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In 1995, the world population was approximately 5,758,878,982 people[â ]
1995Yuta, Japanese singer[â ]
Yuta Nakamoto , known professionally as Yuta, is a Japanese singer-songwriter, actor, dancer and radio host based in South Korea. He is a member of the South Korean boy group NCT, debuting in the group's second fixed sub-unit NCT 127 in 2016 and in the group's first rotational sub-unit NCT U in 2020. Yuta made his solo debut on October 3, 2024, with the extended play (EP) Depth.
1995Wilhelm Freddie, Danish painter and sculptor (born 1909)[â ]
Wilhelm Freddie, born Christian Frederik Wilhelm Carlsen was a Danish painter, sculptor and filmmaker. Initially working along a somewhat abstract line, he soon turned towards a more realistic surrealism, only to later return to abstract art. Some of his works were highly controversial and considered pornographic at their time, resulting in confiscation of the works and his imprisonment though his artistic merits were later recognized.
1995Gorni Kramer, Italian bassist, songwriter, and bandleader (born 1913)[â ]
Francesco Kramer Gorni, known as Gorni Kramer, was an Italian songwriter, musician and band leader.
1995Mossad agents assassinate Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shaqaqi in his hotel in Malta.[â ]
The Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations, popularly known as Mossad, is the national intelligence agency of the State of Israel. It is one of the main entities in the Israeli Intelligence Community, along with Aman and Shin Bet.
1995An avalanche hits the Icelandic village of Flateyri, destroying 29 homes and burying 45 people, and killing 20.[â ]
Flateyri is a village situated in Iceland's Westfjords. It is part of the municipality of ĂsafjarĂ°arbĂŠr and has a population of approximately 200, making it the largest settlement in ĂnundarfjörĂ°ur.
TOOLS were a part of life when I was a boy in blue-collar Brooklyn after World War II. Men carried their tools to work in the dark mornings, jammed into leather belts, or slung over shoulders, or gripped in gloved hands against the cold. They carried those tools with a certain pride, like prizefighters with gym bags; they were symbols of work and skill. In the evenings, the subways were salty with the aromas of perspiration and labor and the men planted their backs against the doors, with their tools at their feet. In memory, those working men were all hard and courteous, but grave, even solemn; more likely, they were simply exhausted. But one memory is absolutely clear: no kid ever told them to get out of the way.
After weeks of hints and barbs, Jerome B. York, Kirk Kerkorian's strategist and spokesman, presented his list of demands today to the Chrysler Corporation, asking the company to: appoint him to its board, give Mr. Kerkorian veto power over two more directors, and weaken its antitakeover provision to permit Mr. Kerkorian to buy more stock. Further, Mr. York, who declared he was acting "in a spirit of compromise," requested that the company form a committee to study whether its target of accumulating a $7.5 billion cash cushion was excessive, as he contends. And he asked that Chrysler adopt rules that limit its ability to issue preferred stock - which could weaken Mr. Kerkorian's voting power - and prevent it from paying greenmail, a premium paid for an investor's holdings by a company who fears a takeover by the investor.
With the rain, over the mountains, came the plague. First, it struck the horses and the donkeys, leaving them dazed and then wild, spinning dizzy before falling dead to the ground. A few weeks later, whole villages were besieged by soaring fevers, aching muscles, vomiting and diarrhea. Some shook with convulsions, furiously whipping and kicking the air, and gnawing their lips. They cursed the people who loved them. They sank into comas, and they died.
The City Council yesterday overwhelmingly approved a far-reaching package of restrictions on X-rated video stores, peep shows and topless bars in New York City, rejecting the concerns of civil libertarians and siding with residents who complained about the proliferation of sex businesses in their neighborhoods. If they withstand the court challenge that opponents have promised, the new rules will sharply reduce the number and location of sex shops and theaters in parts of the city, particularly in neighborhoods of Queens and Brooklyn where many such businesses have opened in recent years.
State education officials are renewing efforts to get Englewood, Tenafly and Englewood Cliffs to settle their 10-year feud about desegregation of Dwight Morrow High School in Englewood. On Oct. 31, Jay Doolan, the State Education Department official who presided over five stormy hearings on proposals to form a regional school district, and Dr. Harry Galinsky, the former School Superintendent of Paramus, will "discuss ways to bring the parties together and ways to solve this voluntarily," said Peter Peretzman, a spokesman for the State Education Department.
The state is seeking to overturn a ruling last week that allowed a nonpartisan Presidential preference poll called CityVote to be placed on Newark's Nov. 7 ballot. The Attorney General's office argued in an appeal filed yesterday that "a municipality cannot put a question on the ballot that the municipality is not legally authorized to act upon," said Chuck Davis, a spokesman for the office.
Encroaching salt water from the Atlantic Ocean and Delaware Bay is contaminating wells in the Cape May area, causing the supply of drinking water to dwindle, officials say. Drafts of studies under way by the state and Federal Government suggest the existing supply of fresh water for Cape May, Cape May Point and West Cape May Borough will run out by 1999, The Associated Press reported. The State Department of Environmental Protection will recommend that Cape May County establish the state's first desalination plant.
Each Thursday night for years, a small group of influential lobbyists and other Washington insiders assembled in the office of Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato for a private poker game. They ate Chinese food, smoked expensive cigars and told bawdy stories late into the night over pots that sometimes reached hundreds of dollars. Only the players and some D'Amato aides knew about the weekly games, since discontinued. On the Senator's private schedule, they were noted with the words, "The Fellas." Some players described a high-stakes game in which Senator D'Amato often won. Sometimes winnings reached as much as $300 or $400 a hand, two of the players said.
By anybody's standards, Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin is plenty rich. But even his staff blanched a bit when one of his predecessors, James A. Baker 3d, suggested recently that a quirk of Federal law would make Mr. Rubin personally liable for any Federal debt incurred after the Government hits a $4.9 trillion ceiling on borrowing sometime in the next two weeks. The good news for Mr. Rubin is that the Treasury Department's lawyers think Mr. Baker was probably wrong. The fortune the Treasury Secretary accumulated on Wall Street -- roughly $100 million, or enough to keep the Government running for about 33 minutes -- is safe.
State officials will unveil a new $12.5 million headquarters today for the State Police who patrol the New Jersey Turnpike. Troop D Headquarters has its own heliport and a computerized tracking system that can pinpoint a stranded driver, said John Hagerty, a spokesman for the State Police. The complex, owned by the Turnpike Authority, is next to the Molly Pitcher rest stop in Cranbury.
President Clinton and President Boris N. Yeltsin have agreed that up to 2,000 Russian soldiers may carry out support functions in Bosnia to back up a peace agreement, senior NATO and Administration officials said yesterday. Such troops would be separate from a NATO-led force that would enforce a settlement.
Anheuser-Busch to Sell Ball Club and Snack Unit Anheuser-Busch plans to sell the St. Louis Cardinals ball club and its Eagle snack-food business. "We are focusing on what we know best," said August A. Busch 3d, which is to say, the beer business and theme parks. Eagle Snacks expects a 1995 loss of $25 million. Separately, Anheuser said earnings rose 3.1 percent in the quarter. [D2.]