At A Glance

25 December 1995 at a glance

Day of the week
25 December 1995 was a Monday.
ARIA No. 1
The ARIA No. 1 was “Gangsta's Paradise” by Coolio featuring L.V..
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 25 December is Capricorn.
Chinese zodiac
In the Chinese zodiac, 25 December 1995 fell in the Year of the Pig.
Birthstone
The birthstone for December is Turquoise.
Moon phase
The moon phase on 25 December 1995 was Waxing Crescent.

On this day: 25 December

  • 1977 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin meets in Egypt with its president Anwar Sadat.
  • 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as President of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day). Ukraine's referendum is finalized and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union.
  • 2003 The ill-fated Beagle 2 probe, released from the Mars Express spacecraft on December 19, stops transmitting shortly before its scheduled landing.
  • 2004 The Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005.
  • 2020 An explosion in Nashville, Tennessee, occurs, leaving three civilians in the hospital.

Famous people born on 25 December

  • Isaac Newton, English physicist and mathematician (1642–1727)
  • Justin Trudeau, Canadian educator and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Canada (born 1971)
  • Nawaz Sharif, Pakistani politician, 12th Prime Minister of Pakistan (born 1949)
  • Humphrey Bogart, American actor (1899–1957)

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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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