Touring Championship, Results and standings, Race calendar
The 1995 Australian Super Touring Championship was contested over eight rounds with two races per round.


1995 Australian Super Touring Championship, Results and standings, Drivers Championship
Points were awarded on a 24-18-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1 basis for the top ten positions in each race.


1995 Australian Super Touring Championship, Championship name
The championship was promoted by TOCA Australia as the 1995 2.0 L Super Touring Championship but is recognized by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport as the 1995 Australian Super Touring Championship.


1995 Australian Suzuki Swift Series
The 1995 Kumho Tyres Suzuki Cup was the first running of the series. It was based around nine rounds following the 1995 Australian Touring Car Championship and Australian Super Touring Championship trail. Over 32 cars entered the series which was won by speedway driver Adam Clarke. The series was supported by Suzuki importer ATECO and launched the careers of NASCAR Truck driver Clarke, V8 Supercar drivers Warren Luff, Phillip Scifleet, Damian White and Anthony Robson as well as Formula 3000 competitor Andrej Pavicevic and A1 Grand Prix driver Christian Jones.


1995 Australian Suzuki Swift Series, Calendar
The series started at Oran Park in April, finishing ate the Bathurst 1000 weekend in October.


1995 Australian Touring Car Championship
The 1995 Australian Touring Car Championship was a CAMS sanctioned Australian motor racing title for 5.0 Litre Touring Cars complying with Group 3A regulations. The championship, which was the 36th Australian Touring Car Championship, was contested over a ten rounds between February and August 1995. The series was won by John Bowe driving a Dick Johnson Racing Ford EF Falcon.


1995 Australian Touring Car Championship, Television Coverage
Channel 7's 1995 coverage was led by Mike Raymond for the final time before his retirement from full-time broadcasting and he was once again joined by Allan Moffat and Mark Oastler in the broadcast booth with Andy Raymond in pit-lane.


1995 Australian Touring Car Championship, Television Coverage
The broadcast was again on same-day delay due to the network's coverage of the AFL across the nation.


1995 Australian Touring Car Championship, Pre-season
The Ford EF Falcon and Holden VR Commodore were both homologated for competition. The changes were largely cosmetic, allowing teams to reskin their existing EB Falcons and VP Commodores. With no material gain in performance expected, many of the privateer teams elected to retain their cars in EB and VP trim.


1995 Australian Touring Car Championship, Pre-season
In January 1995 Dunlop, who supplied tyres to Dick Johnson Racing, Perkins Engineering and Wayne Gardner Racing as well as all of the privateer teams, had their factory in Kobe destroyed in the Great Hanshin earthquake. While production was shifted to England, teams had to ration their tyre stocks. To help the situation, Bridgestone later relaxed its policy of only supplying contracted teams, providing tyres to James Rosenberg Racing and Romano Racing at the final round.


1995 Australian Touring Car Championship, Pre-season
Defending champion Mark Skaife missed the opening round of the championship after sustaining injuries in a testing accident ahead of the Winfield Triple Challenge at Eastern Creek that destroyed a Gibson Motorsport VR Commodore.


1995 Australian Touring Car Championship, Teams and drivers
The following drivers and teams competed in the 1995 Australian Touring Car Championship:


1995 Australian Touring Car Championship, Race calendar
The championship was contested over a ten-round series. Each round featured a "Peter Jackson Dash", a short sprint race which was restricted to the top ten cars from qualifying, and two main races which were open to all competitors. Unlike previous seasons, the dash did not set the grid order for the main races. The Amaroo Park round was replaced by a round at Mount Panorama which held an ATCC round for the first time since 1972.


1995 Australian Touring Car Championship, Results
Rounds were won by John Bowe (4), Glenn Seton (4), Larry Perkins (1) and Mark Skaife (1). Going into the final round Bowe, Seton and Peter Brock were in contention with Bowe prevailing.


1995 Australian Touring Car Championship, Results, Championship standings
Note: Race 1 at the Phillip Island round was stopped before full race distance due to multiple accidents brought about by heavy rain, and only half points were awarded.


1995 Australian Touring Car Championship, Results, Privateers Cup
The Motorsport News / Dunlop Privateers Cup was won by David Attard.


1995 Australian Touring Car season
The 1995 Australian Touring Car season was the 36th year of touring car racing in Australia since the first runnings of the Australian Touring Car Championship and the fore-runner of the present day Bathurst 1000, the Armstrong 500.


1995 Australian Touring Car season
Two major touring car categories raced in Australia during 1995, V8 Supercar and Super Touring. Between them there were 24 touring car race meetings held during 1995; a ten-round series for V8 Supercars, the 1995 Australian Touring Car Championship (ATCC); an eight-round series for Super Touring, the 1995 Australian Super Touring Championship (ASTC); support programme events at the 1995 Australian Grand Prix and 1995 Indycar Australia, two stand alone long-distance races, nicknamed 'enduros'; the fourth and final running of the Winfield Triple Challenge at Eastern Creek Raceway and the TAC Peter Brock Classic held at Calder Park Raceway.


1995 Australian Touring Car season, Results and standings, Race calendar
The 1995 Australian touring car season consisted of 24 events.


1995 Australian Touring Car season, Results and standings, Winfield Triple Challenge
Held at Eastern Creek Raceway this was a pre-season race meeting which featured superbikes and drag racing as well as touring cars to complete the Winfield Triple Challenge.


1995 Australian Touring Car season, Results and standings, Gold Coast Super Touring Cup
This meeting was a support event of the 1995 Indycar Australia at the Surfers Paradise Street Circuit, and considered part of the Gold Coast 600 history.


1995 Australian Touring Car season, Results and standings, Clipsal 2.0L Super Touring Car Trophy
This meeting was a support event of the 1995 Australian Grand Prix.


1995 Australian Touring Car season, Results and standings, EDS Five-Litre V8 Touring Cars
This meeting was a support event of the 1995 Australian Grand Prix.


1995 Australian Touring Car season, Results and standings, TAC Peter Brock Classic Super Touring
This meeting was a one-off celebration of the career of Peter Brock held at Calder Park Raceway.


1995 Australian Touring Car season, Results and standings, TAC Peter Brock Classic
This meeting was a one-off celebration of the career of Peter Brock held at Calder Park Raceway.


1995 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix
The 1995 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix was the first round of the 1995 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 26 March 1995 at Eastern Creek Raceway.


1995 Austrian legislative election
Parliamentary elections were held in Austria on 17 December 1995 to elect the 20th National Council, the lower house of Austria's bicameral parliament. The snap election was called after the collapse of the grand coalition between the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) and Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) due to a dispute regarding the national budget. The SPÖ made small gains primarily at the expense of minor parties, while the ÖVP remained stable. The grand coalition was subsequently renegotiated.


1995 Austrian legislative election, Contesting parties
The table below lists parties represented in the 19th National Council.


1995 Axa Equity & Law League
The 1995 AXA Equity & Law League was the twenty-seventh competing of English cricket’s Sunday League. The competition was won for the fourth time by Kent County Cricket Club.


1995 Azerbaijani constitutional referendum
A constitutional referendum was held in Azerbaijan on 12 November 1995 alongside the first round of parliamentary elections. Voters were asked the question "Do you agree to the adoption of the draft of the first national Constitution of the Azerbaijan Republic presented by the Commission headed by the President of the Azerbaijani Republic Heydar Aliyev, which has prepared the new constitutional draft of the Azerbaijani Republic?" The result was 91.9% in favour, with turnout reported to be 86.1%.


