1995 New South Wales state election, Background, The Coalition's second term
In order to place a distance with his federal colleagues Carr branded his team as "State Labor" throughout the campaign.


1995 New South Wales state election, Background, The Coalition's second term
Two referendums were to be held during the election, both of which were approved by the voters. The first concerned the independence of judges. The second, and far more important historically, was the approval of fixed four-year terms to prevent early elections, passed with 76% voting 'yes'.


1995 New South Wales state election, Results
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1995 New South Wales state election, Results
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1995 New South Wales state election, Results
Labor easily won Blue Mountains (Liberal chances were ruined when the former Liberal member, Barry Morris, ran as an Independent), and narrowly won Badgery's Creek by 107 votes and Gladesville by 260 votes, giving Labor a one-seat majority. The Liberal Party gained South Coast on the retirement of Independent John Hatton, but was unable to dislodge either Peter Macdonald in Manly or Clover Moore in Bligh. Tony Windsor was re-elected without opposition from the National Party in Tamworth.


1995 New South Wales state election, Results
Despite winning only 48.8% of the two-party-preferred vote for the Legislative Assembly, Labor won a majority of seats. There was speculation that the introduction of one-vote one-value boundaries had disadvantaged the Coalition by locking up too many votes in its safe seats. The discrepancy since 1981 between the state-wide vote and the swing required in marginal seats certainly supported that view. An alternative argument was that the Labor Party had proved itself superior at choosing local candidates and running strong local campaigns.


1995 New South Wales state election, Results
Whatever the cause, the Coalition’s dogged marginal seat campaign in 1995 had come perilously close to denying Labor victory. The irony was that had the Coalition run such a campaign in 1991, the Greiner Government would probably have been re-elected with a narrow majority, and the political turmoil of the previous four years would have been avoided.


1995 New South Wales state election, Results
The Liberal Party seemed set to challenge the results in seats narrowly won by the ALP in the Court of Disputed Returns, but that idea was dropped on the instructions of the new Liberal leader Peter Collins.


1995 New Year Honours
The New Year Honours 1995 were appointments by most of the sixteen Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries, and honorary ones to citizens of other countries. They were announced on 31 December 1994 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1995 in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Cook Islands, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Belize.


1995 New Year Honours
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.


1995 New Year Honours (New Zealand)
The 1995 New Year Honours in New Zealand were appointments by Elizabeth II in her right as Queen of New Zealand, on the advice of the New Zealand government, to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by New Zealanders, and to celebrate the passing of 1994 and the beginning of 1995. They were announced on 31 December 1994.


1995 New Year Honours (New Zealand)
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.


1995 New York City Marathon
The 1995 New York City Marathon was the 26th running of the annual marathon race in New York City, United States, which took place on Sunday, November 12. The men's elite race was won by Mexico's Germán Silva in a time of 2:11:00 hours while the women's race was won by Kenya's Tegla Loroupe in 2:28:06.


1995 New York City Marathon
A total of 26,754 runners finished the race, 20,284 men and 6470 women.


1995 New York Film Critics Circle Awards
The 61st New York Film Critics Circle Awards honored the best filmmaking of 1995. The winners were announced on 14 December 1995 and the awards were given on 7 January 1996.


1995 New York Giants season
The 1995 New York Giants season was the franchise's 71st season in the National Football League and the third under head coach Dan Reeves. The Giants finished in fourth place in the National Football Conference East Division with a 5–11 record, failing to improve on their 9–7 record from 1994.


1995 New York Giants season
During one notable game at the end of the season, against the San Diego Chargers, Giants fans threw snowballs onto the field throughout the contest. This action resulted in 15 arrests and the ejection of 175 fans from Giants Stadium; San Diego posted a 27–17 victory in what became known as the "Snowball Game".


1995 New York Jets season
The 1995 New York Jets season was the 36th season for the team and the 26th in the National Football League. The Jets entered the 1995 season with their third different head coach in as many years as former Philadelphia Eagles head coach Rich Kotite was hired to replace Pete Carroll, who was fired after posting a 6–10 record in his only season as Jets head coach. Kotite did not have any success in his first year, as the team finished 3–13. The 13 losses set a team record, while the three wins were the fewest of any Jets team since 1977, when the team completed their third consecutive 3–11 season. The Jets were the first team to lose to the Carolina Panthers with a 26-15 loss in week 7.


1995 New York Jets season
Starting with their October 1 game against the Oakland Raiders, the Jets began wearing a “DS” graphic in the shape of a football as a memorial to general manager Dick Steinberg, who had died on September 25 from stomach cancer.


1995 New York Mets season
The New York Mets' 1995 season was the 34th regular season for the Mets. They went 69-75 and finished 2nd in the NL East. They were managed by Dallas Green. They played home games at Shea Stadium.


1995 New York Mets season, Regular season
Although the Mets failed to finish above .500 for the fourth consecutive season, their second-place finish was the highest they had placed since 1990.


1995 New York Mets season, Regular season
After three and a half seasons, the Mets parted ways with Bobby Bonilla. The former All-Star turned lightning rod for fan criticism was dealt to the Baltimore Orioles at the trade deadline. Shortly thereafter, the Mets traded their other big acquisition from the infamous 1991-92 offseason and sent pitcher Bret Saberhagen to the Colorado Rockies.


1995 New York Mets season, Regular season
1995 saw the emergence of Rico Brogna, to that point a backup infielder, as a major contributor to the Mets lineup. Installed as the team's first baseman, Brogna led the team with a .289 average while recording 22 home runs and 79 RBI. Second baseman Jeff Kent continued to provide power as he once again reached the 20-home run mark. Jose Vizcaino led the team in hits and posted a .287 average. As far as starting pitching went, there was not as much positive to say. Bobby Jones' 10 wins led the team and Dave Mlicki's 9-7 record was the only other plus-.500 mark among Met starters.


1995 New York Mets season, Player stats, Batting
Note: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In


1995 New York Yankees season
The New York Yankees' 1995 season was the 93rd season for the Yankees, their 71st playing home games at Yankee Stadium. Managed by Buck Showalter, the team finished with a record of 79-65, seven games behind the Boston Red Sox, and returned to postseason play for the first time since the 1981 season. They won the first American League Wild Card. In the Division Series, they would squander a 2–0 series lead, losing three straight games at The Kingdome and succumb to the Seattle Mariners in five games.


1995 New York Yankees season, Regular season, Death of Mickey Mantle
Shortly before his death, Mantle videotaped a message to be played on Old-Timers' Day, which he was too ill to attend. He said, "When I die, I wanted on my tombstone, 'A great teammate.' But I didn't think it would be this soon." The words were indeed carved on the plaque marking his resting place at the family mausoleum in Dallas.


1995 New York Yankees season, Regular season, Death of Mickey Mantle
Mantle received a liver transplant at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, on June 8, 1995, after his liver had been damaged by years of chronic alcoholism, cirrhosis and hepatitis C. In July, he had recovered enough to deliver a press conference at Baylor, and noted that many fans had looked to him as a role model. "This is a role model: Don't be like me", he said. He also established the Mickey Mantle Foundation to raise awareness for organ donations. Soon, he was back in the hospital, where it was found that his liver cancer spread throughout his body.


1995 New York Yankees season, Regular season, Death of Mickey Mantle
Mickey Mantle died on August 13, 1995, at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas. He was 63 years old. During the first Yankee home game after Mantle's passing, Eddie Layton played "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" on the Hammond organ at Yankee Stadium because Mickey had once told him it was his favorite song. The Yankees played the rest of the season with black mourning bands topped by a small number 7 on their left sleeves.


1995 New York Yankees season, Regular season, Death of Mickey Mantle
Phil Rizzuto, angered over the refusal of television station WPIX to give him a day off to attend his former teammate's funeral, abruptly resigned from his play-by-play announcing job with the station on August 19. He would return to call a partial schedule for the station in 1996 before retiring for good.


1995 New York Yankees 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 New Zealand NBL season
The 1995 NBL season was the 14th season of the National Basketball League. Only one change occurred heading into the 1995 season, with 1994 Conference Basketball League (CBL) champions Northland joining the top-flight league for the first time. Thirteen teams competed in 1995, the most the league has fielded during a season in its history. Auckland won the championship in 1995 to claim their third league title.


1995 New Zealand Royal Visit Honours
The 1995 New Zealand Royal Visit Honours were appointments by Elizabeth II to the Royal Victorian Order, to mark her visit to New Zealand that year. They were announced via a Special Honours List on 10 November 1995.


1995 New Zealand Royal Visit Honours
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.


1995 New Zealand Superclub League
The 1995 Superclub competition was the third and final season of a nationwide association football club competition in New Zealand. It was won by Waitakere City.


1995 New Zealand Superclub League, Structure
The competition was divided into three stages. In the first phase three regional round-robin leagues were played, with each team playing every other team home and away. The top teams from this stage progressed to a national league; the bottom teams were relegated to lower regional leagues. The Northern and Southern Leagues each contained ten teams, the Central League contained eleven.


1995 New Zealand Superclub League, Structure
The top eight teams (three from the northern and central regions and two from the southern region) then took part in the national league stage, with each team playing every other team once. Finally, the top four teams played a knockout competition to decide the champion. This involved the top two teams from the national league phase playing each other, and third and fourth place also playing each other. The winner of the match between first and second progressed through to the final; the loser of that match met the winner of the other match to decide the other finalist.


1995 New Zealand Superclub League, Structure
There was considerable reorganisation of the regional leagues at the end of the 1995 season, with several teams withdrawing from the following season's league. This fact, coupled with the clearly reduced standard of play in the national stage of the competition (diluted by the large number of teams involved in the competition) led to the creation of a new interim league, the National Summer Soccer League, which began in 1996.


1995 New Zealand firefighter referendum
The firefighter referendum of 1995 was the first Citizens Initiated Referendum held in New Zealand on 2 December 1995 (1995-12-02), based on the question:


1995 New Zealand firefighter referendum
"Should the number of professional firefighters employed full time in the New Zealand Fire Service be reduced below the number employed on 1 January 1995?"


1995 New Zealand firefighter referendum, Results
The referendum returned an extremely low voter turnout, with less than 27% of enrolled voters casting a vote.


