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'''1995''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCMXCV]]''') was a [[common year starting on Sunday]] of the [[Gregorian calendar]].

It was the first year of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995-[[2005]]).<ref>[http://www.unesco.org/culture/indigenous/ United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization: Culture - Action in favour of Indigenous Peoples]</ref>

==Events==
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===January===
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* [[January 1]]
**[[Austria]], [[Finland]] and [[Sweden]] enter the [[European Union]].
**The [[World Trade Organization]] is established to replace [[GATT]].
**[[Sweden|Swedish]] band [[Rednex]]'s [[techno]] version of "[[Cotton Eyed Joe]]" goes #1 in the [[UK]], and becomes a standard [[DJ]] song worldwide, much like "[[YMCA (song)|YMCA]]" and "[[Macarena (song)|Macarena]]".
**The [[Draupner wave]] in the [[North Sea]] in [[Norway]] is detected, confirming the existence of [[freak waves]].
* [[January 4]] - The [[104th Congress]] convenes, the first controlled by Republicans in both houses since [[1953]].
* [[January 6]]-[[January 7]] - A chemical fire occurs in an apartment complex in [[Manila, Philippines]]. Policemen led by watch commander [[Aida Fariscal]] and investigators find a bomb factory and a laptop computer and disks that contain plans for [[Project Bojinka]], a mass-terrorist attack. The mastermind, [[Ramzi Yousef]], is arrested 1 month later.
* [[January 9]] - [[Valeri Polyakov]] completes 366 days in space while aboard the [[Mir]] space station, breaking a duration record.
* [[January 11]] - The [[WB Television Network]] begins operations.
* [[January 16]]
**An [[avalanche]] hits the village [[Súðavík]] in [[Iceland]], killing 14 people.
**[[UPN]] begins broadcasting.
* [[January 17]] - A magnitude 7.3 [[earthquake]] called "[[Great Hanshin earthquake|the Great Hanshin earthquake]]" occurs near [[Kobe]], [[Japan]], causing great property damage and killing 6,434 people.
* [[January 24]] - The prosecution delivers its opening statement in the [[O.J. Simpson murder case]].
* [[January 25]]
**The [[Norwegian rocket incident]]: A rocket launched from the space exploration centre at [[Andøya]], [[Norway]] is briefly interpreted by the Russians as an incoming attack.
**[[Eric Cantona]] of [[Manchester United]], after being red carded, kicks a [[Crystal Palace F.C.|Crystal Palace]] fan in the head and gets himself suspended until October.
* [[January 29]]
**The [[San Francisco 49ers]] become the first team to win 5 [[Super Bowl]]s, as they defeat the [[San Diego Chargers]], 49-26, in [[Super Bowl XXIX]].
**[[Tatachilla Lutheran College]] officially opens at [[McLaren Vale]], [[South Australia]].
* [[January 31]] - U.S. President [[Bill Clinton]] invokes emergency powers to extend a $20 billion loan to help [[Mexico]] avert financial collapse.
* [[Javed Ahmad Ghamidi]] launches the first Islamic e-periodical, "[http://www.renaissance.com.pk Renaissance: A Monthly Islamic Journal]". [http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asian-studies-timeline.html#1995]
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===February===
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* [[February 9]] - ''[[STS-63]]'': Dr. [[Bernard A. Harris, Jr.]] makes history as the first [[African American]] astronaut to walk in space.
* [[February 13]] - A [[United Nations]] tribunal on [[human rights]] violations in the [[Balkans]] charges 21 [[Bosnian Serb]] commanders with [[genocide]] and crimes against humanity.
* [[February 15]]
**[[hack (technology slang)|Hacking]]: [[Kevin Mitnick]] is arrested by the [[FBI]] and charged with breaking into some of the [[United States]]' most [[secure computing|"secure" computers systems]].
**[[Taiwan|Taiwan's]] deadliest fire at a [[karaoke]] restaurant in [[Taichung]] kills 64.
**[[Dublin]] - [[Republic of Ireland]] vs [[England]] soccer match in [[Lansdowne Road]] abandoned due to violence and rioting.
* [[February 17]] - [[Colin Ferguson]] is convicted of 6 counts of [[murder]] for the December [[1993]] [[Long Island Rail Road#Long Island Rail Road Massacre|Long Island Rail Road shootings]] and later receives a 200+ year sentence.
* [[February 21]]
**[[Serkadji prison mutiny]] in [[Algeria]]: Four guards and 96 prisoners are killed in a day and a half.
**[[Ibrahim Ali]], a 17-year-old [[Comores|Comorian]] living in France, is murdered by 3 far right [[National Front (France)|National Front]] activists.
**[[Steve Fossett]] lands in [[Leader, Saskatchewan]], [[Canada]], becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the [[Pacific Ocean]] in a [[balloon]].
* [[February 23]] - The [[Dow Jones Industrial Average]] gains 30.28 to close at 4,003.33 -- The Dow's [[Closing milestones of the Dow Jones Industrial Average|first ever]] close above 4,000.
* [[February 26]] - The [[United Kingdom]]'s oldest investment banking firm, [[Barings Bank]], collapses after securities broker [[Nick Leeson]] loses $1.4 billion by [[speculation|speculating]] on the [[Tokyo Stock Exchange]].
* [[February 27]] - In [[Denver, Colorado]], the old [[Stapleton Airport]] closes; it is replaced by a new [[Denver International Airport]], the largest airport in the [[United States]].
* [[February 28]] - Members of the group Patriot's Council are convicted in [[Minnesota]] of manufacturing [[ricin]].
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===March===
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* [[March 1]]
**Polish Prime Minister [[Waldemar Pawlak]] resigns from Parliament and is replaced by ex-communist [[Jozef Oleksy]].
**[[Muntinlupa City]], [[Philippines]] officially becomes a city.
**In [[Moscow]], [[Russia]]n anti-corruption journalist [[Vladislav Listyev]] is killed by a gunman.
* [[March 2]]
**[[Nick Leeson]] is arrested for his role in the collapse of [[Barings Bank]].
**[[Yahoo]] is founded in [[Santa Clara]], [[California]].
* [[March 3]] - In [[Somalia]], the [[United Nations]] [[peacekeeping]] mission ends.
