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LEAVE the city? It's a question that can come up casually over any lunch in New York. But nothing is casual with Ann Douglas. This Columbia University professor did, after all, spend 15 years writing "Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920's," the acclaimed piece of analysis that has placed her firmly in the front ranks of America's cultural historians.
Last year they met, fell in love and eloped. Yesterday, the teen-age bride was dead, and the police said her 21-year-old husband killed her. He said it was an accident. Kortkut Koc, a Turkish immigrant, was taken into custody for questioning after he summoned the police. When they arrived, they said, they found the body of Asha Cagar, 17, a Clifton High School junior, who had been shot once in the head.
NEW YORK CITY OFFICER IS CLEARED IN YOUTH'S DEATH A grand jury in Brooklyn has voted not to indict a police officer in the death of a 16-year-old honors student who was shot in the head two months ago in Sheepshead Bay, District Attorney Charles J. Hynes announced. B3.
One of the fiercest naval battles in years broke out here today -- in an ornate Capitol Hill hearing room packed with admirals, lawmakers and lobbyists. The battle pits the United States' two submarine builders in a fight that will most likely leave only one standing. At stake is a $60 billion contract to build the Navy's new attack submarine, thousands of jobs in Connecticut and Virginia and an industrial hedge against a resurgent Russia or other future enemy.
Gov. Christine Todd Whitman is sending her husband onto thin ice in her effort to keep the New Jersey Devils from skating to a new home in another state. The Governor said yesterday that John Whitman, an amateur hockey player, would be the "ideal neutral party" to get talks moving in a dispute between the National Hockey League team and the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority. Unhappy with attendance, John McMullen, the owner of the Devils, is challenging his lease at the Brendan Byrne Arena, and Nashville is searching for a team. The sports authority can negotiate a deal to sweeten the pot for the Devils, but Mrs. Whitman has the final say.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 17, 1995, covering May 17, 1995.
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Hootie & The Blowfish
Live
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2Pac
1995Toe Blake, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1912)[†]
Joseph Hector "Toe" Blake was a Canadian ice hockey player and coach in the National Hockey League (NHL). Blake played in the NHL from 1935 to 1948 with the Montreal Maroons and Montreal Canadiens. He led the NHL in scoring in 1939, while also winning the Hart Trophy for most valuable player, and served as captain of the Canadiens from 1940 to his retirement. He won the Stanley Cup three times as a player: in 1935 with the Maroons, and in 1944 and 1946 with the Canadiens. While with the Canadiens Blake played on a line with Elmer Lach and Maurice Richard which was dubbed the Punch line, as all three were highly-skilled players. In 2017 Blake was named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history. He was also known as "The Old Lamplighter" due to his skill for putting the puck in the net.
1995Shawn Nelson steals an M60 tank from the California Army National Guard Armory in San Diego and proceeds to go on a rampage.[†]
The 1995 San Diego tank rampage was the theft of an M60A3 tank by Shawn Timothy Nelson and his destruction of cars and utilities in suburban San Diego, California, United States.
In 1995, the world population was approximately 5,758,878,982 people[†]