1995 New Zealand firefighter referendum, Aftermath
The referendum was rejected with a huge margin, but career firefighter numbers were reduced regardless. There were 1819 career firefighters on 1 January 1995, 1573 in 1998 and 1702 in 2009.


1995 New Zealand rugby league season
The 1995 New Zealand rugby league season was the 88th season of rugby league that had been played in New Zealand. The main feature of the year was the second season of the Lion Red Cup competition that was run by the New Zealand Rugby League. The North Harbour Sea Eagles won the Cup by defeating the Auckland Warriors Colts 28–21 in the Grand Final.


1995 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions
The New Zealand national rugby league team played a two test series against France with tests being played at Ericsson Stadium in Auckland and FMG Stadium in Palmerston North. New Zealand won the first match 22-6 before drawing the second 16-all. The Kiwis then played a three match series in Australia, losing all three matches; 8-26, 10-20 and 10-46 respectively.


1995 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions
New Zealand was coached by Frank Endacott and included; Richard Blackmore, Logan Edwards, Syd Eru, Gary Freeman, Daryl Halligan, Sean Hoppe, Tony Iro, Stephen Kearney, John Lomax, Jason Lowrie, Jarrod McCracken, Gene Ngamu, Henry Paul, Quentin Pongia, Matthew Ridge, Brent Stuart, Tony Tatupu, John Timu, Tony Tuimavave, Brendon Tuuta, Ruben Wiki and Jason Williams.


1995 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions
New Zealand then headed to England for the World Cup. They finished first in their pool, defeating Tonga and Papua New Guinea, before losing a Semifinal against Australia 30-20 after extra time. Coached by Frank Endacott, the World Cup squad included; Richie Barnett, Richie Blackmore, Syd Eru, Gary Freeman, Daryl Halligan, Sean Hoppe, Mark Horo, Kevin Iro, Tony Iro, Stacey Jones, Stephen Kearney, Tony Kemp, John Lomax, Jason Lowrie, Gene Ngamu, Hitro Okesene, Henry Paul, Quentin Pongia, captainMatthew Ridge, Brent Stuart, John Timu, Brendon Tuuta, Ruben Wiki and Jason Williams.


1995 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions
Before leaving for the World Cup the squad played the New Zealand Residents XIII at Ericsson Stadium and defeated them 20–4.


1995 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions
The Lion Red Cup XIII played twice, against the Kiwis and against Tongan Residents side. The squad against Tonga was: Glen Coughlan, Walter Wilson, Aaron Whittaker, Richard Broughton, Blair Harding, Brett Rodger, Anthony Swann, Nigel Vagana, Willie Swann, Aaron Lester, Julian O'Neill, Logan Swann, Paul Johnson, Darryn Avery, Jason Palmada, Matthew Sturm and Mark Faumuina. Gary Kemble was the coach.


1995 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions
For the game against New Zealand Gerard Stokes took over as coach after Kemble was appointed as one of the Kiwis assistant coaches. Newcomers to the Residents squad for the match included Willie McLean, Dean Clark, Phil Bergman, Patrick Kiely, Aaron Tucker, Heston Patea and Mark Woods.


1995 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions
The New Zealand Sevens team competed in the World Sevens. The squad was: Vinnie Weir (c), Peter Edwards, Solomon Kiri, Mike Doreen, Aaron Lester, Gus Malietoa-Brown, Martin Moana, Willie Swann, Hitro Okesene and Tecofe Kaufa. Despite the Auckland Warriors having first pick of players, New Zealand defeated the Warriors 26-10 during pool play.


1995 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions
The New Zealand Māori side made a three match internal tour in May–June, winning all three which included a 12–0 defeat of Auckland and a 20–8 defeat of Waikato. The squad was coached by Cameron Bell and included Darryl Beazley, Dean Clark, Blair Harding, Bryan Henare, Matthew Sturm, Frank Watene and Mark Woods.


1995 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions
The Junior Kangaroos toured New Zealand playing, and defeating, New Zealand Secondary Schools and the Junior Kiwis. The Junior Kiwis were coached by Stan Martin and included David Kidwell, Willie Talau and Steve Buckingham.


1995 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions
The New Zealand under 18's Academy Team was coached by Lex Clarke and included Frank Watene, Monty Betham and Odell Manuel. They won the first test 52-10 and the second match 44–0 against the touring British Amateur Rugby League Association youth side.


1995 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions
The under 17 team featured Monty Betham and Artie Shead while the Secondary Schools team featured Phillip Leuluai, Lesley Vainikolo and David Solomona. Henry Perenara and Wairangi Koopu both featured in the Under 15 national tournament with Koopu being named the player of the tournament.


1995 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions
The New Zealand Women's Rugby League Federation was registered in February 1995 and the first tour of Australia commenced in June. The Team played seven matches, winning all of them including defeating Australia 18-14 and 14–6.


1995 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions
Matthew Ridge was the New Zealand Rugby League player of the year.


1995 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Rugby League Cup
Canterbury defeated the West Coast 28–14 in their first defence of the season.


1995 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Rugby League Cup
Auckland then won the Rugby League Cup, defeating Canterbury 21–18. This was Canterbury's first loss at home since 1989. Auckland were coached by Dominic Clark and included Leroy Joe, Mark Faumuina, Matthew Sturm and Jerry Seuseu. Canterbury included David Kidwell, Blair Harding and Glen Coughlan.


1995 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Lion Red Cup, The Playoffs
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 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, National Provincial Championship
The NPC was conducted on an invitational basis, with all districts being invited to participate. Because Wellington and Canterbury also had teams in the Lion Red Cup, these sides were selected from only playing in their local club competitions.


1995 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, National Provincial Championship, Northern Division
This was the first time Coastline had competed as an independent district and they recorded their first ever win when they defeated Gisborne-East Coast 41–32. Gisborne-East Coast also defeated Northland for the first time ever.


1995 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, National Provincial Championship, Southern Division
This was the first time Nelson-Marlborough had competed as an independent district. Otago recorded their first win over Canterbury in 35 years.


1995 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, National Provincial Championship, Finals
The Grand Final was played in Christchurch with Wellington winning 32-20 after being down 10–14 at halftime.


1995 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, National Secondary Schools Tournament
Eighty Two schools competed in the National tournament with St. Paul's College, De La Salle College, New Plymouth Boys High School and Hillmorton High School all making the semi-finals. St Paul's won the trophy for the second year in a row, defeating New Plymouth 38–6 in the final.


1995 New Zealand rugby league season, Australian competitions
The Auckland Warriors competed in the Australian Rugby League competition for the first time. The team finished tenth, missing the finals by only two points. The Reserve Grade team made the finals but lost in the quarterfinals.


1995 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Auckland
The Otahuhu Leopards won the Fox Memorial, their tenth, by defeating the Marist Saints 32–0 in the grand final. City Pt Chevalier won the Rukutai Shield as minor premiers.


1995 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Auckland
The Manurewa Marlins defeated the Waitemata Seagulls to win the Sharman Cup second division. As a result, they were promoted to the Fox Memorial for 1996. Otahuhu won the Stormont Shield.


1995 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Auckland
Otahuhu were coached by Trevor McLeod while Marist were coached by Del Hughes. Richmond included Greg Wolfgram, Ben Lythe and Boycie Nelson played for Mt Albert and Steve Buckingham and Lee Tamatoa played for Glenora.


1995 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Wellington
Marist Northern won the grand final of the Wellington Rugby League competition, defeating St George 48–22. The Randwick Kingfishers were the minor premiers.


1995 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Canterbury
The Halswell Hornets won the Canterbury Rugby League's Pat Smith Challenge Trophy grand final 20–19 over Linwood. Halswell were coached by Phil Prescott and included Glen Coughlan. The two teams had earlier shared the minor premiership.


1995 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Canterbury
The West Coast Waro-rakau Hornets won the Thacker Shield by defeating Canterbury's Haswell Hornets 48–16.


1995 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Northland
The Moerewa Tigers won the Bay of Islands competition, by defeating the Kaikohe Lions 16–12.


1995 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Northland
The West End Jumbos won the Whangarei City & Districts title, by defeating the Otaika Eagles 30–24 at Jubilee Park, Whangarei.


1995 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Northland
The East Coast Rebels won the to win the Far North Districts title by defeating the Te Paatu United Warriors 32–28.


1995 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Other Competitions
Turangawaewae won the minor premiership and the championship in the Waikato Rugby League competition, defeating Taniwharau Rugby League 20–15 in the grand final.


1995 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Other Competitions
The Piako Warriors defeated the Tokoroa Pacific Sharks 34–20 in the Bay of Plenty Rugby League grand final. Piako featured Hare Te Rangi.


1995 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Other Competitions
The Waitara Bears won the Taranaki Rugby League competition 16–14 over the defending champions, the Western Suburbs Tigers. The Bears featured Blair Nickson while the Tigers included Willie Talau. Kia Ora, coached by Peter Sixtus, defeated Otaki 14–4 in the Manawatu Rugby League grand final.


1995 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Other Competitions
Taradale Eagles defeated the Omahu Huia 51–10 in the Hawke's Bay Rugby League grand final while the Kaiti Knights won the Gisborne-East Coast grand final, defeating Uawa 34–26.


1995 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Other Competitions
The Motueka Tigers won the Nelson-Marlborough grand final, defeating the Blenheim Knights 42–24. Cobden-Kohinoor won the West Coast Rugby League grand final, defeating minor premiers Waro-rakau 12–10. The Waitati Warriors won the Otago grand final 14–10 over the South Pacific Raiders while Bluff defeated He Tauaa 20–14 in the Southland championship match.


1995 New Zealand rugby union tour of Italy and France
The 1995 New Zealand rugby union tour of Italy and France was a series of matches played in October and November 1995 in Italy and France by New Zealand national rugby union team.


1995 Newcastle City Council election
Elections to the City Council were held in May 1995. The Conservative Party lost further ground, the Liberal Democrats remained the Opposition and Labour slightly increased their majority.


