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Mickey Charles Mantle, nicknamed "the Mick" and "the Commerce Comet", was an American professional baseball player who played his entire Major League Baseball (MLB) career (1951–19…
Mickey Mantle, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1931)
John Cameron Swayze was an American anchorman, news commentator, and game show panelist during the 1940s and 1950s. He later became best known as a product spokesman.
John Cameron Swayze, American journalist and actor (born 1906)
Howard E. Koch was an American playwright and screenwriter who was blacklisted by the Hollywood film studio bosses in the 1950s.
Howard E. Koch, American playwright and screenwriter (born 1902)
Edward James Whitten Sr. OAM was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Footscray Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Ted Whitten, Australian footballer and coach (born 1933)
Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer was a French composer, writer, broadcaster, engineer, musicologist, acoustician and founder of Groupe de Recherche de Musique Concrète (GRMC). His inno…
Pierre Schaeffer, French composer and musicologist (born 1910)
Charles Joseph Stevenson was an American racing driver who competed in various disciplines of motorsport. He is best known for winning the AAA National Championship in 1952. Steven…
Chuck Stevenson, American race car driver (born 1919)
Alfred Eisenstaedt was a German-born American photographer and photojournalist. He began his career in Germany prior to World War II but achieved prominence as a staff photographer…
Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-American photographer and journalist (born 1898)
Douglas Alan Stegmeyer was an American musician who was best known as a bassist and back-up vocalist for Billy Joel. Stegmeyer also performed as bassist for Debbie Gibson and Hall …
Doug Stegmeyer, American bass player and producer (born 1951)
John Kilian Houston Brunner was a British author of science fiction novels and stories. His 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar, about an overpopulated world, won the 1969 Hugo Award for …
John Brunner, English-Scottish author and poet (born 1934)
Ugo Eugenio Prat, better known as Hugo Pratt, was an Italian comic book creator who was known for combining strong storytelling with extensive historical research on works such as …
Hugo Pratt, Italian author and illustrator (born 1927)
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an Indian-American theoretical physicist. He shared the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importa…
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-American astrophysicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1910)
John Joseph Carey was an Irish professional footballer and manager. As a player, Carey spent most of his career at Manchester United, where he was team captain from 1946 until he r…
Johnny Carey, Irish footballer and manager (born 1919)
Earl Wesley Bascom was an American-Canadian painter, printmaker, sculptor, cowboy, rodeo performer, inventor, and Hollywood actor. Raised in Canada, he portrayed in works of fine a…
Earl W. Bascom, American rodeo performer and painter (born 1906)
Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende was a German writer of fantasy and children's fiction. He is known for his epic fantasy The Neverending Story ; other well-known works include Momo and…
Michael Ende, German scientist and author (born 1929)
On April 19, 1995, American anti-government extremist Timothy McVeigh, assisted by Terry Nichols, detonated a makeshift bomb stored in a rental truck parked in front of the Alfred …
A truck bombing destroyed much of the Alfred P
Alison Jane Hargreaves was a British mountaineer. Her accomplishments included scaling Mount Everest alone, without supplementary oxygen or support from a Sherpa team, in 1995. She…
Alison Hargreaves became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest without the aid of Sherpas or bottled oxyg
Comet Hale–Bopp is a long-period comet that was one of the most widely observed of the 20th century and one of the brightest seen for many decades.
Hale–Bopp, one of the most widely observed comets of the 20th century, was independently discovered by astronomers…
The Rungrado 1st of May Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium occupying an area of 20.7 hectares on the island Rŭngrado, Pyongyang, North Korea. It opened on 1 May 1989, with its firs…
Before a crowd of about 165,000 at the Rungrado 1st of May Stadium, Ric Flair and Antonio Inoki competed in the main eve
The Croatian War of Independence was an armed conflict fought in Croatia from 1991 to 1995 between Croat forces loyal to the Government of Croatia—which had declared independence f…
Croatian War of Independence: Serb forces began rocket attacks on the Croatian capital Zagreb, killing 7 people and inju
Gedhun Choekyi Nyima is the 11th Panchen Lama belonging to the Gelugpa school of Tibetan Buddhism, as recognized and announced by the 14th Dalai Lama on 14 May 1995. Three days lat…
Six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the 11th Panchen Lama selected by the 14th Dalai Lama, was kidnapped by the Chinese g
Christopher D'Olier Reeve was an American actor, activist, director, and author. He amassed many stage and screen credits in his 34-year career, including playing the title charact…
American actor Christopher Reeve was thrown from his horse, leaving him quadriplegic; he later became an activist on beh
The Bosnian War was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. Following several earlier violent incidents, the war is commonl…
Bosnian War: Forces of the Army of Republika Srpska captured a United Nations post at Vrbanja Bridge in Sarajevo; six so
The Bosnian War was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. Following several earlier violent incidents, the war is commonl…
Bosnian War: U
An earthquake struck Western Greece near the coastal city of Aigio at 03:15:48 local time on 15 June 1995. The second destructive earthquake to strike Greece in a month, it measure…
Western Greece was struck by an earthquake registering 6