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HistoryCentral Est. 1996
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1995
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1995

Major Events · Sports · Music · Screen · Prizes

A truck bomb destroyed Oklahoma City's Murrah Federal Building, killing 168, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated, and the Dayton Accords ended the Bosnian War. O.J. Simpson was acquitted of murder, and Braveheart won Best Picture.

A Year in Review
Best Picture
Braveheart
Nobel · Literature
Heaney
World Series
Atlanta Braves vs. Cleveland Indians Ser
No. 1 Song
Creep
Top TV
Academy · Actor
Nicolas Cage

Major Events of 1995

4 events
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin assMexican bailoutMurrah Federal Building in Oklahoma COJ Simpson verdict - "Not Guilty"

Sports Highlights

Champions of 1995

Champions

NBAHouston Rockets vs. Orlando Magic Series: 4-0
NCAA FootballNebraska Record: 12-0-0
Heisman TrophyEddie George, ohio state, RB points: 1,460
Stanley CupNew Jersey Devils vs. Detroit Red Wings Score: 4-0 Super Bowl XXIX: San Francisco 49ers vs. San Diego Chargers Score: 49-26 US Open Golf: Corey Pavin Score: 280 Course: Shinnecock Hills GC Location: Southampton, NY
World SeriesAtlanta Braves vs. Cleveland Indians Series: 4-2

Top Music of 1995

The year on the charts

Top Songs

  1. Creep TLC
  2. Take a Bow Madonna
  3. This How We Do It Montell Jordan
  4. Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman?'' Bryan Adams
  5. Waterfalls TLC
  6. Kiss From a Rose Seal
  7. You Are Not Alone Michael Jackson
  8. Gangsta's Paradise Coolio featuring L.V
  9. Fantasy Mariah Carey
  10. Exhale Whitney Houston

Grammy Awards

Song of the Year
"Kiss from a Rose" ... Seal| Best Song: "Kiss from a Rose" ... Seal Best Album: "Jagged Little Pill" ... Alanis Morissette Male Vocalist: Seal ... "Kiss From a Rose" Female Vocalist: Annie Lennox ... "No More 'I Love Yous'"

Screen & Television

At the box office & on the air

Top Movies

  1. Batman Forever
  2. Apollo 13
  3. Toy Story
  4. Pocahontas
  5. Ace Ven tura II
  6. Casper
  7. Die Hard: With a Vengence
  8. Goldeneye
  9. Crimson Tide
  10. Waterworld

Academy Awards

Honoring 1995
Best Picture
Braveheart
Best Director
Mel Gibson
Braveheart
Best Actor
Nicolas Cage
Leaving Las Vegas
Best Actress
Susan Sarandon
Dead Man Walking

Nobel & Pulitzer Prizes

The year in letters & science

Nobel Prizes

Chemistry
, Mainz, Germany, b. 1933; MOLINA, MARIO J., U.S.A., (in Mexico City, Mexico) MIT, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., b. 1943; and ROWLAND, F. SHERWOOD, U.S.A., University of California, Irvine, CA, U.S.A., b. 1927: "for their work in atmospheric chemi
Literature
HEANEY, SEAMUS, Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, b. 1939: "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past"
Peace
The prize was awarded jointly to: JOSEPH ROTBLAT and to the PUGWASH CONFERENCES ON SCIENCE AND WORLD AFFAIRS for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and in the longer run to eliminate such arm
Physics
The prize was awarded "for pioneering experimental contributions to lepton physics" with one half to: PERL, MARTIN L., U.S.A., Stanford University, Stanford, CA, U.S.A., b. 1927, "for the discovery of the tau lepton" and with one half to: R

Pulitzer Prizes

Drama
Horton Foote ... "The Young Man from Atlanta"
Fiction
Carol Shields ... "The Stone Diaries"
History
Doris Kearns Goodwin ... "No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt" International Reporting: Mark Fritz ... "Associated Press" National Reporting: Tony Horwitz ... "Wall Street Journal"
Public Service
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