2,131: The Night Cal Ripken Became Baseball's Iron Man
On September 6, 1995, Baltimore shortstop Cal Ripken Jr. played his 2,131st consecutive game at Camden Yards, breaking Lou Gehrig's supposedly unbreakable record.
Tales from the year 1995
The Impossible Planet
On October 6, 1995, two Swiss astronomers announced the first planet ever found around a Sun-like star — a scorching gas giant so close to its sun that it defied every theory of how planets form.
December 7, 1995: Galileo Reaches Jupiter
On December 7, 1995, NASA's Galileo spacecraft arrived at Jupiter, becoming the first craft to orbit an outer planet.