* [[March 5]] - [[Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited]] founded.<ref>[http://www.delhimetrorail.com/corporates/about_us.html Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd.: About Us]</ref>
* [[March 6]]
**Adrianus Jacobs, chairman of Internationale Nederlanden Groep NV, announces that his company will buy bankrupt [[Barings PLC]] Bank for a nominal price.
**On an episode of ''[[The Jenny Jones Show]]'' ("Same-Sex Crushes"), [[Scott Amedure]] reveals a crush on his heterosexual friend [[Jonathan Schmitz]]. The mentally unstable Schmitz kills Amedure several days after the show.
* [[March 13]] - David Daliberti and William Barloon, 2 Americans working for a military contractor in [[Kuwait]], are arrested after straying into [[Iraq]].
* [[March 14]] - Astronaut [[Norman Thagard]] becomes the first American to ride into space aboard a [[Russia]]n launch vehicle (the ''[[Soyuz TM-21]]''),lifting off from the [[Baikonur Cosmodrome]] in [[Kazakhstan]].
* [[March 18]] - Basketball superstar [[Michael Jordan]] announces he's returning to basketball with his former team, the [[Chicago Bulls]], and the next day returns to the basketball court facing the [[Indiana Pacers]].
* [[March 20]] - Members of the [[Aum Shinrikyo]] religious cult release [[sarin]] gas on 5 separate railway trains in [[Tokyo]], killing 12 and injuring hundreds.
* [[March 22]]
**Cosmonaut [[Valeri Polyakov]] returns after setting a record for 438 days in [[outer space]].
**The [[Schengen treaty]] comes into force.
* [[March 24]] - For the first time in 26 years, no British soldiers patrol the streets of [[Belfast]], [[Northern Ireland]].
* [[March 30]] - A police officer tries to assassinate Takaji Kunimatsu, chief of the National Police Agency of [[Japan]].
* [[March 31]] - In [[Corpus Christi, Texas]], Latin superstar [[Selena Quintanilla Perez]] is shot and killed by [[Yolanda Saldivar]], the president of her own fan club.
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===April===
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[[Image:Oklahoma City bombing.jpg|thumb|200px|The remains of the Murrah Federal Building in [[Oklahoma City]].]]
* [[April 2]] - An explosion in [[Gaza]] kills 8, including a Hamas leader.
* [[April 5]] - The [[U.S. House of Representatives]] votes 246-188 to cut taxes for individuals and corporations.
* [[April 7]] - House Republicans celebrate passage of most of the [[Contract with America]].
* [[April 19]] - [[Oklahoma City bombing]]: 168 people, including 8 Federal Marshals and 19 children, are killed at the Murrah Federal Building. [[Timothy McVeigh]] and one of his accomplices, [[Terry Nichols]], set off the bomb.
* [[April 24]] - A [[Unabomber]] bomb kills lobbyist Gilbert Murray in [[Sacramento, California]].
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===May===
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* [[May 1]] - [[CBC Radio Overnight]] debuts.
* [[May 7]] - [[Jacques Chirac]] is elected president of [[France]].
* [[May 11]] - In [[New York City]], more than 170 countries decide to extend the [[Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty]] indefinitely and without conditions.
* [[May 13]] - [[Earthquake]] hit the regions of [[Kozani]] and [[Grevena]] in [[Greece]], with an intensity of 6,6R.
* [[May 14]] - The [[Tenzin Gyatso|Dalai Lama]] proclaims 6-year-old [[Gedhun Choekyi Nyima]] as the eleventh [[reincarnation]] of the [[Panchen Lama]].
* [[May 16]]
**Japanese police besiege the headquarters of [[Aum Shinrikyo]] near [[Mount Fuji]] and arrest cult leader [[Shoko Asahara]].
**[[Jacques Chirac]] assumes the presidency of [[France]].
* [[May 17]] - [[Shawn Nelson]], 35, goes on a [[tank]] rampage in [[San Diego]].
* [[May 20]] - [[Everton FC]] beats Manchester United 1-0 to win the FA Cup.
* [[May 21]] - [[Pope]] [[John Paul II]] [[canonization|canonizes]] [[John Sarkander]] during his visit to [[Olomouc]], the [[Czech Republic]].
* [[May 23]] - [[Oklahoma City bombing]]: In [[Oklahoma City, Oklahoma]], the remains of the [[Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building]] are imploded.
* [[May 24]] - [[AFC Ajax]] beats AC Milan 1-0 to win the Champions League.
* [[May 25]]
**[[Egan v. Canada]]: The [[Supreme Court of Canada]] rules that sexual orientation is a prohibited grounds of discrimination under the [[Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms]].
**The [[Quebec Nordiques]] are sold and move to [[Denver, Colorado]].
* [[May 27]] - In [[Culpeper, Virginia]], actor [[Christopher Reeve]] is [[paralysis|paralyzed]] from the neck down after falling from his [[horse]] in a riding competition, ending his career as Superman.
* [[May 28]] - [[Neftegorsk, Sakhalin Oblast|Neftegorsk]], [[Russia]] is hit by a 7.6 magnitude [[earthquake]], killing at least 2000 people (2/3rd of the town's population).
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===June===
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* [[June 1]] - The busiest hurricane season in 62 years begins. (see [[1995 Atlantic hurricane season]]).
* [[June 2]]
**[[United States Air Force]] Captain [[Scott O'Grady]]'s [[F-16]] is shot down over [[Bosnia-Herzegovina|Bosnia]] while patrolling the [[NATO]] no-fly zone. O'Grady survives on bugs and grass until he is rescued.
