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In 1995, New South Wales State of Origin and Kangaroos Test forward Ian Roberts became the first high-profile Australian sports person and first footballer in the world to come out to the public as gay.
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1995 and New
* 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 )
On April 8, 1995, a staged concert was held at Carnegie Hall in New York City as a benefit for the Gay Men's Health Crisis.
* Infinity and the Mind, Rudy Rucker, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1995, ISBN 0-691-00172-3 ; orig.
Bronx Local: While hundreds of songs about New York City, Manhattan and Brooklyn can be found in Wikipedia's List of songs about New York City and also in Marc Ferris's 5-page, 15-column list of " Songs and Compositions Inspired by New York City " in The Encyclopedia of New York City ( 1995 ), only a handful refer to The Bronx.
The Encyclopedia of New York City, ( Yale University Press and The New-York Historical Society, ( 1995 ) ISBN 0-300-05536-6 ), has entries, maps, illustrations, statistics and bibliographic references on almost all of the significant topics in this article, from the entire borough to individual neighborhoods, people, events and artistic works.
* MacKenzie, David, The " Black hand " on Trial: Salonika, 1917 ( East East European Monographs, No. 423 ; Boulder, Colo .: East European Monographs ; New York: distributed by Columbia University Press, 1995 )
1967 ( Revised edition: Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984 0-226-28263-5 ; 3rd edition: New York: Dover, 1995 0-486-28598-7 ).
The team debuted in its new ballpark on April 26, 1995, in an 11 – 9 win over the New York Mets, and proceeded to win seven of their first eight games in the new season.
: New Zealand dollars ( NZ $) per US $ 1-1. 4203 ( 2005 ), 1. 9451 ( January 2000 ), 1. 8886 ( 1999 ), 1. 8632 ( 1998 ), 1. 5083 ( 1997 ), 1. 4543 ( 1996 ), 1. 5235 ( 1995 )
*" The Penguin Dictionary of Saints, 3rd Edition ", Donald Attwater and Catherine Rachel John, New York: Peguin Putnam Inc., 1995, ISBN 0-14-051312-4
Proposals made in 1995 to use it or replace it with a new bridge for pedestrians were opposed by the city of New York and the private ferry operator at that time.
( from Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought, Basic Books: New York, 1995 )
1995 and South
* 1995 – In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel ( she drops out less than a week later ).
Carolina had several rivalries within the NFC West from 1995 to 2001, before Carolina moved to the NFC South in 2002.
Hetzron ( 1980: 70ff ) and Ehret ( 1995 ) have suggested that the Rift languages ( South Cushitic ) are a part of Lowland East Cushitic, the only one of the six groups with much internal diversity.
In early 1995, South Africa won one-off tests against both Pakistan and New Zealand, in Auckland Cronje scored the only century of the match before a final day declaration left his bowlers barely enough time to dismiss the Kiwis.
* 1995 – The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.
Kiribati briefly suspended its relations with France in 1995 over that country's decision to renew nuclear testing in the South Pacific.
maloti ( M ) per US $ 1 – 7. 32 ( 2010 ), 6. 10948 ( 1999 ), 3. 62709 ( 1995 ); note-the Basotho loti is at par with the South African rand
* Campbell, James T. ( 1995 ) Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-507892-6
PLAN task groups also paid visits to Indonesia in 1995 ; North Korea in 1997 ; New Zealand, Australia, and the Philippines in 1998 ; Malaysia, Tanzania, South Africa, the United States, and Canada in 2000 ; and India, Pakistan, France, Italy, Germany, Britain, Hong Kong, Australia, and New Zealand in 2001.
emalangeni ( E ) per US $ 1 – 7. 3 ( 2011 ), 7. 32 ( 2010 ), 8. 42 ( 2009 ), 7. 75 ( 2008 ), 7. 4 ( 2007 ), 10. 5407 ( 2002 ), 8. 6092 ( 2001 ), 6. 9398 ( 2000 ), 6. 1087 ( 1999 ), 5. 4807 ( 1998 ), 4. 6032 ( 1997 ), 4. 2706 ( 1996 ), 3. 6266 ( 1995 ); note-the Lilangeni is at par with the South African rand
* The most prominent natural disasters of the decade include: Hurricane Andrew striking South Florida in August 1992, the crippling super storm of March 1993 along the Eastern Seaboard, the devastating 1994 Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles, the Great Hanshin earthquake in Kobe, Japan in January 1995, the Blizzard of 1996 in the eastern U. S., the US drought of 1999, the deadly Hurricane Mitch which struck Central America in October 1998, and the destructive Oklahoma tornado outbreak in May 1999, the August 1999 İzmit earthquake in Turkey, and the September 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake in Taiwan.
South African plantations have expanded significantly, from 1 % of the vineyard area in 1995 to 9. 7 % in 2007 making up a total area under cultivation of.
Chapter 2 of the South African Citizenship Act, enacted on October 6, 1995, defines who is considered a naturalized citizen at the time of the act and also outlines the naturalization process for future immigrants.
Eastwood's 30th directorial outing came with Invictus, a film based on the story of the South African team at the 1995 Rugby World Cup, with Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela, Matt Damon as rugby team captain François Pienaar and Grant L. Roberts as Ruben Kruger.
In 1995, South Dakota challenged the authority of the Secretary of Interior, under the IRA, to take of land into trust on behalf of the Lower Brulé Sioux Tribe ( based on the Rosebud Indian Reservation ), in South Dakota v. United States Dep't of the Interior, 69 F. 3d 878, 881-85 ( 8th Cir.
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