File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson
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is acquitted
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of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States
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; The Great Hanshin earthquake
The , or Kobe earthquake, occurred on January 17, 1995, at 05:46:53 JST (January 16 at 20:46:53 UTC) in the southern part of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, including the region known as Hanshin. It measured 6.9 on the moment magnitude scale and h ...
strikes Kobe
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, Japan, killing 5,000-6,000 people; The Unabomber Manifesto is published in several U.S. newspapers
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Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sport ...
; Gravestones mark the victims of the Srebrenica massacre
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near the end of the Bosnian War
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; Windows 95
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is launched by Microsoft
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for PC; The first exoplanet
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, 51 Pegasi b, is discovered; Space Shuttle Atlantis
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docks with the Space station
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Mir in a display of U.S.-Russian cooperation; The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City
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is bombed by domestic terrorists, killing 168., 300x300px, thumb
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1995 was designated as:
* United Nations Year for Tolerance
* World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War
This was the first year that the
Internet
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a ''internetworking, network of networks'' that consists ...
was entirely privatized, with the United States government no longer providing public funding, marking the beginning of the
Information Age
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.
America Online
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and
Prodigy
Prodigy, Prodigies or The Prodigy may refer to:
* Child prodigy, a child who produces meaningful output to the level of an adult expert performer
** Chess prodigy, a child who can beat experienced adult players at chess
Arts, entertainment, and ...
offered access to the
World Wide Web
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Documents and downloadable media are made available to the network through web se ...
system for the first time this year, releasing browsers that made it easily accessible to the general public.
Events
January
*
January 1
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** The
World Trade Organization
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an intergovernmental organization that regulates and facilitates international trade. With effective cooperation
in the United Nations System, governments use the organization to establish, revise, and ...
(WTO) is established to replace the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
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(GATT).
**
Austria
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,
Finland
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and
Sweden join the
European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been ...
.
*
January 9 –
Valeri Polyakov completes 366 days in space while aboard the
Mir space station, breaking a duration record.
*
January 17
Events Pre-1600
*38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey.
*1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 people o ...
– The 6.9
Great Hanshin earthquake
The , or Kobe earthquake, occurred on January 17, 1995, at 05:46:53 JST (January 16 at 20:46:53 UTC) in the southern part of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, including the region known as Hanshin. It measured 6.9 on the moment magnitude scale and h ...
strikes the southern
Hyōgo Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Hyōgo Prefecture has a population of 5,469,762 () and has a geographic area of . Hyōgo Prefecture borders Kyoto Prefecture to the east, Osaka Prefecture to the southeast, ...
of Japan with a maximum
Shindo of VII, leaving 5,502–6,434 people dead, and 251,301–310,000 displaced.
*
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 31
Events Pre-1600
* 314 – Pope Sylvester I is consecrated, as successor to the late Pope Miltiades.
*1208 – The Battle of Lena takes place between King Sverker II of Sweden and his rival, Prince Eric, whose victory puts him on the ...
–
Mexican peso crisis: U.S. President
Bill Clinton
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invokes emergency powers to extend a $20 billion loan to help Mexico avert financial collapse.
February
*
February 13
Events Pre-1600
* 962 – Emperor Otto I and Pope John XII co-sign the '' Diploma Ottonianum'', recognizing John as ruler of Rome.
*1322 – The central tower of Ely Cathedral falls on the night of 12th–13th.
* 1462 – T ...
– Twenty-one
Bosnian Serb commanders are charged with
genocide
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and
crimes against humanity in the
United Nations
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'
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was a body of the United Nations that was established to prosecute the war crimes in the Yugoslav Wars, war crimes that had been committed during the Yugoslav Wars and to try ...
, a tribunal on
human rights
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violations during the
Wars in the Balkans.
*
February 21
Events Pre-1600
*452 or 453 – Severianus, Bishop of Scythopolis, is martyred in Palestine.
*1245 – Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery.
* 1440 – The ...
–
Steve Fossett lands in
Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada, becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a
balloon
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.
*
February 25
Events Pre-1600
*138 – Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius as his son, effectively making him his successor.
* 628 – Khosrow II, the last great Shah of the Sasanian Empire (Iran), is overthrown by his son Kavadh II.
*13 ...
– The
Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) (Organización del Tratado de Cooperación Amazónica
TCA is formed.
*
February 26
Events Pre-1600
* 747 BC – According to Ptolemy, the epoch (origin) of the Nabonassar Era began at noon on this date. Historians use this to establish the modern BC chronology for dating historic events.
* 364 – Valentinian I is ...
– 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
The , abbreviated as Tosho () or TSE/TYO, is a stock exchange located in Tokyo, Japan. It is the third largest stock exchange in the world by aggregate market capitalization of its listed companies, and the largest in Asia. It had 2,292 listed ...
.
March
*
March 1
Events Pre-1600
*509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia.
* 293 – Emperor Diocletian and ...
**
Julio María Sanguinetti is sworn in as
President of Uruguay
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for his second term.
** Polish Prime Minister
Waldemar Pawlak resigns from Parliament and is replaced by ex-communist
Józef Oleksy.
*
March 3
Events Pre-1600
* 473 – Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
* 724 – Empress Genshō abdicates the throne in favor of her nephew Shōmu who becomes emperor of Japan.
*1575 & ...
–
United Nations Operation in Somalia II
United Nations Operation in Somalia II (UNOSOM II) was the second phase of the United Nations intervention in Somalia and took place from March 1993 until March 1995, following the outbreak of the Somali Civil War in 1991.
UNOSOM II carried ...
, the
United Nations peacekeeping
Peacekeeping by the United Nations is a role held by the Department of Peace Operations as an "instrument developed by the organization as a way to help countries torn by conflict to create the conditions for lasting peace". It is distinguished ...
mission in Somalia, ends.
*
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
''Baiqoñyr ğaryş ailağy'' rus, Космодром Байконур''Kosmodrom Baykonur''
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in
Kazakhstan
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Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental coun ...
.
*
March 20 – Members of the doomsday cult
Aum Shinrikyo carry out the
Tokyo subway sarin attack, killing 14 people and leading to over a thousand injured. The attack remains the deadliest terrorist incident in Japanese history.
*
March 22
Events Pre-1600
*106 – Start of the Bostran era, the calendar of the province of Arabia Petraea.
* 235 – Roman emperor Severus Alexander is murdered, marking the start of the Crisis of the Third Century.
* 871 – Æthelr ...
– Cosmonaut
Valeri Polyakov returns after setting a record for 438 days in
outer space
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.
*
March 25 – Boxer
Mike Tyson is released from prison after serving nearly 3 years.
*
March 26 – The
Schengen Agreement, easing cross-border travel, goes into effect in several European countries.
*
March 31
Events Pre-1600
* 307 – After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, daughter of the retired Roman emperor Maximian.
*1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the nec ...
**
TAROM Flight 371 from
Bucharest
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to
Brussels
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crashes shortly after takeoff killing all 60 people on board.
**American singer
Selena is
murdered by her fan club president,
Yolanda Saldívar.
April

