Gin Drinks Page

Gin

"Shaken, not stirred." A classic line, for a classic cocktail--the preferred martini of James Bond, the debonair British secret agent immortalized in Ian Flemming's novels.

Purists claim that shaking a martini can "bruise" the gin, a dubious, though amusing, contention. There's no question, however, that gin itself has had a controversial past.

Used today in more crisply refreshing drinks than any other distilled spirit, gin was first created as a medicine by a Dutch chemist some 300 years ago. Its supposed curative powers became irrelevant--people felt better, so in the 17th century, the English took the Dutch potion back to their country and drank it liberally, with or without toasting anyone's health. In fact, they became so enamored of the spirit that they were soon making it themselves. Once called "Mother's Ruin", and scorned by the upper classes because it was the drink of the oftsodden poor, gin perhaps owes its modern sophisticated cachet to the Martini.

Gins are more than neutral spirits distilled from grain. They are reprocessed and redistilled with a flavorist's collection of assorted herbs and spices, primarily Juniper berries. Gin, like other clear spirits, is basically clean and bracing in flavor, but has fruity and herby overtones as well.

The most common style of gin is London Dry. In 18th century London, most gins were sweetened to disguise their rawness. Pioneering distillers experimented with making unsweetened gin, which was smooth in character, with elegant aromatic flavors, giving rise to the style of gin known as London Dry, now produced around the world.

One of those pioneers, Alexander Gordon, founded his distillery in London in 1769, and set the standards of quality for superior gin. The legendary boar's head that his ancestors had carried on their shields is still prominent today on the brand's label. As well as being the world's sixth-largest spirits brand, Gordon's Gin dominates the international gin market.

Another famous gin pioneer was Charles Tanqueray, who was only twenty years old when he established his London distillery in 1830. Tanqueray perfected the art of producing the purest unsweetened gin, with a dryness that complements the flavor of the juniper and other botanicals used in its manufacture. Tanqueray Gin, exported to more than 100 international markets, is the world's leading super-premium gin, as well as the United States' best-selling inported gin. The distinctive green bottle, based on the desigh of a 19th century London fire hydrant, is the only one protected by a worldwide patent.

Abbey Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Add a maraschino cherry.

Adam and Eve

Shake well with cracked ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Alabama Fizz

Shake well with cracked ice and strain into highball glass over two ice cubes. Fill with club soda. Garnish with two sprigs fresh mint.

Alaska Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Albemarle Fizz

Shake with ice and strain into highball glass over two ice cubes. Fill with club soda.

Alexander Cocktail No. 1

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Sprinkle nutmeg on top.

Alexander's Sister Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Sprinkle nutmeg on top.

Allen Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Angler's Cocktail

Shake with cracked ice and pour into old-fashioned glass over ice cubes.

Apricot Anisette Collins

Shake with ice and strain into collins glass over ice. Fill with club soda and stir lightly. Garnish with a slice of lemon.

Artillery

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Barbary Coast

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Baron Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Add a twist of lemon peel.

Beauty Spot Cocktail

Shake first four ingredients with ice and strain into cocktail glass, with a dash of grenadine in bottom of glass.

Belmont Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Bennet Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Bermuda Bouquet

Shake with ice and strain into highball glass with ice cubes.

Bermuda Highball

Pour into highball glass over ice cubes. Fill with ginger ale or club soda. Add a twist of lemon peel and stir.

Bermuda Rose

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Bijou Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Add a cherry on top.

Billy Taylor

Fill collins glass with club soda and ice cubes. Stir in lime juice and gin.

Bloodhound Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Decorate with 2 or 3 crushed strawberries.

Bluebird

Stir with ice cubes and strain into cocktail glass. Add a twist of lemon peel and a cherry.

Blue Canary

Combine ingredients with ice in mixing glass and stir gently. Strain into chilled cocktail glass filled with crushed ice. Garnish with a mint sprig.

Blue Devil Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Blue Moon Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Add a twist of lemon peel.

Boomerang

Stir with ices and strain into cocktail glass. Add a twist of lemon peel.

Boston Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Bronx Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Serve with slice of orange.

Bronx Cocktail (Dry)

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Serve with slice of orange.

Bronx Terrace Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Add a cherry.

Brown Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Bulldog Highball

Pour into highball glass over ice cubes and fill with ginger ale. Stir

Cabaret

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Serve with a cherry.