1995 Newsweek Champions Cup and the State Farm Evert Cup
The 1995 Newsweek Champions Cup and the State Farm Evert Cup were tennis tournaments played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 22nd edition of the Indian Wells Masters and was part of the Super 9 of the 1995 ATP Tour and of Tier II of the 1995 WTA Tour. They were held at the Grand Champions Resort in Indian Wells, California, in the United States, with the men's tournament played from March 6 through March 13, 1995, while the women's tournament took place from February 27 through March 5, 1995.


1995 Newsweek Champions Cup and the State Farm Evert Cup, Finals, Men's Doubles
Tommy Ho /  Brett Steven defeated  Gary Muller /   Piet Norval 6–4, 7–6


1995 Newsweek Champions Cup and the State Farm Evert Cup, Finals, Women's Doubles
Lindsay Davenport /  Lisa Raymond defeated  Larisa Neiland /  Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 2–6, 6–4, 6–3


1995 Newsweek Champions Cup – Doubles
Grant Connell and Patrick Galbraith were the defending champions, but lost in the quarterfinals this year.


1995 Newsweek Champions Cup – Doubles
Tommy Ho and Brett Steven won the title, defeating Gary Muller and Piet Norval 6–4, 7–6 in the final.


1995 Newsweek Champions Cup – Doubles, Seeds
The top four seeds received a bye into the second round.


1995 Newsweek Champions Cup – Singles
Pete Sampras was the defending champion and he won in the final 7–5, 6–3, 7–5, against Andre Agassi.


1995 Nichirei International Championships
The 1995 Nichirei International Championships was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Ariake Coliseum in Tokyo, Japan that was part of Tier II of the 1995 WTA Tour. It was the sixth edition of the tournament and was held from 19 September through 24 September 1995. Second-seeded Mary Pierce won the singles title.


1995 Nichirei International Championships, Finals, Doubles
Lindsay Davenport /  Mary Joe Fernández defeated  Amanda Coetzer /  Linda Wild 6–3, 6–2


1995 Nicholls State Colonels football team
The 1995 Nicholls State Colonels football team represented Nicholls State University in the 1995 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Colonels were led by first-year head coach Darren Barbier. They played their home games at John L. Guidry Stadium and were a member of the Southland Conference. They finished the season 0–11, 0–5 in Southland play to finish in sixth place.


1995 Nigerien parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Niger on 12 January 1995. The last elections of the Third Republic, they were called following a split in the ruling coalition, but resulted in a government divided between the party of the President and an opposition coalition with a majority in the National Assembly and the post of Prime Minister. The ensuing stalemate was a contributing factor to the coup that overthrew the regime on 27 January 1996.


1995 Nigerien parliamentary election, Background
The elections were prompted by the fall of the Alliance of the Forces of Change (AFC) government, after the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism (PNDS-Tarayya) party of Prime Minister Mahamadou Issoufou moved from the ruling coalition into opposition. President Mahamane Ousmane appointed Souley Abdoulaye as Prime Minister, but he resigned on 16 October 1994 after failing to create a new ruling coalition which could stand up to a confidence vote in the Assembly. Ousmane called a new election for the National Assembly.


1995 Nigerien parliamentary election, Results
The electoral landscape remained largely unchanged from the 1993 elections. MNSD-Nassara won a plurality of votes, and with its new parliamentary ally and third-place finisher—the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism—forming a parliamentary bloc of 41 of the 83 seats, opposed to 38 seats held by the remaining AFC coalition members. The addition of three smaller parties added four seats, assuring a majority of 45.


1995 Nigerien parliamentary election, Aftermath
The new National Assembly resulted in a divided government ("cohabitation") with the opposition forming the new ruling coalition, and the MNSD-Nassara's Hama Amadou becoming Prime Minister. This finally reversed the unstable post-dictatorship alliance of the AFC, which had been based upon keeping the MNSD, the former military government party, out of power. The center-right MNSD and the left PNDS formed an otherwise unlikely alliance based on each's conflict with the President. The inability of the president and this new government to work together resulted in government gridlock. This was one of the stated reasons for the 27 January 1996 Nigerien coup d'état which brought the military government of Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara to power.


1995 Nike Tour
The 1995 Nike Tour season was the sixth season of the Nike Tour, the PGA Tour's official developmental tour, now known as the Web.com Tour. The top ten players on the final money list earned PGA Tour cards for 1996.


1995 Nike Tour, Schedule
The season ran from February 23 to October 22 and consisted of 30 events. All of the tournament names began with "Nike", e. g. "Nike San Jose Open"; this is eliminated here for brevity.


1995 Nike Tour, Money list
The top ten players on the final money list earned PGA Tour cards for 1996.


1995 Nike Tour graduates
This is a list of players who graduated from the Nike Tour in 1995. The top ten players on the Nike Tour's money list in 1995 earned their PGA Tour card for 1996.


1995 Nike Tour graduates
T = TiedGreen background indicates the player retained his PGA Tour card for 1997 (finished inside the top 125). Yellow background indicates player did not retain his PGA Tour card for 1997, but retained conditional status (finished between 126 and 150). Red background indicates the player did not retain his PGA Tour card for 1997 (finished outside the top 150).


1995 Nippon Professional Baseball season
The 1995 Nippon Professional Baseball season was the 46th season of operation for the league.


1995 Nokia Open
The 1995 Nokia Open was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts in Beijing, China that was part of the World Series of the 1995 ATP Tour and of Tier IV of the 1995 WTA Tour. The men's tournament was held from October 16 through October 22, 1995, while the women's tournament was held from September 25 through October 1, 1995.


1995 Nokia Open, Finals, Men's Doubles
Tommy Ho /  Sébastien Lareau defeated  Dick Norman /  Fernon Wibier 7–6, 7–6


1995 Nokia Open, Finals, Women's Doubles
Claudia Porwik /  Linda Wild defeated  Stephanie Rottier /  Shi-Ting Wang 6–1, 6–0


1995 Nokia Open – Men's Doubles
Tommy Ho and Kent Kinnear were the defending champions, but Kinnear did not participate this year. Ho partnered Sébastien Lareau, successfully defending his title.


1995 Nokia Open – Men's Doubles
Ho and Lareau won the title, defeating Dick Norman and Fernon Wibier 7–6, 7–6 in the final.


1995 Nokia Open – Men's Singles
Michael Chang was the defending champion, and successfully defended his title.


1995 Nokia Open – Women's Doubles
Chen Li and Li Fang were the defending champions, but lost in the quarterfinals to tournament winners Claudia Porwik and Linda Wild.


1995 Nokia Open – Women's Doubles
Porwik and Wild won the title by defeating Stephanie Rottier and Wang Shi-ting 6–1, 6–0 in the final.


1995 Nokia Open – Women's Singles
Yayuk Basuki was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to tournament winner Linda Wild.


1995 Nokia Open – Women's Singles
Wild won the tournament by defeating Wang Shi-ting 7–5, 6–2 in the final.


1995 Nordic Figure Skating Championships
The 1995 Nordic Figure Skating Championships were held from February 17th through 19th, 1995 in Enköping, Sweden. The competition was open to elite figure skaters from Nordic countries. Skaters competed in two disciplines, men's singles and ladies' singles, across two levels: senior (Olympic-level) and junior.


1995 North Alabama Lions football team
The 1995 North Alabama Lions football team represented the University of North Alabama during the 1995 NCAA Division II football season, and completed the 63rd season of Lions football. The Lions played their home games at Braly Municipal Stadium in Florence Alabama. The 1995 team came off a 13–1 record and a national championship from the previous season. The team was led by coach Bobby Wallace. The team finished the regular season with an undefeated 10–0 record and made the NCAA Division II playoffs. The Lions defeated the Pittsburg State Gorillas 27–7 in the National Championship Game en route to the program's third consecutive NCAA Division II Football Championship.


1995 North Atlantic Conference Baseball Tournament
The 1995 North Atlantic Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Frawley Stadium in Wilmington, Delaware. The top six regular season finishers of the league's nine teams qualified for the double-elimination tournament. In the championship game, first-seeded Delaware defeated fifth-seeded Drexel, 12-2, to win its first tournament championship. As a result, Delaware received the North Atlantic's automatic bid to the 1995 NCAA Tournament play-in round.


1995 North Atlantic Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding
The top six finishers from the regular season were seeded one through six based on conference winning percentage only. They then played in a double-elimination format. In the first round, the one and six seeds were matched up in the first game, the two and five seeds in the second, and the three and four seeds in the third.


1995 North Atlantic Conference Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team, Most Outstanding Player
Drexel pitcher and infielder Kris Doiron was named Most Outstanding Player.


1995 North Atlantic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1995 America East Men's Basketball Tournament was hosted by the higher seeds in head-to-head matchups. The final was held at Daskalakis Athletic Center on the campus of Drexel University. Drexel gained its second consecutive America East Conference Championship and an automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament with its win over Boston University. Drexel was given the 13th seed in the East Regional of the NCAA Tournament and lost in the first round to Oklahoma State 73–49.


1995 North Ayrshire Council election
1995 elections to North Ayrshire Council were held on 6 April 1995 and were the first for the newly formed Unitary authority for North Ayrshire Council, which was created under the Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994.


1995 North Ayrshire Council election, Party performance
Labour performed very well and continued control of its majority.


1995 North Ayrshire Council election, Ward results
All wards returned Labour councillors except for Wards 27 (Largs South) and Ward 28 (Largs Central & Cumbrae), which returned a Conservative and SNP councillor respectively.


1995 North Ayrshire Council election, Ward results
Ward 14 (Stevenston North) didn't hold an election due to the death of a candidate. The by-election was held at a later date, with a Labour Councillor being returned. The results from that ward are excluded from the breakdown above.


1995 North Carolina Tar Heels football team
The 1995 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 1995 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Tar Heels  played their home games at Kenan Memorial Stadium in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and competed in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The team was led by head coach Mack Brown.


1995 North Dakota State Bison football team
The 1995 North Dakota State Bison football team was an American football team that represented North Dakota State University during the 1995 NCAA Division II football season as a member of the North Central Conference. In their ninth year under head coach Rocky Hager, the team compiled a 10–3 record.


