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1995 (MCMXCV ) was a common year that started on a Sunday of the Gregorian calendar . The year 1995 was the 1995th year of Anno Domini , the 995th year of the 2nd millennium , the 95th year of the 20th century , and the 6th year of the 1990s .
Events
January
January 1
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 16 – An avalanche hits the village Súðavík in Iceland , killing 14 people.
January 17 – A magnitude 6.8 earthquake called the "Great Hanshin earthquake " occurs near Kobe , Japan , causing great property damage and killing 6,434 people.
January 25 – Norwegian rocket incident : A rocket launched from the space exploration centre at Andøya , Norway is briefly interpreted by the Russians as an incoming attack.
January 30 – John Howard becomes leader of the Liberal Party of Australia to challenge Paul Keating for the 1996 Federal Election and the position of Prime Minister of Australia .
January 31 – U.S. President Bill Clinton invokes emergency powers, to extend a $20 billion loan to help Mexico avert financial collapse.
February
February 1 – Lyricist/guitarist Richey Edwards of the Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers goes missing from a hotel in Bayswater , London on the eve of a planned tour of the United States . His car is found 2 weeks later at Severn View services in Aust .
February 9 – STS-63 : Dr. Bernard A. Harris, Jr. and Michael Foale became the first African American and Briton , respectively, 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
February 17
Colin Ferguson is convicted of 6 counts of murder for the December 1993 Long Island Rail Road shootings and later receives a 25-year sentence for each of the 6 murders.
The creative program for children's poetry, "LITER ~Art" originated in the Valley of the Poets , North Andover , MA.
February 21
February 23 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 30.28 to close at 4,003.33 – the Dow's first ever close above 4,000.
February 25 – Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) (Organización del Tratado de Cooperación Amazónica [OTCA]).
February 26 – The United Kingdom 's oldest investment banking firm, Barings Bank , collapses after securities broker Nick Leeson loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
February 27 – In Denver, Colorado , Stapleton Airport closes and is replaced by the new Denver International Airport , the largest in the United States.
February 28 – Members of the group Patriot's Council are convicted in Minnesota of manufacturing ricin .
March
March 1
March 2 – Nick Leeson is arrested for his role in the collapse of Barings Bank .
March 3 – In Somalia , the United Nations peacekeeping mission ends.
March 6 – On an episode of The Jenny Jones Show ("Same-Sex Crushes"), Scott Amedure reveals a crush on his heterosexual friend Jonathan Schmitz. Schmitz kills Amedure several days after the show.
March 13 – David Daliberti and William Barloon, two 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 Russian launch vehicle (the Soyuz TM-21 ), lifting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan .
March 16 – Mississippi ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment , becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery . The amendment was nationally ratified in 1865 .
March 20 – Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway . Members of the Aum Shinrikyo religious cult release sarin gas on 5 subway trains in Tokyo , killing 13 and injuring 5,510.
March 22 – Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns after setting a record for 438 days in outer space .
March 24 – For the first time in 26 years, no British soldiers patrol the streets of Belfast , Northern Ireland .
March 26 – The Schengen Agreement , easing cross-border travel, goes into effect in several European countries.
March 30 – A police officer tries to assassinate Takaji Kunimatsu, chief of the National Police Agency of Japan .
April
May
May 1
May 7 – Finland wins the ice hockey world championship .
May 11 – More than 170 countries agree to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.
May 13 – An earthquake hits the regions of Kozani and Grevena in Greece , with an intensity of 6.6 on the Richter scale.
May 14
May 16 – Japanese police besiege the headquarters of Aum Shinrikyo near Mount Fuji and arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara .
May 18 – Shawn Nelson , 35, goes on a tank rampage in San Diego .
May 20 – U.S. President Bill Clinton indefinitely closes part of the street in front of the White House , Pennsylvania Avenue , to vehicular traffic in response to the Oklahoma City bombing .
May 21 – Pope John Paul II 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 wins the UEFA Champions League in the Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna by defeating AC Milan 0–1 by a goal of Patrick Kluivert . This was the third consecutive win of AFC Ajax over AC Milan that season, ranking AFC Ajax on the 4th place on the list of European Cup and UEFA Champions League winners .
May 25 – Egan v. Canada : The Supreme Court of Canada rules that discrimination based on sexual orientation is prohibited under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms .
May 27 – In Culpeper, Virginia , actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition.
May 28 – A 7.6 magnitude earthquake in Neftegorsk , Russia kills at least 2,000.