*
April 7
Events Pre-1600
* 451 – Attila the Hun captures Metz in France, killing most of its inhabitants and burning the town.
* 529 – First '' Corpus Juris Civilis'', a fundamental work in jurisprudence, is issued by Eastern Roman Emp ...
–
First Chechen War –
Samashki massacre: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of at least 250 civilians in
Samashki,
Chechnya.
*
April 19 –
Oklahoma City bombing
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: 168 people, including eight federal Marshals and 19 children, are killed at the
Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and 680 are wounded by a bomb set off by
Timothy McVeigh
Timothy James McVeigh (April 23, 1968 – June 11, 2001) was an American domestic terrorist responsible for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people, 19 of whom were children, injured more than 680 others, and destroyed one-third ...
.
*
April 30 – The United States government stops funding the
NSFNET, making the
Internet
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a wholly privatized system.
May
*
May 7
Events Pre-1600
* 351 – The Jewish revolt against Constantius Gallus breaks out after his arrival at Antioch.
* 558 – In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses, twenty years after its construction. Justinian I imme ...
–
Jacques Chirac
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is elected president of France.
*
May 10
Events Pre-1600
* 28 BC – A sunspot is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China.
*1291 – Scottish nobles recognize the authority of E ...
– At
Vaal Reefs
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The town of Orkney is home to a large gold mining operation originally owned by An ...
gold mine in
Orkney
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, a runaway locomotive falls into a lift shaft onto an ascending cage and causes it to plunge to the bottom of the deep shaft, killing 104.
*
May 11
Events 1601–1900
*1812 – Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the British House of Commons.
*1813 – William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth discover a route across th ...
– More than 170 countries agree to extend the
Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.
Sega launches the
Saturn
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game console in North America four months before its initial scheduled date.
*
May 13 – The 6.6
Western Macedonia earthquake strikes northwestern
Greece
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with a maximum
Mercalli intensity of VIII (''Severe''), injuring 25 and causing $450 million in damage.
*
May 14 – The
Dalai Lama
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proclaims 6-year-old
Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the 11th
reincarnation
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of the
Panchen Lama
The Panchen Lama () is a tulku of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. Panchen Lama is one of the most important figures in the Gelug tradition, with its spiritual authority second only to Dalai Lama. Along with the council of high lamas, he ...
.
*
May 16
Events Pre-1600
* 946 – Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor of Japan.
*1204 – Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
*1364 ...
– Following the
Tokyo subway sarin attack two months earlier, Japanese police besiege the headquarters of
Aum Shinrikyo near
Mount Fuji
, or Fugaku, located on the island of Honshū, is the highest mountain in Japan, with a summit elevation of . It is the second-highest volcano located on an island in Asia (after Mount Kerinci on the island of Sumatra), and seventh-highes ...
and arrest cult leader
Shoko Asahara. Further police operations result in over two hundred arrests and thirteen members of the cult, including Asahara, are sentenced to death.
*
May 24 –
AFC Ajax wins the
UEFA Champions League
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at the
Ernst Happel Stadium in
Vienna
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by defeating
A.C. Milan 1–0.
*
May 28
Events Pre-1600
*585 BC – A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from ...
– The 7.0
Neftegorsk earthquake strikes northern
Sakhalin
Sakhalin ( rus, Сахали́н, r=Sakhalín, p=səxɐˈlʲin; ja, 樺太 ''Karafuto''; zh, c=, p=Kùyèdǎo, s=库页岛, t=庫頁島; Manchu: ᠰᠠᡥᠠᠯᡳᠶᠠᠨ, ''Sahaliyan''; Orok: Бугата на̄, ''Bugata nā''; Nivkh: ...
Island in Russia with a maximum
Mercalli intensity of IX (''Violent''), leaving 1,967 people dead and 750 injured.
June
*
June 2
**
Mrkonjić Grad incident: A United States Air Force
F-16
The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon is a single-engine multirole fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics for the United States Air Force (USAF). Designed as an air superiority day fighter, it evolved into a successful ...
piloted by Captain
Scott O'Grady is shot down over
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country at the crossroads of south and southeast Europe, located in the Balkans. Bosnia and ...
while patrolling the
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO, ; french: Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, ), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states – 28 European and two No ...
no-fly zone. O'Grady is rescued by
U.S. Marines six days later.
**
Waffen-SS
The (, "Armed SS") was the combat branch of the Nazi Party's ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) organisation. Its formations included men from Nazi Germany, along with volunteers and conscripts from both occupied and unoccupied lands.
The grew from th ...
Hauptsturmführer Erich Priebke is
extradited from
Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, t ...
to Italy.
*
June 6
** U.S. astronaut
Norman Thagard breaks
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.
NASA was established in 1958, succeedi ...
's space endurance record of 14 days, 1 hour and 16 minutes, aboard the Russian space station
Mir.
** The
Constitutional Court of South Africa abolishes
capital punishment in South Africa in the case of ''
S v Makwanyane and Another''.
*
June 13
Events Pre-1600
* 313 – The decisions of the Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius, granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, are published in Nicomedia.
* 1325 – Ibn Battut ...
– French President
Jacques Chirac
Jacques René Chirac (, , ; 29 November 193226 September 2019) was a French politician who served as President of France from 1995 to 2007. Chirac was previously Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976 and from 1986 to 1988, as well as ...
announces the resumption of nuclear tests in
French Polynesia
)Territorial motto: ( en, "Great Tahiti of the Golden Haze")
, anthem =
, song_type = Regional anthem
, song = "Ia Ora 'O Tahiti Nui"
, image_map = French Polynesia on the globe (French Polynesia centered).svg
, map_alt = Location of French ...
.
*
June 16 – The IOC selects
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City (often shortened to Salt Lake and abbreviated as SLC) is the capital and most populous city of Utah, United States. It is the seat of Salt Lake County, the most populous county in Utah. With a population of 200,133 in 2020, th ...
to host the
2002 Winter Olympics
The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 ( arp, Niico'ooowu' 2002; Gosiute dialect, Gosiute Shoshoni: ''Tit'-so-pi 2002''; nv, Sooléí 2002; Shoshoni language, Shoshoni: ''Soó ...
.
*
June 22
Events Pre-1600
*217 BC – Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom.
* 168 BC – Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat Macedonian King Per ...
– Japanese police rescue 365 hostages from a hijacked
All Nippon Airways
, also known as ANA (''Ē-enu-ē'') or is an airline in Japan. Its headquarters are located in Shiodome City Center in the Shiodome area of Minato ward of Tokyo. It operates services to both domestic and international destinations and had m ...
Flight 857 (
Boeing 747-200) at Hakodate airport. The hijacker was armed with a knife and demanded the release of
Shoko Asahara.
*
June 24 – South Africa wins the
Rugby World Cup
The Rugby World Cup is a men's rugby union tournament contested every four years between the top international teams. The tournament is administered by World Rugby, the sport's international governing body. The winners are awarded the Webb ...
.
*
June 29
Events Pre-1600
* 226 – Cao Rui succeeds his father as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei.
*1149 – Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.
*1194 – Sverre is crowned King of Norway, le ...
**
Lisa Clayton
Lisa Lyttelton, Dowager Viscountess Cobham (born 30 December 1958 as Lisa Clayton) is the first British woman to sail single-handed and non-stop around the world. She was educated in Birmingham at the Church of England School for Girls, Edgba ...
completes her 10-month solo
circumnavigation
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The first recorded circumnavigation of the Earth was the Magel ...
from the Northern Hemisphere.
** ''
STS-71'':
Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'' docks with the Russian Mir
space station
A space station is a spacecraft capable of supporting a human crew in orbit for an extended period of time, and is therefore a type of space habitat. It lacks major propulsion or landing systems. An orbital station or an orbital space station ...
for the first time.
** The
Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of
Seoul
Seoul (; ; ), officially known as the Seoul Special City, is the Capital city, capital and largest metropolis of South Korea.Before 1972, Seoul was the ''de jure'' capital of the North Korea, Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea ...
, South Korea, killing 502 and injuring 937.
**
Iraq disarmament crisis: According to UNSCOM, the unity of the U.N. Security Council begins to fray, as a few countries, particularly France and Russia, become more interested in making financial deals with
Iraq
Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...
than in disarming the country.
July