1995 North Down by-election
The 1995 North Down by-election, in the North Down constituency, was held on 15 June, following the death of James Kilfedder, who had represented the constituency since the 1970 general election. Kilfedder had formed the Ulster Popular Unionist Party in 1980, but the party disintegrated on his death.


1995 North Down by-election, History
The North Down constituency was created in 1950, and had consistently returned Unionist MPs with large majorities. It had also seen some of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland's strongest results, peaking at 22.1% of the vote in the 1983 general election, and in the 1992 general election, it had seen the Conservative Party's best result in Northern Ireland, picking up 32.0% of the vote.


1995 North Down by-election, History
In 1995, North Down was the wealthiest constituency in the province, and had one of the lowest Catholic populations. As a result, neither the Social Democratic and Labour Party nor Sinn Féin, the two parties most closely associated with the Catholic community in Northern Ireland, had regularly stood candidates in the constituency, and neither chose to stand in the by-election.


1995 North Down by-election, Candidates
Bob McCartney had stood in the constituency for the Ulster Unionist Party in 1983, when he had come third with 20.3% of the vote. In 1987 he fell out with the party when he refused to withdraw and give Kilfedder a free run on a joint platform of opposition to the Anglo-Irish Agreement, instead running as a "Real Unionist". McCartney now announced his intention to stand in the election, as a UK Unionist. Despite their differences, he gained the tacit backing of the Democratic Unionist Party, who had won only 9.8% of the vote in 1992 and chose not to stand their own candidate.


1995 North Down by-election, Candidates
The Ulster Unionist Party had not run a candidate in North Down since Bob McCartney in 1983, but they believed they were best placed to take Kilfedder's personal vote. They chose to run Alan McFarland, a former Army Officer and then Parliamentary secretary to some of their MPs, in preference to Reg Empey, one of their most prominent members. The Alliance Party selected Oliver Napier, their former party leader, hoping his experience and notability would regain some of the votes which they had lost in the 1992 election. The Conservative Party had suffered a dramatic loss of votes in the local elections, and their candidate in the 1992 election had moved away, but they chose Stuart Sexton, a member from Croydon in South London.


1995 North Down by-election, Candidates
Four other candidates stood. Alan Chambers, a local councillor, ran as an independent Unionist. The Natural Law Party stood James Anderson, their leader in Northern Ireland, Michael Brooks who had previously stood as an "Ulster Protestant" candidate in the 1987 Irish general election in Donegal North-East, stood on a platform to "Free Para Lee Clegg Now", and Christopher Carter stood as Ulster's Independent Voice.


1995 North Down by-election, Candidates
The big story of the campaign was from The Guardian, who announced that if McCartney was elected, he would apply for the Labour Party whip, an unusual move for a unionist, who were more usually associated with the Conservatives.


1995 North Down by-election, Result
The results gave McCartney a win, which he claimed was a victory for left-right politics, as opposed to sectarian politics, with the Ulster Unionists a disappointed distant second. Shortly after the election, James Molyneaux retired as their leader, and was replaced by David Trimble.


1995 North Down by-election, Result
The Alliance came third, with their best ever share of the vote in the constituency. Chambers also saved his deposit, but the Conservatives received what was their worst vote in any UK Parliamentary election since 1918.


1995 North Down by-election, Result
The by-election was the first since the Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election of April 1981 where a seat transferred between two candidates from outside the major parties, and the first since the North Down by-election of 1986 won by a minor party.


1995 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
The 1995 North Indian Ocean cyclone season was below-average and was primarily confined to the autumn months, with the exception of three short-lived deep depressions in May. There were eight depressions in the basin, which is Indian Ocean north of the equator. The basin is subdivided between the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea on the east and west coasts of India, respectively. Storms were tracked by the India Meteorological Department (IMD), which is the basin's Regional Specialized Meteorological Center, as well as the American-based Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) on an unofficial basis.


1995 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
Tropical activity was largely affected by the monsoon trough, which spawned the three deep depressions in May, as well as the two strongest cyclones in November. The first storm of the season formed on May 5 in the Bay of Bengal, the same location as two additional depressions later in the month. Collectively, the three systems killed 146 people, mostly related to the third system which produced a deadly storm surge in Bangladesh. After two weak depressions in September, the season's lone Arabian Sea storm developed on October 12, and remained largely away from land.


1995 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
The final two storms of the season were the most notable. On November 10, a cyclone struck southeastern India, killing 173 people in India and Bangladesh. Its remnants produced a rare snowstorm in eastern Nepal that caused landslides and avalanches, killing 63. The last storm of the season was also the most powerful, causing 172 deaths when it struck southeastern Bangladesh.


1995 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Season summary
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) in New Delhi – the official Regional Specialized Meteorological Center for the northern Indian Ocean as recognized by the World Meteorological Organization – issued warnings for tropical cyclones developing in the region, using satellite imagery and surface data to assess and predict storms. The agency also utilized a tropical cyclone forecast model that used climatology and a storm's persistence to forecast future movement. Warnings and advisories were broadcast throughout India by telegraph and news media. The basin's activity is sub-divided between the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal on opposite coasts of India, and is generally split before and after the monsoon season. Storms were also tracked on an unofficial basis by the American-based Joint Typhoon Warning Center.


1995 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Season summary
The JTWC only tracked the longer-lived and stronger cyclonic storms, which all formed after September; by their assessment, this was the fifth such occurrence since 1975 where all storms developed in the autumn. Throughout the year, tropical systems generally lasted longer than in 1994. The systems that affected land generally struck Andhra Pradesh and eastward through Bangladesh. The three cyclonic storms was less than the average of 5.4, and the two severe cyclonic storms was slightly below the average of 2.5. In addition to the storms tracked by the IMD, a monsoon depression struck northern Oman in late July, producing heavy rainfall that totaled 300 mm (12 in) on Jebel Shams mountain. The system later affected the remainder of the Arabian Peninsula.


1995 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, May deep depressions
During two weeks in the middle of May, a series of three deep depressions developed in unusual succession in the western Bay of Bengal.


1995 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, May deep depressions
The series of storms helped end a drought in eastern India by bringing heavy monsoonal rainfall. The first system brought heavy rainfall to Tamil Nadu and neighboring Andhra Pradesh, while the second storm mainly dropped rainfall in the latter state. The third system brought precipitation to Odisha, West Bengal, and Bangladesh; Bhubaneswar in Odisha reported 567 mm (22.3 in) of rainfall over six days. The rains resulted in flooding and damages to crops, while wrecking dozens of homes. Collectively, the storms killed 86 people in India.


1995 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, May deep depressions
In Bangladesh, the third storm produced a 3 m (10 ft) storm surge and heavy rainfall, reaching 147 mm (5.8 in) over 24 hours in Chittagong. About 100,000 people evacuated their houses to storm shelters due to the floods, while another 100,000 were stranded in their homes due to floods. Many embankment dams were damaged, furthering flooding. On Hatia Island, the storm wrecked over 5,000 homes and 10,000 ha (25,000 acres) of crops, with salt and shrimp farms in the region also destroyed.


1995 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, May deep depressions
A 1.8 m (6 ft) storm tide flooded dozens of villages around Cox's Bazar, destroying about 1,000 houses. Two bridges were destroyed, severing traffic between Cox's Bazar and Chittagong. In the latter city, 20,125 houses were damaged or destroyed. Over 60,000 people were left homeless in the country, and there were 60 deaths related to the storm. However, the rains also helped end a damaging five-month drought in the country. The government provided wheat and cash to affected residents to help cope with the disaster. After the storm moved through the area, most freshwater ponds were intruded by saltwater, furthering damage to crops and causing a shortage of drinking water. About 50,000 people became ill after drinking contaminated water, killing around 400 people due to a diarrhea outbreak.


1995 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression BOB 01
Originating from the monsoon trough, a low-pressure area formed just north of Sri Lanka on May 5. By 21:00 UTC that night, the system organized into a depression while moving west-northwestward toward India. It developed a central dense overcast of deep convection, prompting the IMD to upgrade it to a 55 km/h (35 mph) deep depression. Still associated with the monsoon, the system had several small circulations and gale-force winds. At 11:00 UTC on May 6, the system moved ashore Tamil Nadu near Cuddalore, and by the next day degenerated into a remnant low.


1995 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression BOB 02
The second deep depression formed on May 8 about 120 km (75 mi) southeast of the Andhra Pradesh coastline, north of the previous system. It moved to the northeast, intensifying into a 55 km/h (35 mph) deep depression on May 9. At 17:00 UTC that day, the system struck Andhra Pradesh near Tuni as it progressed northward, degenerating into a remnant low on May 10.


1995 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression BOB 03
The third deep depression was also the longest lasting. It formed on May 14 off the coast of Odisha, northeast of the previous system. Moving parallel to the coast, it also intensified into a 55 km/h (35 mph) deep depression on May 15. Early the next day, the system made landfall on Sagar Island in West Bengal state, and weakened while progressing northeastward into Bangladesh. On May 18, the depression was downgraded to a remnant low over Assam state.


1995 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Depression BOB 04 (01B)
On September 9, a tropical depression formed in the South China Sea in the west Pacific basin. Two days later, the system struck Vietnam and progressed westward through Indochina. The remnants entered the Bay of Bengal around September 13, accompanied by increasing convection. Moving to the west-northwest, the system resembled a monsoon depression at times, although the thunderstorms gradually became more concentrated. On September 16, the system developed into a depression, and on the same day the JTWC classified it as Tropical Cyclone 01B. As the system approached the Indian coastline, it developed good outflow, and was intensifying quickly.


1995 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Depression BOB 04 (01B)
The JTWC estimated peak 1 minute winds of 85 km/h (55 mph) at 18:00 UTC on September 16. However, the IMD never assessed winds beyond 45 km/h (30 mph). Around 01:00 UTC on September 17, the depression moved ashore India near Balasore, Odisha. That night, the system degenerated into a remnant low over Bihar, although the remnants persisted until September 20, when they dissipated near Delhi. The depression brought heavy rainfall over Odisha and Bihar.