June
July
The Taiwan Strait
July – Iraq disarmament crisis : Iraq threatens to end all cooperation with UNSCOM and IAEA, if sanctions against the country are not lifted by August 31 . Following the defection of his son-in-law, Hussein Kamel al-Majid , Saddam Hussein makes new revelations about the full extent of Iraq's biological and nuclear weapons programs. Iraq also withdraws its last UN declaration of prohibited biological weapons and turns over a large amount of new documents on its WMD programs.
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 – UK Prime Minister John Major wins his battle to remain leader of the 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, and that all models be at least 18 years of age.
July 10 – Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyi is freed from house arrest.
July 11 – Bosnian Serbs march into Srebrenica while UN Dutch peacekeepers leave. Large numbers of Bosniak men and boys are killed in the Srebrenica massacre .
July 17 – The Nasdaq Composite index closes above the 1,000 mark for the first time.
July 18 – A series of huge eruptions by the Soufrière Hills volcano sends lava flows and ash falls across a wide area of southern Montserrat .
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 after negotiations with U.S. Congressman Bill Richardson .
August
August 2 – The first cold front of the White Earthquake strikes Chile , during the rest of August several communities becomes isolated due to heavy snowfall and livestock is decimated.
August 3 – An Il-76 TD piloted by a Russian crew was forced down by Taliban fighter plane.
August 4 – Croatian forces launch Operation Storm against Serbian forces in Krajina , with the cooperation of the ARBiH , and force them to withdraw to central Bosnia and Herzegovina .
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 Serbian forces start surrendering.
August 11 – The Russell Hill subway accident results in 3 deaths and 30 injuries 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 16 – Bermudans reject independence in a referendum .
August 24 – Microsoft releases Windows 95
August 28 – A Serbian mortar bomb near a Sarajevo market square kills 38 civilians.
August 29 – Eduard Shevardnadze , the Georgian head of state , survives an assassination attempt in Tbilisi .
August 30 – The NATO bombing campaign against Serb artillery positions begins in Bosnia and Herzegovina , continuing into October. At the same time, ARBiH forces begin an offensive against the Bosnian Serb Army around Sarajevo, central Bosnia, and Bosnian Krajina .
September
October
October 3 – O. J. Simpson is found not guilty of double murder for the deaths of former wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman .
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 interim president.
Hurricane Opal makes landfall at Pensacola Beach, Florida as a Category 3 hurricane with 115 mph (185 km/h) winds.
October 5 – Tansu Çiller of DYP forms the new government of Turkey (51st government, a minority government which failed to receive the vote of confidence)
October 6 – Michael Mayor and Didier Queloz announce the discovery of 51 Pegasi b , the first confirmed extrasolar planet orbiting an ordinary main-sequence star.
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 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 17 – French woman Jeanne Calment reaches the confirmed age of 120 years and 238 days, making her the oldest person ever recorded.
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 is sentenced to life in prison.
October 24 – A total solar eclipse is visible from Iran, India, Thailand, and Southeast Asia.[ 1]
October 25 – A Metra commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois , killing seven students.
October 26 – An avalanche hits the village Flateyri in Iceland , killing 20 people.
October 28 – A fire in Baku Metro , Azerbaijan , kills 289 passengers (the world's worst subway disaster).
October 30
November
November 1
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 4 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated at a peace rally in Tel Aviv.
November 7 – Typhoon Angela leaves the Philippines and Vietnam devastated, with 882 deaths and damage of P 10,829,000,000. The typhoon was the strongest ever to strike the Philippines in 25 years, with wind speeds of 130 mph (210 km/h) and gusts of 180 mph (290 km/h).
November 10
November 12 – The Millbrook Commonwealth Action Programme , a programme to implement the Harare Declaration , is announced by the Commonwealth Heads of Government .
November 14 – A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the Congress of the United States , forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums , 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 21
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.
Egypt , Eilat, Israel , and much of the North African Mediterranean is struck by the strongest earthquake (7.2
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The first ever full length computer animated feature film "Toy Story " was released by Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Pictures.
November 28
November 30 – Javier Solana becomes the new NATO General Secretary; Operation Desert Storm officially ends.
December
December 3 – Strikes paralyze France's public sector.
December 7 – NASA's Galileo probe enters Jupiter 's atmosphere.
December 8
December 14 – The Dayton 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 among member states at the end of their contracts.
Because of the "quadruple-witching" 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 .
December 16 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi scuba divers, under the direction of the United Nations Special Commission , dredge the Tigris near Baghdad . The divers find over 200 prohibited Russian-made missile instruments and components.
December 20
American Airlines Flight 965 (Boeing 757 ) crashes into a mountain near Buga, Valle del Cauca , Colombia after veering off its course en route to Cali, Colombia. Of the 164 people on board, four passengers and a dog are the only survivors.