**[[SS]] Captain [[Erich Priebke]] is [[extradited]] from [[Argentina]] to [[Italy]].
* [[June 5]] - The [[Bose-Einstein condensate]] is created.
* [[June 6]] - [[U.S.]] astronaut [[Norman Thagard]] breaks [[NASA]]'s space endurance record of 14 days, 1 hour and 16 minutes, aboard the [[Russia]]n space station [[Mir]].
* [[June 8]] - Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain [[Scott O'Grady]] is rescued by U.S. Marines in [[Bosnia-Herzegovina]].
* [[June 13]] - [[List of Presidents of France|French President]] [[Jacques Chirac]] announces the resumption of nuclear tests in [[French Polynesia]].
* [[June 15]]
**During his murder trial, [[O.J. Simpson]] puts on a pair of gloves that were found soaked with [[blood]] at the murder scene. The gloves appear not to fit, prompting defense attorney [[Johnny Cochran]] to remark: "If the gloves don't fit, you must acquit."
**A powerful earthquake, registering a moment magnitude of 6.2, hits the city of [[Egion]], [[Greece]], resulting in several deaths and significant damage to many buildings.
* [[June 20]] - Oil multinational [[Royal Dutch Shell]] caves in to international pressure and abandons plans to dump the [[Brent Spar oil rig]] at sea.
* [[June 22]] - [[Japan]]ese police rescue 365 hostages from a hijacked Nippon Airlines 747 at Hakodate airport. The hijacker was armed with a knife and demanded the release of [[Shoko Asahara]].
* [[June 24]] - The [[New Jersey Devils]] defeat the heavily favored [[Detroit Red Wings]] 5-2 in Game 4 of the [[1995 Stanley Cup Finals]] at [[Brendan Byrne Arena]] at the [[Meadowlands Sports Complex|Meadowlands]] in [[East Rutherford]], [[New Jersey]] to win their first Stanley Cup Championship in team history.
* [[June 29]]
**[[Lisa Clayton]] completes her 10-month solo [[circumnavigation]] from the Northern Hemisphere.
**''[[STS-71]]'': [[Space Shuttle]] ''[[Atlantis]]'' docks with the [[Russia]]n [[Mir]] [[space station]] for the first time.
[[Image:Atlantis Docked to Mir.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[[Space Shuttle Atlantis|''Atlantis'']] docked to [[Space Station Mir|''Mir]] for the first time on [[June 29]], 1995.]]
**The [[Sampoong Department Store collapse]]s in the Seocho-gu district of [[Seoul]], [[South Korea]], killing 501 and injuring 937.
* [[Summer]] - [[Iraq disarmament crisis]]: According to UNSCOM, the unity of the UN Security Council begins to fray, as a few countries, particularly [[France]] and [[Russia]], are starting to become increasingly more interested in making financial deals with [[Iraq]] than disarming the country.
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===July===
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[[Image:Taiwan Strait.png|thumb|200px|The Taiwan Strait]]
* [[Iraq disarmament crisis]]: [[Iraq]] threatens to end all cooperation with UNSCOM and IAEA, if sanctions against the country are not lifted by Thursday, [[August 31|August 31, 1995]].
* [[Midwest]]ern [[United States]] heat wave: An unprecedented heat wave strikes the [[Midwest]]ern [[United States]] for most of the month. Temperatures exceed 104°F (40°C) in the afternoon in numerous cities for 5 straight days. At least 3000 people die, 750 in [[Chicago]] alone.
* [[July 1]] - [[Iraq disarmament crisis]]: In response to UNSCOM's evidence, Iraq admits for first time the existence of an offensive biological weapons program, but denies weaponization.
* [[July 4]] - [[United Kingdom|UK]] [[Prime Minister]] [[John Major]] wins his battle to remain leader of the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]].
* [[July 5]] - The [[U.S. Congress]] passes the [[Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act]], requiring that producers of [[pornography]] keep records of all models who are filmed or photographed. This act also requires that all models be at least 18 years of age.
* [[July 8]] - A volcanic eruption begins on the island of [[Montserrat]].
* [[July 10]] - Burmese dissident [[Aung San Suu Kyi]] is freed from house arrest.
* [[July 11]] - [[Bosnian Serbs]] march into [[Srebrenica]] while [[United Nations|UN]] Dutch [[peacekeeping|peacekeepers]] leave. Large numbers of [[Bosniak]] men and boys are killed in the [[Srebrenica massacre]].
* [[July 13]] - Dozens of cities, most notably [[Chicago]] and [[Milwaukee, Wisconsin]], set all-time record high temperatures. Hundreds in these and other cities die as the [[Chicago Heat Wave of 1995|July 1995 heat wave]] reaches its peak.
* [[July 17]] - The [[Nasdaq]] Composite index closes above the 10,000 mark for the first time.
* [[July 21]]-[[July 26]] - [[Third Taiwan Strait Crisis]]: The [[People's Liberation Army]] fires missiles into the waters north of [[Taiwan]].
* [[July 23]] - David Daliberti and William Barloon, 2 Americans held as spies by [[Iraq]], are released by [[Saddam Hussein]].
* [[July 27]] - In [[Washington, DC]], the [[Korean War Veterans Memorial]] is dedicated.
* [[July 28]] - [[Network Solutions]] announces a new policy to help companies protect their [[trademark]]s on the [[Internet]].
* [[Iraq disarmament crisis]]: Following the defection of his son-in-law, [[Hussein Kamel|Hussein Kamel al Majid]], minister of industry and military industrialisation, [[Saddam Hussein]] makes new revelations about the full extent of [[Iraq]]'s biological and nuclear weapons programs. [[Iraq]] also withdraws its last [[United Nations|UN]] declaration of prohibited biological weapons and turns over a large amount of new documents on its WMD programs.
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===August===
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* [[August]] - A dam at the Omai mine in Guyana ruptures, spilling cyanide into the Essequibo and Omai rivers.
