What Happened In June 1995 In History

Historical Events for June, 1995

• 5th » The Bose–Einstein condensate is first created.
• 7th » The long-range Boeing 777 enters service with United Airlines.
• 24th » "1995 Rugby World Cup or Rugby World Cup final": South Africa defeats New Zealand, Nelson Mandela presents Francois Pienaar with the Webb-Ellis trophy in an iconic post-apartheid moment.
• 26th » Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup.
• 26th » Attempted assassination of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in Addis Ababa.
• 29th » Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission ('Space Shuttle Atlantis known as Atlantis') docks with the Mir or Russian space station 'Mir' for the first time.
• 29th » The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.

Famous Birthdays on June in 1995

• 2nd » Sterling Beaumon, American actor
• 5th » Beckii Cruel, English singer and dancer
• 5th » Troye Sivan, South African-Australian actor and singer
• 5th » Ross Wilson (table tennis) called Ross Wilson, English table tennis player
• 6th » Julian Green, American soccer player
• 13th » Emily Fanning, New Zealand tennis player
• 13th » Laura Ucrós, Colombian tennis player
• 19th » Blake Woodruff, American actor
• 20th » Carol Zhao, Canadian tennis player
• 23rd » Lauren Aquilina, English singer-songwriter
• 23rd » Hao Yun, Chinese swimmer
• 26th » Reema Major, Sudanese-Canadian rapper
• 28th » Kåre Hedebrant, Swedish actor
• 30th » Allie Kiick, American tennis player

Famous Deaths for June 1995

• 6th » Savely Kramarov, Russian-American actor (b. 1934)
• 7th » Hsuan Hua, Chinese monk (b. 1918)
• 7th » Charles Ritchie (diplomat) called Charles Ritchie, Canadian diplomat (b. 1906)
• 11th » Rodel Naval, Filipino singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1953)
• 12th » Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (b. 1920)
• 12th » Pierre Russell, American basketball player (b. 1949)
• 14th » Els Aarne, Ukrainian-Estonian composer (b. 1917)
• 14th » Rory Gallagher, Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Taste (band) e.g Taste) (b. 1949)
• 14th » Roger Zelazny, American author (b. 1937)
• 15th » John Vincent Atanasoff, American physicist and inventor, invented the Atanasoff–Berry Computer (b. 1903)
• 19th » Peter Townsend (RAF officer) or Peter Townsend, Burmese-English captain and pilot (b. 1914)
• 20th » Emil Cioran, Romanian-French philosopher and educator (b. 1911)
• 22nd » Leonid Derbenyov, Russian poet and songwriter (b. 1931)
• 22nd » Al Hansen, American sculptor (b. 1927)
• 23rd » Roger Grimsby, American journalist and actor (b. 1928)
• 23rd » Jonas Salk, American biologist and physician (b. 1914)
• 23rd » Anatoli Tarasov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1918)
• 25th » Ernest Walton, Irish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics called Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 28th » Petri Walli, Finnish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Kingston Wall) (b. 1969)
• 29th » Lana Turner, American actress and singer (b. 1921)
• 30th » Georgy Beregovoy, Ukrainian general and astronaut (b. 1921)
• 30th » Gale Gordon, American actor and singer (b. 1906)
• 30th » Phyllis Hyman, American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1949)

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