Caruso

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Casino Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Serve with a cherry.

Chelsea Sidecar

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Claridge Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Club Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Add a cherry or olive.

Colonial Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Serve with an olive.

Cooperstown Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Add a sprig of mint.

Count Currey

Shake gin and sugar with ice and strain into champagne flute over ice cubes. Fill with champagne.

Cream Fizz

Shake with ice and strain into highball glass over two ice cubes. Fill with club soda and stir.

Crimson Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass, leaving enough room on top to float port.

Crystal Slipper Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Damn-the-Weather Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Darb Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Deep Sea Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Delmonico No. 1

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Add a twist of lemon peel.

Delmonico No. 2

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Add a twist of lemon peel.

Dempsey Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Diamond Fizz

Shake with ice and strain into highball glass over two ice cubes. Fill with champagne and stir.

Dixie Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Dry Martini (5-to-1)

Stir vermouth and gin over ice cubes in mixing glass. Strain into cocktail glass. Serve with a twist of lemon peel or olive, if desired.

Du Barry Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Add a slice of orange.

Emerald Isle Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Emerson

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

English Highball

Pour into highball glass over ice cubes and fill with ginger ale or club soda. Add a twist of lemon peel, if desired, and stir.

English Rose Cocktail

Prepare rim of glass by rubbing with lemon and dipping in sugar. Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Serve with a cherry.

Fallen Angel

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Serve with a cherry.

Fancy Gin

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Add a twist of lemon.

Fare Thee Well

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Farmer's Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Favorite Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Fifty-Fifty Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Fine-and-Dandy Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Serve with a cherry.

Fino Martini

Stir gin and sherry over ice cubes in mixing glass. Strain into cocktail glass. Serve with a twist of lemon peel.

Flamingo Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Floradora Cooler

Stir first four ingredients in collins glass. Fill glass with ice and add gin. Fill with club soda or ginger ale and stir again.

Florida

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Flying Dutchman

Shake with ice and strain into old-fashioned glass and serve over ice cubes.

Fog Horn

Pour into highball glass over ice cubes. Fill with ginger ale. Stir. Add a slice of lime.

Frankenjack Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Serve with a cherry.

Free Silver

Shake with ice and strain into collins glass over ice cubes. Fill with club soda.

French 75

Stir in collins glass. Then add ice cubes, fill with champagne and stir. Decorate with slice of lemon or orange and a cherry. Serve with straws.

Gimlet

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Gin Aloha

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Gin and Bitters

Put bitters into cocktail glass and revolve the glass until it is entirely coated with the bitters. Then fill with gin. Note no ice.

Gin Buck

Pour lemon juice and gin into old-fashioned glass over ice cubes. Fill with ginger ale and stir.

Gin Cobbler

Dissolve sugar and club soda in goblet, then fill with ice and add gin. Stir and decorate with fruits in season. Serve with straws.

Gin Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Serve with a twist of lemon peel.

Gin Cooler

Into collins glass stir sugar with 2 oz club soda. Fill glass with ice and add gin. Fill with club soda or ginger ale and stir again. Insert a spiral of orange and/or lemon peel and dangle both over rim of glass.

Gin Daisy

Shake with ice and strain into stein or metal cup. Add ice cubes and decorate with fruit.

Gin Fix

Mix lemon juice, sugar, and water in highball glass. Stir and fill glass with ice. Add gin. Stir, add a slice of lemon. Serve with straws.

Gin Fizz

Shake with ice and strain into highball glass with two ice cubes. Fill with club soda and stir.

Gin Highball

Pour into highball glass over ice cubes and fill with ginger ale or club soda. Add a twist of lemon peel, if desired, and stir.

Gin and It

Shake ingredients in cocktail glass. Note no ice.

Gin Milk Punch

Shake with ice and strain into collins glass, and sprinkle nutmeg on top.

Gin Rickey

Pour ingredients into highball glass over ice cubes and fill with club soda. Stir. Add a wedge of lime.

Gin Sangaree

Dissolve sugar in water and add gin. Pour into highball glass over ice cubes. Fill with club soda and stir. Float port on top and sprinkle lightly with nutmeg.

Gin and Sin

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Gin Sling

Dissolve sugar in water and lemon juice. Add gin. Pour into old-fashioned glass over ice cubes and stir. Add a twist of orange peel.