1995 Azerbaijani coup d'état attempt
The 1995 Azerbaijani coup d'état attempt, also known as the Turkish coup in Baku, was a coup d'état attempt by members of the Azerbaijani military, led by Colonel Rovshan Javadov at the head of a detachment of Special Purpose Police Unit (OPON). The group aimed to take control of the country from president Heydar Aliyev and reinstall former president Abulfaz Elchibey. The coup was foiled when the Turkish President Süleyman Demirel became aware of elements in Turkey supporting the plot, and called Aliyev to warn him. On 17 March 1995, units of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces surrounded the insurgents' camp and assaulted it, killing Colonel Javadov. Reports in Turkey following the 1996 Susurluk scandal elaborated on support for the coup from elements in Turkey.


1995 Azerbaijani coup d'état attempt, Events
On 12 December 1994 a team of people, including Korkut Eken (Turkish National Intelligence Organization, MİT), İbrahim Şahin and Ayhan Çarkın (Turkish Police Special Operations Department) and Abdullah Çatlı (contract killer), traveled from Turkey to Azerbaijan in order to train a unit of 60 OMON police officers for the coup. They were invited by OMON commander Rovshan Javadov, a KGB defector to the CIA, who also directed the abortive coup. The KGB/FSB and CIA closely monitored events.


1995 Azerbaijani coup d'état attempt, Events
According to the newspaper Yeni Şafak, the coup was directed by Turkish colonel Necabettin Ergenekon, while he was allegedly the commander of the Adıyaman Gendarmerie Regiment. However, other newspapers report that he retired in 1982 from the Adıyaman Martial Law Command (Turkish: Adıyaman Sıkıyönetim Komutanlığı). Yeni Şafak also alleged that Elchibey is related to Turkish General Veli Küçük.


1995 Azerbaijani coup d'état attempt, Events
The coup was foiled after the MİT tipped off President Süleyman Demirel on 10 March 1995 and he called Aliyev. On 17 March 1995, units of Azerbaijani Armed Forces surrounded the insurgents in their camp and assaulted it, killing Javadov.


1995 Azerbaijani coup d'état attempt, Motivations
According to a 1996 MİT report, Turkish prime minister Tansu Çiller gave minister Ayvaz Gökdemir, police chief Mehmet Ağar, İbrahim Şahin, and Korkut Eken the green light to install Elçibey as president. Elçibey was an ideological ally of Turkish Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) politician Alparslan Türkeş, who harbored aspirations of creating a Turkic state stretching across the Caucasus. Türkeş' support of the coup attempt also provoked a diplomatic crisis between Turkey and Azerbaijan, and the latter country officially requested a statement refuting the section of the report dealing with the attempted coup.


1995 Azerbaijani coup d'état attempt, Motivations
The 1996 Susurluk report (following the Susurluk scandal) said that Prime Minister Çiller's chief counselors, Acar Okan and Süleyman Kamil Yüceoral, were involved in the coup attempt. Susurluk Commission member Fikri Sağlar argued that the purpose of the coup was to secure the narcotics route from Afghanistan. Sağlar pointed out that Yüceoral was involved in paying Afghan warlord Rashid Dostum from a slush fund.


1995 Azerbaijani coup d'état attempt, Motivations
Later press reports claimed that the Ergenekon gang, of which General Veli Küçük is a suspected member, was responsible for the coup attempt, indicating a relationship between Susurluk and Ergenekon.


1995 BC Lions season
The 1995 BC Lions finished in third place in the North Division with a 10–8 record. They appeared in the North semi-final but were defeated by the Edmonton Eskimos, denying the team a chance to defend their Grey Cup title.


1995 BDO World Darts Championship
The 1995 Embassy World Professional Darts Championship was held from 1–8 January 1995 at the Lakeside Country Club in Frimley Green, Surrey. Richie Burnett became the second Welshman to be crowned World Champion after the inaugural winner Leighton Rees. Burnett defeated Dutchman Raymond van Barneveld 6 sets to 3 in the final. Defending champion John Part of Canada lost in the second round to qualifier Paul Williams.


1995 BDO World Darts Championship
This particular edition saw Peter Wright make his world championship debut. He would eventually become world champion 25 years later by winning the 2020 PDC World Darts Championship.


1995 BDO World Darts Championship, Prize money
There was also a 9 Dart Checkout prize of £52,000, along with a High Checkout prize of £1,600.


1995 BMW Open
The 1995 BMW Open was a men's Association of Tennis Professionals tennis tournament held in Munich, Germany and played on outdoor clay courts. The event was part of the World Series of the 1995 ATP Tour. It was the 79th edition of the tournament and was held from 1 May through 8 May 1995. Wayne Ferreira won the singles title.


1995 BMW Open, Finals, Doubles
Trevor Kronemann /  David Macpherson defeated  Luis Lobo /  Javier Sánchez 6–3, 6–4


1995 BMW Open – Doubles
Yevgeny Kafelnikov and David Rikl were the defending champions, but did not participate this year.


1995 BMW Open – Doubles
Trevor Kronemann and David Macpherson won the title, defeating Luis Lobo and Javier Sánchez 6–3, 6–4 in the final.


1995 BMW Open – Singles
Michael Stich was the defending champion, but lost in the final this year.


1995 BMW Open – Singles
Wayne Ferreira won the title, defeating Stich 7–5, 7–6(8–6) in the final.


1995 BPR Global GT Series
The 1995 BPR Kärcher Global Endurance GT was the second season of BPR Global GT Series. It was a series for Grand Touring style cars broken into four classes based on power and manufacturer involvement, using names from GT1 to GT4. It began on 26 February 1995 and ended 12 November 1995 after 12 races.


1995 BYU Cougars football team
The 1995 BYU Cougars football team represented Brigham Young University (BYU) in the 1995 NCAA Division I-A football season.


1995 Badminton Asian Cup
The 1995 Badminton Asian Cup was the third edition of Badminton Asian Cup. It was held in Xinxing Gymnasium, Qingdao, China from 14 to 18 June with total prize money of US$130,000. Chinese team won titles in all the doubles events while Indonesia and South Korea won the men's singles and women's singly title respectively.


1995 Badminton Asian Cup, Results, Semifinals
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1995 Badminton World Cup
The 1995 Badminton World Cup was the seventeenth edition of an international tournament Badminton World Cup. The event was held in Jakarta, Indonesia from 14 to 17 September 1995 with a total prize money of US$180,000. Indonesia won all the titles except the women's singles event, which was won by China.


1995 Baku Metro fire
On 28 October 1995, a fire broke out in the subway system of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, between the stations Ulduz and Nariman Narimanov. According to official figures, the fire killed 289 people: 286 passengers (including 28 children) and three rescue workers,  while 270 people were injured. The fire was deemed to have been caused by electrical malfunction, but the possibility of deliberate sabotage was not excluded.


1995 Baku Metro fire
Although a number of people who evacuated the train survived, the fire remains the world's deadliest subway disaster. One person, Chingiz Babayev, was posthumously awarded the title of the National Hero of Azerbaijan for saving passengers' lives.


1995 Baku Metro fire, Background
The Ulduz and Nariman Narimanov metro stations serve the northern part of Azerbaijan's capital, Baku. The tunnel between them was equipped with a controllable ventilation system, but had a relatively narrow cross-section (height 5.6 metres (18 ft), width 5 metres (16 ft)).


