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20 May 1995 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 20 May 1995 was a Saturday.
- ARIA No. 1
- The ARIA No. 1 was “Mouth” by Merril Bainbridge.
- Top Film of 1995
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 1995 was Toy Story.
- Best-Selling Vehicle of 1995
- Australia's top-selling new vehicle in 1995 was the Ford Falcon.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 20 May is Taurus.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 20 May 1995 fell in the Year of the Pig.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for May is Emerald.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 20 May 1995 was Waning Gibbous.
On this day: 20 May
- 1983 First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by a team of French scientists including Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Jean-Claude Chermann, and Luc Montagnier.
- 1985 Radio Martí, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba.
- 1990 The first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania.
- 1996 Civil rights: The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of gays and lesbians.
- 2002 The independence of East Timor is recognized by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and three years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself is the former colonizer of East Timor until 1976).
Famous people born on 20 May
- Enes Kanter Freedom, Turkish basketball player (born 1992)
- Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, English journalist and author (born 1964)
- Cher, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress (born 1946)
- Timothy Olyphant, American actor and producer (born 1968)
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Events of 1995 in Australia
A selection from Wikipedia's '1995 in Australia'. Not a complete list.
- 4 January – Chief justice of the Family Court of Australia, Alastair Nicholson calls for the law to recognise homosexual couples and their children as a family unit, stating that it was "unhelpful to attempt to set limits to what a family can be."
- 2 February – Tasmanian Premier Ray Groom defies Prime Minister Paul Keating's moratorium on logging in 72 Tasmanian coupes.
- 25 March – Liberal candidate Brendan Smyth wins the 1995 Canberra by-election with a 16% swing, a formerly safe Labor seat occupied by Ros Kelly.
Life in Australia in 1995
Prime Minister
Paul Keating
Monarch
Queen Elizabeth II
Petrol (per litre)
$0.72
Loaf of Bread
$1.80
Average House
$140,000
Weekly Wage
$680.00
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