Gin Smash

Muddle sugar with club soda and mint in old-fashioned glass. Add gin and one ice cube. Stir and decorate with a slice of orange and a cherry. Add a twist of lemon peel.

Gin Sour

Shake with ice and strain into sour glass. Decorate with 1/2 slice of lemon and a cherry.

Gin Squirt

Stir with ice and strain into highball glass over ice cubes. Fill with club soda and stir. Decorate with cubes of pineapple and strawberries.

Gin Swizzle

Combine first three ingredients in collins glass. Fill glass with ice and stir. Add bitters and gin. Fill with clb soda and add swizzle stick.

Gin Thing

Pour gin and lime juice into highball glass over ice cubes and fill with ginger ale.

Gin Toddy

In old-fashioned glass, mix sugar and water. Add gin and one ice cube. Stir and add a twist of lemon peel.

Gin and Tonic

Pour gin into highball glass over ice cube and fill with tonic water.

Golden Daze

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Golf Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Grand Royal Fizz

Shake with ice and strain into highball glass over two ice cubes. Fill with club soda and stir.

Grapefruit Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Serve with a cherry.

Greenback

Shake with ice and strain into old-fashioned glass over ice cubes.

Green Devil

Shake with ice and strain into old-fashioned glass over ice cubes. Decorate with mint leaves.

Green Dragon

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Greyhound

Pour into highball glass over ice cubes. Stir well.

Gypsy Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Serve with a cherry.

Harlem Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Decorate with two pineapple chunks.

Hasty Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Hawaiian Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Hoffman House Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Serve with an olive.

Hokkaido Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Homestead Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Serve with a slice of orange.

Honolulu Cocktail No. 1

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Honolulu Cocktail No. 2

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Hotel Plaza Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Decorate with a slice of pineapple.

H.P.W. Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Add a twist of orange peel.

Hudson Bay

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Hula-Hula Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Ideal Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Serve with a cherry.

Imperial Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Serve with a cherry.

Income Tax Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Jamaica Glow

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Jewel Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Serve with a cherry.

Jeyplak Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Serve with a cherry.

Jockey Club Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Joulouville

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Judge Jr. Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Judgette Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Serve with a cherry.

K.G.B. Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Add a twist of lemon.

Kiss-in-the-Dark

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Knickerbocker Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Add a twist of lemon.

Knock-Out Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Serve with a cherry.

Kup's Indispensable Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Lady Finger

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Leapfrog Highball

Pour into highball glass over ice cubes and fill with ginger ale. Stir.

Leave-It-To-Me Cocktail No. 1

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Leave-It-To-Me Cocktail No. 2

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

London Buck

Pour gin and lemon juice over ice cubes in highball glass. Fill with ginger ale and stir.

London Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Add a twist of lemon peel.

Lone Tree Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Lone Tree Cooler

Put sugar and 2 oz club soda into collins glass. Stir, fill glass with ice. and add gin and vermouth. Fill with club soda or ginger ale and stir again. Insert a spiral of orange and/or lemon peel and dangle end over rim of glass.

Maiden's Blush Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Maidens's Prayer

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Major Bailey

Muddle first four ingredients well, pour them into a collins glass filled with ice and add gin. Stir until frosted. Decorate with sprig of mint and serve with straws.

Mamie's Sister

Put the juice of one lime and a lime twist into collins glass, and add gin. Fill glass with ginger ale and ice. Stir.

Martinez Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Serve with a cherry.

Martini (Traditional 2/1)

Stir gin and vermouth over ice cubes in mixing glass. Strain into cocktail glass. Serve with a twist of lemon peel or olive, if desired.

Martini (Dry 5/1)

See above.

Martini (Extra Dry 8/1)

See above.

Martini (Medium)

See above.

Martini (Sweet)

See Above.

Maurice Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Maxim

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Serve with a cherry.

Melon Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Serve with a cherry.

Merry Widow Cocktail No. 1

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Add a twist of lemon peel.

Mr. Manhattan Cocktail

Muddle ingredients. Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Monte Carlo Imperial Highball

Shake with ice and strain into highball glass over ice cubes. Fill glass with champagne and stir.

Montmartre Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Serve with a cherry.

Montreal Club Bouncer

Pour into old-fashioned glass over ice cubes. Stir.

Morro

Shake with ice and strain into sugar-rimmed old-fashioned glass over ice cubes.