1995 Baku Metro fire, Background
Before 1995 the deadliest subway accident was the Malbone Street Wreck of 1918 in New York City, which killed as many as 93 people. The deadliest subway conflagration before 1995 was the Paris Métro train fire of 1903, which killed 84.


1995 Baku Metro fire, Fire
The fire, caused by an electrical fault, occurred during the Saturday evening rush hour at about 6:00 p.m. The affected train, consisting of five fully loaded cars, had just left Ulduz station for Nariman Narimanov. The passengers in car number 5 smelled smoke. Later, passengers in car 4 observed white smoke, which soon turned black and caused irritation. The putative electrical malfunction (a sparkover or electric arc in electrical equipment in the rear of the fourth car) stopped the train about 200 meters from Ulduz station. When the train stopped, the tunnel became filled with smoke.


1995 Baku Metro fire, Fire
The driver reported the incident and demanded that the power be cut. However, lethal emissions of carbon monoxide from the burning synthetic materials in the cars quickly affected the passengers. Because of difficulties opening the doors in one of the cars, the passengers were forced to evacuate through another car. Some 15 minutes after the fire started, the ventilation system was switched to exhaust mode and much of the smoke was drawn in the direction of evacuation. Several people were electrocuted while trying to grasp cables in order to escape the blazing train.


1995 Baku Metro fire, Fire
The majority of those killed (including 28 children) were found inside the train, most of them either crushed or trampled to death. Forty bodies were found inside the tunnel. Survivors recalled sparks flying from high-voltage cables just after the train left the Ulduz station. One of the passengers, Tabil Huseynov, 45, described the situation as follows: "As soon as the train entered the tunnel, I saw a flash. Then the flames enveloped the train car, there was a sound of breaking glass, and the lights went out. People started breaking windows to get out. We were starting to suffocate."


1995 Baku Metro fire, Fire
The estimated number of victims varied after the fire. Morgue officials reportedly counted at least 303 bodies, while the independent Azerbaijani news agency Turan quoted medical officials as saying the number of people killed was 337. A two-day mourning period was declared. Lukoil rendered $9,000 in financial aid to the families of victims.


1995 Baku Metro fire, Investigation
The government inquiry commission concluded that the fire was caused by an electrical fault. The fire started in the traction motor of one railway car. No explosives were found. The commission's chairman, Deputy Prime Minister Abbas Abbasov, mentioned "outdated Soviet" equipment. Yet two mysterious large holes on the side of one of the wrecked carriages were reportedly found and Azeri national TV quoted experts as saying the holes indicated the use of an explosive device. President Heydar Aliyev told a U.S. official that while preliminary information indicated a technical fault, the fire was "possibly an organised act of sabotage".


1995 Baku Metro fire, Investigation
The Supreme Court of Azerbaijan convicted two persons for criminal negligence. The metro operator was sentenced to 15 years in prison and the station traffic controller 10 years.


1995 Balearic regional election
The 1995 Balearic regional election was held on Sunday, 28 May 1995, to elect the 4th Parliament of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands. All 59 seats in the Parliament were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in twelve other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.


1995 Balearic regional election, Overview, Electoral system
The Parliament of the Balearic Islands was the devolved, unicameral legislature of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands, having legislative power in regional matters as defined by the Spanish Constitution and the Balearic Statute of Autonomy, as well as the ability to vote confidence in or withdraw it from a President of the Government. Voting for the Parliament was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over eighteen, registered in the Balearic Islands and in full enjoyment of their political rights.


1995 Balearic regional election, Overview, Electoral system
The 59 members of the Parliament of the Balearic Islands were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of five percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied in each constituency. Seats were allocated to constituencies, corresponding to the islands of Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza and Formentera. Each constituency was allocated a fixed number of seats: 33 for Mallorca, 13 for Menorca, 12 for Ibiza and 1 for Formentera.


1995 Balearic regional election, Overview, Electoral system
The electoral law provided that parties, federations, coalitions and groupings of electors were allowed to present lists of candidates. However, groupings of electors were required to secure the signature of at least 1 percent of the electors registered in the constituency for which they sought election. Electors were barred from signing for more than one list of candidates. Concurrently, parties and federations intending to enter in coalition to take part jointly at an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election being called.


1995 Balearic regional election, Overview, Election date
The term of the Parliament of the Balearic Islands expired four years after the date of its previous election. Elections to the Parliament were fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years. The previous election was held on 26 May 1991, setting the election date for the Parliament on Sunday, 28 May 1995.


1995 Balearic regional election, Overview, Election date
The Parliament of the Balearic Islands could not be dissolved before the date of expiry of parliament except in the event of an investiture process failing to elect a regional President within a sixty-day period from the first ballot. In such a case, the Parliament was to be automatically dissolved and a snap election called, with elected deputies merely serving out what remained of their four-year terms.


1995 Balearic regional election, Opinion polls
The table below lists voting intention estimates in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first and using the dates when the survey fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. Where the fieldwork dates are unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed with its background shaded in the leading party's colour. If a tie ensues, this is applied to the figures with the highest percentages. The "Lead" column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the parties with the highest percentages in a given poll. When available, seat projections are also displayed below the voting estimates in a smaller font. 30 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Parliament of the Balearic Islands.


1995 Ball State Cardinals football team
The 1995 Ball State Cardinals football team was an American football team that represented Ball State University in the West Division of the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1995 NCAA Division I-A football season. In its first season under head coach Bill Lynch, the team compiled a 7–4 record (6–2 against conference opponents) and finished in a tie for third place out of six teams in the MAC West. The team played its home games at Ball State Stadium in Muncie, Indiana.


1995 Ball State Cardinals football team
The team's statistical leaders included Brent Baldwin with 1,192 passing yards, Michael Blair with 819 rushing yards, Ed Abernathy with 288 receiving yards, and Brent Lockliear with 52 points scored.


1995 Ballon d'Or
The 1995 Ballon d'Or, given to the best football player in Europe as judged by a panel of sports journalists from UEFA member countries, was awarded to George Weah on 24 December 1995. It was the first edition of this award where players born outside Europe were allowed to receive votes.


1995 Ballon d'Or, Rankings
Additionally, 16 players were nominated but received no votes: Daniel Amokachi, Dino Baggio, Abel Balbo, Mario Basler, Júlio César, Didier Deschamps, Donato Gama, Stefan Effenberg, Vincent Guérin, Christian Karembeu, Bernard Lama, Japhet N'Doram, Jay-Jay Okocha, Fernando Redondo, Peter Schmeichel and Clarence Seedorf.


1995 Baltic Cup
The 1995 Baltic Cup football competition was the 15th season of the Baltic Cup and took place from 19 to 21 May 1995 at the Daugava Stadium in Riga, Latvia. It was the fifth annual competition of the three Baltic states – Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia – since they regained their independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.


1995 Baltimore Orioles season
The 1995 Baltimore Orioles season was a season in American baseball. It involved the Orioles finishing 3rd in the American League East with a record of 71 wins and 73 losses.


1995 Baltimore Orioles season, Regular season
The Orioles scored 704 runs (4.89 per game) and allowed only 640 runs (4.44 per game), second only to the Cleveland Indians. The Orioles pitching staff also allowed the fewest hits in the Majors (1,165), the most complete games (19) and the most shutouts in the AL (10).


