50 years of Living Western Brought to you by Cavender’s: 1995
Ebay started the online auction and shopping website, where people buy and sell goods and services worldwide.
Gone Country by Alan Jackson reached the top of the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks.
Truck Bomb devastates Oklahoma City Federal Building.
An unprecedented heat wave strikes the Midwestern United States Temperatures exceed 104°F in the afternoon for 5 straight days.
The 55 MPH limit imposed during the Middle East Crisis in 1973 / 1974 is ended
Tuff Hedeman, a three-time world champion, drew Sammy Andrew’s bull Bodacious in the seventh round and held onto the back of the chute while the bull ran out from under him. Hedeman had suffered massive facial injuries while attempting to ride the bull earlier in the year and had to have reconstructive face surgery. Bodacious knocked out Scott Breeding two rounds later and was retired during a brief ceremony in the 10th round.
At the movies, Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe star in the drama The Quick and the Dead. The story focuses on “The Lady” (Stone), a gunfighter who rides into the frontier town of Redemption, controlled by John Herod (Hackman). The Lady joins a deadly dueling competition in an attempt to exact revenge for her father’s death.