* [[August 4]] - [[Croatia]]n forces launch [[Operation Storm]] against [[Serbia]]n forces in [[RSK|Krajina]], with the cooperation of the [[Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina|ARBiH]], and force them to withdraw to central [[Bosnia-Herzegovina|Bosnia]].
* [[August 5]] - Croatian forces take [[Knin]] and continue to advance.
* [[August 6]] - Hundreds in [[Hiroshima]], [[Nagasaki]], [[Washington, D.C.]], and [[Tokyo]] mark the 50th anniversary of the dropping of the [[atomic bomb]].
* [[August 7]] - [[Operation Storm]] ends with a UN-brokered [[ceasefire]]; remaining [[Serbia]]n forces start surrendering.
* [[August 9]] - Netscape launches IPO.
* [[August 11]] - [[Chrono Trigger]] is released for the [[Super Nintendo]] Entertainment System.
* [[August 11]] - [[Russell Hill subway accident]] in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
* [[August 14]] - An avalanche buries [[Alison Hargreaves]], the first woman to climb Mt. Everest without oxygen; she is reported dead.
* [[August 15]] - [[Indonesia]] celebrates 50 years of independence.
* [[August 24]] - [[Microsoft]] releases [[Windows 95]].
* [[August 28]] - A [[Serbia]]n [[mortar (weapon)|Mortar]] bomb near a [[Sarajevo]] market square kills 37 civilians.
* [[August 30]] - The [[NATO]] [[Operation Deliberate Force|bombing campaign]] against [[Serb]] artillery positions begins in [[Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia]], continuing into October. At the same time [[Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina|ARBiH]] forces begin an offensive against the [[Bosnian Serb Army|Serb Army]] around [[Sarajevo]], [[Bosnia and Herzegovina|central Bosnia]] and [[Bosnian Krajina]].
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===September===
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* [[September]] - [[DVD]], an [[optical disc]] [[computer storage]] media format, is announced.
* [[September 4]] - The [[Fourth World Conference on Women]] opens in [[Beijing]] with over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance.
* [[September 6]]
**With the jury absent, [[Los Angeles Police Department]] detective [[Mark Fuhrman]] invokes his [[Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Fifth Amendment]] right against self-incrimination in the murder trial of [[O.J. Simpson]].
**[[NATO]] air strikes continue, after repeated attempts at a solution with the [[Serbs]] fail.
**[[Cal Ripken Jr]] of the [[Baltimore Orioles]] breaks the all time consecutive games played record in MLB
* [[September 17]] - ''[[The Weekly Standard]]'', an influential [[United States|American]] [[Conservatism|conservative]] magazine, makes its debut.
* [[September 22]] - American millionaire [[Steve Forbes]] announces his candidacy for the 1996 [[United States Republican Party|Republican]] presidential nomination.
* [[September 23]] - [[Argentina|Argentine]] national Guillermo "Bill" Gaede is arrested in [[Phoenix, Arizona]] on charges of [[industrial espionage]]. His sales to [[Cuba]], [[People's Republic of China|China]], [[North Korea]] and [[Iran]] are believed to have involved [[Intel]] and [[AMD]] [[trade secret]]s worth USD$10-20 million.
* [[September 26]] - The trial against former Italian Prime Minister [[Giulio Andreotti]], accused of [[Mafia]] connections, begins.
* [[September 27]]-[[September 28]] - [[Bob Denard]]'s [[mercenary|mercenaries]] capture President Said Mohammed Djohor of the [[Comoros]]; the local army does not resist.
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===October===
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* [[October 1]] - Ten people are convicted of bombing the [[World Trade Center]] in [[1993]].
* [[October 3]] - [[O.J. Simpson]] is found not guilty of double murder for the deaths of former wife [[Nicole Brown Simpson]] and [[Ronald Goldman]]. (He will be found liable in a second civil trial in [[1997]]).
* [[October 4]] - [[France]] launches a counter-[[coup]] in the [[Comoros]] with 600 soldiers. They arrest [[Bob Denard]] and his mercenaries and take Denard to France. Caabi el-Yachroutu becomes the new interim president.
* [[October 6]] - [[Michael Mayor]] and [[Didier Queloz]] announce the discovery of [[51 Pegasi b]], the first confirmed [[Extrasolar planet]].
* [[October 9]] - [[1995 Palo Verde derailment]]: An [[Amtrak]] [[Sunset Limited]] train is derailed by saboteurs near [[Palo Verde]], [[Arizona]].
* [[October 15]] - The [[Carolina Panthers]] win their first-ever regular season game by defeating the [[New York Jets]] at [[Memorial Stadium, Clemson|Clemson Memorial Stadium]] in [[South Carolina]].
* [[October 16]] - The [[Million Man March]] is held in [[Washington, D.C.]] The event was conceived by [[Nation of Islam]] leader [[Louis Farrakhan]].
* [[October 23]] - In [[Houston, Texas]], [[Yolanda Saldivar]] is convicted of first degree murder in the shooting death of [[Selena Quintanilla Perez]] and three days later would be sentenced to life in prison. Saldivar will be eligible for parole in [[2025]].
* [[October 24]] - A total [[solar eclipse]] is visible from Iran, India, Thailand, and Southeast Asia. [http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEcat/SEdecade1991.html]
* [[October 25]] - A [[Metra]] commuter train slams into a school bus in [[Fox River Grove, Illinois]], killing 7 students.
* [[October 26]] - An [[avalanche]] hits the village [[Flateyri]] in [[Iceland]], killing 20 people.
* [[October 28]]
**The [[Atlanta Braves]] win the World Series.
**Fire breaks on a crowded [[metro]] train in [[Baku]], [[Azerbaijan]] killing more than 300 passengers. World's worst metro disaster.