1995 Baltimore Orioles season, Regular season, Cal Ripken breaks Lou Gehrig's record
On Wednesday, September 6, 1995, many baseball fans within and out of the United States tuned into cable TV network ESPN (and called by Chris Berman and Buck Martinez) to watch Ripken surpass Lou Gehrig's 56-year-old record for consecutive games played. The game, between the Orioles and the California Angels, still ranks as one of the network's most watched baseball games. Cal's children, Rachel and Ryan, threw out the ceremonial first balls.


1995 Baltimore Orioles season, Regular season, Cal Ripken breaks Lou Gehrig's record
Both President Bill Clinton and Vice-President Al Gore were at the game. President Clinton was in the WBAL local radio broadcast booth when Ripken hit a home run in the fourth inning, and called the home run over the air. When the game became official after the Angels' half of the fifth inning, the numerical banners that displayed Ripken's streak on the wall of the B&O Warehouse outside the stadium's right field wall changed from 2130 to 2131.


1995 Baltimore Orioles season, Regular season, Cal Ripken breaks Lou Gehrig's record
Everyone attending (including the opposing Angels and all four umpires) erupted with a standing ovation lasting more than 22 minutes, one of the longest standing ovations for any athlete; ESPN did not go to a commercial break during the entire ovation. During the ovation, Cal was convinced by his teammates to take an impromptu victory lap around the entire Camden Yards to shake hands and give high-fives to the fans, creating a highlight reel moment that's been played repeatedly over the years since then.


1995 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In


1995 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In


1995 Baltimore Stallions season
The 1995 Baltimore Stallions season was the second in the history of the Baltimore CFL franchise. The team became the first (and to date, only) American-based football team to win the Grey Cup. Despite the Stallions success, attendance dropped. The club only sold 9,000 season tickets.


1995 Baltimore Stallions season
As it turned out, the 83rd Grey Cup would be the last game the Stallions would ever play. A week before the Grey Cup, the Cleveland Browns announced they were moving to Baltimore. Owner Jim Speros balked at the prospect of competing with an NFL team and opted to move elsewhere. When it became apparent that the CFL was giving up its attempt to gain a foothold in the United States, he opted to move his team to Montreal as the Montreal Alouettes. In doing so, Speros canceled his franchise in Baltimore and revived the 1946-86 Alouettes franchise. As a result, the 1995 season is officially the last season of Stallions history, and the Stallions are officially one of only two Grey Cup champions in the modern era to fold.


1995 Baltimore Stallions season, Playoffs
Mike Pringle ran for 484 playoff yards and four touchdowns in three games. The result was that the Baltimore Stallions made their second straight appearance in the Grey Cup.


1995 Baltimore Stallions season, Playoffs, Grey Cup
The 83rd Grey Cup was played between the Baltimore Stallions and the Calgary Stampeders at Taylor Field in Regina, Saskatchewan. The Stallions won the game by a score of 37–20. It marked the only time that an American-based team won the Grey Cup. Not one television station from Baltimore sent a crew to Regina to cover the Grey Cup game. Only 200 fans showed up for the Stallions Grey Cup celebration. As for the Grey Cup game itself, Chris Wright scored a then CFL record 82 yard punt return touchdown. The aforementioned record stood until the 2018 Grey Cup, with Terry Williams returning a punt for 97 yards to conclude the first half.


1995 Baltimore Stallions season, Awards and honors
After the season, other Baltimore Stallions' received awards and accomplishments in the CFL, which are:


1995 Baltimore Stallions season, Relocation to Montreal
In late 1995, Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell announced his intention to relocate his NFL club to Baltimore, where they would be rechristened the Baltimore Ravens. This would have made the Stallions the only CFL club ever to directly compete with the NFL, whose season overlaps with the last three months of the CFL season.


1995 Baltimore Stallions season, Relocation to Montreal
In late November, Jim Speros had a Save our Stallions campaign, with January 5 as the deadline to sell 20,000 season tickets. It was revealed that the team was $800,000 in debt.


1995 Baltimore Stallions season, Relocation to Montreal
Stallions owner Jim Speros realized that despite the Stallions' popularity, they could not possibly compete with the NFL. After deals with Norfolk, Virginia and Houston fell through, Speros moved the Stallions to Montreal and revived the old Alouettes name for the 1996 season.


1995 Baltimore mayoral election
The 1995 Baltimore mayoral election saw the reelection of incumbent mayor Kurt Schmoke to a third term.


1995 Bandy World Championship
The 1995 Bandy World Championship was contested between 8 men's Bandy playing nations. The championship was played at Guidant John Rose Minnesota Oval in Roseville, Minnesota, United States on 29 January – 5 February 1995, so far the only time the men's championship has been played in America. Kazakhstan made its championship debut, whereas the Netherlands on the other hand choose not to take part in the tournament. Sweden became champions.


1995 Bandy World Championship squads
Below are the squads for the 1995 Bandy World Championship final tournament in the United States.


1995 Bank of the West Classic
The 1995 Bank of the West Classic was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Oakland Alameda Coliseum in Oakland, California in the United States that was part of the Tier II category of the 1995 WTA Tour. It was the 24th edition of the tournament and was held from October 30 through November 5, 1995. Second-seeded Magdalena Maleeva won the singles title.


1995 Bank of the West Classic, Finals, Doubles
Lori McNeil /  Helena Suková defeated  Katrina Adams /  Zina Garrison-Jackson 3–6, 6–4, 6–3


1995 Bank of the West Classic – Doubles
Lindsay Davenport and Arantxa Sánchez Vicario were the defending champions, but Sánchez Vicario did not compete this year. Davenport teamed up with Irina Spîrlea and lost in the quarterfinals to Kathy Rinaldi-Stunkel and Jill Hetherington.


1995 Bank of the West Classic – Doubles
Lori McNeil and Helena Suková won the title by defeating Erica Adams and Zina Garrison-Jackson 3–6, 6–4, 6–3 in the final.


1995 Bank of the West Classic – Doubles, Seeds
The first two seeds received a bye to the second round.


1995 Bank of the West Classic – Singles
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario was the defending champion, but did not compete this year.


1995 Bank of the West Classic – Singles
Magdalena Maleeva won the title by defeating Ai Sugiyama 6–3, 6–4 in the final.


1995 Bank of the West Classic – Singles, Seeds
The first four seeds received a bye to the second round.


1995 Barber Dodge Pro Series
The 1995 Barber Dodge Pro Series season was the eleventh season of the series. Dodge replaced Saab as the series engine provider. 1995 was also the first season the series was sanctioned by SCCA Pro Racing. All drivers used Dodge powered Goodyear shod Mondiale chassis. South African Jaki Scheckter won the championship.


1995 Barber Dodge Pro Series, Race calendar and results, Notes
The Barber Dodge Pro Series would support the Trans-Am Series at the Dallas Grand Prix. But SCCA Pro Racing canceled the 1995 running of the Grand Prix. The Barber Dodge Pro Series race was moved to Texas World Speedway to support the IMSA GT Championship.


1995 Barcelona City Council election
The 1995 Barcelona City Council election, also the 1995 Barcelona municipal election, was held on Sunday, 28 May 1995, to elect the 5th City Council of the municipality of Barcelona. All 41 seats in the City Council were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in thirteen autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.


1995 Barcelona City Council election
The unveiling of numerous corruption scandals throughout 1994 affecting Felipe González's Socialist government marked the electoral campaign. For the first time in 16 years, a real possibility for change in the local government resulted in a heated race between Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC) candidate and incumbent Mayor Pasqual Maragall and Convergence and Union (CiU) candidate Miquel Roca. Another factors influencing the political debate were the People's Party (PP) rise in opinion polls as well as Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) recovery.


