Rugby Union
- 101st Five Nations Championship series is won by England who complete the Grand Slam
- Rugby World Cup is won by hosts South Africa 15–12 over New Zealand in the final with an extra-time drop goal by Joel Stransky
- 26 August – International Rugby Football Board lifts the century-old ban on professionalism
Read more about this topic: 1995 In Sports
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“In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.”
—Frances E. Willard 1839–1898, U.S. president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union 1879-1891, author, activist. The Woman’s Magazine, pp. 137-40 (January 1887)
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