HM The Queen advises "an early divorce" to Lady Diana Spencer and Charles, Prince of Wales. The divorce was finalized on 28 August 1996.
December 30
December 31 – The final original Calvin and Hobbes comic strip is published.
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World population
World population
1995
1990
2000
World
5,674,380,000
5,263,593,000
410,787,000
6,070,581,000
396,201,000
Africa
707,462,000
622,443,000
85,019,000
795,671,000
88,209,000
Asia
3,430,052,000
3,167,807,000
262,245,000
3,679,737,000
249,685,000
Europe
825,405,000
721,582,000
5,823,000
830,986,000
581,000
481,099,000
441,525,000
39,574,000
520,229,000
39,130,000
299,438,000
283,549,000
15,889,000
315,915,000
16,477,000
Oceania
28,924,000
26,687,000
2,237,000
31,043,000
2,119,000
Births
January–March
January 3 – Muhammed Demirci , Turkish footballer
January 4 – María Isabel , Spanish singer
January 5
January 9 – Nicola Peltz , American actress
January 17 – Ann Li , Taiwanese actress
January 18 – José Francisco Cevallos, Jr. , Ecuadorian footballer
January 21 – Jennifer Rae Daykin , British teen actress
January 24
January 26 – Kyle Chavarria , American actress
January 30
February 6 – Nyck de Vries , Dutch kart racer
February 13
February 14 – Diego Fagundez , American footballer
February 26 – Liam Fairhurst , British charity fundraiser (d.2009 )
February 28 – Madisen Beaty , American actress
March 7 – Hailey Clauson , American model
March 8 – Luca Brecel , Belgian snooker
March 12 – Kanon Fukuda , Japanese pop singer and seiyu
March 19
March 22 – Nick Robinson , American actor
March 27 – Taylor Atelian , American actress
April–June
April 11 – Ryan Hanson Bradford , American actor
April 14 – Yukiko Fujisawa , Japanese figure skater
April 15 – Kiri Baga , American figure skater
April 28 – Yulia Gurska , Ukrainian singer-songwriter
May 2 – Skye Bennett , English actress
May 4 – Martin Santiago Augusto Castillo , Argentine boxer
May 5 – Devon Gearhart , American actor
May 10 – Missy Franklin , American swimmer
May 12
May 15 – Ksenia Sitnik , Belarusian singer
May 25 – Greg Grossman , American chef
June 2 – Sterling Beaumon , American actor
June 5 – Beckii Cruel , British pop dancer
June 8
June 9 – Alina Grosu , Ukrainian singer
June 23 – Eva Lazzaro , Australian actress
June 27 – Eirik Gjen , Norwegian artist
July–September
July 7 – Chloe Greenfield , American actress
July 9 – Georgie Henley , English actress
July 26 – Holly Bodimeade , British actress
August 1 – Derick Monasterio , Filipino actor, dancer and singer
August 4 – Jessica Sanchez , American singer
August 20 – Liana Liberato , American Actress
August 23 – Tommy Batchelor , American dancer
August 29 – Aria Clemente , Filipina singer and Actress
September 1 – Nathan MacKinnon , Canadian hockey player
September 4 – Trevor Gagnon , American actor
September 5
September 8 – Thuliso Dingwall , American actor
September 20 – Laura Dekker , Dutch solo sailor
September 22 – Juliette Goglia , American actress
October–December
October 8 – Courtney Taylor Burness , American actress
October 12 – Lauren Dixon , Canadian actress and singer
October 21 – Antoinette Guedia , Cameroonian swimmer
October 25 – Conchita Campbell , Canadian actress
November 1 – Nour El Sherbini , Egyptian squash players
November 3 – Kendall Jenner , American model and a member of the Kardashian family
November 7 – Michael Dameski , Australian dancer and actor
November 16 – Noah Gray-Cabey , American actor and pianist
November 29 – Laura Marano , American actress
December 6 – Joy Gruttmann , German singer
December 14 – Yulia Belokobylskaya , Russian gymnast
December 19 – Elliot Evans , English singer
December 22 – Hunter Allan , American actor
December 26 – Zach Mills , American actor
December 29 – Ross Lynch , American actor and singer
Deaths
January
February
Donald Pleasence
David Wayne
March
Vivian Stanshall
March 1 – Vladislav Listyev , Russian journalist (b. 1956 ).