* 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
Events Pre-1600
* 1056 – After a sudden illness a few days previously, Byzantine Empress Theodora dies childless, thus ending the Macedonian dynasty.
*1057 – Abdication of Byzantine Emperor Michael VI Bringas after just one year ...
. Following the defection of his son-in-law,
Hussein Kamel al-Majid,
Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein ( ; ar, صدام حسين, Ṣaddām Ḥusayn; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolution ...
makes new revelations about the full extent of Iraq's biological and nuclear weapons programs. Iraq also withdraws its last U.N. 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 –
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the head of government of the United Kingdom. The prime minister advises the sovereign on the exercise of much of the royal prerogative, chairs the Cabinet and selects its ministers. As moder ...
John Major
Sir John Major (born 29 March 1943) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997, and as Member of Parliament (MP) for Huntingdon, formerly Hunting ...
is
re-elected as leader of the
Conservative Party.
*
July 9
Events Pre-1600
*118 – Hadrian, who became emperor a year previously on Trajan's death, makes his entry into Rome.
* 381 – The end of the First Council of Christian bishops convened in Constantinople by the Roman Emperor Theodos ...
–
Sri Lankan Civil War: 125 civilians are
killed in
Navaly as result of bombing by the
Sri Lanka Air Force.
*
July 10 – Burmese dissident
Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi (; ; born 19 June 1945) is a Burmese politician, diplomat, author, and a 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as State Counsellor of Myanmar (equivalent to a prime minister) and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Myanm ...
is freed from house arrest.
*
July 11
Events Pre-1600
* 472 – After being besieged in Rome by his own generals, Western Roman Emperor Anthemius is captured in St. Peter's Basilica and put to death.
* 813 – Byzantine emperor Michael I, under threat by conspiracies, ...
**
Srebrenica massacre
The Srebrenica massacre ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Masakr u Srebrenici, Масакр у Сребреници), also known as the Srebrenica genocide ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Genocid u Srebrenici, Геноцид у Сребрен ...
: Units of the
Army of Republika Srpska,
under the command of
General
A general officer is an officer of high rank in the armies, and in some nations' air forces, space forces, and marines or naval infantry.
In some usages the term "general officer" refers to a rank above colonel."general, adj. and n.". O ...
Ratko Mladić, enter
Srebrenica with little resistance from Dutch
peacekeepers of the
United Nations Protection Force
The United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR; also known by its French acronym FORPRONU: ''Force de Protection des Nations Unies'') was the first United Nations peacekeeping force in Croatia and in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Yugoslav War ...
, going on to kill thousands of
Bosniak men and boys and
rape
Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without their consent. The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, abuse of authority, or ...
many women.
** President Clinton announces the restoration of
United States–Vietnam relations twenty years after the
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War (also known by #Names, other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vie ...
.
** A
Cubana de Aviación Antonov An-24
The Antonov An-24 ( Russian/ Ukrainian: Антонов Ан-24) ( NATO reporting name: Coke) is a 44-seat twin turboprop transport/passenger aircraft designed in 1957 in the Soviet Union by the Antonov Design Bureau and manufactured by Kyiv, I ...
crashes into the
Caribbean off southeast
Cuba
Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbea ...
killing 44 people.