* [[October 30]] - [[Quebec]] separatists narrowly lose a [[1995 Quebec referendum|referendum]] for a mandate to negotiate independence from [[Canada]]
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===November===
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* [[November 1]]
**Participants in the [[Yugoslav War]] begin negotiations in [[Wright-Patterson Air Force Base]] in [[Dayton, Ohio]].
**The [[U.S. House of Representatives]] votes to ban "partial birth" [[abortion]]s by a vote of 288-139.
* [[November 2]] - The [[Supreme Court of Argentina]] orders the extradition of [[Erich Priebke]], ex-S.S. captain.
* [[November 3]] - At [[Arlington National Cemetery]], U.S. President [[Bill Clinton]] dedicates a memorial to the victims of the [[Pan Am Flight 103]] bombing.
* [[November 5]] - The British rock band [[Oasis (band)|Oasis]] plays the biggest indoor concert in Europe ever at [[Earl's Court]], London.
* [[November 9]] - [[Bill Watterson]], author of the comic strip ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'', announces his retirement in a brief letter to newspaper editors.
* [[November 10]]
**[[Iraq disarmament crisis]]: With help from [[Israel]] and [[Jordan]], UN inspector Ritter intercepts 240 [[Russia]]n gyroscopes and accelerometers on their way to Iraq from Russia.
**In [[Nigeria]], playwright and environmental activist [[Ken Saro-Wiwa]], along with 8 others from the [[Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People]] (Mosop), are hanged by government forces.
* [[November 13]] - Birth of [[Stella Hudgens]]
* [[November 14]] - A budget standoff between [[United States Democrat Party|Democrats]] and [[United States Republican Party|Republicans]] in the [[Congress of the United States]], forces the federal government to temporarily close [[national park]]s and [[museum]]s, and run most government offices with skeleton staff.
* [[November 16]] - A [[United Nations]] tribunal charges [[Radovan Karadžić]] and [[Ratko Mladic]] with [[genocide]] during the [[Bosnian War]].
* [[November 17]] - [[Public Radio International]]'s radio program [[This American Life]] broadcasts its first episode, "New Beginnings".
* [[November 21]]
**The [[Dow Jones Industrial Average]] gains 40.46 to close at 5,023.55, its first close above 5,000. This makes the 1995 the first year where the Dow surpasses 2 millennium marks in a single year. It will do it again in [[1997]], [[1999]] and [[2006]].
**A peace agreement for [[Bosnia-Herzegovina|Bosnia]] is reached.
* [[November 22]]
**[[Rosemary West]] is sentenced to life for killing 10 women and girls, including her daughter and stepdaughter, after the jury returns a guilty verdict at Winchester Crown Court. The trial judge recommends that she should never be released from prison, making her only the second woman in British legal history to be subjected to a whole life tariff (the other is [[Myra Hindley]].
**Six year old [[Elisa Izquierdo]]'s child abuse related death at the hands of her mother makes headlines, and instigates major reform in [[New York City]]'s [[child welfare]] system, so as to prevent similar tragedies.
* [[November 22]] - [[Eilat]], [[Israel]], [[Egypt]], and much of the North African Mediterranean is struck by the strongest earthquake in Israel's history - 7.2 mW. Curiously, within a week there is attempted historical revisionism downwards to 6.2 with [[Gulf of Aqaba]] architects and engineers holding the bag for alleged 'shoddy construction'. A 6.2 mW earthquake is only 1/32nd the magnitude of a 7.2 quake.
* [[November 28]]
**The [[Barcelona Conference|Barcelona Treaty]] is signed by 27 attending nations.
**U.S. President [[Bill Clinton]] signs [[National Highway Designation Act|a highway bill]] that ends the federal 55 mph [[speed limits in the United States|speed limit]].
* [[November 30]] - [[Javier Solana]] becomes the new [[NATO]] General Secretary.
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===December===
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* [[December 1]] - First recorded educational [[Virtual field trip]]. The [[Teleconferencing|audioconference]] live from Antarctica involved interaction between two teachers and two schools in [[Canterbury, New Zealand|Canterbury]], [[New Zealand]] (LEARNZ '95). Schools from all over [[New Zealand]] listened in to the audioconference.
* [[1995 strikes in France|Strikes]] paralyzed France's public sector.
* [[December 7]] - [[NASA]]'s [[Galileo probe]] reenters over [[Jupiter]].
* [[December 14]] - The [[Dayton Peace Agreement]] is signed in Paris.
* [[December 15]]
**The [[European Court of Justice]] rules that all EU football players have the right to a free transfer between [[European Union]] member states at the end of their contracts (see [[Bosman ruling]]).
**Because of the "quadruple-witching" [[Option (finance)|option]] expiration, volume on the [[New York Stock Exchange]] hits 638 million shares, the highest single-day volume since [[October 20]], [[1987]] when the Dow staged a stunning recovery a day after [[Black Monday (1987)|Black Monday]].
* [[December 16]] - [[Iraq disarmament crisis]]: Iraqi scuba divers, under the direction of UNSCOM, dredge the [[Tigris River]] near [[Baghdad]]. The divers find over 200 prohibited [[Russia]]n made missile instruments and components.
* [[December 30]] - The lowest ever [[United Kingdom]] temperature of -27.2°C is recorded at [[Altnaharra]] in the [[Scottish Highlands]]. This equals the record set at [[Braemar]], [[Aberdeenshire]] in [[1895#February|1895]] and [[1982#January|1982]].
* [[December 31]] - The last new ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' cartoon strip is published.
* The [[Republic of Texas (group)]] claims to have formed a provisional government in [[Texas]].
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===Unknown dates===
* The oldest [[flute]], made by [[Neanderthal]], was found by [[Dr. Ivan Turk]] in the cave Divje babe I in [[Slovenia]]. See: [[prehistoric music]].
* The [[Ebola]] virus kills 244 Africans in [[Kikwit]], [[Zaire]] in Central [[Africa]].
* [[Audi]] [[Audi A4|A4]] [[automobile]] goes on sale as a 1996 model.