1995 Barcelona City Council election
The election resulted in a surprising comfortable win for PSC and Pasqual Maragall, which was elected for a fourth consecutive term in office with 16 seats and 38.4%. On the other hand, CiU suffered from the PP growth and obtained its worst result since 1983, winning 13 seats and 30.6%. The People's Party nearly doubled its 1991 result with 7 seats and 16.6%, while both Initiative for Catalonia (IC) and ERC improved their electoral performances, with the latter narrowly surpassing the 5% threshold to enter the City Council.


1995 Barcelona City Council election, Electoral system
The City Council of Barcelona (Catalan: Ajuntament de Barcelona, Spanish: Ayuntamiento de Barcelona) was the top-tier administrative and governing body of the municipality of Barcelona, composed of the mayor, the government council and the elected plenary assembly. Elections to the local councils in Spain were fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years.


1995 Barcelona City Council election, Electoral system
Voting for the local assembly was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over eighteen, registered in the municipality of Barcelona and in full enjoyment of their political rights, as well as resident non-nationals whose country of origin allowed Spanish nationals to vote in their own elections by virtue of a treaty. Local councillors were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of five percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied in each local council. Councillors were allocated to municipal councils based on the following scale:


1995 Barcelona City Council election, Electoral system
The mayor was indirectly elected by the plenary assembly. A legal clause required that mayoral candidates earned the vote of an absolute majority of councillors, or else the candidate of the most-voted party in the assembly was to be automatically appointed to the post. In the event of a tie, the appointee would be determined by lot.


1995 Barcelona City Council election, Electoral system
The electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, coalitions and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form a coalition ahead of an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors needed to secure the signature of a determined amount of the electors registered in the municipality for which they were seeking election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates. For the case of Barcelona, as its population was over 1,000,001, at least 8,000 signatures were required.


1995 Barcelona City Council election, Opinion polls
The table below lists voting intention estimates in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first and using the dates when the survey fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. Where the fieldwork dates are unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed with its background shaded in the leading party's colour. If a tie ensues, this is applied to the figures with the highest percentages. The "Lead" column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the parties with the highest percentages in a given poll. When available, seat projections are also displayed below the voting estimates in a smaller font. 21 seats were required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Barcelona (22 until 1 January 1992).


1995 Barcelona Dragons season
The 1995 Barcelona Dragons season was the third season for the franchise in the World League of American Football (WLAF). The team was led by head coach Jack Bicknell in his third year, and played its home games at Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. They finished the regular season in third place with a record of five wins and five losses.


1995 Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council election
Elections to Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council were held on 5 May 1995, with one third of the council up for election. The election resulted in Labour retaining control of the council.


1995 Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council election, Ward results
+/- figures represent changes from the last time these wards were contested.


1995 Base Realignment and Closure Commission
The 1995 Base Realignment and Closure Commission preliminary list was released by the United States Department of Defense in 1995 as part of the Base Realignment and Closure Commission. It recommended closing 32 major United States military bases.


1995 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting
Elections to the Baseball Hall of Fame for 1995 introduced a system of multiple classified ballots for consideration by the Veterans Committee. That group met in closed sessions as usual and selected four people:Richie Ashburn, Leon Day, William Hulbert, and Vic Willis. Day and Hulbert were named from the new ballots for Negro leagues and 19th century figures.


1995 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting
The Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) voted by mail, per their usual process, to select from recent major league players; they elected Mike Schmidt. A formal induction ceremony was held in Cooperstown, New York, on July 30, 1995.


1995 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, The BBWAA election
The BBWAA was authorized to elect players active in 1975 or later, but not after 1989; the ballot included candidates from the 1994 ballot who received at least 5% of the vote but were not elected, along with selected players, chosen by a screening committee, whose last appearance was in 1990. All 10-year members of the BBWAA were eligible to vote.


1995 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, The BBWAA election
Voters were instructed to cast votes for up to 10 candidates; any candidate receiving votes on at least 75% of the ballots would be honored with induction to the Hall. The ballot consisted of 39 players; a total of 460 ballots were cast, with 345 votes required for election. A total of 2,829 individual votes were cast, an average of 6.15 per ballot. Those candidates receiving less than 5% of the vote (23 votes) will not appear on future BBWAA ballots, but may eventually be considered by the Veterans Committee.


1995 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, The BBWAA election
Candidates who were eligible for the first time are indicated here with a dagger (†). The one candidate who received at least 75% of the vote and was elected is indicated in bold italics; candidates who have since been elected in subsequent elections are indicated in italics. The 14 candidates who received less than 5% of the vote, thus becoming ineligible for future BBWAA consideration, are indicated with an asterisk (*).


1995 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, The BBWAA election
Thurman Munson was on the ballot for the 15th and final time.


1995 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, The BBWAA election
The newly-eligible players included 24 All-Stars, eleven of whom were not included on the ballot, representing a total of 67 All-Star selections. Among the new candidates were 12-time All-Star Mike Schmidt, 8-time All-Star Jim Rice and 5-time All-Star Buddy Bell. The field included three MVPs (Schmidt, Rice and Willie Hernández) and one Cy Young Award winner (Hernández).


1995 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, The BBWAA election
Players eligible for the first time who were not included on the ballot were: Luis Aguayo, Neil Allen, Tony Armas, Alan Ashby, Bruce Benedict, Mike Davis, Bob Dernier, Bo Díaz, Leon Durham, Tim Flannery, Damaso Garcia, Jerry Hairston, Sr., Glenn Hubbard, Lee Mazzilli, Keith Moreland, Dwayne Murphy, David Palmer, Shane Rawley, Craig Reynolds, Harry Spilman, Bob Stanley, Tim Stoddard, Steve Trout, Ron Washington, and Joel Youngblood.


1995 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, The BBWAA election
In addition to Schmidt, Phillies broadcaster and former center fielder Richie Ashburn was inducted to the hall by the Veteran's Committee. Phillie fans were elated over the results, and came to Cooperstown that July in droves.


1995 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, The Veterans Committee
The Veterans Committee met in closed sessions to elect as many as two executives, managers, umpires, and older major league players—the categories considered in all its meetings since 1953. By a new arrangement it separately considered candidates from the Negro leagues and from the 19th century with authority to select one from each of those two special ballots.


1995 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, The Veterans Committee
The committee elected four people, the maximum number permitted:center fielder Richie Ashburn from the 1950s, pitcher Vic Willis from the 1900s, pitcher Leon Day from the Negro leagues, and from the 19th century William Hulbert, the founder and second president of the National League.


1995 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, J. G. Taylor Spink Award
There was no Spink Award to a baseball writer in 1995 (none voted at the December 1994 meeting at the BBWAA).


1995 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Ford C. Frick Award
Bob Wolffreceived the Ford C. Frick Award honoring a baseball broadcaster.


1995 Basildon District Council election
The 1995 Basildon District Council election took place on 4 May 1995 to elect members of Basildon District Council in Essex, England. This was on the same day as other local elections. One third of the council was up for election; the seats which were last contested in 1991. The council remained under no overall control.


1995 Basildon District Council election, Overall results
All comparisons in vote share are to the corresponding 1991 election.


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


1995 Basilicata 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 Basilicata regional election
Raffaele Dinardo (Italian People's Party) was elected President of the Region, defeating Giampiero Perri (Forza Italia) by a landslide.