*
July 21–
26 –
Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The Chinese
People's Liberation Army
The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the principal military force of the People's Republic of China and the armed wing of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The PLA consists of five service branches: the Ground Force, Navy, Air Force, ...
fires missiles into the waters north of
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northe ...
.
August
* August – The
International Rugby Football Board
World Rugby is the world governing body for the sport of rugby union. World Rugby organises the Rugby World Cup every four years, the sport's most recognised and most profitable competition. It also organises a number of other international rug ...
declares that
rugby union
Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the Comparison of rugby league and rugby union, two codes of ru ...
players may be professional.
*
August 4 –
Croatia
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n forces, with the cooperation of the
ARBiH, launch
Operation Storm against rebel forces of the
Republic of Serbian Krajina, which subsequently ceases to exist as a political entity.
*
August 7
Events Pre-1600
* 461 – Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded near the river Iria in north-west Italy following his arrest and deposition by the ''magister militum'' Ricimer.
* 626 – The Avar and Slav armies leave the siege of Co ...
– The Chilean government declares
state of emergency
A state of emergency is a situation in which a government is empowered to be able to put through policies that it would normally not be permitted to do, for the safety and protection of its citizens. A government can declare such a state du ...
in the southern half of the country in response to an event of intense, cold, wind, rain and snowfall known as the
White Earthquake.
*
August 14
Events Pre-1600
* 74 BC – A group of officials, led by the Western Han minister Huo Guang, present articles of impeachment against the new emperor, Liu He, to the imperial regent, Empress Dowager Shangguan. The articles, enumerating t ...
- The Nepali Prime Minister
Man Mohan Adhikari along with seven other high-ranking officials survives Helicopter crash.
*
August 16 –
Bermuda
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ns reject independence in a
referendum
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.
*
August 29
Events Pre-1600
* 708 – Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).
* 870 – The city of Melite surrenders to an Aghlabid army following a siege, putting an end to Byzanti ...
–
Eduard Shevardnadze, the
Georgian head of state
A head of state (or chief of state) is the public persona who officially embodies a state (polity), state#Foakes, Foakes, pp. 110–11 " he head of statebeing an embodiment of the State itself or representatitve of its international p ...
, survives an assassination attempt in
Tbilisi
Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura River with a population of approximately 1.5 million p ...
.
*
August 30 – The
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO, ; french: Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, ), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states – 28 European and two No ...
bombing campaign against Bosnian Serb artillery positions begins in
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country at the crossroads of south and southeast Europe, located in the Balkans. Bosnia and ...
, continuing into September. At the same time, ARBiH forces begin an offensive against the Bosnian Serb Army around Sarajevo, central Bosnia and
Bosnian Krajina.
September
* September – The European Parliament elects the first
European Ombudsman
The European Ombudsman is an inter-institutional body of the European Union that holds the institutions, bodies and agencies of the EU to account, and promotes good administration. The Ombudsman helps people, businesses and organisations facing ...
,
Jacob Söderman, who takes up office in September 1995.
*
September 3
Events Pre-1600
* 36 BC – In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompey, son of Pompey, thus ending Pompeian resistance to the Second Triumvirate.
* 301
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–
eBay
eBay Inc. ( ) is an American multinational e-commerce company based in San Jose, California, that facilitates consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales through its website. eBay was founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995 and became ...
is founded by
Pierre Omidyar.
*
September 4–
15 The
Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing with over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance.
*
September 6 –
NATO air strikes against Bosnian Serb forces continue, after repeated attempts at a solution to the Bosnian War fail.
*
September 9 –
Sony
, commonly stylized as SONY, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. As a major technology company, it operates as one of the world's largest manufacturers of consumer and professional ...
enters the North American video game market with the release of the
PlayStation.
*
September 19 – ''
The Washington Post
''The Washington Post'' (also known as the ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'') is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area and has a large n ...
'' and ''
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...
'' publish the
Unabomber manifesto
*
September 26 – The trial against former Italian Prime Minister
Giulio Andreotti, who is accused of
Mafia
"Mafia" is an informal term that is used to describe criminal organizations that bear a strong similarity to the original “Mafia”, the Sicilian Mafia and Italian Mafia. The central activity of such an organization would be the arbitration of ...
connections, begins.
*
September 27–
28 –
Bob Denard's
mercenaries capture President Said Mohammed Djohor of the
Comoros; the local army does not resist.
October
*
October 3 –
O. J. Simpson
Orenthal James Simpson (born July 9, 1947), nicknamed "Juice", is an American former football running back, actor, and broadcaster who played for the Buffalo Bills and San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League. Once a popular figure ...
is found not guilty of double murder for the deaths of former wife
Nicole Brown Simpson and
Ronald Goldman.
*
October 5 –
Tansu Çiller
Tansu Çiller (; born 24 May 1946) is a Turkish academic, economist and politician who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Turkey from 1993 to 1996. She is Turkey's first and only female prime minister to date. As the leader of the True Path ...
of
DYP
The Democrat Party ( tr, Demokrat Parti), abbreviated to DP, is a liberal conservative Turkish political party, established by Ahmet Nusret Tuna in 1983 as the True Path Party ( tr, Doğru Yol Partisi or DYP). It succeeded the historical Democ ...
forms the new government of
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...
(51st government, a minority government which failed to receive the vote of confidence).
*
October 6 –
Michel Mayor and
Didier Queloz announce the discovery of
51 Pegasi b, the first confirmed
extrasolar planet
An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet outside the Solar System. The first possible evidence of an exoplanet was noted in 1917 but was not recognized as such. The first confirmation of detection occurred in 1992. A different planet, init ...
orbiting an ordinary
main-sequence star.
*
October 16 – The
Million Man March
The Million Man March was a large gathering of African-American men in Washington, D.C., on October 16, 1995. Called by Louis Farrakhan, it was held on and around the National Mall. The National African American Leadership Summit, a leadin ...
is held in
Washington, D.C. The event was conceived by
Nation of Islam
The Nation of Islam (NOI) is a religious and political organization founded in the United States by Wallace Fard Muhammad in 1930.
A black nationalist organization, the NOI focuses its attention on the African diaspora, especially on African ...
leader
Louis Farrakhan
Louis Farrakhan (; born Louis Eugene Walcott, May 11, 1933) is an American religious leader, black supremacist, anti-white and antisemitic conspiracy theorist, and former singer who heads the Nation of Islam (NOI). Prior to joining the NOI ...
.
*
October 24 – A
total solar eclipse is visible from Iran, India, Thailand, and Southeast Asia.
*
October 25 –
A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students.
*
October 26 – An
avalanche
An avalanche is a rapid flow of snow down a slope, such as a hill or mountain.
Avalanches can be set off spontaneously, by such factors as increased precipitation or snowpack weakening, or by external means such as humans, animals, and ear ...
hits the village
Flateyri in
Iceland
Iceland ( is, Ísland; ) is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Arctic Ocean. Iceland is the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Iceland's capital and largest city is Reykjavík, which (along with its ...
, killing 20 people. It was the second of two deadly avalanches that occurred in Iceland during the calendar year.
*
October 28 – A
fire in Baku Metro,
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of th ...
, kills 289 passengers, becoming the world's worst subway disaster.
*
October 30
**
Quebec
Quebec ( ; )According to the Government of Canada, Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is ...
independentists narrowly lose a
referendum
A referendum (plural: referendums or less commonly referenda) is a direct vote by the electorate on a proposal, law, or political issue. This is in contrast to an issue being voted on by a representative. This may result in the adoption of ...
for a mandate to negotiate independence from Canada.
**
Tansu Çiller
Tansu Çiller (; born 24 May 1946) is a Turkish academic, economist and politician who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Turkey from 1993 to 1996. She is Turkey's first and only female prime minister to date. As the leader of the True Path ...
of
DYP
The Democrat Party ( tr, Demokrat Parti), abbreviated to DP, is a liberal conservative Turkish political party, established by Ahmet Nusret Tuna in 1983 as the True Path Party ( tr, Doğru Yol Partisi or DYP). It succeeded the historical Democ ...
forms the new government of
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...
.
November
* November – The
India
India, officially the Republic of India ( Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the ...
n government officially renames the city of Bombay, restoring the name
Mumbai
Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the secon ...
.
*
November 1
** The last signal is received from
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.
NASA was established in 1958, succeedi ...
's ''
Pioneer 11'' spacecraft.
** Participants in the
Yugoslav Wars
The Yugoslav Wars were a series of separate but related Naimark (2003), p. xvii. ethnic conflicts, wars of independence, and insurgencies that took place in the SFR Yugoslavia from 1991 to 2001. The conflicts both led up to and resulted from ...
begin negotiations at the
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) is a United States Air Force base and census-designated place just east of Dayton, Ohio, in Greene and Montgomery counties. It includes both Wright and Patterson Fields, which were originally Wilbur W ...
in
Dayton, Ohio
Dayton () is the sixth-largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Montgomery County. A small part of the city extends into Greene County. The 2020 U.S. census estimate put the city population at 137,644, while Greater ...
.
*
November 2 – The
Supreme Court of Argentina orders the extradition of ex-S.S. captain
Erich Priebke.
*
November 4 – Israeli Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin
Yitzhak Rabin (; he, יִצְחָק רַבִּין, ; 1 March 1922 – 4 November 1995) was an Israeli politician, statesman and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974–77, and from 1992 until ...
is
assassinated at a peace rally in Tel Aviv.
*
November 7 –
Typhoon Angela leaves the
Philippines
The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no),
* bik, Republika kan Filipinas
* ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas
* cbk, República de Filipinas
* hil, Republ ...
and
Vietnam
Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making it ...
devastated, with 882 deaths and
US$315 million in damage. The typhoon was the strongest ever to strike the Philippines in 25 years, with wind speeds of and gusts of .
*
November 12 – The
Millbrook Commonwealth Action Programme, a programme to implement the
Harare Declaration, is announced by the
Commonwealth Heads of Government.
*
November 16 – A United Nations tribunal charges
Radovan Karadžić
Radovan Karadžić ( sr-cyr, Радован Караџић, ; born 19 June 1945) is a Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian Serb politician, psychiatrist and poet. He was convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes ...
and
Ratko Mladić with
genocide
Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people—usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group—in whole or in part. Raphael Lemkin coined the term in 1944, combining the Greek word (, "race, people") with the L ...
during the
Bosnian War
The Bosnian War ( sh, Rat u Bosni i Hercegovini / Рат у Босни и Херцеговини) was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. The war is commonly seen as having started ...
.
*
November 19 – A car bomb explosion outside the
Egypt
Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Med ...
ian Embassy in
Islamabad
Islamabad (; ur, , ) is the capital city of Pakistan. It is the country's ninth-most populous city, with a population of over 1.2 million people, and is federally administered by the Pakistani government as part of the Islamabad Capita ...
, Pakistan, destroyed the face of the building, killed at least 13 people and wounded dozens more.
*
November 21
Events Pre-1600
*164 BCE – Judas Maccabeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, rededicates the Temple in Jerusalem, an event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah. (25 Kislev 3597 in the Hebrew calendar.)
* 235 & ...
– The
Dayton Agreement to end the
Bosnian War
The Bosnian War ( sh, Rat u Bosni i Hercegovini / Рат у Босни и Херцеговини) was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. The war is commonly seen as having started ...
is reached at
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) is a United States Air Force base and census-designated place just east of Dayton, Ohio, in Greene and Montgomery counties. It includes both Wright and Patterson Fields, which were originally Wilbur W ...
near
Dayton, Ohio
Dayton () is the sixth-largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Montgomery County. A small part of the city extends into Greene County. The 2020 U.S. census estimate put the city population at 137,644, while Greater ...
(signed
December 14).
*
November 22
** The 7.3
Gulf of Aqaba earthquake shakes the Sinai Peninsula and Saudi Arabia region with a maximum
Mercalli intensity of VIII (''Severe''), killing eight and injuring 30, and generating a non-destructive tsunami.
** The first-ever full-length computer-animated feature film, ''
Toy Story'', is released by
Pixar and
Walt Disney Pictures.
*
November 28 – Twenty-seven nations sign the Barcelona Treaty, creating the
Union for the Mediterranean
The Union for the Mediterranean (UfM; french: Union pour la Méditerranée, ar, الإتحاد من أجل المتوسط ''Al-Ittiḥād min ajl al-Mutawasseṭ'') is an intergovernmental organization of 43 member states from Europe and the M ...
.
*
November 30 – Operation
Desert Storm
The Gulf War was a 1990–1991 armed campaign waged by a Coalition of the Gulf War, 35-country military coalition in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Spearheaded by the United States, the coalition's efforts against Ba'athist Iraq, ...
officially ends.
December
*
December 3 –
Strikes
Strike may refer to:
People
*Strike (surname)
Physical confrontation or removal
*Strike (attack), attack with an inanimate object or a part of the human body intended to cause harm
*Airstrike, military strike by air forces on either a suspected ...
paralyze France's public sector.
*
December 6 – The United States
Food and Drug Administration
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA or US FDA) is a federal agency of the Department of Health and Human Services. The FDA is responsible for protecting and promoting public health through the control and supervision of food ...
approved
Saquinavir, the first
protease inhibitor to treat
HIV/AIDS
Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a retrovirus. Following initial infection an individual ...
. Within 2 years of its approval, annual deaths from AIDS in the United States fell from over 50,000 to approximately 18,000.
*
December 7 – NASA's ''
Galileo Probe'' enters
Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, but slightly less than one-thousandt ...
's atmosphere.
*
December 8 – Five-year-old
Gyaincain Norbu
Chökyi Gyalpo, also referred to by his secular name Gyaincain Norbu or Gyaltsen Norbu (born 13 February 1990), is considered the 11th Panchen Lama by the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC). He is also the vice president of t ...
is enthroned as the 11th
reincarnation
Reincarnation, also known as rebirth or transmigration, is the philosophical or religious concept that the non-physical essence of a living being begins a new life in a different physical form or body after biological death. Resurrection is ...
of the
Panchen Lama
The Panchen Lama () is a tulku of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. Panchen Lama is one of the most important figures in the Gelug tradition, with its spiritual authority second only to Dalai Lama. Along with the council of high lamas, he ...
at
Tashilhunpo Monastery.
*
December 9
Events Pre-1600
* 536 – Gothic War: The Byzantine general Belisarius enters Rome unopposed; the Gothic garrison flees the capital.
* 730 – Battle of Marj Ardabil: The Khazars annihilate an Umayyad army and kill its commander, ...
–
Godzilla vs. Destoroyah is released by
Toho Studios, the last Godzilla incarnation in the "Heisei" era of Godzilla films.
*
December 14 – The
Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris, officially ending the
Bosnian War
The Bosnian War ( sh, Rat u Bosni i Hercegovini / Рат у Босни и Херцеговини) was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. The war is commonly seen as having started ...
.
*
December 16 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi scuba divers, under the direction of the
United Nations Special Commission
United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) was an inspection regime created by the United Nations to ensure Iraq's compliance with policies concerning Iraqi production and use of weapons of mass destruction after the Gulf War. Between 1991 and 19 ...
, dredge the
Tigris
The Tigris () is the easternmost of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates. The river flows south from the mountains of the Armenian Highlands through the Syrian and Arabian Deserts, and empties into the ...
near
Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesipho ...
. 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
Buga (), formally Guadalajara de Buga, is a city and municipality in the Valle del Cauca Department of Colombia. It is famous for its Basilica del Señor de los Milagros, which houses an image of Christ called ''el Señor de los Milagros'' ("t ...
, Colombia, killing 160 of the 164 on board.
**
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO, ; french: Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, ), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states – 28 European and two No ...
begins peacekeeping in
Bosnia
Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country at the crossroads of south and southeast Europe, located in the Balkans. Bosnia and H ...
.
*
December 30 – The lowest ever United Kingdom temperature of is recorded at
Altnaharra in the
Scottish Highlands
The Highlands ( sco, the Hielands; gd, a’ Ghàidhealtachd , 'the place of the Gaels') is a historical region of Scotland. Culturally, the Highlands and the Lowlands diverged from the Late Middle Ages into the modern period, when Lowland ...
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Braemar
Braemar is a village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, around west of Aberdeen in the Highlands. It is the closest significantly-sized settlement to the upper course of the River Dee sitting at an elevation of .
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,
Aberdeenshire
Aberdeenshire ( sco, Aiberdeenshire; gd, Siorrachd Obar Dheathain) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland.
It takes its name from the County of Aberdeen which has substantially different boundaries. The Aberdeenshire Council area incl ...
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1895 and
1982
Events January
* January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00).
* January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C., Un ...
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Sudden oak death, the tree disease caused by the
plant pathogen
Plant pathology (also phytopathology) is the scientific study of diseases in plants caused by pathogens (infectious organisms) and environmental conditions (physiological factors). Organisms that cause infectious disease include fungi, oomy ...
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Phytophthora ramorum
''Phytophthora ramorum'' is the oomycete (a type of protist) plant pathogen known to cause the disease sudden oak death (SOD). The disease kills oak and other species of trees and has had devastating effects on the oak populations in Californ ...
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California
California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the most populous U.S. state and the 3rd largest by area. It is also the ...
.
* The existence of the
Top Quark is announced by the international scientific community.
* The first
SampTA
SampTA (Sampling Theory and Applications) is a biennial interdisciplinary conference for mathematicians, engineers, and applied scientists. The main purpose of SampTA is to exchange recent advances in sampling theory and to explore new trends and ...
conference for mathematicians, engineers, and applied scientists is held in
Riga
Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia and is home to 605,802 inhabitants which is a third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava river where it meets the B ...
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Latvia
Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of ...
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World population
Births
January