1995 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclonic Storm BOB 05
Later in September, another depression formed on September 26 in the northwestern Bay of Bengal. Moving northwestward, it quickly moved ashore near Balasore, Odisha, failing to intensify beyond winds of 85 km/h (55 mph). A ridge turned the system to the northeast, and the depression dissipated on September 28 over West Bengal. The depression brought heavy rainfall to Odisha, Bihar, and West Bengal, peaking at 570 mm (22 in) in Malda district in West Bengal.


1995 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclonic Storm ARB 01 (02A)
A low-pressure area accompanied by a well-defined circulation persisted over central India on October 11. By the following day, the system emerged into the Arabian Sea, whereupon its convection organized west of a sheared circulation. On October 12, the system organized into a depression, classified Tropical Cyclone 02A by the JTWC. Steered by a ridge, it moved to the west-northwest and gradually intensified. The IMD upgraded it to a cyclonic storm on October 14, estimating peak 3 minute winds of 85 km/h (55 mph). The JTWC assessed slightly higher 1 minute winds of 95 km/h (60 mph).


1995 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclonic Storm ARB 01 (02A)
Increased wind shear stripped away the convection, causing the storm to weaken. By October 17, the system deteriorated into a depression and began drifting to the southwest, having moved between two ridges. Later that day, the system degenerated into a remnant low, which the JTWC tracked for an additional day until dissipation east of the Somalia coastline.


1995 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Very Severe Cyclonic Storm BOB 06 (03B)
The storm originated from the monsoon trough on November 7 in the Bay of Bengal, east of India. Moving northwestward, the system gradually intensified while moving toward land, eventually developing an eye in the middle of the convection. Reaching peak 3 minute winds of 120 km/h (75 mph), the IMD classified the system as a very severe cyclonic storm, in line with the 130 km/h (80 mph) wind estimate from the JTWC. On November 9, the cyclone made landfall near the border of Andhra Pradesh and Orissa. Atypical for most November storms, the system continued to the north and dissipated over Nepal on November 11.


1995 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Very Severe Cyclonic Storm BOB 06 (03B)
In India, the cyclone's strong winds were accompanied by heavy rainfall and a storm surge of 1.5 m (4.9 ft) that inundated the coastline several hundred feet inland. Power lines, crops, and houses were damaged, and many boats were damaged, causing several nautical fatalities. The cyclone killed 128 people and caused US$46.3 million in damage. In neighboring Bangladesh, high waves killed 45 people after sinking or sweeping away four ships. The cyclone later spawned a rare November snowstorm across eastern Nepal, with depths reaching 2,000 mm (79 in).


1995 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Very Severe Cyclonic Storm BOB 06 (03B)
The snowfall occurred without warning amid the busy mountain trekking season, and there were several avalanches and landslides across the country. One such incident killed 24 people at a lodge near Gokyo, and there were 63 deaths related to the cyclone in the country. The Nepal government launched the largest search and rescue mission in the country's history, rescuing 450 people, some of whom trapped for days in the snow.


1995 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm BOB 07 (04B)
An area of convection blossomed near northern Sumatra on November 18, associated with the monsoon. Aided by the same westerly wind burst that assisted Cyclone Daryl in the Southern Hemisphere, the disturbance gradually organized and persisted while moving west-northwestward through the Bay of Bengal. Late on November 21, the system developed into a depression, which the JTWC classified as Tropical Cyclone 04B. Steady intensification ensued; by November 23, the JTWC upgraded the cyclone to the equivalent of a minimal hurricane, and the IMD steadily upgraded the storm to increasing categories.


1995 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm BOB 07 (04B)
The storm turned to the north and northeast around a ridge, accelerating toward land. At 06:00 UTC on November 24, the JTWC estimated peak 1 minute winds of 195 km/h (120 mph). Shortly thereafter, the IMD estimated peak 3 minute winds of 190 km/h (120 mph), making the system an extremely severe cyclonic storm. By that time, the system had a well-defined eye in the center of deep convection with an eye temperature of -8.7 °C, warmest in North Indian Ocean. Due to increasing wind shear, the storm weakened and made landfall over southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around 120 km/h (75 mph), south of Cox's Bazaar around 09:00 UTC on November 25. A few hours later, the system degenerated into a remnant low over northern Myanmar.


1995 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm BOB 07 (04B)
Along the coast of Bangladesh, Cox's Bazaar reported winds of 93 km/h (58 mph). The storm brought heavy rainfall and produced high waves that flooded offshore islands with a 0.91 to 1.22 m (3 to 4 ft) storm surge. Most residents of the offshore islands were evacuated ahead of the storm, totaling 300,000 evacuees. About 10,000 huts were destroyed, mostly made of mud and straw, while crops in the region were damaged. The storm's winds cut power lines and communication links in the hardest hit areas.


1995 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm BOB 07 (04B)
Initially, about 500 fishermen were missing after the storm's passage; most were rescued or swam ashore, but over 100 people were killed when 10 boats were lost. The International Disaster Database listed 172 fatalities associated with the storm. In neighboring Myanmar, the cyclone destroyed most of the rice crop in Rakhine State just before the harvest, forcing many Rohingya farmers to borrow money to compensate for lost income.


1995 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Season effects
This is a table of all storms in the 1995 North Indian Ocean cyclone season. It mentions all of the season's storms and their names, duration, peak intensities (according to the IMD storm scale), damage, and death totals. Damage and death totals include the damage and deaths caused when that storm was a precursor wave or extratropical low, and all of the damage figures are in 1995 USD.


1995 North Queensland Cowboys season
The 1995 North Queensland Cowboys season was the 1st in the club's history. Coached by Grant Bell and captained by Laurie Spina, they competed in the ARL Premiership.


1995 North Queensland Cowboys season, Season summary
Two years after being admitted into Australia's premier rugby league competition, the North Queensland Cowboys played their first official premiership game on Saturday, March 11. Lead by inaugural captain and Ingham local Laurie Spina, the club faced the Sydney Bulldogs in front of a crowd of 23,156 at Stockland Stadium. There was no fairy tale beginning for the club, as centre Adrian Vowles was sent off for a high shot six minutes into the match and the Bulldogs won the game 32-16. Teenage fullback Damian Gibson, who was making his first grade debut, scored the club's first premiership try.


1995 North Queensland Cowboys season, Season summary
The club found little success during their debut season in the premiership. They began the season with seven straight losses before picking up their first ever win against the Illawarra Steelers at Steelers Stadium in Round 8. A six-game losing streak followed, which was then snapped in Round 15, when the club recorded their first ever home win, defeating the Western Suburbs Magpies. It would be the last time the club enjoyed victory that season, as they ended the year with seven consecutive losses. The Cowboys finished 1995 in 20th place, winning the dreaded wooden spoon, with just two wins from 22 games.


1995 North Queensland Cowboys season, Season summary
Former Eastern Suburbs Roosters prop Wayne Sing, who played 20 games, was named Player of the Year and Players' Player at the end of the season. The Cowboys would also have three players participate in the 1995 Rugby League World Cup. Jonathan Davies (a former Welsh rugby union international) and Kevin Ellis (who spent the entire season in reserve grade) both represented Wales, while Robert Piva (a recruit from Wakefield Trinity) represented Western Samoa.


1995 North Queensland Cowboys season, Season summary
Perhaps the one bright spot from the Cowboys' inaugural season was the debut of young Proserpine centre Paul Bowman. Bowman, who played seven games in 1995, would go onto captain the club and play 203 games over 13 seasons. Following his retirement in 2007, the club renamed their Player of the Year award the Paul Bowman Medal in his honour. He would join the club's coaching staff as an assistant coach and later their high performance manager, being on the staff for their NRL Premiership and 2016 World Club Challenge winning sides.


1995 North Rhine-Westphalia state election
The 1995 North Rhine-Westphalia state election was held on 14 May 1995 to elect the members of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia. The incumbent Social Democratic Party (SPD) majority government led by Minister-President Johannes Rau lost its majority for the first time since 1980. The SPD subsequently formed a coalition with The Greens, and Rau continued in office.


1995 North Rhine-Westphalia state election, Campaign and issues
Beside the influence of federal politics, where popular support for the Kohl government slowly began to decline due to growing economic difficulties, environmental issues were the main topic of the election campaign. Garzweiler II, a proposed lignite-mining project which would have forced the resettlement of local residents, was strongly criticised by The Greens.


1995 North Rhine-Westphalia state election, Campaign and issues
The CDU opposition focused on topics such as education, domestic security and crime, and support for local industries, though their positions were not markedly different from those of the SPD. As such, most controversy during the campaign was between the SPD and the Greens.


1995 North Rhine-Westphalia state election, Parties
The table below lists parties represented in the previous Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia.


1995 North Texas Mean Green football team
The 1995 North Texas Mean Green football team represented the University of North Texas in the 1995 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Mean Green played their home games at the Fouts Field in Denton, Texas, and competed as an Independent. They were led by second-year head coach Matt Simon. The team finished the regular season with a 2–9 record.


1995 North Texas Mean Green football team, Return to Division I-A
The 1995 season marked the return of Division I-A football to Denton for the first time since 1982. North Texas had competed in the Southland Conference in Division I-AA from 1983-1994 after the university's athletic department fell on hard financial times following the departure of head coach and athletic director Hayden Fry to Iowa. The 1995 team was considered a transitional Division I-A member and was thus not eligible for a bowl game, regardless if they met the required six wins or not.


1995 North Texas Mean Green football team, Expanded Fouts Field
As part of a coordinated effort by the athletic department and donors to bring attendance levels up to Division I-A standards, donors and boosters alike bought out large sections of seats at Fouts Field to spike attendance numbers. In addition to this, the university expanded the stadium itself, adding two sections of metal bleachers in the east and west end zones to bring the total capacity of the venue from 20,000 to 30,500. Fouts Field's capacity would remain at 30,500 for the rest of its time as an NCAA football stadium, until both sections of metal bleachers and the north grandstand were demolished in 2013, two years after North Texas moved across I-35E to new Apogee Stadium.