1995 Basque foral elections
The 1995 Basque foral elections were held on Sunday, 28 May 1995, to elect the 5th Juntas Generales of Álava, Biscay and Gipuzkoa. All 153 seats in the three Juntas Generales were up for election. The elections were held simultaneously with regional elections in thirteen autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.


1995 Basque foral elections, Foral deputation control
The following table lists party control in the foral deputations. Gains for a party are displayed with the cell's background shaded in that party's colour.


1995 Bath and North East Somerset Council election
The 1995 Bath and North East Somerset Council election was held on Thursday 4 May 1995 to elect councillors to the new Bath and North East Somerset Council in England. It took place on the same day as other district council elections in the United Kingdom.


1995 Bath and North East Somerset Council election
These were the first elections to the new unitary council, which would come into effect on 1 April 1996. The new unitary authority replaced Bath City, Wansdyke District and Avon County Councils. The previous elections in for Bath City took place in May 1994, Avon County in May 1993 and Wansdyke District in May 1991. Future elections would take place every four years, with the next election scheduled for 6 May 1999.


1995 Bath and North East Somerset Council election
The 1995 election saw no party take a majority of seats on the Council, with the Liberal Democrats being the largest party.


1995 Bath and North East Somerset Council election, Ward results
Sitting councillors on Bath City Council or Wansdyke District Council are marked with an asterisk (*), sitting councillors on Avon County Council are marked with a plus (+).


1995 Bathurst ATCC round
The third round of the 1995 Australian Touring Car Championship was held on the weekend of 10 to 12 March at Mount Panorama, Bathurst, New South Wales. It consisted of two 15 lap races and the "Dash for Cash", a 3 lap sprint for the fastest 10 qualifiers, starting positions for the "dash" were drawn at random. Pole and the overall round was won by John Bowe.


1995 Bausch & Lomb Championships
The 1995 Bausch & Lomb Championships was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Amelia Island Plantation on Amelia Island, Florida in the United States that was part of Tier II of the 1995 WTA Tour. It was the 16th edition of the tournament and was held from April 3 through April 9, 1995. First-seeded Conchita Martínez won the singles title.


1995 Bausch & Lomb Championships, Finals, Doubles
Amanda Coetzer /  Inés Gorrochategui defeated  Nicole Arendt /  Manon Bollegraf 6–2, 3–6, 6–2


1995 Bausch & Lomb Championships – Doubles
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario and Larisa Savchenko were the defending champions but did not compete that year.


1995 Bausch & Lomb Championships – Doubles
Amanda Coetzer and Inés Gorrochategui won in the final 6–2, 3–6, 6–2 against Nicole Arendt and Manon Bollegraf.


1995 Bausch & Lomb Championships – 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 Bausch & Lomb Championships – Singles
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario was the defending champion but did not compete that year.


1995 Bausch & Lomb Championships – Singles
Conchita Martínez won in the final 6–1, 6–4 against Gabriela Sabatini.


1995 Bausch & Lomb Championships – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated. The top eight seeds received a bye to the second round.


1995 Baylor Bears football team
The 1995 Baylor Bears football team (variously "Baylor", "BU", or the "Bears") represented Baylor University in the 1995 NCAA Division I-A football season. They were represented in the Southwest Conference. They played their home games at Floyd Casey Stadium in Waco, Texas. They were coached by head coach Chuck Reedy.


1995 Beach Soccer World Championships
The 1995 Beach Soccer World Championships was the first edition of the Beach Soccer World Championships, the most prestigious competition in international beach soccer contested by men's national teams until 2005, when the competition was then replaced by the second iteration of a world cup in beach soccer, the better known FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup. It was organised by Brazilian sports agency Koch Tavares (one of the founding partners of Beach Soccer Worldwide).


1995 Beach Soccer World Championships
The tournament took place at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The hosts and heavy favourites Brazil won the tournament by beating the United States 8–1 in the final, coming from behind to claim their first world title.


1995 Beach Soccer World Championships
The tournament was immediately deemed a success, leading to the instant scheduling of a second World Cup the following year.


1995 Beach Soccer World Championships
The event was notable for featuring many high profile ex-association footballers, fuelling its popularity, including the likes of the Brazilians Zico, Júnior and Cláudio Adão, Italian 1982 World Cup winners Alessandro Altobelli and Claudio Gentile, Franco Causio, England's Gary Stevens and Luther Blissett, and brothers René and Willy van de Kerkhof of the Netherlands' 1978 World Cup runners-up squad.


1995 Beach Soccer World Championships, Background
In 1994, Koch Tavares organised the first international beach soccer competition in Brazil, the Mundialito de beach soccer, a small 4-team event, in view of understanding how commercially successful beach soccer could be in the region. It featured Brazil, Argentina, Italy and the United States and was dubbed an "unofficial World Cup". The Mundialito was deemed a huge success, which gave Koch Tavares the incentive to organise a fully-fledged international competition. This conception materialised a year later in 1995 as this, the maiden Beach Soccer World Championships – a larger and longer eight team event compared to the Mundialito.


1995 Beach Soccer World Championships, Organisation
The following format was decided upon by the organisers for the maiden edition of the championships: the eight participating nations competed in two groups of four teams in a round robin format. The top two teams progressed straight to the semi-finals from which point on the championship was played as a knock-out tournament until a winner was crowned with an additional match to determine third place.


1995 Beach Soccer World Championships, Organisation
The launch of the tournament took place from 12:30 onwards on January 18 at the Rio Internacional Hotel which involved the press and guests attending to see the opening presentation of the World Championships as well as explanations of the rules of the newly founded sport and the tournament's schedule. Furthermore, the Brazilian team was also revealed to the press and engaged in interviews.


1995 Beach Soccer World Championships, Organisation
The presence of Zico as part of the Brazilian squad, who made over 70 appearances for the Brazilian national association football team, gained considerable attention in the local press prior to the start of the championship. Zico revealed at the launch he accepted an invitation from his friend and Brazilian team captain, Júnior, to play at the event, despite claiming to be "out of shape" now aged 41, having retired from football a year earlier.


1995 Beach Soccer World Championships, Organisation
Following the launch, official training for the World Championships began the next day on January 19 on pitches external to the beach arena, in front of Copacabana Palace, concluding with training sessions inside the arena on January 23.


1995 Beach Soccer World Championships, Organisation
The draw to split the eight teams into Groups A and B was conducted on January 21 at the Rio Internacional Hotel. Brazil and Argentina were allocated as heads of the two respective groups, with the other six teams then drawn to accompany them.


1995 Beach Soccer World Championships, Organisation
The Championships were part of the 1st Olympic Summer Festival (Festival Olímpico de Verão), taking place in the Copacabana beach arena with a capacity of 12,000. Entry to all games was free of charge for fans.


1995 Beach Soccer World Championships, Organisation
In total, US$1 million (1.6 million in 2017) was invested into the organisation of the tournament, including payment for the players who participated.


1995 Beach Soccer World Championships, Teams
There was no qualification process for the first Beach Soccer World Championships; nations were simply invited to play. However such invites were not random  – specific nations were summoned.


1995 Beach Soccer World Championships, Teams
Koch Tavares, the tournament organisers, decided that as the first World Cup of beach soccer, since the sport is a derivative of association football, it would be fitting for the six winners of the FIFA World Cup of football throughout history (as of 1995) to field a team in Rio (being hosts Brazil, Argentina, Italy, Uruguay, England and Germany) and as such the aforementioned nations were invited to play, all of which accepted the opportunity.