*
January 1
January 1 or 1 January is the first day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 364 days remaining until the end of the year (365 in leap years). This day is also known as New Year's Day since the day marks the beginning of the year. ...
**
Sardar Azmoun, Iranian footballer
** Poppy (entertainer), Poppy, American musician and model
* January 3
** Jisoo (singer, born 1995), Jisoo, South Korean singer, actress, and model
** Kim Seol-hyun, Seolhyun, South Korean singer, actress, and model
* January 4 – María Isabel, Spanish singer
* January 6 – Michaela DePrince, Sierra Leonean-American ballet dancer
*
January 9 – Nicola Peltz, American actress
* January 12
** Alessio Romagnoli, Italian footballer
** Maverick Viñales, Spanish motorcycle racer
* January 13 – Natalia Dyer, American actress
* January 16
** Hansamu Yama Pranata, Indonesian footballer
** Takumi Minamino, Japanese footballer
* January 19
** Mathieu van der Poel, Dutch bicycle racer
** Maxi Rolón, Argentine footballer (d. 2022)
* January 20
** Joey Badass, American rapper
** Calum Chambers, English footballer
** José María Giménez, Uruguayan footballer
* January 24 – Callan McAuliffe, Australian actor
* January 30
** Danielle Campbell, American actress
** Viktoria Komova, Russian artistic gymnast
*
January 31
Events Pre-1600
* 314 – Pope Sylvester I is consecrated, as successor to the late Pope Miltiades.
*1208 – The Battle of Lena takes place between King Sverker II of Sweden and his rival, Prince Eric, whose victory puts him on the ...
– Nina Sublatti, Georgian singer and model
February

* February 1 – Oliver Heldens, Dutch DJ and electronic music producer
* February 4 – Pione Sisto, South Sudanese-Danish footballer
* February 5 – Adnan Januzaj, Belgian footballer
* February 6
** Leon Goretzka, German footballer
** Nyck de Vries, Dutch racing driver
* February 8 – Joshua Kimmich, German footballer
* February 9 – Mario Pašalić, Croatian footballer
* February 10 – Naby Keïta, Guinean footballer
* February 11 – Milan Škriniar, Slovak footballer
* February 15 – Megan Thee Stallion, American rapper
* February 16 – Denzel Curry, American rapper
* February 17 – Madison Keys, American tennis player
* February 18 – Mikhail Kolyada, Russian figure skater
* February 23
** Volodymyr Khorolskyi, Ukrainian football defender
** Andrew Wiggins, Canadian basketball player
* February 27 – Sergej Milinković-Savić, Serbian footballer
March

* March 2 – Mats Møller Dæhli, Norwegian footballer
*
March 3
Events Pre-1600
* 473 – Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
* 724 – Empress Genshō abdicates the throne in favor of her nephew Shōmu who becomes emperor of Japan.
*1575 & ...
– Maine Mendoza, Filipina television personality
* March 7
** Fajar Alfian, Indonesian badminton player
** Haley Lu Richardson, American actress
* March 8 – Keita Baldé, Senegalese footballer
* March 9 – Cierra Ramirez, American actress and singer
* March 9 – Meezaan Jafri, Indian film actor
* March 10 – Zach LaVine, American basketball player
* March 13 – Mikaela Shiffrin, American skier
* March 15 – Jabari Parker, American basketball player
* March 19
** Héctor Bellerín, Spanish footballer
** Julia Montes, Filipina actress
* March 23 – Ester Ledecká, Czech winter athlete
*
March 25 – Carlos Vinícius, Brazilian footballer
* March 27 – Zaur Uguev, Russian freestyle wrestler
* March 30 – Tao Geoghegan Hart, British cyclist
April

* April 1 – Logan Paul, American actor and YouTube personality
* April 3 – Adrien Rabiot, French footballer
* April 5 – Nguyễn Phương Khánh, Vietnamese model and beauty queen, Miss Earth 2018
* April 17 – Wheein, South Korean singer and songwriter
* April 18 – Divock Origi, Belgian footballer
* April 23 – Gigi Hadid, American fashion model
* April 24 – Kehlani, American singer
* April 26 – Daniel Padilla, Filipino actor
* April 28 – Melanie Martinez (singer), Melanie Martinez, American singer
May

* May 1
** Jake Cannavale, American musician and actor
** Radhika Madan, Indian actress and dancer
* May 2 – Yook Sung-jae, South Korean singer and actor
* May 3 – Zach Sobiech, American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 2013)
* May 6 – Marko Pjaca, Croatian footballer
*
May 10
Events Pre-1600
* 28 BC – A sunspot is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China.
*1291 – Scottish nobles recognize the authority of E ...
** Missy Franklin, American swimmer
** Gabriella Papadakis, French ice dancer
*
May 11
Events 1601–1900
*1812 – Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the British House of Commons.
*1813 – William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth discover a route across th ...
** Gelson Martins, Portuguese footballer
** Shira Haas, Israeli actress
* May 12 – Kenton Duty, American actor, singer, and dancer
*
May 14 – Kelly Gale, Swedish model
* May 15 – Ksenia Sitnik, Belarusian singer
* May 23
** Eula Caballero, Filipina actress
* May 25 – José Luis Gayà, Spanish footballer
* May 29 – Nicolas Pépé, Ivorian footballer
June
* June 4 – Willie Rioli, Australian football player
* June 5 – Troye Sivan, South African-born Australian singer
*
June 13
Events Pre-1600
* 313 – The decisions of the Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius, granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, are published in Nicomedia.
* 1325 – Ibn Battut ...
– Petra Vlhová, Slovak alpine skier
*
June 16 – Joseph Schooling, Singaporean swimmer
* June 19 – Raphael Veiga, Brazilian footballer
* June 21
** Jessica Ahlquist, American activist and public speaker
** Darko Velkovski, Macedonian footballer
** Jesper Karlström, Swedish footballer
*
June 22
Events Pre-1600
*217 BC – Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom.
* 168 BC – Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat Macedonian King Per ...
** Aleksandr Maltsev (synchronised swimmer), Aleksandr Maltsev, Russian artistic (synchronized) swimmer
** Ádám Borbély, Hungarian handball player
* June 23
** Eva Lazzaro, Australian actress
** Jorge Mateo, Dominican baseball shortstop
** Danna Paola, Mexican singer and actress
*
June 24 – Abdel Fadel Suanon, Beninese footballer
* June 25
** Wilhem Belocian, French sprinter
** Laura Jung, German rhythmic gymnast
** Juan Córdova, Chilean footballer
** Kamil Dragun, Polish chess grandmaster
* June 26 – Natsuhiko Watanabe, Japanese footballer
* June 28
** Syafiq Ahmad, Malaysian footballer
** Kåre Hedebrant, Swedish actor
** Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters, South African model and beauty pageant titleholder
** Adama Traoré (footballer, born 28 June 1995), Adama Traoré, Malian footballer
*
June 29
Events Pre-1600
* 226 – Cao Rui succeeds his father as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei.
*1149 – Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.
*1194 – Sverre is crowned King of Norway, le ...
– João Paulo Silva Martins, Brazilian footballer
* June 30
** Marina Ruy Barbosa, Brazilian actress
** Kristoffer Olsson, Swedish footballer
July