1995 North Texas Mean Green football team, The "Schedule from Hell"
Without any conference games to be tied to and no bowl game in the cards as a transitional Division I-A member, North Texas' athletic department opted to schedule multiple "Guarantee Games" to help improve the department's financial outlook moving forward as a full Division I-A member. The 1995 team thus played only three true home games in Denton. One other "home" game against Kansas, from the Big Eight Conference, was moved to the larger Texas Stadium in nearby Irving to help increase ticket sales with the expected influx of Jayhawks fans. The Mean Green played seven road games in all, with two against other Big Eight schools (Missouri and #10 Oklahoma), two against Southeastern Conference programs (LSU and Alabama), then-independent Louisville, future Big West Conference foe Nevada, and Big West member UNLV, who departed for the Western Athletic Conference in 1996.


1995 North Texas Mean Green football team, The "Schedule from Hell"
The lone reprieve in the scheduling gauntlet was a home game against Oregon State (from the Pacific-10 Conference), the first Division I-A game at Fouts Field since 1983. The Mean Green upset the favored Beavers 30-27, who went on to finish their season 1–10. North Texas' only other win on the year was against Division I-AA member Idaho State.


1995 North Warwickshire Borough Council election
An election was held on 4 May 1995 to elect all 34 members of the North Warwickshire Borough Council in England. It resulted in the Labour Party retaining control of the council.


1995 North Warwickshire Borough Council election
This election saw Labour making significant gains, winning nine more seats than the last election from eight Conservative councillors and an independent. The Conservatives only retained four of the twelve seats they held. An independent also retained their seat.


1995 North West Leicestershire District Council election
Elections to North West Leicestershire District Council took place on 4 May 1995, with the previous election having taken place in 1991 and with the next held in 1999. The election took place across all 22 electoral wards and a total of 40 councillors were elected. Labour tightened its grip on the council by capturing nine seats from the Conservatives. Former Conservative rural strongholds such as Appleby, Breedon, Kegworth and Ravenstone fell to Labour, who also came away with all but one seat in Ashby. The result was that Labour held 35, or 87.5% of the seats, the Conservatives were reduced to just three seats and the Liberal Democrats failed to gain any seats.


1995 North West Leicestershire District Council election, Ward results
In wards that are represented by more than one councillor, electors were given more than one vote each, hence the voter turnout may not match the number of votes cast.


1995 Northeast Conference Baseball Tournament
The 1995 Northeast Conference Baseball Tournament was held in May 1995 at Moody Park in Ewing Township, New Jersey. The league's top four teams competed in the double elimination tournament. Top-seeded Rider won their second of three consecutive tournament championships. They then lost a play-in series to Penn for the right to play in the 1995 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


1995 Northeast Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding and format
The top four finishers were seeded one through four based on conference regular-season winning percentage. They played a double-elimination tournament.


1995 Northeast Conference Baseball Tournament, Most Valuable Player
Lou Deman of Long Island was named Tournament Most Valuable Player.


1995 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1995 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held in March. The tournament featured the league's ten teams, seeded based on their conference record. Mount St. Mary's won the championship, their first, and received the conference's automatic bid to the 1995 NCAA Tournament.


1995 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Format
The NEC Men’s Basketball Tournament consisted of a ten-team playoff format with all games played at the venue of the higher seed. The first round was played by the four lowest seeds (7–10) and the other teams received a bye.


1995 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, All-tournament team
Silas Cheung, MSM   Randy Edney, MSMJoe Griffin, LIUDeon Hames, RIDRiley Inge, MSMCharles Smith, RID


1995 Northeast Louisiana Indians football team
The 1995 Northeast Louisiana Indians football team represented Northeast Louisiana University in the 1995 NCAA Division I-A college football season. The Indians offense scored 233 points while the defense allowed 413 points.


1995 Northern Cypriot presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Northern Cyprus on 15 April 1995. As no candidate received over 50% of the vote, a run-off was held on 22 April. Rauf Denktaş was re-elected with 62% of the vote.


1995 Northern Illinois Huskies football team
The 1995 Northern Illinois Huskies football team represented Northern Illinois University. The Huskies competed in the highest division of football, Division I-A. They were led by fifth year head coach Charlie Sadler and they played their home games at Huskie Stadium.


1995 Northern Mariana Islands parliamentary expenses referendum
A referendum on increasing the budget of the Legislature was held in the Northern Mariana Islands on 4 November 1995. The proposal was rejected by voters.


1995 Northern Mariana Islands parliamentary expenses referendum, Background
The proposal had been approved by a three-quarter majority in both houses of the Legislature, and required only a simple majority of votes in the referendum to be approved. It would have amended Chapter II, article 16 of the constitution, raising the Legislature's budget from $6 million to $8 million.


1995 Northwest Territories general election
The 1995 Northwest Territories general election was held on October 16, 1995. This was the last election before the Northwest Territories was split in two with the creation of Nunavut.


1995 Northwest Territories general election
The big issue this election was the division of the Northwest Territories assets to meet the April 1, 1999 deadline. Twenty four MLAs were elected, seven incumbents returned and one was acclaimed.


1995 Northwest Territories general election, Election Results
The election was held in 24 constituencies with 24,568 ballots cast, a turnout of 75.43%.


1995 Northwest Territories general election, Election Results
Outgoing Premier Nellie Cournoyea did not run for re-election. She was replaced first by Don Morin, who resigned in November 1998 over conflict of interest allegations. Morin was replaced by an interim Premier, Goo Arlooktoo until December 1998, before Jim Antoine filled out the remainder of the term.


1995 Northwestern Wildcats football team
The 1995 Northwestern Wildcats football team represented Northwestern University in the 1995 NCAA Division I-A college football season. The 1995 season was a highly memorable one for the Northwestern program, as the Wildcats went 10–2 overall and 8–0 in the Big Ten Conference, earning their first winning season since 1971, their first conference championship since 1936, and their first 10-win season in school history. They also broke several long-standing losing streaks to regular opponents, including a 22-game losing streak to Iowa, a 19-game losing streak against Michigan, and a 14-game losing streak to Notre Dame.


1995 Northwestern Wildcats football team
"Expect Victory" was the motto even as Northwestern began the season as 28-point underdogs against Notre Dame, who they upset 17-15, propelling into the AP poll at #25. An upset loss to the Miami Redhawks in the second game of the season caused the Wildcats to drop out of the rankings. However, subsequent wins over ranked Michigan (19-13), Wisconsin (35-0), and Penn State (21-10) pushed the Wildcats into the top-10 while making them national media darlings.


1995 Northwestern Wildcats football team
Nine consecutive wins (including eight against Big Ten opponents) brought Northwestern their highest ranking since 1962 (#3), a conference title, and their first Rose Bowl appearance since 1949. In the Rose Bowl, the Wildcats' Cinderella season came to a conclusion with a 41–32 loss to the USC Trojans, and they finished the season at #8.


1995 Northwestern Wildcats football team
Northwestern was coached by Gary Barnett, who won multiple coach of the year awards for leading the dramatic turnaround of the program. Star players included the trio of quarterback Steve Schnur, running back Darnell Autry, and linebacker Pat Fitzgerald, who was named Big Ten and national defensive player of the year.


1995 Northwestern Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Miami (OH)
The Wildcats surrendered a 21-point 4th quarter lead in their first game as a nationally ranked team since 1971. Miami of Ohio's Chad Seitz booted a 20-yard field goal as time expired to give the Redskins the victory. The opposing team was led by future Northwestern head coach Randy Walker and his offensive coordinator was Sean Payton. This would be the lone regular season blemish on the Wildcats' schedule.


1995 Northwestern Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Minnesota
After falling behind 14–3 early in the second quarter, the Wildcats scored the next 24 points to take control of the game. Darnell Autry ran for 169 yards and 3 touchdowns, including a 73-yard burst early in the fourth quarter.


1995 Northwestern Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Wisconsin
The Wildcats forced 7 Badger turnovers (Wisconsin had 6 total in their first five games) in a triumphant homecoming matchup. The game marked the first sellout at Northwestern since 1984.


1995 Northwestern Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Purdue
Northwestern got two big scoring plays in the first half – a 76-yard interception return for a touchdown by Chris Martin and a 72-yard touchdown reception by D'Wayne Bates – to take control. Darnell Autry carried the ball 32 times for a career-high 226 yards.


1995 Norwegian First Division
The 1995 1. divisjon, Norway's second-tier football league, began play on 29 April 1995 and ended on 1 October 1995. The league was contested by 24 teams, divided in two groups and the winner of each group won promotion to Tippeligaen, while the runners-up played a promotion-playoff to win promotion. The bottom three teams were relegated to the 2. divisjon.


1995 Norwegian First Division
Moss and Skeid won promotion to Tippeligaen as group-winners, while Strømsgodset was promoted after beating Sogndal in the promotion play-off. Åndalsnes, Sarpsborg, Vard Haugesund, Alta, Sandefjord and Mjølner was relegated to the 2. divisjon.


1995 Norwegian Football Cup
The 1995 Norwegian Football Cup was the 90th edition of the Norwegian Football Cup. The 1995 Norwegian Football Cup was won by Rosenborg after they defeated Brann in the cup final. It took a replay to decide the winner.


1995 Norwegian Football Cup Final
The 1995 Norwegian Football Cup Final was the final match of the 1995 Norwegian Football Cup, the 90th season of the Norwegian Football Cup, the premier Norwegian football cup competition organized by the Football Association of Norway (NFF). The final was played at the Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo, and opposed two Tippeligaen sides Rosenborg and Brann. As the inaugural final match finished 1–1, the final was replayed seven days later at the same venue with the Rosenborg defeated Brann 3–1 to claim the Norwegian Cup for a seventh time in their history.


1995 Norwegian local elections
Country-wide local elections for seats in municipality and county councils were held throughout Norway in 1995. For most places this meant that two elections, the municipal elections and the county elections ran concurrently.


1995 Norwich City Council election
The 1995 Norwich City Council election took on 4 May 1995 to elect members of Norwich City Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections. 16 of 48 seats (one-third) were up for election.


1995 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team
The 1995 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team represented the University of Notre Dame in the 1995 college football season. The team was coached by Lou Holtz and played its home games at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Indiana.


1995 Nottingham Open
The 1995 Nottingham Open was a men's ATP tennis tournament held in Nottingham, Great Britain and played on outdoor grass courts. The event was part of the World Series of the 1995 ATP Tour. The tournament was held from 19 June to 25 June 1995.


