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With the decade half over, 1995 did not leave us "High and Dry." It came to bat and has us all Waiting to Exhale.
Technology was again at the forefront as Internet giants Yahoo! and eBay came into existence. Not only could you search the Web and find virtually anything, now you could also sell all your old crap while you bid on other’s discarded treasures.
TV had us all going MAD ("He looka like a man!") while we watched oddball characters like Ren & Stimpy. Blossom taught us how to wear floppy (and in retrospect, ugly) hats with big flowers on them while Cher and Dionne schooled us on how to wear plaid skirts in Clueless.
The movies took us to the moon with Apollo 13 and into the secret world of toys
with Disney’s animated hit Toy Story. They also gave us a peak into the lives of Hackers and the mind of a sadistic killer in Se7en. (Do you know what is in the box?)
Don’t dismiss this middle year or give it the "Run-Around," ‘cuz it wasn’t just "Good," it was "Boombastic!"
• The World Trade Organization comes into being, an event that would lead to protests and controversy around the world on the part of citizens concerned about the economic ramifications of streamlined global trade. • Kevin Mitnick, a notorious computer hacker, is finally captured by the FBI. • Close to 6,500 people are killed when an earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale strikes the city of Kobe in Japan. • Steve Fosset flies across the Pacific Ocean in a hot air balloon, taking off in South Korea and landing in Saskatchewan, Canada. • Barings Bank, the oldest investment bank based in the United Kingdom is brought down through the actions of a single broker in the Tokyo Stock Exchange that incur over 1 billion dollars in losses. • Yahoo!, the popular search engine, web directory and email service is founded by Jerry Wang and David Filo. • 168 people are murdered by domestic terrorists in Oklahoma City when a bomb destroys a significant portion of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. • 11.5 billion dollars in damage occur and 100 lives are lost as 11 hurricanes pound the Atlantic coast in one of the busiest storm seasons on record. • eBay, another giant of internet commerce comes into being as an online auction house. • The Million Man March reaches the Capitol Buildings in Washington, D.C. The March consisted of black men and was organized in order to address the concerns regarding national social problems and voter apathy. • Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel, is assassinated. Rabin had won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in reducing the violence in the Middle East the year before. |
Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building is destroyed & 165 lose their life in the Oklahoma City bombing. Yahoo! and eBay, two Internet giants, are founded. Steve Fosset flies across the Pacific Ocean in a hot air balloon |
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NewsRadio |
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JAG |
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The Drew Carey Show |
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MADtv |
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Star Trek: Voyager |
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Blossom |
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Ricki Lake |
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Ren & Stimpy |
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GoldenEye |
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Batman Forever |
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Apollo 13 |
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Jumanji |
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Pocahontas |
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Casper |
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Toy Story |
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Se7en |
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Before Sunrise |
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Dangerous Minds |
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Clueless |
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Desperado |
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Don Juan DeMarco |
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Hackers |
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Leaving Las Vegas |
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Strange Days |
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Twelve Monkeys |
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Waiting to Exhale |
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Dead Man Walking |
• Jeff Gordon wins his first NASCAR Winston Cup Championship, while Sterling Marlin wins his second Daytona 500 in a row. • The New Jersey Devils sweep the Detroit Red Wings 4 games to none and win the Stanley Cup. • The Atlanta Braves win the World Series of Baseball, defeating the Cleveland Indians. • Super Bowl XXIX is taken by the San Francisco 49ers, who make history by defeating San Diego to become the first team to have ever won 5 NFL titles. • Greg Norman once again leads the PGA Tour in overall winnings, but Ben Crenshaw wins the Master Tournament and dons the fabled Green Jacket. • Michael Schumacher repeats as Formula 1 driver’s championship. • The Houston Rockets sweep Shaq and the Orlando Magic to win the NBA title two years running. • Thunder Gulch wins both the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes. • Steffi Graf has a strong year in tennis, winning at Wimbledon, the US Open and the French. Pete Sampras takes his third Wimbledon title in the Men’s division. • Jacques Villeneuve catches the eye of international racing fans by winning the Indianapolis 500. • Elvis Stojko emerges triumphant with the Men’s figure skating World Championship. |
Jeff Gordon wins his first NASCAR Winston Cup Championship Elvis Stojko of Canada takes the figure skating world by storm |