March 3 – Howard W. Hunter , American Mormon leader (b. 1907 )
March 5 – Vivian Stanshall , English comedian, writer, artist, broadcaster, and musician (b. 1943 )
March 7 – Georges J. F. Köhler , German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1946 )
March 8 – Ingo Schwichtenberg , German drummer (b. 1965 )
March 12 – Juanin Clay , American actress (b. 1949 )
March 13
March 14 – William Alfred Fowler , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911 )
March 16 – Albert Hackett , American dramatist and screenwriter (b. 1900 )
March 17
March 18 – Robin Jacques , English illustrator (b. 1920 )
March 19
March 20
March 22 – Peter Woods , British journalist, reporter and newsreader (b. 1930 )
March 23 – Davie Cooper , Scottish footballer (b. 1956 )
March 26 – Eazy-E , American rapper and record producer (b. 1963 )
March 27 – Maurizio Gucci , Italian businessman (b. 1948 )
March 28 – Hugh O'Connor , American actor the son of Carroll O'Connor (b. 1962 )
March 29
March 31 – Selena Quintanilla Perez , Mexican American singer (b. 1971 )
April
Arturo Frondizi
May
Harold Wilson
May 2 – Michael Hordern , English actor (b. 1911 )
May 5
May 6 – Noel Brotherston , Irish footballer (b. 1956 )
May 8 – Teresa Teng , Taiwanese singer (b. 1953 )
May 12 – Arthur Lubin , American film director (b. 1898 )
May 14 – Christian B. Anfinsen , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916 )
May 15
May 18
May 24 – Harold Wilson , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916 )
May 25 – Jack Allen , English actor (b. 1907 )
May 26 – Friz Freleng , American animator (b. 1905 )
May 27 – Severn Darden , American actor (b. 1929 )
May 28 – Irfan Ljubijankic , Bosnian diplomat (b. 1952 )
May 30 – Ted Drake , English footballer (b. 1912 )
June
Warren E. Burger
June 7 – Hsuan Hua , Chinese Buddhist master (b. 1918 )
June 12 – Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli , Italian pianist (b. 1920 )
June 14 – Roger Zelazny , American writer of fantasy (b. 1937 )
June 15 – Charles Bennett , English screenwriter (b. 1899 )
June 20 – Emil Cioran , Romanian philosopher and essayist (b. 1911 )
June 23 – Jonas Salk , American medical researcher (b. 1914 )
June 25 – Warren E. Burger , Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1907 )
June 26 – Ernest Walton , Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903 )
June 29 – Lana Turner , American actress (b. 1921 )
June 30
July
Juan Manuel Fangio
August
Jerry Garcia
August 1 – Esther Muir , American actress (b. 1903 )
August 3
August 4 – J. Howard Marshall , American billionaire (b. 1905 )
August 7 – Brigid Brophy , English author (b. 1929 )
August 9 – Jerry Garcia , American guitarist (b. 1942 )
August 11 – Phil Harris , American actor (b. 1904 )
August 13 – Mickey Mantle , baseball player (b. 1931 )
August 15 – John Cameron Swayze , American journalist (b. 1906 )
August 17 – Howard Koch , American screenwriter (b. 1901 )
August 19 – Pierre Schaeffer , French composer (b. 1910 )
August 21 – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar , Indian-born astrophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910 )
August 24
August 29
August 30
September
Gunnar Nordahl
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
October
Alec Douglas-Home
November
Yitzhak Rabin
November 4
November 6 – Aneta Corsaut , American actress (b. 1933 )
November 7 – Ann Dunham , American anthropologist and mother of Barack Obama , the 44th President of the United States (b. 1942 )
November 12 – Robert Stephens , British actor (b. 1931 )
November 13 – Ralph Blane , American composer (b. 1914 )
November 20 – Sergei Grinkov , Russian figure skater (b. 1967 )
November 21 – Noel Jones , British diplomat (b. 1940 )
November 22 – Elisa Izquierdo , American murder victim (b. 1989 )
November 23 – Louis Malle , French film director (b. 1932 )
November 24 – Jeffrey Lynn , American actor (b. 1909 )
November 30 – Stretch , American rapper and record producer (b. 1972 )
December
Dean Martin
December 2
December 3 – Jimmy Jewel , English actor (b. 1909 )
December 7 – Kathleen Harrison , British actress (b. 1892 )
December 9 – Vivian Blaine , American actress (b. 1921 )
December 10 – Darren Robinson , American rapper and actor (b. 1967 )
December 16 – Johnny Moss , American poker player (b. 1907 )
December 18 – Konrad Zuse , German engineer (b. 1910 )
December 20 – Madge Sinclair , Jamaican-American actress (b. 1938 )
December 22
December 23 – Patric Knowles , English actor (b. 1911 )
December 25
December 28 – Virginius Dabney , American teacher, writer, journalist and editor (b. 1901 )
December 30
Nobel Prizes
Templeton Prize
References