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The state has told Morristown to pass its budget by today or its Council members will be fined $25 a day. Morristown is the only municipality in the state that has not adopted a 1995 calendar year budget, said Robert Friant, a spokesman for the State Department of Community Affairs.
The state Senate Judiciary Committee will conduct a hearing on whether it should be tougher for an inmate to win parole in New Jersey and how to minimize harm from convicts who relocate to the state after being released from prisons elsewhere .
After days of record heat and hundreds of deaths in Chicago, funeral homes in the city are running like assembly lines.
NEW YORK CITY THE SIDESHOW TO A SIDESHOW Coney Island U.S.A., the oddest spectacle on the Coney Island Boardwalk, has entertained nearly a million people over the last 11 years with processions of bearded ladies, sword swallowers and snake charmers. But the biggest sideshow this summer may be the one playing behind the scenes at the amusement park. The landlord is trying to evict Coney Island U.S.A., which operates Sideshows by the Seashore and the Coney Island Museum on the Boardwalk at West 12th Street. One potential tenant is McDonald's, which has looked at the site. [ Page B3. ]
Three days after the University of California Board of Regents ostensibly did away with all campus affirmative action programs based on race or sex, the intended goal of that mandate was threatened on two fronts: the loss of Federal largess and perceived loopholes in the order itself. This morning, President Clinton's chief of staff, Leon E. Panetta, said that the University of California made a "terrible mistake" on Thursday in its affirmative action vote, and he said that the Justice Department would begin a review of the billions of Federal dollars that flow to the state's universities.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 19, 1995, covering July 24, 1995.
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Michael Jackson
Hootie & The Blowfish
TLC
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1995Valentine Holmes, Australian rugby league player[†]
Valentine Holmes is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a centre for the St. George Illawarra Dragons in the National Rugby League and for the Queensland Maroons in State of Origin as a winger.
1995Kyle Kuzma, American basketball player[†]
Kyle Alexander Kuzma is an American professional basketball player for the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Utah Utes and was named first-team all-conference in the Pac-12 as a junior in 2016–17. Kuzma was selected in the first round of the 2017 NBA draft with the 27th overall pick, and he was named to the NBA All-Rookie First Team with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2018. He won an NBA championship with the Lakers in 2020 before being traded to the Washington Wizards in 2021.
1995Meisei Chikara, Japanese sumo wrestler[†]
Meisei Chikara is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Setouchi, Kagoshima. He debuted in sumo wrestling in July 2011 and made his makuuchi debut in July 2018. His highest rank has been sekiwake. He wrestles for Tatsunami stable. Unusually for a top-class sumo wrestler, he uses his given name as his shikona.
1995George Rodger, English photographer and journalist (born 1908)[†]
George William Adam Rodger was a British photojournalist. He was noted for his work in Africa, and for photographing mass deaths at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during the end of the World War II.
In 1995, the world population was approximately 5,758,878,982 people[†]