* 1995 – Ryutaro Morimoto, Japanese actor and singer ( Hey!

* 1931 – Leonid Derbenyov, Russian poet and songwriter ( d. 1995 )

* 1995 – U. S. President Bill Clinton became the first President to visit Northern Ireland.

* 1934 – Jerry Lordan, English singer-songwriter and composer ( d. 1995 )

* 1995 – Cainan Wiebe, Canadian actor

* 1911 – Constance Heaven, English author ( d. 1995 )

Dashnaksutyun, which was outlawed by Ter-Petrosyan in 1995 – 96 but legalized again after Ter-Petrosyan resigned, also usually supports the government.

* 1899 – Charles Bennett, English screenwriter ( d. 1995 )

* 1995 – Lucy Rie, American potter ( b. 1902 )

* 1995 – H. Adams Carter, American Alpine Club President, 10th Mountain Division trainer ( b. 1914 )

* 1942 – Jerry Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Grateful Dead, Legion of Mary, Reconstruction, Old and in the Way, and New Riders of the Purple Sage ) ( d. 1995 )

* 1995 – Derrick Monasterio, Filipino actor and singer

* 1901 – John C. Stennis, American politician ( d. 1995 )

* 1917 – Les Elgart, American trumpet player and bandleader ( d. 1995 )

* 1995 – Ida Lupino, English actress and director ( b. 1914 )

* 1995 – Edward Whittemore, American writer ( b. 1933 )

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* 1932 – Rien Poortvliet, Dutch draughtsman and painter ( d. 1995 )

* 1942 – Carlos Monzón, Argentine boxer ( d. 1995 )

* 1995 – Malin Reitan, Norwegian singer

* 1922 – Kingsley Amis, English author ( d. 1995 )

* 1971 – Selena, American singer-songwriter ( d. 1995 )

* 1910 – Pierre Schaeffer, French composer ( d. 1995 )

* 1961 – Eddie Gilbert, American wrestler ( d. 1995 )

* 1995 – In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel ( she drops out less than a week later ).

Several space observatories did the same, including the Hubble Space Telescope, the ROSAT X-ray observing satellite, and significantly the Galileo spacecraft, then on its way to a rendezvous with Jupiter scheduled for 1995.

Galileo arrived at Jupiter on December 7, 1995, via gravitational assist flybys of Venus and Earth, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit Jupiter.

After releasing its atmospheric probe on 13 July 1995, the Galileo orbiter became the first man-made satellite of Jupiter at 00: 27 UT on 8 December 1995 when it fired its main engine to enter a 198-day parking orbit.

Space probes have been placed into orbit around all the five planets known to the ancients: first Mars ( Mariner 9, 1971 ), then Venus ( Venera 9, 1975 ; but landings on Venus and atmospheric probes were performed even earlier ), Jupiter ( Galileo, 1995 ), Saturn ( Cassini / Huygens, 2004 ), and most recently Mercury ( MESSENGER, March 2011 ), and have returned data about these bodies and their natural satellites.

* 1995 – The Galileo spacecraft becomes the first to orbit Jupiter.

Forced to substitute a lower delta V capable solid rocket upperstage, the IUS, instead of ascending directly to Jupiter, Galileo flew by Venus once and Earth twice in order to reach Jupiter in December, 1995.

The Galileo spacecraft arrived at Jupiter in 1995 after a six-year journey from Earth to follow up on the discoveries of the two Voyager probes and ground-based observations taken in the intervening years.

Magellan is the first in a new wave of probes that include Galileo, which arrives at Jupiter in 1995, and Cassini which arrives at Saturn in 2004.

Because the solar EUV cannot be monitored from the ground, the joint NASA-ESA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory ( SOHO ) spacecraft was launched and has provide EUV images of the Sun from 1995 to the present.

* SOHO – A joint ESA / NASA spacecraft launched in 1995 to study the Sun.

Launched in 1995, the spacecraft entered into orbit around Eros in 2000 and successfully touched down on its surface one year later.

The spacecraft crossed back over the orbital plane and made a solar north pole passage in 1995.

He did this on March 14, 1995 in the Soyuz TM-21 spacecraft for the Russian Mir-18 mission.

He served as pilot on STS-37 ( April 5 ,- April 11, 1991 ), and was the spacecraft commander on STS-56 ( April 9 ,- April 17, 1993 ) and STS-74 ( November 12 ,- November 20, 1995 ).

He was the pilot on STS-70 ( July 13 – 22, 1995 ) and STS-78 ( June 20 to July 7, 1996 ), and was the spacecraft commander on STS-87 ( November 19 to December 5, 1997 ) and STS-99 ( February 11 – 22, 2000 ).

In October 1995, when sitting-height parameters raised concerns about his fitting safely in the Soyuz spacecraft in the event of an emergency on board the Mir station, he was deemed too tall for the mission and was withdrawn from Mir training.

The crew was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on March 14, 1995 aboard the Soyuz TM-21 spacecraft.

Shepherd was only the second U. S. astronaut to be launched in a Russian spacecraft, the first being Norman Thagard, who launched on Soyuz TM-21 to visit Mir in 1995.

It was followed by a second spacecraft on 7 November 1995.

Founded in January 1995, ICO Global Communications, planned to build an MSS constellation in medium earth orbit ( in two 45 °- inclined orthogonal planes ), and had contracted Boeing Satellite Systems ( then Hughes ) for 12 spacecraft in July of that year — ten operational spacecraft and two in-orbit spares.