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Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
In 1995, the world population was approximately 5,758,878,982 people[†]
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 27, 1995, covering December 30, 1995.
Mariah Carey
The Beatles
Mannheim Steamroller
Soundtrack
Garth Brooks
Hootie & The Blowfish
Alanis Morissette
Alan Jackson
The Smashing Pumpkins
TLC
1995Igor Shesterkin, Russian hockey goaltender[†]
Igor Olegovich Shestyorkin is a Russian professional ice hockey goaltender for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected by the Rangers in the fourth round, 118th overall, of the 2014 NHL Entry Draft. In his first 82-game season in 2021–22, Shesterkin won the Vezina Trophy as the league's best goaltender.
1995Ollie Watkins, English footballer[†]
Oliver George Arthur Watkins is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Aston Villa and the England national team. Described as a complete forward, Watkins is known for his finishing ability and work ethic.
1995V, South Korean singer[†]
Kim Tae-hyung, known professionally as V (뷔), is a South Korean singer and songwriter. In 2013, he made his debut as a member of the South Korean boy band BTS, under Big Hit Entertainment.
1995Ralph Flanagan, American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1914)[†]
Ralph Elias Flenniken, known professionally as Ralph Flanagan, was an American big band leader, pianist, composer, and arranger for the orchestras of Hal McIntyre, Sammy Kaye, Blue Barron, Charlie Barnet, and Alvino Rey.
1995Doris Grau, American voice actor and script supervisor (born 1924)[†]
Doris Grau was an American actress and script supervisor from Brooklyn. After moving to Hollywood in 1940, she began her career supervising film and television scripts. She continued to do this until the 1990s and worked on films such as Point Blank and King Kong and television shows such as Cheers and The Tracey Ullman Show. Grau did some acting in her later years, playing live-action and animated roles. On the sitcom The Simpsons, she worked as a script supervisor and provided the voice of Lunchlady Doris and other minor characters.
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When high-level negotiations on a balanced budget resumed today with President Clinton at the table, Republican leaders offered a plan that would put all 260,000 furloughed Federal employees back to work immediately without pay. But the plan fell apart as quickly as others have in the past month as Senate Democrats instantly slammed the door on it. Arriving at the White House this afternoon, Speaker Newt Gingrich said he was considering supporting legislation proposed in the Senate last week that would declare all furloughed Federal employees "essential" and require them to return to their jobs. The Senate bill would not reopen the Government officially. But it does include a formal, legal guarantee of the back pay that Congress and the White House have promised the workers will receive after a deal is reached.
Supporters of a sweeping telecommunications bill scrambled to smooth over yet another apparent rift among Republican lawmakers, this one over a provision that Senator Bob Dole, the majority leader, attacked as a multibillion-dollar "giveaway" to broadcasters. Senator Dole's comment was but a brief remark in a news conference Thursday on the budget battle in Washington. But it threatened to reopen a policy battle of Bosnian complexity, which at least one Republican senator feared could scuttle the communications bill.
Turkey's Islamic Challenge The strong showing by an Islamic party in Turkish elections this week is a challenge to the secular parties now in power to stop their bickering and to try to achieve unity. Page 4.
A high mountain sun burned brightly, a fresh snowpack crunched underfoot, and, outside the office of Yellowstone Adventures, a row of new snowmobiles beckoned with the latest conveniences -- from foot warmers to heated handlebars. "This time last year, all 130 snowmobiles were out every day," fretted Ken Takata, manager of the rental agency. "This week, we are averaging 40 to 50."
New York City's public hospitals agency has drawn up its first systemwide rules for midwives, as part of an array of changes over the last year that officials say have already reduced injuries to babies and mothers in the delivery rooms of the city's 11 public hospitals. The new regulations set out in detail what midwives may and may not do on their own and make clear that senior doctors must assume responsibility for difficult deliveries. The new rules are likely to have a significant impact on a hospital system where midwives, nurses with specialized training in childbirth, handle thousands of births each year.
Every American Presidential campaign draws a handful of candidates whose odds of reaching the White House are too absurdly long to calculate. But whatever impels these politically impractical hopefuls to dream the impossible dream, they often turn out to be the light ingredient that saves Presidential contests from turning into endlessly bland heavy cake.
On New Year's Eve, Russia's largest television network is to broadcast a three-hour special intended to tap into the growing nostalgia for Soviet times. This slick tribute to Stalinist propaganda films that idealize life on the collective farm stars Russia's best-known pop singers recreating vignettes from creaky classics like the 1950 musical "Cossacks of the Kuban."
The Market Place column in Business Day on Dec. 15, about prospects for the Finnish cellular phone company Nokia, misidentified the financial analyst who began to follow Nokia's stock on Dec. 14 with a "buy" recommendation. He was Jeffrey Hines, senior wireless telecommunications analyst at Paine Webber Inc., not Albert Lin of Cowen & Company.
Because of an editing error, an article in Business Day on Tuesday about a debate over the safety of a new gasoline additive known as M.M.T. misstated the reason for General Motors' recommendation against its use in Canada. The company is concerned that M.M.T. may damage emission-control systems; the recommendation did not result from a bill in the Canadian Parliament to ban M.M.T.
An article in Business Day on Monday about Jim Henson Productions misstated the date of Mr. Henson's death. It was May 1990, not 1991.
Because of an editing error, a brief article yesterday about the crash of a Turkish Air Force jet in the Aegean Sea referred incorrectly to a Greek site near the accident. The place, Mytilene (also spelled Mitiline), is a town, not an island.