1995 Beach Soccer World Championships, Teams
To make up the numbers, the Netherlands and the United States, despite having never won a FIFA World Cup title, were also invited as "guests".


1995 Belarusian First League
1995 Belarusian First League was the fifth season of 2nd level football championship in Belarus. It started in July and ended in November 1995.


1995 Belarusian First League, Team changes from 1994–95 season
The two best teams of 1994–95 First League (MPKC Mozyr and Ataka-Aura Minsk) were promoted to Belarusian Premier League. They were replaced by two lowest placed teams of 1994–95 Premier League (Gomselmash Gomel and Lokomotiv Vitebsk).


1995 Belarusian First League, Team changes from 1994–95 season
The three lowest-placed teams of the last season (ZLiN Gomel, AFViS-RShVSM Minsk and Stroitel Vitebsk) relegated to the Second League. Stroitel Vitebsk eventually disbanded before the start of the season. These teams were replaced by three best teams of 1994–95 Second League (Naftan-Devon Novopolotsk, Fomalgaut Borisov and Dinamo-Juni Minsk).


1995 Belarusian First League, Team changes from 1994–95 season
Before the start of the season, Gomselmash Gomel were renamed to FC Gomel.


1995 Belarusian First League, Team changes from 1994–95 season
Santanas Samokhvalovichi, placed 8th last season, withdrew to amateur level due to financial troubles, leaving the league with 15 teams for this season.


1995 Belarusian First League, Overview
Newcomers Naftan-Devon Novopolotsk won the tournament and were promoted to the Premier League. Runners-up Kommunalnik Pinsk qualified to the promotion play-offs against 15th team of Premier League but lost and remained in the First League. Khimvolokno Grodno, who finished 15th, relegated to the Second League.


1995 Belarusian First League, League table, Promotion play-off
Kommunalnik Pinsk had to play two-legged play-off against Shinnik Bobruisk, who finished 15th in Premier League. Shinnik won and both teams remained in their respective leagues.


1995 Belarusian Premier League
The 1995 Belarusian Premier League was the fifth season of top-tier football in Belarus. It started on 10 July and ended on 6 November 1995. Dinamo Minsk were the defending champions.


1995 Belarusian Premier League, Team changes from 1994–95 season
Gomselmash Gomel and Lokomotiv Vitebsk, who finished on 15th and 16th places, relegated to Belarusian First League. They were replaced by two newcomers: First League 1994–95 winners MPKC Mozyr and runners-up Ataka-Aura Minsk.


1995 Belarusian Premier League, Overview
The championship was played as a single round-robun tournament in the second half of 1995 due to change of the league schedule from winter to summer starting from 1996. This also was the first season with 3-point system. Dinamo Minsk won the championship for the 5th time in a row and qualified for the next season's UEFA Cup, as the Champions League was limited to 23 highest-ranked European national leagues which didn't include Belarus. The championship runners-up and 1995–96 Cup winners MPKC Mozyr qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup. The bronze medalists Dinamo-93 Minsk also qualified for UEFA Cup. Bobruisk, who finished in the last place, relegated and eventually dissolved immediately after the season.


1995 Belarusian Premier League, Table, Promotion/relegation play-off
Shinnik Bobruisk had to play two-legged play-off with First League runners-up Kommunalnik Pinsk. Shinnik won and both teams remained in their respective leagues.


1995 Belarusian municipal elections
22nd convocation local councils of Republic of Belarus elections were held in June 1995 under plurality voting.


1995 Belarusian municipal elections
The elections were the least active in terms of citizens participation in the history of Republic of Belarus. They were the only elections not directly controlled by the executive power (so-called "presidential hierarchy"), that, in fact, ignored the fact of the elections.


1995 Belarusian municipal elections
Start of the confloct between the President and the Supreme Council, establishment of executive power "hierarchy", multiround parliamentary election and referendum on crucial socio-economic and polytical issues, led to civil indifference towards politics, as citizens were absolutelly disoriented in such conditions.


1995 Belarusian municipal elections
All levels of mass media almost ignored the elections, having printed only election commission registered candidates lists. Elections were held in so-called "summer cottage season" and catholic holiday of Pentecost. As a result, first round turnout amounted to 48,1% of the total number of voters. Under the effective legislation election could be considered as taken place, in case being participated by over 50% of voters.


1995 Belarusian municipal elections
In a first round on 11 June 94,7% deputies of rural councils, 73,2% deputies of town councils, 48,5% deputies of urban councils in local cities, 17,5% deputies of urban district councils, 29,5% deputies of urban councils, 8,5% deputies of district councils, and 44% deputies of regional councils were elected. In Minsk elections did not take place in any electoral district. Out of 45 electoral districts in Vitebsk, only 1 appeared such where elections took place.


1995 Belarusian municipal elections
61,3% of voters participated in the second voting on the 25 June. Elections took place in 24 330 electoral districts out of 28 244; in 853 electoral districts elections took place, but no candidate was elected.


1995 Belarusian municipal elections
Resulting in 2 rounds significant part of local Councils was not elected in the amount sufficient for quorum. An attempt to additionally elect local councils was made in late November, however it also failed.


1995 Belarusian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Belarus on 14 May 1995 to elect the thirteenth Supreme Council. The elections took place alongside a multi-question referendum, although several further rounds of voting were required on 28 May, 29 November and 10 December. The majority of candidates elected were independents, although 62 seats remained unfilled due to insufficient voter turnout. A total of 2,348 candidates and 22 parties contested the election, around a thousand of which were independents. After the planned two rounds, only 119 of the 260 seats had been filled due to turnouts being too low in some areas.


1995 Belarusian parliamentary election
As this was well short of the 174 needed for a quorum, an additional two rounds were necessary. By the fourth round a quorum was reached, and although further rounds of voting were planned for 1996 to fill the remaining seats, following the constitutional amendments made following the referendum and the subsequent formation of a new National Assembly, they were not held.


1995 Belarusian parliamentary election
Foreign observers noted that the elections were not free and fair.


1995 Belarusian parliamentary election, Aftermath
Following the elections, the MPs from the Belarusian Socialist Party, the Belarusian Labour Party and the Civic Party joined the United Civic Party of Belarus, together with one MP who defected from the Belarusian Party of Communists.


1995 Belarusian referendum
A four-question referendum was held in Belarus on 14 May 1995, alongside parliamentary elections. The four issues were the possibility of giving the Russian language equal status with Belarusian, whether new national symbols should be adopted, whether there should be economic integration with Russia and changes to the constitution that would allow early elections if Parliament systematically violated the constitution. According to official results, all four were approved by at least three-quarters of voters, with a turnout of 64.8%.


1995 Belarusian referendum
The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly stated that the referendum violated international standards. Members of the opposition claimed that the organisation of the referendum involved several serious violations of legislation, including the constitution.


1995 Belarusian referendum, Background
Before becoming president in 1994, Alexander Lukashenko had tried to hold a similar referendum on state symbols in 1993 while still an MP, but had failed to obtain parliamentary support. Two months before the May 1995 referendum, Lukashenko proposed a flag design that consisted of two small bars of green and one wide bar of red. While it is not known what became of this suggestion, new designs (called "projects" in Belarus) were suggested a few days later, which were then put up to vote.