*
July 1
** Boli Bolingoli-Mbombo, Congolese-Belgian footballer
** Krzysztof Piątek, Polish footballer
* July 2
** Ito Ohno, Japanese fashion model and actress
** Ryan Murphy (swimmer), Ryan Murphy, American competitive swimmer
* July 3 – Emircan Koşut, Turkish basketball player
*
July 4
** Brayden Schnur, Canadian tennis player
** Álex Berenguer, Spanish footballer
** Post Malone, American rapper
* July 5
** Hyuk (singer), Hyuk, South Korean singer and actor
** Phataimas Muenwong, Thai badminton player
*
July 9
Events Pre-1600
*118 – Hadrian, who became emperor a year previously on Trajan's death, makes his entry into Rome.
* 381 – The end of the First Council of Christian bishops convened in Constantinople by the Roman Emperor Theodos ...
** Georgie Henley, English actress
** Sandro Ramírez, Spanish footballer
*
July 10
** Trayvon Bromell, American sprinter
** Ada Hegerberg, Norwegian footballer
** Edymar Martínez, Venezuelan model
** Lu Shanglei, Chinese chess grandmaster
*
July 11
Events Pre-1600
* 472 – After being besieged in Rome by his own generals, Western Roman Emperor Anthemius is captured in St. Peter's Basilica and put to death.
* 813 – Byzantine emperor Michael I, under threat by conspiracies, ...
– Tyler Medeiros, Canadian singer, songwriter, and dancer
* July 12
** Jordyn Wieber, American artistic gymnast
** Luke Shaw, English footballer
** Yohio, Swedish singer and songwriter
* July 13
** Cody Bellinger, American baseball player
** Dante Exum, Australian basketball player
* July 14 – Serge Gnabry, German footballer
* July 15 – Vivianne Miedema, Dutch football player
* July 16 – Torstein Træen, Norwegian racing cyclist
* July 19
** Manuel Akanji, Swiss footballer
** María José Alvarado, Honduran model (d. 2014)
** Matt Miazga, American soccer player
** Maria Paseka, Russian artistic gymnast
* July 23 – Hwasa, South Korean singer, songwriter, and rapper
* July 24 – Kyle Kuzma, American basketball player
* July 30 – Hirving Lozano, Mexican footballer
August

* August 1 – Madison Cawthorn, American politician
* August 2
** Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo, Indonesian badminton player
** Kristaps Porziņģis, Latvian basketball player
*
August 4
** Bruna Marquezine, Brazilian actress
** Jessica Sanchez, American singer
* August 5 – Pierre-Emile Højbjerg, Danish footballer
* August 6 – Sasha Vezenkov, Bulgarian professional basketball player
* August 9 – Hwang Min-hyun, South Korean singer-songwriter and actor
* August 12 – Sara Ali Khan, Indian actress
* August 13 – Presnel Kimpembe, French footballer
* August 15 – Chief Keef, American rapper
*
August 16 – James Young (basketball), James Young, American basketball player
* August 17 – Gracie Gold, American figure skater
* August 22
** Huang Wenpan, Chinese swimmer (d. 2018)
** Dua Lipa, English singer
**Nasrat Haqparast, Afghan-German mixed martial artist
** Jonnu Smith, American football player
* August 24
** Lady Amelia Windsor, member of the British royal family
** Justine Skye, American singer
* August 26
** Gracie Dzienny, American actress
** Solomon Thomas, American football player
** Hannah van der Westhuysen, British actress
* August 27 – Sergey Sirotkin (racing driver), Sergey Sirotkin, Russian racing driver
* August 28 – Andreas Wellinger, German ski jumper
*
August 29
Events Pre-1600
* 708 – Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).
* 870 – The city of Melite surrenders to an Aghlabid army following a siege, putting an end to Byzanti ...
– Gud (music producer), Gud, Swedish DJ and producer
September

* September 1
** Munir El Haddadi, Spanish footballer
** Nathan MacKinnon, Canadian hockey player
*
September 3
Events Pre-1600
* 36 BC – In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompey, son of Pompey, thus ending Pompeian resistance to the Second Triumvirate.
* 301
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** Myles Jack, American football player
** Niklas Süle, German footballer
* September 5 – Caroline Sunshine, American actress, dancer, singer and political operative
*
September 6 – Bertrand Traoré, Burkinabé footballer
* September 8 – Julian Weigl, German footballer
* September 12
** Steven Gardiner, Bahamian sprinter
** Ryan Potter, American actor
* September 14 – Deshaun Watson, American football player
* September 15 – Awer Mabil, Australian association footballer
* September 16 – Aaron Gordon, American basketball player
* September 17 – Patrick Mahomes, American football player
* September 20 – Laura Dekker, Dutch sailor
* September 22 – Nayeon, South Korean singer
* September 23
** Eli Dershwitz, American fencer
** Agnes Tirop, Agnes Jebet Tirop, Kenian athlete (d. 2021)
* September 29 – Mozzik (rapper), Mozzik, Albanian rapper
October

* October 1 – Scott Helman, Canadian singer-songwriter
* October 4
** Mikolas Josef, Czech singer and music producer
** Jabrill Peppers, American football player
** Seventeen (South Korean band), Jeonghan, South Korean singer
*
October 5 – Kim A-lim South Korean golfer
* October 9 – Kenny Tete, Dutch footballer
* October 13 – Jimin (singer, born 1995), Jimin, South Korean singer
* October 15 – Billy Unger, American actor and musician
* October 17 – Queen Naija, American singer
* October 21 – Antoinette Guedia Mouafo, Cameroonian swimmer
* October 21 – Doja Cat, American singer and rapper
* October 23 – Ireland Baldwin, American fashion model and actress
*
October 25 – Conchita Campbell, Canadian actress
*
October 28 – Mia Wray, Australian pop musician
November

*
November 1
** lucas car was born in sports.
** Nour El Sherbini, Egyptian squash player
*
November 2 – Rafael Vitti, Brazilian actor, musician and poet
* November 3
** Kelly Catlin, American racing cyclist (d. 2019)
** Kendall Jenner, American model and television personality
* November 5
** Madison McLaughlin, American Actress
* November 6 – André Silva (footballer, born 1995), André Silva, Portuguese footballer
* November 13 – Oliver Stummvoll, Austrian model
* November 15 – Karl-Anthony Towns, Dominican-American basketball player
* November 17 – Elise Mertens, Belgian tennis player
* November 18 – Ihsan Maulana Mustofa, Indonesian badminton player
*
November 19
** Vanessa Axente, Hungarian fashion model
** Asuka Teramoto, Japanese artistic gymnast
** Melinda Ademi, Kosovan singer
* November 20
** Timothy Cheruiyot, Kenyan athlete
** Michael Clifford (musician), Michael Clifford, Australian guitarist and singer
*
November 22 – Katherine McNamara, American actress
*
November 28
** Tin Jedvaj, Croatian footballer
** Chase Elliott, American race car driver
* November 29 – Laura Marano, American actress and singer
December