1995 Nottingham Open
Javier Frana won his first title of the year and third of his career.


1995 Nottingham Open, Finals, Doubles
Luke Jensen /  Murphy Jensen defeated  Patrick Galbraith /  Danie Visser 6–3, 5–7, 6–4


1995 Nottingham Open – Doubles
Rick Leach and Danie Visser were the defending champions, but did not partner together this year. Leach partnered Jared Palmer, losing in the semifinals. Visser partnered Patrick Galbraith, losing in the final.


1995 Nottingham Open – Doubles
Luke Jensen and Murphy Jensen won the title, defeating Galbraith and Visser 6–3, 5–7, 6–4 in the final.


1995 Nottingham Open – Singles
Javier Frana defeated Todd Woodbridge 7–6(7–4), 6–3 in the final to secure the title.


1995 Nunavut capital plebiscite
A plebiscite on a capital city was held on 11 December 1995 in the area of the Northwest Territories that was to be split off into the new territory of Nunavut. Voters were given the options of either Iqaluit or Rankin Inlet. Iqaluit was chosen by 60% of voters.


1995 Nunavut capital plebiscite, Voting system
The plebiscite was run under the Northwest Territories Plebiscite Act and overseen by Elections Northwest Territories. The plebiscite was non-binding, and the results were to be taken by the Government of Canada's Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Ron Irwin, to the federal Cabinet.


1995 Nunavut capital plebiscite, Results
Which of these communities do you want to become the Capital of Nunavut?


1995 Oakland Athletics season
The Oakland Athletics' 1995 season was the team's 28th in Oakland, California. It was also the 95th season in franchise history. The team finished fourth in the American League West with a record of 67–77.


1995 Oakland Athletics season
The Athletics, for a third consecutive year, found themselves mired in mediocrity. As had been the case in both 1993 and 1994, an average-to-poor offense (headlined by Mark McGwire, Rickey Henderson, and Rubén Sierra) was sabotaged by one of the league's worst pitching staffs. For a third consecutive season, no Athletics starter posted an earned run average (ERA) of less than 4.50; only one such starter, Todd Stottlemyre, managed to record double-digit wins in the strike-shortened campaign.


1995 Oakland Athletics season
The Athletics, despite their weak pitching, managed to contend in the first half of the season. On July 1, a win over the division-leading California Angels brought them within 1.5 games of first place; it also ran their record to a surprising 34–28. As had been the case in 1994, the A's followed their surprising start with a prolonged slump; between July 2 and August 15, the team went only 13–28. The collapse, along with an Angels surge (the Angels went 30–11 over the same span) left the A's 17.5 games out of first place.


1995 Oakland Athletics season
As had also been the case in 1994, Oakland mounted a dramatic comeback; an Angels collapse, combined with a surge of their own, allowed them to pull within five games of first place on September 20. The September 20th victory would be their last, as Oakland lost each of the regular season's final nine games. They finished the campaign eleven games behind the AL West champion Seattle Mariners.


1995 Oakland Athletics season
The Athletics' on-field mediocrity, however, contained a few bright spots. Mark McGwire clubbed 39 home runs in a mere 104 games; he would hit at least 50 in each of the four subsequent seasons. The 1995 season also saw the debut of future superstar Jason Giambi. Giambi, in his first major league season, batted .256 with six home runs in 54 games. Lastly, the season was Tony La Russa's last as Oakland's manager. He, along with most of the Athletics' assistant coaches, would join the St. Louis Cardinals in 1996.


1995 Oakland Athletics 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 Oakland Athletics 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 Oakland Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1995 Oakland Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1995 Oakland Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1995 Oakland Raiders season
The 1995 Oakland Raiders season was the franchise's 26th season in the National Football League, the 36th overall, and their 1st back in Oakland since 1981. The Raiders announced their return to Oakland on June 25, 1995, and the Alameda County Board of Supervisors approved it the next month. While the Raiders raced out to an impressive 8–2 start, a number of key injuries (including the loss of starting quarterback Jeff Hostetler) caused them to lose their final six games and miss the playoffs.


1995 Oceania Youth Athletics Championships
The 1995 Oceania Youth Athletics Championships were held at the Tereora National Stadium in Tereora, Rarotonga, Cook Islands, between May 4–5, 1995. A total of 31 events were contested, 16 by boys and 15 by girls.


1995 Oceania Youth Athletics Championships, Medal summary
Complete results can be found on the Athletics Weekly, and on the World Junior Athletics History webpages.


1995 Oceania Youth Athletics Championships, Participation (unofficial)
An unofficial count yields the number of about 135 athletes from 14 countries:


1995 Ohio Bobcats football team
The 1995 Ohio Bobcats football team was an American football team that represented Ohio University in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1995 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their first season under head coach Jim Grobe, the Bobcats compiled a 2–8–1 record (1–6–1 against MAC opponents), finished in ninth place in the MAC, and were outscored by all opponents by a combined total of 320 to 161.


1995 Ohio State Buckeyes football team
The 1995 Ohio State Buckeyes football team represented the Ohio State University in the 1995 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Buckeyes compiled an 11–2 record, including the 1996 Florida Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Florida, where they lost, 20–14, to the Tennessee Volunteers.


1995 Okinawa rape incident
The 1995 Okinawa rape incident occurred on September 4, 1995, when three U.S. servicemen, U.S. Navy Seaman Marcus Gill and U.S. Marines Rodrico Harp and Kendrick Ledet, who were all serving at Camp Hansen on Okinawa, rented a van and kidnapped a 12-year-old Okinawan girl. They beat her, duct-taped her eyes and mouth shut, and bound her hands. Gill and Harp then raped her, while Ledet claimed he only pretended to do so due to fear of Gill. The incident led to further debate over the continued presence of U.S. forces in Japan.


1995 Okinawa rape incident
The offenders were tried and convicted in Japanese court by Japanese law, in accordance with the U.S.–Japan Status of Forces Agreement. The families of the defendants initially claimed that Japanese officials had racially discriminated against the men because they were all black and coerced confessions from them, but later retracted the claims. The incident later ignited surge of Anti-American sentiment among Japanese.


1995 Okinawa rape incident, Reaction
After the incident became known, public outrage began, especially over the U.S.–Japan Status of Forces Agreement, which gives the U.S. service members a certain measure of extraterritoriality (exemption from jurisdiction of local law) only as it relates to the place the suspects were detained. While the crime was committed away from a U.S. military base, the U.S. initially took the men into custody, on September 6.


1995 Okinawa rape incident, Reaction
Although false rumors spread that the suspects were free to roam the base and had been seen eating hamburgers, the suspects were in fact held in a military brig until the Japanese officials charged them with the crime. Despite an immediate request by Japanese law enforcement for custody and eventual trial, the men were only transferred on September 29, after the Japanese had formally indicted them.


1995 Okinawa rape incident, Reaction
This delay was in conformity with the Status of Forces agreement, which states, "The custody of an accused member of the United States armed forces or the civilian component over whom Japan is to exercise jurisdiction shall, if he is in the hands of the United States, remain with the United States until he is charged." Although the military drove the suspects to police headquarters in Naha for daily interrogations, the SOFA provision and the delay in transferring the suspects increased the outrage due to the attack, causing the largest anti-American demonstrations in Okinawa since the treaty was signed in 1960.


1995 Okinawa rape incident, Reaction
As a consequence of the protests regarding jurisdiction, the U.S. made concessions and agreed to consider transferring suspects to the Japanese before an indictment if the severity of the alleged crime warranted it. This agreement was decided at an emergency meeting between U.S. President Bill Clinton and Japanese Premier Ryutaro Hashimoto. The people of Okinawa also placed a full-page advertisement in The New York Times decrying the rape and other aspects of the U.S. bases in Okinawa. In 1996, the United States and Japan signed a bilateral agreement to reduce the amount of land on Okinawa covered by U.S. bases by 21 percent—the U.S. military had previously occupied 19 percent of the island.


1995 Okinawa rape incident, Reaction
U.S. Navy Admiral Richard C. Macke was the commander of United States Pacific Command at the time of the attack. At a press conference during November 1995, Macke said of the men's actions: "I think it was absolutely stupid. I have said several times: for the price they paid to rent the car [used in the crime], they could have had a girl [prostitute]." These remarks were condemned as insensitive, and Macke was dismissed from his post and forced into early retirement. He was also reduced in rank to rear admiral (two-star) from full admiral (four-star), which reduced his pension from US$7,384/month to US$5,903/month.


1995 Okinawa rape incident, Trial
Gill pleaded guilty to the rape, and the other two men pleaded guilty to conspiracy. The trial concluded in March 1996.


1995 Okinawa rape incident, Trial
Prosecutors had asked for the maximum sentences for the men, 10 years each. The judge sentenced Gill and Harp to seven years' imprisonment; Ledet received six and a half years. Their families also paid "reparation money" to the family of the victim, a common practice in Japan.


1995 Okinawa rape incident, Aftermath
The three men served prison terms in Japanese prisons and were released during 2003 and then given Other Than Honorable discharge from the military. After release, Rodrico Harp decried prison conditions in Japan and said that the electronics assembly prison labor he was forced to do amounted to slave labor.


1995 Okinawa rape incident, Aftermath
Ledet, who had claimed he did not rape the girl, died in 2006 in an apparent murder–suicide in the United States. He was found in the third-floor apartment of Lauren Cooper, a junior Kennesaw State University student and acquaintance whom he had apparently raped and murdered by strangulation. He then ended his own life by using a knife to slice open his veins at the elbows.


1995 Okinawa rape incident, Aftermath
In 2008, a movie named The First Breath of Tengan Rei based on this incident was released.


1995 Okinawa rape incident, Aftermath
During December 2011 then-Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa was the subject of a censure motion from the opposition Liberal Democratic Party for failing to know the details of the rape. This followed his subordinate Satoshi Tanaka speaking with reporters in a tavern and using euphemisms for rape to discuss relocating the US Futenma airbase. Tanaka was terminated as director of the Okinawa Defense Bureau, and in the cabinet reshuffle of January 13, 2012, Ichikawa was replaced by Naoki Tanaka.