1995 Belarusian referendum, Background
On 11 April 1995 Parliament considered the questions for the referendum, approved the date, but approved only the question regarding economic integration with Russia. Lukashenko declared that he would not change his decision and would accept personal responsibility for the referendum, and left the Parliament, announcing that it would be his last discussions with Parliament in its current form. Nineteen MPs from the Belarusian Popular Front, including Zianon Pazniak, Piatro Sadoŭski and others, decided to carry out a hunger strike within Parliament, protesting against the president organizing the referendum despite the parliament's decision. They were beaten and forcibly removed by OMON. The parliamentarians sued the special forces for battery but were unsuccessful.


1995 Belarusian referendum, Background
A conciliatory commission was called upon to resolve the conflict between the President and Parliament, and decided in favour of President Lukashenko.


1995 Belarusian referendum, Reactions, Domestic
The opposition questioned the validity of the 1995 referendum itself. According to Siarhei Navumchyk, former parliament member, the referendum was illegal and thus its results have no legal power:


1995 Belarusian referendum, Reactions, Domestic
The opposition raised several other issues related to organisation of the referendum:


1995 Belarusian referendum, Reactions, Domestic
According to Mikhail Pastukhov, a former judge of the Constitutional Court of Belarus, the referendum are "invalid from the legal point of view and should be abolished". He agrees with the point that numerous issues related to national history, traditions, culture and language were put to the referendum in violation of the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus. According to Pastukhov, Pahonia and the white-red-white flag remain the state symbols of Belarus de jure.


1995 Belarusian referendum, Reactions, International
The Russian State Duma issued a statement supporting the official results of the referendum that promoted the status of Russian language in Belarus.


1995 Belarusian referendum, Reactions, International
The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly stated that the referendum has violated international standards and noted concerns over governmental control over the media, interference with the voting process, obstacles to the opposition's activities. The US Department of State also criticized the Belarusian government for this referendum.


1995 Belarusian referendum, Aftermath
The decrees about the new state flag and new coat of arms were signed by Lukashenko on 7 July 1995.


1995 Belgian Cup Final
The 1995 Belgian Cup Final, took place on 28 May 1995 between Club Brugge and Germinal Ekeren. Club Brugge were the favorites and won its sixth Belgian Cup comfortably, by a score of 3–1. Germinal Ekeren appeared only for the second time, after first reaching the 1990 Belgian Cup Final, which was also lost.


1995 Belgian Grand Prix
The 1995 Belgian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 27 August 1995 at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Spa. It was the eleventh race of the 1995 Formula One World Championship.


1995 Belgian Grand Prix
The 44-lap race was won by Michael Schumacher, driving a Benetton-Renault. Despite qualifying only 16th, Schumacher took his sixth victory of the season after an intense battle with Damon Hill in the Williams-Renault. Hill settled for second, with Martin Brundle third in a Ligier-Mugen-Honda, which would be his last podium finish.


1995 Belgian Grand Prix, Race Report
The race was attended by in excess of 100,000 people. Schumacher and Hill both qualified further down the grid than usual in a wet-dry qualifying session, but fought back during the race. Both Jean Alesi and Johnny Herbert briefly led the race, but Alesi broke down and Herbert struggled for pace once the track was dry. Polesetter Gerhard Berger struggled before dropping out.


1995 Belgian Grand Prix, Race Report
David Coulthard pulled away at the front for Williams before suffering a gearbox problem, leaving Hill to lead the race. When Hill made his first pit stop for fresh slick tyres, Schumacher took over at the head of the field. It then started to rain and while Hill went back to the pits for wet weather tyres, Schumacher stayed out on his dry weather slicks.


1995 Belgian Grand Prix, Race Report
The Williams driver rapidly caught up with the German, but despite lapping six seconds a lap slower, Schumacher was able to keep Hill behind him until he went off the wet track and Hill passed him. Almost immediately the changing track conditions began to favour slicks once more and Schumacher re-passed Hill who pitted again, this time for slicks.


1995 Belgian Grand Prix, Race Report
The rain intensified again and the field levelled out when the safety car appeared. Both drivers pitted for wets and returned to the track with Schumacher narrowly ahead of Hill. This appeared to set the two title rivals up for a battle for the lead going into the last ten laps, but Hill then had to pit again to serve a ten-second stop-go penalty for pit lane speeding, a penalty he served with six laps to go, and which put him down to third. Hill recovered to pass Martin Brundle on the Kemmel straight on the final lap to regain second place.


1995 Belgian Grand Prix, Race Report
Schumacher's performance did not impress Hill after his defensive moves forced Hill to either back off or go off the track. Schumacher claimed that he had only blocked Hill at the low-speed corners, but video evidence suggested that Schumacher had blocked Hill on some of the high speed corners, such as the Radillion and Blanchimont. Hill later commented that "We (he and Schumacher) had some pretty hairy moments and I am not satisfied with being driven into; I don't think that was acceptable.


1995 Belgian Grand Prix, Race Report
That is all well and good but if it was meant on purpose I would be very upset, F1 cars are not go-karts. I think there are some things which are acceptable and some things which are not." Schumacher defended himself by agreeing that touching wheels in high-speed corners is "not acceptable" but added that at the speed he and Hill were doing, he thought it was acceptable. Schumacher was given a one-race suspended ban for driving aggressively in order to stop Hill from passing.


1995 Belgian Procar Championship
The 1995 Belgian Procar Championshipwas won by Thierry Tassin driving a BMW 318iS for the BMW Fina Bastos Team. The manufacture trophy was won by BMW.


1995 Belgian federal election
The 21 May 1995 Belgian general elections was a Belgian election for the Chamber of Representatives and Senate. The Christian People's Party (CVP) kept its position as largest party in Flanders and overall in Belgium, and Jean-Luc Dehaene (CVP) continued as Prime Minister.


1995 Belgian federal election
On the same day, regional elections were also held. These were the first elections after the new 1993 Belgian Constitution, which turned Belgium formally into a federal state. The new Constitution also reduced the number of seats in the Chamber (from 212 to 150) and in the Senate (from 70 to 40 directly elected senators).


1995 Belgian regional elections
On May 21, 1995, regional elections were held in Belgium, to choose representatives in the regional councils of Flanders, Wallonia, Brussels and the German-speaking Community of Belgium. It also was the first time elections were held for the Flemish and the Walloon Council. The regional elections were held on the same day as the federal election.


1995 Belgian regional elections, Flemish Parliament
Following this first direct election of the Flemish Parliament, the Christian democrats (CVP) and the Socialist Party (SP) formed a Flemish Government led by Minister-President Luc Van den Brande (CVP).


1995 Beninese parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Benin on 28 March 1995, although voting for thirteen seats was re-run on 28 May after the Supreme Court invalidated the results due to irregularities. The Democratic Renewal Party emerged as the largest party in the National Assembly, winning 19 of the 83 seats. Voter turnout was 75.8%.


1995 Benson & Hedges Cup
The 1995 Benson & Hedges Cup was the twenty-fourth competing of cricket’s Benson & Hedges Cup. It was an English limited overs county cricket tournament which was held between 23 April and 15 July 1995.


1995 Benson & Hedges Cup
It had been agreed before the close of the 1994 season that the Benson & Hedges Cup would revert to a zonal system, having been a knockout tournament for the 1993 and 1994 tournaments. Ireland, having entered the tournament for the first time in 1994, retained their place, meaning there were 22 teams.


1995 Benson & Hedges Cup
The competition was won by Lancashire County Cricket Club for a record third time, defeating Kent County Cricket Club by 35 runs in the final at Lord's on 15 July 1995.