Highlights
Beavis and Butt-Head
"Screamers" (Season 5, Episode 31) aired on 1995-07-10.
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Adam Reynolds
Adam Reynolds, Australian rugby league player
Chiyonokuni Toshiki
Chiyonokuni Toshiki, Japanese sumo wrestler
South Africa national cricket team
The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid.
Boris Yeltsin
Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected President of Russia.
A Beechcraft Model 99 crashes near Birmingham Municipal Airport (now Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport) in Birmingham, Alabama, killing 13 of the 15 people on board.
In Miami, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
The NIOSH air filtration ratings update with the enactment of 42 CFR 84, previously published in the Federal Register. The new regulation includes rules governing the new N95 respirator standard.
In London, scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
Miguel Ángel Blanco, a member of Partido Popular (Spain), is kidnapped (and later murdered) in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
Catholic Church sexual abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claim they were sexually abused by Rudolph Kos, a former priest.
On the field and off it, athletes were making history:
Trent Richardson
Trent Richardson, American football player
Association football
In women's association football, the United States defeats China in a penalty shoot-out at the Rose Bowl near Los Angeles to win the final match of the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. Watched by 90,185 spectators, the final sets a new world record for attendance at a women's sporting event.
Must-see TV was a real thing — and this is what filled the airwaves:
Beavis and Butt-Head
"Screamers" (Season 5, Episode 31) aired on 1995-07-10.
The Late Show with David Letterman
"Tom Arnold, Christy Turlington, Joan Osborne" (Season 1995, Episode 112) aired on 1995-07-10.
Caryl & Marilyn: Real Friends
"Episode 23" (Season 1, Episode 23) aired on 1996-07-10.
Swift Justice
"Stones" (Season 1, Episode 12) aired on 1996-07-10.
"Jack Hanna, Brent Spiner, Charlie Watts" (Season 1996, Episode 114) aired on 1996-07-10.
"Julia Sweeney" (Season 1997, Episode 91) aired on 1997-07-10.
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