* [[Katherine Prescott]] elected president of [[Mothers Against Drunk Driving]].
* [[Capital One]] founded.

===World population===
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!colspan="7"|[[World population]]
|-
!
!1995
!colspan="2"|[[1990]]
!colspan="2"|[[2000]]
|-
![[Image:Globe.png|50px]] [[World]]
|align="right"|'''5,674,380,000'''
|align="right"|5,263,593,000
|align="right"|{{#switch: u
|u=[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 410,787,000
|d=[[Image:Red Arrow Down.svg|10px]] 410,787,000
|#default=[[Image:Straight Line Steady.svg|10px]]
}}
|align="right"|6,070,581,000
|align="right"|{{#switch: u
|u=[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 396,201,000
|d=[[Image:Red Arrow Down.svg|10px]] 396,201,000
|#default=[[Image:Straight Line Steady.svg|10px]]
}}
|-
![[Image:Africa satellite orthographic.jpg|50px]] [[Africa]]
|align="right"|'''707,462,000'''
|align="right"|622,443,000
|align="right"|{{#switch: u
|u=[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 85,019,000
|d=[[Image:Red Arrow Down.svg|10px]] 85,019,000
|#default=[[Image:Straight Line Steady.svg|10px]]
}}
|align="right"|795,671,000
|align="right"|{{#switch: u
|u=[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 88,209,000
|d=[[Image:Red Arrow Down.svg|10px]] 88,209,000
|#default=[[Image:Straight Line Steady.svg|10px]]
}}
|-
![[Image:Two-point-equidistant-asia.jpg|50px]] [[Asia]]
|align="right"|'''3,430,052,000'''
|align="right"|3,167,807,000
|align="right"|{{#switch: u
|u=[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 262,245,000
|d=[[Image:Red Arrow Down.svg|10px]] 262,245,000
|#default=[[Image:Straight Line Steady.svg|10px]]
}}
|align="right"|3,679,737,000
|align="right"|{{#switch: u
|u=[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 249,685,000
|d=[[Image:Red Arrow Down.svg|10px]] 249,685,000
|#default=[[Image:Straight Line Steady.svg|10px]]
}}
|-
![[Image:Europe satellite orthographic.jpg|50px]] [[Europe]]
|align="right"|'''727,405,000'''
|align="right"|721,582,000
|align="right"|{{#switch: u
|u=[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 5,823,000
|d=[[Image:Red Arrow Down.svg|10px]] 5,823,000
|#default=[[Image:Straight Line Steady.svg|10px]]
}}
|align="right"|727,986,000
|align="right"|{{#switch: u
|u=[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 581,000
|d=[[Image:Red Arrow Down.svg|10px]] 581,000
|#default=[[Image:Straight Line Steady.svg|10px]]
}}
|-
![[Image:Latin America terrain.jpg|50px]] [[Latin-America]]
|align="right"|'''481,099,000'''
|align="right"|441,525,000
|align="right"|{{#switch: u
|u=[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 39,574,000
|d=[[Image:Red Arrow Down.svg|10px]] 39,574,000
|#default=[[Image:Straight Line Steady.svg|10px]]
}}
|align="right"|520,229,000
|align="right"|{{#switch: u
|u=[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 39,130,000
|d=[[Image:Red Arrow Down.svg|10px]] 39,130,000
|#default=[[Image:Straight Line Steady.svg|10px]]
}}
|-
![[Image:LocationWHNorthernAmerica.png|50px]] [[Northern America]]
|align="right"|'''299,438,000'''
|align="right"|283,549,000
|align="right"|{{#switch: u
|u=[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 15,889,000
|d=[[Image:Red Arrow Down.svg|10px]] 15,889,000
|#default=[[Image:Straight Line Steady.svg|10px]]
}}
|align="right"|315,915,000
|align="right"|{{#switch: u
|u=[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 16,477,000
|d=[[Image:Red Arrow Down.svg|10px]] 16,477,000
|#default=[[Image:Straight Line Steady.svg|10px]]
}}
|-
![[Image:Oceania.jpg|50px]] [[Oceania]]
|align="right"|'''28,924,000'''
|align="right"|26,687,000
|align="right"|{{#switch: u
|u=[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 2,237,000
|d=[[Image:Red Arrow Down.svg|10px]] 2,237,000
|#default=[[Image:Straight Line Steady.svg|10px]]
}}
|align="right"|31,043,000
|align="right"|{{#switch: u
|u=[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 2,119,000
|d=[[Image:Red Arrow Down.svg|10px]] 2,119,000
|#default=[[Image:Straight Line Steady.svg|10px]]
}}
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==Births==
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* [[January 4]] - [[María Isabel]], Spanish singer
* [[January 26]] - [[Kyle Chavarria]], American actress
* [[February 8]] - [[Jordan Todosey]], Canadian actress
* [[March 19]] - [[Philip Bolden]], American actor
* [[May 12]] - [[Sullivan and Sawyer Sweeten]], American actors
* [[May 24]] - [[Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein]]
* [[June 20]] - [[Brianna Rieffel]], American singer-songwriter
* [[July 7]] - [[Chloe Greenfield]], American actress
* [[July 12]] - [[Georgie Henley]], English actress
* [[August 8]] - [[Malin Reitan]], Norwegian singer
* [[August 15]] - [[Luke Benward]], American actor
* [[August 24]] - [[Runa Tsukishima]], Japanese child model
* [[September 13]] - [[Mitch Holleman]], American actor
* [[October 25]] - [[Conchita Campbell]], Canadian actress
* [[November 13]] - [[Stella Hudgens]], American actress

==Deaths==
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===January-February===
* [[January 1]] - [[Fred West]], English serial killer (suicide) (b. [[1941]])
* [[January 1]] - [[Eugene Wigner]], Hungarian physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1902]])
