Timeline December 1995

Events in December 1995 15

• 1911 – 1995 Butterfly McQueen (1911-1995) American actress, Prissy in Gone with the Wind, who left Hollywood rather than keep playing maids.
• 1917 – 1995 Dean Martin (1917-1995) Died 25 December 1995, aged 78 Dean Martin was an American singer and actor, a member of the Rat Pack alongside Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr., and a fixture of Las Vegas entertainment. He had a long comedy partnership with Jerry Lewis before pursuing a solo career in film and music. His relaxed crooning style produced enduring hits such as That's Amore.
• 1933 – 1995 Elizabeth Montgomery (1933-1995) Died 18 December 1995, aged 62 Elizabeth Montgomery was an American actress best known for starring as the witch Samantha Stephens in the television sitcom Bewitched. The show ran for eight seasons in the 1960s and remained a staple of television syndication for decades afterward. She continued acting in television films throughout her career.
• 1990 – 1995 Slowness and Later French Works Published Immortality (1990) and Slowness (1995), his first novel written entirely in French, completing his transition from Czech to French literary identity.
• 1991 – 1995 Princeton and Tufts Moved to the United States, serving as a visiting scholar at Princeton University (1991-93) and writer-in-residence at Tufts University (1993-95). During this period he wrote The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
• 1994 – 1995 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Published The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, a sprawling novel weaving together a man searching for his missing cat, Japanese wartime atrocities in Manchuria, and a mysterious woman at the bottom of a well. It won the Yomiuri Prize — ironic, as Murakami had previously declined the same award — and is considered by many critics to be his finest work.
• 1994 – 1995 Final concert -- the decline Sinatra performs his final concert at the Fukuoka Dome in Japan on 19 December 1994 -- though his actual final public performance is at a Palm Springs golf tournament in February 1995. His voice is dramatically diminished; he requires lyric prompters; his physical frailty is visible. The contrast with the man who filled Madison Square Garden in 1943 is painful. Sinatra, who has always been brutally self-aware about his vocal instrument, knows better than anyone what has been lost. He withdraws from public performance and spends his final years at home in Beverly Hills.
• 1995 1995: Michael Schumacher Benetton Schumacher won his second consecutive title with Benetton before moving to Ferrari with a mission to restore the team to championship glory.
• 1995 Braveheart Played Smythe, a vicious English soldier, in Mel Gibson's Braveheart, in a performance remembered for its unsettling intensity.
• 1995 High Life Released High Life, which won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album.
• 1995 Imagination Library Founded Launched the Imagination Library through her Dollywood Foundation, initially providing free books to children in her home county of Sevier, Tennessee. The programme would eventually expand to five countries and distribute nearly 308 million books to children worldwide.
• 1995 New Partnership with Kazakova After Mishkutionok's retirement, formed a new partnership with Oksana Kazakova, again under Moskvina's coaching. They won the 1996 European Championship in their first season together.
• 1995 President of Toyota Named president of Toyota Motor Corporation, the first person from outside the founding Toyoda family to hold the position in 28 years. His management credo was 'not changing is evil' — a direct challenge to Toyota's sometimes conservative corporate culture.
• 1995 – 1998 The Truth and Reconciliation Commission is established Chaired by Desmond Tutu Amnesty in exchange for the full truth. Around 7,000 people applied and most were refused.
• 1995 Butterfly McQueen dies in Augusta Butterfly McQueen dies aged 84.