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Remember when...
- The Australian Grand Prix is moved from Adelaide to Melbourne after the Premier of Victoria spends what is reported to be quite a large amount on securing the rights to the race from 1996 onwards. Protests ensue about what many saw as the turning of public parkland into a private racetrack.
- Telecom Australia changes its domestic trading name to Telstra.
- The first search engine service Yahoo! is founded.
- The ANZAC Bridge in Sydney is opened to traffic.
Remember these?
MUSIC
"Gangsta's Paradise", a song by American rapper Coolio, featuring singer L.V.. The song was released on the Coolio album Gangsta's Paradise, as well as the Dangerous Minds soundtrack in 1995. Coolio was awarded a Grammy for Best Rap Solo Performance, two MTV Video Music Award's forBest Rap Video and for Best Video from a Film and a Billboard Music Award for the song/album.
MOVIES
Toy Story is a 1995 American computer-animated buddy-comedy adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Directed by John Lasseter, Toy Story was the first feature-length computer-animated film and the first theatrical film produced by Pixar.
GAMES
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, commonly referred to as Yoshi's Island, is a platform video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Super Family Computer/SNES console. Despite its North American and European title, this game serves as a prequel to all other games within the established Mario Bros. timeline. While featuring Nintendo's trademark Mario character, the game's graphics and gameplay differed from all previous Mario games in that players control various Yoshi dinosaurs rather than Mario himself, who appears as a helpless infant.
TV
Australian game show Wheel of Fortune Broadcasts its 3000th episode.
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