* December 4 –
**Dina Asher-Smith, British sprinter
**John Mateer (musician), John Mateer, American musician and filmmaker
* December 5
** Anthony Martial, French footballer
** Kaetlyn Osmond, Canadian figure skater
*
December 6
** Joy Gruttmann, German singer
** A Boogie wit da Hoodie, American rapper and singer
*
December 9
Events Pre-1600
* 536 – Gothic War: The Byzantine general Belisarius enters Rome unopposed; the Gothic garrison flees the capital.
* 730 – Battle of Marj Ardabil: The Khazars annihilate an Umayyad army and kill its commander, ...
** McKayla Maroney, American gymnast
** Kelly Oubre Jr., American basketball player
*
December 14 – Yulia Belokobylskaya, Russian gymnast
* December 15 – Yoshihide Kiryū, Japanese sprinter
* December 18 – Lim Na-young, South Korean singer
* December 27
** Timothée Chalamet, French-American actor
** Carlos Cuevas, Spanish actor
* December 29 – Ross Lynch, American actor
*
December 30
** Sakura Fujiwara, Japanese actress
** V (singer), V, South Korean singer
* December 31 – Gabby Douglas, American gymnast
Deaths
January

*
January 1
January 1 or 1 January is the first day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 364 days remaining until the end of the year (365 in leap years). This day is also known as New Year's Day since the day marks the beginning of the year. ...
**Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist (b. 1902)
**Fred West, English serial killer (b. 1941)
* January 2
**Siad Barre, Somalian military leader and statesman, 3rd President of Somalia (b. 1919)
**Nancy Kelly, American actress (b. 1921)
* January 6 – Joe Slovo, ANC activist and South African minister of Housing (b. 1926)
* January 7 – Murray Rothbard, American economist (b. 1926)
* January 8 – Carlos Monzón, Argentine boxer (b. 1942)
*
January 9
** Peter Cook, English comedian and writer (b. 1937)
** Souphanouvong, Laotian royal prince and Communist leader, 1st President of Laos (b. 1909)
* January 11 – Josef Gingold, Russian-American violinist (b. 1909)
*
January 17
Events Pre-1600
*38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey.
*1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 people o ...
– Miguel Torga, Portuguese writer (b. 1907)
* January 18 – Adolf Butenandt, German biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1903)
* January 20 – Mehdi Bazargan, 46th Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1907)
* January 22 – Rose Kennedy, American philanthropist (b. 1890)
*
January 25
** John Smith (actor), John Smith, American actor (b. 1931)
** William Sylvester, American actor (b. 1922)
* January 30 – Gerald Durrell, British naturalist, author, and television presenter (b. 1925)
*
January 31
Events Pre-1600
* 314 – Pope Sylvester I is consecrated, as successor to the late Pope Miltiades.
*1208 – The Battle of Lena takes place between King Sverker II of Sweden and his rival, Prince Eric, whose victory puts him on the ...
** George Abbott, American writer, director, and producer (b. 1887)
** George Stibitz, American computational engineer (b. 1904)
February

* February 2
** Tikvah Alper, South African scientist (b. 1909)
** Fred Perry, English tennis champion (b. 1909)
** Donald Pleasence, English actor (b. 1919)
* February 4 – Patricia Highsmith, American author (b. 1921)
* February 5 – Doug McClure, American actor (b. 1935)
* February 6
** James Merrill, American poet (b. 1926)
** Art Taylor, American jazz drummer (b. 1929)
* February 9
** J. William Fulbright, American senator and congressman (b. 1905)
** David Wayne, American actor (b. 1914)
* February 12 – Robert Bolt, English dramatist (b. 1924)
*
February 13
Events Pre-1600
* 962 – Emperor Otto I and Pope John XII co-sign the '' Diploma Ottonianum'', recognizing John as ruler of Rome.
*1322 – The central tower of Ely Cathedral falls on the night of 12th–13th.
* 1462 – T ...
– Alberto Burri, Italian artist (b. 1915)
* February 14 – U Nu, Burmese politician, 1st Prime Minister of Burma (b. 1907)
* February 19 – John Howard (American actor), John Howard, American actor (b. 1913)
* February 22 – Ed Flanders, American actor (b. 1934)
* February 23 – James Herriot, English veterinarian and author (b. 1916)
* February 24 – Hideko Maehata, Japanese swimmer (b. 1914)
*
February 26
Events Pre-1600
* 747 BC – According to Ptolemy, the epoch (origin) of the Nabonassar Era began at noon on this date. Historians use this to establish the modern BC chronology for dating historic events.
* 364 – Valentinian I is ...
– Jack Clayton, British film director (b. 1921)
March

*
March 1
Events Pre-1600
*509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia.
* 293 – Emperor Diocletian and ...
** Georges J. F. Köhler, German biologist (b. 1946)
** Vladislav Listyev, Russian journalist (b. 1956)
*
March 3
Events Pre-1600
* 473 – Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
* 724 – Empress Genshō abdicates the throne in favor of her nephew Shōmu who becomes emperor of Japan.
*1575 & ...
– Howard W. Hunter, American 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 8
** Paul Horgan, American writer (b. 1903)
** Ingo Schwichtenberg, German drummer (b. 1965)
* March 9
** Edward Bernays, Austrian-born American propagandist (b. 1891)
** Yisrael Galil, Israeli firearm designer (b. 1923)
* March 10 – Ovidi Montllor, Spanish singer and actor (b. 1942)
* March 11 – Wilfred Jacobs, 1st Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda (b. 1919)
* March 13 – Odette Hallowes, French intelligence officer (b. 1912)
*
March 14 – William Alfred Fowler, American physicist (b. 1911)
* March 16 – Albert Hackett, American dramatist and screenwriter (b. 1900)
* March 17
** Rick Aviles, American actor (b. 1952)
** Sunnyland Slim, American blues pianist (b. 1906)
* March 19 – Nike Ardilla, Indonesian singer, actress, and model (b. 1975)
*
March 20
** Sidney Kingsley, American dramatist (b. 1906)
** Big John Studd, John William Minton, American professional wrestler (b. 1948)
* March 23 – Davie Cooper, Scottish footballer (b. 1956)
* March 24 – Joseph Needham, British biochemist, historian, and sinologist (b. 1900)
*
March 25 – James Samuel Coleman, American sociologist (b. 1926)
*
March 26 – Eazy-E, American rapper and record producer (b. 1964)
*
March 31
Events Pre-1600
* 307 – After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, daughter of the retired Roman emperor Maximian.
*1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the nec ...
–
Selena, American singer (b. 1971)
April

* April 2 – Hannes Alfvén, Swedish chemist (b. 1908)
* April 4
** Kenny Everett, British comedian (b. 1944)
** Priscilla Lane, American actress (b. 1915)
* April 6 – V. J. Sukselainen, Finnish politician, 24th Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1906)
* April 10 – Morarji Desai, 4th Prime Minister of India (b. 1896)
* April 14 – Burl Ives, American singer and actor (b. 1909)
* April 16 – Cy Endfield, American screenwriter (b. 1914)
* April 18 – Arturo Frondizi, Argentine lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Argentina (b. 1908)
* April 20 – Milovan Đilas, Yugoslav politician and philosopher (b. 1911)
* April 23 – Howard Cosell, American sportscaster (b. 1918)
* April 25
** Alexander Knox, Canadian actor and novelist (b. 1907)
** Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (b. 1911)
* April 27 – Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (b. 1921)
*
April 30 – Maung Maung Kha, 5th Prime Minister of Burma (b. 1920)
May

* May 2 – Michael Hordern, English actor (b. 1911)
* May 4 – Louis Krasner, Ukrainian-American violinist (b. 1903)
* May 5 – Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player (b. 1911)
* May 6 – Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança, Portuguese writer and journalist (b. 1907)
* May 8 – Teresa Teng, Taiwanese singer (b. 1953)
* May 12
** Arthur Lubin, American film director (b. 1898)
** Adolfo Pedernera, Argentinian footballer (b. 1918)
** Mia Martini, Italian singer and songwriter (b. 1947)
*
May 14 – Christian B. Anfinsen, American chemist (b. 1916)
* May 15 – Eric Porter, English actor (b. 1928)
*
May 16
Events Pre-1600
* 946 – Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor of Japan.
*1204 – Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
*1364 ...
– Lola Flores, Spanish singer, dancer and actress (b. 1923)
* May 18
** Elisha Cook Jr., American actor (b. 1903)
** Alexander Godunov, Russian ballet dancer and actor (b. 1949)
** Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (b. 1933)
* May 21 – Les Aspin, American politician (b. 1938)
*
May 24 – Harold Wilson,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the head of government of the United Kingdom. The prime minister advises the sovereign on the exercise of much of the royal prerogative, chairs the Cabinet and selects its ministers. As moder ...
(b. 1916)
* May 25
** Krešimir Ćosić, Croatian professional basketball player and coach (b. 1948)
** Dany Robin, French actress (b. 1927)
* May 26 – Friz Freleng, American animator (b. 1906)
* May 29 – Margaret Chase Smith, American politician (b. 1897)
* May 30 – Ted Drake, English footballer (b. 1912)
June