Negroni

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass, or into old-fashioned glass over ice cubes, with or without a splash of club soda. Add a twist of lemon peel.

Nightmare

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Nineteenth Hole

Stir with ice in mixing glass and strain into cocktail glass. Garnish with an olive.

Opal Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Orange Blossom

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Orange Buck

Shake with ice and strain into highball glass over ice cubes. Fill with ginger ale and stir.

Orange Oasis

Shake with ice and strain into highball glass over ice cubes. Fill with ginger ale and stir.

Paisley Martini

Stir in old-fashioned glass over ice cubes. Add a twist of lemon peel.

Pall Mall

Stir in old-fashioned glass over ice cubes.

Palm Beach Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Papaya Sling

Shake with ice and strain into collins glass over ice cubes. Fill with club soda and stir. Add a pineapple stick.

Parisian

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Park Avenue

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Perfect Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Peter Pan Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Piccadilly Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Plaza Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Add a strip of pineapple.

Pollyanna

Muddle ingredients. Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Polo Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Pompano

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Poppy Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Prince's Smile

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Princeton Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Queen Elizabeth

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Racquet Club Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Red Cloud

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Remsen Cooler

Into collins glass, put sugar and 2 oz club soda. Stir. Add ice cubes and gin. Fill with club soda or ginger ale and stir again. Insert a spiral of orange and/or lemon peel and dangle end over rim of glass.

Renaissance Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Sprinkle with nutmeg.

Resolute Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Robert E. Lee Cooler

Put first three ingredients into collins glass. Stir. Add ice cubes, anisette, and gin. Fill with ginger ale and stir again. Add a spiral of orange and/or lemon peel and dangle over rim of glass.

Rolls-Royce

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Rose Cocktail (English)

Moisten rim of cocktail glass with lemon juice and dinp into powdered sugar. Shake all ingredients above with ice and strain into prepared glass.

Rose Cocktail (French)

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Roselyn Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Add a twist of lemon peel.

Rum Runner

Shake with ice and strain over ice cubes into an old-fashioned glass rimmed with salt.

Salty Dog

Pour into highball glass over ice cubes. Stir well. Vodka may be substituted for the gin.

Sand-Martin Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

San Sebastian

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Sensation Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Add two sprigs of fresh mint.

Seventh Heaven Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Decorate with a sprig of fresh mint.

Shady Grove

Shake with ice and strain into highball glass with ice cubes. Fill with ginger beer.

Silver Bullet

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Silver Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Add a twist of lemon peel.

Silver Streak

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Smile Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Smiler Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Snowball

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Snyder

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Add a twist of lemon peel.

Society Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Southern Bride

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Southern Gin Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Add a twist of lemon peel.

South-Side Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Add two sprigs fresh mint.

South-Side Fizz

Shake with ice and strain into highball glass with ice cubes. Fill with club soda and stir. Garnish with fresh mint leaves.

Spencer Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Add a cherry and a twist of orange peel.

Sphinx Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Serve with a slice of lemon.

Spring Feeling Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Stanley Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Star Daisy

Shake with ice and strain into stein or metal cup. Add an ice cube and decorate with fruit.

Straight Law Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Sunshine Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Add a twist of orange peel.

Sweet Patootie Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

T & T

Pour gin over ice cubes into highball glass and fill with tonic water. Stir Garnish with a lime wedge.

Tailspin Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Add a twist of lemon peel and a cherry or olive.

Tango Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Tanq-a-rita

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Third-Degree Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Three Stripes Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Thunderclap

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Tom Collins

Shake with ice and strain into collins glass. Add several ice cubes, fill with club soda, and stir. Decorate with slices of lemon and orange and a cherry. Serve with a straw.

Trinity Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Tropical Special

Shake with ice and strain into highball glass over ice. Decorate with fruit slices and a cherry.

Turf Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Add a twist of orange peel.

Tuxedo Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Serve with a cherry.

Typhoon

Shake all ingredients except champage with ice. Strain into collins glass with ice cubes. Fill glass with champagne.

Union Jack Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Wembly Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Western Rose

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

What the Hell

Stir in an old-fashioned glass over ice cubes.

White Way Cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Why Not?

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Will Rogers

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Woodstock

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Xanthia

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Yale Cocktail

Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Yellow Rattler

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Add a cocktail onion.

Yolanda

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Add a twist of orange peel.

Last modified: Wed Apr 20 1995