* [[January 2]] - [[Siyad Barre]], [[President of Somalia]] (b. [[1919]])
* [[January 4]] - [[Sol Tax]], American anthropologist (b. [[1907]])
* [[January 7]] - [[Murray Rothbard]], American economist (b. [[1926]])
* [[January 7]] - [[Larry Grayson]], British comedian and game show host (b. [[1923]])
* [[January 9]] - [[Peter Cook]], English comedian and writer (b. [[1937]])
* [[January 18]] - [[Adolf Butenandt]], German chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1903]])
* [[January 18]] - [[Ron Luciano]], baseball umpire (b. [[1937]])
* [[January 22]] - [[Rose Kennedy]], American philanthropist (b. [[1890]])
* [[January 30]] - [[Gerald Durrell]] British naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter (b. [[1925]])
* [[January 31]] - [[George Abbott]], American writer, director, and producer (b. [[1887]])
* [[February 2]] - [[Fred Perry]], English tennis player (b. [[1909]])
* [[February 2]] - [[Donald Pleasence]], English actor (b. [[1919]])
* [[February 4]] - [[Patricia Highsmith]], American author (b. [[1921]])
* [[February 12]] - [[Robert Bolt]], English writer (b. [[1924]])
* [[February 14]] - [[U Nu]], Burmese politician (b. [[1907]])
* [[February 22]] - [[Melvin Franklin]], American singer (b. [[1942]])
* [[February 23]] - [[James Herriot]], English veterinarian and author (b. [[1916]])
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===March-June===
* [[March 3]] - [[Howard W. Hunter]], fourteenth president of [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (b. [[1907]])
* [[March 5]] - [[Vivian Stanshall]], English comedian, writer, artist, broadcaster, and musician (b. [[1943]])
* [[March 7]] - [[Georges J.F. Kohler]], German biologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1946]])
* [[March 8]] - [[Ingo Schwichtenberg]], drummer ([[Helloween]]) (suicide)
* [[March 12]] - [[Juanin Clay]], American actress (b. [[1949]])
* [[March 13]] - [[Leon Day]], baseball player (b. [[1916]])
* [[March 13]] - [[Odette Sansom]], French World War II heroine (b. [[1912]])
* [[March 14]] - [[William Alfred Fowler]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1911]])
* [[March 17]] - [[Ronald Kray]], leading figure in [[organised crime]] in [[London]], [[UK]] (b. [[1933]])
* [[March 17]] - [[Rick Aviles]], American actor (b. [[1952]])
* [[March 18]] - [[Robin Jacques]], illustrator of children's books (b. [[1920]])
* [[March 23]] - [[Davie Cooper]], Scottish footballer (b. [[1956]])
* [[March 26]] - [[Eazy-E]], American musician and record producer (b. [[1963]])
* [[March 27]] - [[Maurizio Gucci]], Italian businessman (murdered) (b. [[1948]])
* [[March 29]] - [[Tony Lock]], English cricketer (b. [[1929]])
* [[March 31]] - [[Selena Quintanilla Perez]], American singer (b. [[1971]])
* [[April 2]] - [[Harvey Penick]], American golfer (b. [[1904]])
* [[April 2]] - [[Hannes Alfvén]], Swedish chemist, Nobel-prize (b.[[1908]])
* [[April 4]] - [[Kenny Everett]], British comedian (b. [[1944]])
* [[April 10]] - [[Morarji Desai]], Indian politician (b. [[1896]])
* [[April 14]] - [[Burl Ives]], American singer (b. [[1909]])
* [[April 15]] - [[Harry Shoulberg]], American painter and [[Serigraphy|serigrapher]] (b. [[1903]])
* [[April 18]] - [[Arturo Frondizi]], President of [[Argentina]] (b. [[1908]])
* [[April 23]] - [[Howard Cosell]], American sportscaster (b. [[1918]])
* [[April 24]] - [[Art Fleming]], American actor and game show host (b. [[1924]])
* [[April 25]] - [[Ginger Rogers]], American actress and dancer (b. [[1911]])
* [[May 5]] - [[Mikhail Botvinnik]], Russian chess player (b. [[1911]])
* [[May 6]] - [[Noel Brotherston]], Irish footballer (b. [[1956]])
* [[May 8]] - [[Teresa Teng]], Taiwanese singer (b. [[1953]])
* [[May 14]] - [[Christian B. Anfinsen]], American chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1916]])
* [[May 15]] - [[Eric Porter]], English actor (b. [[1928]])
* [[May 15]] - [[Ben Bubar]], American activist (b. [[1917]])
* [[May 18]] - [[Elisha Cook Jr.]], American actor (b. [[1903]])
* [[May 18]] - [[Alexander Godunov]], Russian-born ballet dancer and actor (b. [[1949]])
* [[May 18]] - [[Elizabeth Montgomery]], American actress (b. [[1933]])
* [[May 24]] - [[Harold Wilson]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1916]])
* [[May 26]] - [[Friz Freleng]], American animator (b. [[1905]])
* [[May 28]] - [[Irfan Ljubijankic]], Bosnian diplomat (b. [[1952]])
* [[May 30]] - [[Ted Drake]], English footballer (b. [[1912]])
* [[June 7]] - [[Hsuan Hua]], Chinese Buddhist master (b. [[1918]])
* [[June 12]] - [[Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli]], Italian pianist (b. [[1920]])
* [[June 20]] - [[Emil Cioran]], Romanian philosopher and essayist (b. [[1911]])
* [[June 23]] - [[Jonas Salk]], created a vaccine for polio (b. [[1914]])
* [[June 24]] - [[Juan Manuel Fangio]], [[Formula One]] champion (b. [[1911]])
* [[June 26]] - [[Ernest Walton]], Irish physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1903]])
* [[June 29]] - [[Lana Turner]], American actress (b. [[1921]])
* [[June 30]] - [[Georgi Beregovoi]], cosmonaut (b. [[1921]])
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===July-December===
* [[July 1]] - [[Wolfman Jack]], American disc jockey (b. [[1939]])
* [[July 4]] - [[Eva Gabor]], Hungarian actress (b. [[1919]])
* [[July 4]] - [[Bob Ross]], American television painter (b. [[1942]])