* June 3 – J. Presper Eckert, American engineer (b. 1919)
* June 7 – Hsuan Hua, Chinese Buddhist (b. 1918)
* June 8 – Juan Carlos Onganía, 35th President of Argentina (b. 1914)
* June 12 – Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (b. 1920)
* June 14 – Rory Gallagher, Irish blues and rock guitarist (b. 1948)
* June 20 – Emil Cioran, Romanian philosopher and essayist (b. 1911)
*
June 22
Events Pre-1600
*217 BC – Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom.
* 168 BC – Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat Macedonian King Per ...
– Yves Congar, French cardinal (b. 1904)
* June 23
** Jonas Salk, American medical researcher (b. 1914)
** Anatoly Tarasov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1918)
* June 25
** Warren E. Burger, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1907)
** Ernest Walton, Irish physicist and Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
*
June 29
Events Pre-1600
* 226 – Cao Rui succeeds his father as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei.
*1149 – Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.
*1194 – Sverre is crowned King of Norway, le ...
– Lana Turner, American actress (b. 1921)
* June 30
** Georgi Beregovoi, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1921)
** Gale Gordon, American actor (b. 1906)
** Phyllis Hyman, American singer and actress (b. 1949)
July

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July 1
** Wolfman Jack, American disc jockey (b. 1938)
** Bruce Mitchell (cricketer), Bruce Mitchell, South African cricketer (b. 1909)
* July 3 – Pancho Gonzales, American tennis champion (b. 1928)
*
July 4
** Eva Gabor, Hungarian-American actress, businesswoman, and socialite (b. 1919)
** Bob Ross, American television painter (b. 1942)
* July 5 – Takeo Fukuda, Japanese politician, 46th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1905)
* July 6 – Aziz Nesin, Turkish writer (b. 1915)
* July 13 – Ashapoorna Devi, Indian author and poet (b. 1908)
* July 16
** Patsy Ruth Miller, American actress (b. 1904)
** Stephen Spender, English poet and writer (b. 1909)
* July 17
** Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine race car driver (b. 1911)
** Harry Guardino, American actor (b. 1925)
* July 18
** Fabio Casartelli, Italian cyclist (b. 1970)
** Srinagarindra, Thai princess (b. 1900)
* July 20 – Genevieve Tobin, American actress (b. 1899)
* July 22 – Harold Larwood, British cricketer (b. 1904)
* July 24 – George Rodger, British photojournalist (b. 1908)
* July 25 – Charlie Rich, American singer (b. 1932)
* July 27 – Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian composer (b. 1907)
August

* August 3 – Ida Lupino, British-born American actress (b. 1918)
* August 9 – Jerry Garcia, American guitarist (The Grateful Dead) (b. 1942)
* August 11 – Phil Harris, American comedian and actor (b. 1904)
* August 13 – Mickey Mantle, American baseball player (b. 1931)
* August 19 – Pierre Schaeffer, French composer (b. 1910)
* August 20 – Hugo Pratt, Italian comics creator (b. 1927)
* August 21 – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian astrophysicist (b. 1910)
* August 22 – Johnny Carey, Irish football player and manager (b. 1919)
* August 24
** Gary Crosby (actor), Gary Crosby, American singer and actor (b. 1933)
** Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-American photographer (b. 1898)
*
August 29
Events Pre-1600
* 708 – Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).
* 870 – The city of Melite surrenders to an Aghlabid army following a siege, putting an end to Byzanti ...
** Michael Ende, German author (b. 1929)
** Frank Perry, American stage director and filmmaker (b. 1930)
*
August 30
** Fischer Black, American economist (b. 1938)
** Lev Polugaevsky, Belarusian chess Grandmaster (b. 1934)
September

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September 4 – William Kunstler, American radical lawyer and civil rights activist (b. 1919)
* September 8 – Eileen Chang, Chinese writer (b. 1920)
* September 12 – Jeremy Brett, English actor (b. 1933)
* September 15 – Gunnar Nordahl, Swedish footballer (b. 1921)
*
September 19 – Sir Rudolf Peierls, German-born British physicist (b. 1907)
* September 25 – Kei Tomiyama, Japanese actor, voice actor, and narrator (b. 1938)
* September 29
** Madalyn Murray O'Hair, American activist (b. 1919)
** Pedro Nolasco, Dominican boxer (b. 1963)
October

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October 5
** Linda Gary, American film and television actress and voice actress (b. 1944)
** Pin Malakul, Thai educator and politician (b. 1903)
* October 9
** Alec Douglas-Home,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the head of government of the United Kingdom. The prime minister advises the sovereign on the exercise of much of the royal prerogative, chairs the Cabinet and selects its ministers. As moder ...
(b. 1903)
** M.R. Kukrit Pramoj, Thai politician and 13th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1911)
* October 19 – Don Cherry (trumpeter), Don Cherry, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1936)
* October 21 – Shannon Hoon, American singer-songwriter (b. 1967)
* October 22
** Kingsley Amis, English writer (b. 1922)
** Mary Wickes, American actress (b. 1910)
*
October 25
** Viveca Lindfors, Swedish actress (b. 1920)
** Bobby Riggs, American tennis player (b. 1918)
*
October 26 – Wilhelm Freddie, Danish painter (b. 1909)
* October 31
** Alan Bush, British composer, pianist, and conductor (b. 1900)
** Rosalind Cash, American actress (b. 1938)
** Bill Rowling, 30th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1927)
November
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November 4
** Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (b. 1925)
** Paul Eddington, English actor (b. 1927)
**
Yitzhak Rabin
Yitzhak Rabin (; he, יִצְחָק רַבִּין, ; 1 March 1922 – 4 November 1995) was an Israeli politician, statesman and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974–77, and from 1992 until ...
, 5th Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1922)
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November 7 – Ann Dunham, American anthropologist (b. 1942)
*
November 12 – Robert Stephens, English actor (b. 1931)
* November 20 – Sergei Grinkov, Russian figure skater (b. 1967)
* November 23 – Louis Malle, French film director (b. 1932)
* November 24 – Jeffrey Lynn, American actor (b. 1909)
December

* December 2 – Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist (b. 1913)
*
December 9
Events Pre-1600
* 536 – Gothic War: The Byzantine general Belisarius enters Rome unopposed; the Gothic garrison flees the capital.
* 730 – Battle of Marj Ardabil: The Khazars annihilate an Umayyad army and kill its commander, ...
– Vivian Blaine, American actress and singer (b. 1921)
* December 12 – Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Denmark, Danish princess (b. 1912)
* December 13 – Anatoly Dyatlov, Soviet engineer in charge during the Chernobyl disaster (b. 1931)
* December 18
** Nathan Rosen, Israeli physicist (b. 1909)
** Konrad Zuse, German engineer (b. 1910)
*
December 20 – Madge Sinclair, Jamaican-American actress (b. 1938)
* December 22
** Butterfly McQueen, American actress (b. 1911)
** James Meade, English economist (b. 1907)
* December 23 – Patric Knowles, English actor (b. 1911)
* December 25
** Dean Martin, American actor, singer and comedian (b. 1917)
** Nicolas Slonimsky, Russian-American musicologist (b. 1894)
* December 27 – Edgar Bischoff, Romanian-born French composer (b. 1912)
* December 29 – Lita Grey, American actress (b. 1908)
*
December 30 – Heiner Müller, German poet and playwright (b. 1929)
Date unknown
* Richey Edwards, Welsh musician (b. 1967)
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 Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Robert Lucas, Jr.
* Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – Joseph Rotblat and the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
References
External links
1995: A look back- CNN
CNN Time Capsule: The Defining Moments of 1995- CNN
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