1995 Oklahoma Sooners football team
The 1995 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Oklahoma during the 1995 NCAA Division I-A football season. They played their home games at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium and competed as members of the Big Eight Conference. They were coached by Howard Schnellenberger.


1995 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Postseason, NFL draft
The following players were drafted into the National Football League following the season.


1995 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team
The 1995 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team represented the Oklahoma State University during the 1995 NCAA Division I-A football season. They participated as members of the Big 8 Conference. They played their home games at Lewis Field in Stillwater, Oklahoma. They were coached by head coach Bob Simmons.


1995 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team, After the season
The 1996 NFL Draft was held on April 20–21, 1996. The following Cowboy was selected.


1995 Ole Miss Rebels football team
The 1995 Ole Miss Rebels football team represented the University of Mississippi during the 1995 NCAA Division I-A football season.


1995 Ole Miss Rebels football team
The Rebels were banned from appearing on television and the postseason due to severe sanctions handed down by the NCAA in November 1994. The 1995 Rebels are the last squad (through 2021) to be banned from television.


1995 Omloop Het Volk
The 1995 Omloop Het Volk was the 49th edition of the Omloop Het Volk cycle race and was held on 25 February 1995. The race started and finished in Ghent. The race was won by Franco Ballerini.


1995 Ondrej Nepela Memorial
The 1995 Ondrej Nepela Memorial was the 3rd edition of an annual senior-level international figure skating competition held in Bratislava, Slovakia. It took place between September 29 and October 1, 1995. Skaters competed in three disciplines: men's singles, ladies' singles, and ice dance. The competition is named for 1972 Olympic gold medalist Ondrej Nepela.


1995 Ontario general election
The 1995 Ontario general election was held on June 8, 1995, to elect members of the 36th Legislative Assembly of the province of Ontario, Canada. The writs for the election were dropped on April 28, 1995.


1995 Ontario general election
The governing New Democratic Party, led by Premier Bob Rae, was defeated by voters, who were angry with the actions of the Rae government, such as its unpopular hiring quotas and the Social Contract legislation in 1993. These policies caused the NDP to lose much of its base in organized labour, further reducing support for the party. At the 1993 federal election, the NDP tumbled to less than seven percent support, and lost all 11 of its federal seats in Ontario. By the time the writs were dropped for the 1995 provincial election, it was obvious that the NDP would not be reelected.


1995 Ontario general election, Campaign
The Liberal Party under Lyn McLeod had been leading in the polls for most of the period from 1992 to 1995, and were generally favoured to benefit from the swing in support away from the NDP. However, the party hurt its credibility through a series of high-profile policy reversals in the period leading up to the election.


1995 Ontario general election, Campaign
The most notable of these occurred when McLeod withdrew Liberal support from the Equality Rights Statute Amendment Act (Bill 167) introduced by the NDP government in 1994, which would have provided same-sex couples with rights and obligations mostly equal to those of opposite-sex common law couples and introduced a form of civil unions. Her decision was seen as cynical and opportunistic in light of the Liberals' earlier rural by-election loss in the socially conservative riding of Victoria—Haliburton. This gave the McLeod Liberals a reputation for "flip-flopping" and inconsistency while offending its socially progressive supporters.


1995 Ontario general election, Campaign
The Progressive Conservative Party, led by Mike Harris, found success with its Common Sense Revolution campaign to cut personal income taxes, social assistance (welfare) rates, and government spending dramatically. Roughly half of his party's seats came from the more affluent regions of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), especially the suburban belt surrounding Metro Toronto, often called the '905' for its telephone area code.


1995 Ontario general election, Campaign
In addition, by presenting himself as a populist, representing "ordinary Ontarians" over "special interests", Harris was able to build Tory support among working-class voters. Although there were regional variations, many working-class voters shifted directly from the NDP to the Tories during the election, enabling the latter to win formerly NDP ridings such as Cambridge and Oshawa.


1995 Ontario general election, Campaign
The televised party leaders' debate is often regarded as the turning point of the campaign. During the event, McLeod further alienated many voters with an overly aggressive performance. Harris used his time to speak directly to the camera to convey his party's Common Sense Revolution platform, virtually ignoring all questions asked of him by Rae and McLeod and avoiding getting caught up in their debate. Since Liberal support was regarded by many political insiders as soft and unsteady, many voters who were previously leaning to the Liberals shifted to the Progressive Conservatives after the debate.


1995 Ontario general election, Results
The Progressive Conservatives won a majority while the Liberals finished with less support than they had in the 1990 election. The NDP, despite improving their standing in some Northern Ontario ridings, were heavily defeated, falling to 17 seats and third party status. The New Democrats would remain the third party until 2018 when they returned to Official Opposition status. McLeod and Rae resigned their party leadership posts not long after the campaign. It was also the worst result for an incumbent Ontario governing party up to that time and would remain so until 2018 when the NDP finally surpassed the then-governing Liberals.


1995 Ontario general election, Results
One independent candidate was elected: Peter North in the riding of Elgin. North had been elected in 1990 as a New Democrat, but left the NDP and declared his intention to run as a Progressive Conservative. The PC Party did not accept him as a candidate, however.


1995 Ontario general election, Results
At least five unregistered parties fielded candidates in this election.


1995 Ontario general election, Results
Candidates from the aforementioned parties appeared on the ballot as independents. It is possible that some candidates listed below as independents actually belonged to these or other parties.


1995 Ontario general election, Byelections
Due to resignations, five by-elections were held between the 1995 and 1999 elections.


1995 Open 13
The 1995 Open 13 was a men's Association of Tennis Professionals tennis tournament held in Marseille, France and played on indoor carpet courts. The event was part of the World Series of the 1995 ATP Tour. It was the third edition of the tournament and was held from 6 February to 13 February 1995. Boris Becker won the singles title.


1995 Open 13, Finals, Doubles
David Adams /  Andrei Olhovskiy defeated  Jean-Philippe Fleurian /  Rodolphe Gilbert 6–1, 6–4


1995 Open 13 – Doubles
Jan Siemerink and Daniel Vacek were the defending champions, but did not play together this year. Siemerink partnered Martin Damm, losing in the quarterfinals. Vacek partnered Alexander Mronz, losing in the first round.


1995 Open 13 – Doubles
David Adams and Andrei Olhovskiy won the title, defeating Jean-Philippe Fleurian and Rodolphe Gilbert 6–1, 6–4 in the final.


1995 Open 13 – Singles
Boris Becker defeated Daniel Vacek 6–7(2–7), 6–4, 7–5 to win the 1995 Open 13 singles competition. Marc Rosset was the champion but did not defend his title.


1995 Open Championship
The 1995 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 124th Open Championship held from 20–23 July at the Old Course at St Andrews in St Andrews, Scotland. John Daly won his first Open Championship and second major title in a four-hole playoff over Costantino Rocca.


1995 Open Championship
This was the final Open appearance for two-time champion Arnold Palmer.


1995 Open Championship, Course
Previous lengths of the course for The Open Championship (since 1950):


1995 Open Championship, Round summaries, Second round
Amateurs: Sherry (−3), Webster (−2), Woods (+1), Clark (+3), Gallacher (+7).


1995 Open Championship, Round summaries, Final round, The 72nd hole
As the final group, consisting of Rocca and 54-hole leader Michael Campbell, approached the last hole, Daly had completed his round and was in at −6, a shot clear of Rocca and two ahead of Campbell. Both golfers had a chance to tie Daly and force a playoff, with Rocca needing birdie and Campbell eagle to do so.


1995 Open Championship, Round summaries, Final round, The 72nd hole
Rocca hit a shorter shot than Campbell, who nearly reached the green on his first shot, and played his second first. However, he misplayed the chip shot and only hit the ball a few yards, leaving him with an extremely long putt from an area of the hole referred to as the "Valley of Sin". Campbell failed to hole out on his second shot, thus leaving Rocca as the only one who could prevent the outright win for Daly.


1995 Open Championship, Round summaries, Final round, The 72nd hole
As Daly and his wife Paulette watched on a monitor, believing that Rocca's mistake clinched the victory for him, Rocca lined up to attempt his putt for a tournament-tying birdie. Needing to make a sixty-five foot uphill putt with a sharp break to stay alive, Rocca managed to redeem himself for his error on the second shot as the putt rolled in to tie Daly at −6.


1995 Open Championship, Round summaries, Final round, Playoff
For this 1995 edition, the four holes pre-selected for the aggregate score playoff were 1, 2, 17 (St. Andrew's infamous "Road Hole"), and 18. All were par four holes.


1995 Open Championship, Round summaries, Final round, Playoff
Daly emerged with the early lead after parring the first playoff hole while Rocca carded a bogey. He added a shot to his lead with a birdie on 2, leaving him at −1 to Rocca's +1 as the two men headed to the Road Hole for the third playoff hole.


1995 Open Championship, Round summaries, Final round, Playoff
Rocca hit his first shot onto the fairway while Daly ended up in the left-side rough. On the next shot, Rocca hit his ball into the Road Bunker, one of the deepest such hazards on the course. To further complicate matters, Rocca's shot was nestled deep in the sand near the front of the bunker and it took him three tries to finally extricate himself from the trap.


1995 Open Championship, Round summaries, Final round, Playoff
Rocca two-putted from there to a triple-bogey 7, which all but ensured Daly would win the championship as he headed to the last hole with a five-shot lead after parring the Road Hole. Daly finished with another par at 18, giving him a four-hole total of 15, one-under-par. Rocca salvaged some pride with a birdie three for 19, three-over-par and four back.


1995 Open Gaz de France
The 1995 Open Gaz de France was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Stade Pierre de Coubertin in Paris, France that was part of Tier II of the 1995 WTA Tour. It was the third edition of the tournament and was held from 14 February until 18 February 1995. First-seeded Steffi Graf won the singles title and earned $79,000 first-prize money.


1995 Open Gaz de France, Finals, Doubles
Meredith McGrath /  Larisa Savchenko defeated  Manon Bollegraf /  Rennae Stubbs 6–4, 6–1


1995 Open Gaz de France – Doubles
Sabine Appelmans and Laurence Courtois were the defending champions but only Appelmans competed that year with Miriam Oremans.