* [[July 5]] - [[Takeo Fukuda]], Japanese politician (b. [[1905]])
* [[July 17]] - [[Juan Manuel Fangio]], Argentine race car driver (b. [[1911]])
* [[July 18]] - [[Fabio Casartelli]], Italian cyclist (b. [[1970]])
* [[July 24]] - [[George Rodger]], British photojournalist (b. [[1908]])
* [[August 3]] - [[Edward Whittemore]], American author and Central Intelligence agent (b. [[1933]])
* [[August 3]] - [[Ida Lupino]], British actress (b. [[1914]])
* [[August 4]] - [[Technohead|Lee Newman]], musician ([[Technohead]])
* [[August 4]] - [[J. Howard Marshall]], American billionaire (b. [[1905]])
* [[August 7]] - [[Brigid Brophy]], English author (b. [[1929]])
* [[August 9]] - [[Jerry Garcia]], American guitarist ([[Grateful Dead]]) (b. [[1942]])
* [[August 13]] - [[Mickey Mantle]], baseball player (b. [[1931]])
* [[August 15]] - [[John Cameron Swayze]], American journalist (b. [[1906]])
* [[August 19]] - [[Pierre Schaeffer]], French composer (b. [[1910]])
* [[August 21]] - [[Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar]], Indian-born astrophysicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1910]])
* [[August 28]] - [[Hannah Smith]], English actress
* [[August 29]] - [[Michael Ende]], German author (b. [[1929]])
* [[August 30]] - [[Fischer Black]], American economist (b. [[1938]])
* [[August 30]] - [[Sterling Morrison]], American guitarist ([[The Velvet Underground]]) (b. [[1942]])
* [[September 11]] - [[Jimmy Ryce]], American murder victim (b. [[1985]])
* [[September 12]] - [[Jeremy Brett]], English actor (b. [[1933]])
* [[September 15]] - [[Gunnar Nordahl]], Swedish footballer (b. [[1921]])
* [[September 20]] - [[Eileen Chang]], Chinese writer (b. [[1920]])
* [[September 25]] - [[Bessie Delany]], American physician and author (b. [[1891]])
* [[October 5]] - [[Linda Gary]], American voice actress (b. [[1944]])
* [[October 9]] - [[Alec Douglas-Home]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1903]])
* [[October 12]] - [[Johnny Gammage]], [[African American]] motorist (from a scuffle in nearly all-white [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]]).
* [[October 15]] - [[Isolde Ahlgrimm]], Austrian harpsichordist (b. 1914)
* [[October 21]] - [[Jesús Blasco]], Spanish comic book author (b. [[1919]])
* [[October 21]] - [[Shannon Hoon]], American singer ([[Blind Melon]]) (b. [[1967]])
* [[October 26]] - [[Gorni Kramer]], Italian bandleader and songwriter (b. [[1913]])
* [[October]] - [[Margaret Gorman]], first Miss America (b. [[1905]])
* [[November 4]] - [[Gilles Deleuze]], French philosopher (b. [[1925]])
* [[November 4]] - [[Yitzhak Rabin]], [[Prime Minister of Israel]], recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (assassinated) (b. [[1922]])
* [[November 21]] - [[Noel Jones]], British diplomat (b. [[1940]])
* [[November 22]] - [[Elisa Izquierdo]], American child murder victim (b. [[1989]])
* [[December 2]] - [[Robertson Davies]], Canadian novelist (b. [[1913]])
* [[December 10]] - [[Darren "Buffy, the Human Beatbox" Robinson]], American rapper ([[The Fat Boys]]) (b. [[1967]])
* [[December 16]] - [[Johnny Moss]], American poker player (b. [[1907]])
* [[December 18]] - [[Konrad Zuse]], German engineer (b. [[1910]])
* [[December 22]] - [[James Meade]], English economist, [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1907]])
* [[December 23]] - [[Patrick Knowles]], English actor (b. [[1911]])
* [[December 25]] - [[Dean Martin]], American actor (b. [[1917]])
* [[December 25]] - [[Nicolas Slonimsky]], Russian/American musicologist (b. [[1894]])
* [[December 30]] - [[Doris Grau]], American actress (b. [[1924]])
* [[December 30]] - [[Heiner Müller]], German poet and playwriter (b. [[1929]])
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==Nobel prizes==
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] - [[Martin L. Perl]], [[Frederick Reines]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Paul J. Crutzen]], [[Mario J. Molina]], [[F. Sherwood Rowland]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Medicine]] - [[Edward B. Lewis]], [[Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard]], [[Eric F. Wieschaus]]
* [[Nobel Prize in literature|Literature]] - [[Seamus Heaney]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel]] - [[Robert Lucas, Jr.]]

==Templeton Prize==
* [[Paul Davies]]

==Right Livelihood Award==
* [[András Biró]] / [[Hungarian Foundation for Self-Reliance]], The [[Serb Civic Council]] (SCC), [[Carmel Budiardjo]] / [[TAPOL]], [[Sulak Sivaraksa]]

== 1995 in fiction ==
=== Television ===
* [[Dr. Samuel Beckett]], theorizing that one could time travel within his own life time, steps into the quantum accelerator and vanishes in the television series ''[[Quantum Leap]]'', set in 1995.

=== Computer and video games ===
* ''[[Metal Gear (video game)|Metal Gear]]'' (1987) is set in 1995
* ''[[Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War]]'' (2004),''[[Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War]]'' (2006): [[Belka]] invades its neighbors, setting off the [[Belka#The Belkan War (1995)|1995 Belkan War]].
* ''[[EarthBound]]'' (Role Playing game)
* ''[[Gangs of London]]'' (2006). Set in 1995.
* ''[[Command & Conquer]]'' events take place.

==References==
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