What Happened on January 1, 1995

• "A Tuna Christmas" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 20 performances
• "Glass Menagerie" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 57 performances
• "Shadow Box" closes at Circle in Square Theater NYC after 49 performances

• 61st Orange Bowl: #1 Nebraska beats #3 Miami (FL), 24-17
• Austria, Finland & Sweden act to join European Union
• Centennial of Canadian Mounties presence in Canada's Yukon Territory
• Fernando Henrique Cardoso installed as president of Brazil
• International Year of Tolerance

• Raman Lamba (312) & Ravi Sehgal (216) put on an Indian 1st-class record opening partnership 464 in Delhi's innings & 310 run win over Himachal Pradesh in a Ranji Trophy cricket match in Delhi
• The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves.

• Eugene Wigner, Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician (1963 Nobel Prize for Physics), worked on the Manhattan Project, dies at 92
• Frederick "Fred" West, British contractor and serial killer (12 charges of murder), commits suicide in his prison cell at 53
• Jess Stacy, American jazz pianist (Benny Goodman, 1935-39; the Great Gatsby), dies at 90
• Ted Hawkins, American singer and guitarist (The Next Hundred Years), dies of a stroke at 58

Holidays: New Year's Day (Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States)

• #1 Song: On Bended Knee - Boyz II Men
• #1 Song: Stay Another Day - East 17