1995 United Nations Security Council Resolutions

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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 was entirely privatized, with the United States government no longer providing public funding, marking the beginning of the Information Age. America Online and Prodigy offered access to the World Wide Web system for the first time this year, releasing browsers that made it easily accessible to the general public.

Events

January

* January 1
** The World Trade Organization (WTO) is established to replace the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
**Austria, Finland and Sweden join the European Union.
* January 9 – Valeri Polyakov completes 366 days in space while aboard the Mir space station, breaking a duration record.
* January 17 – The 6.9 Great Hanshin earthquake strikes the southern Hyōgo Prefecture 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 – Mexican peso crisis: U.S. President Bill Clinton invokes emergency powers to extend a $20 billion loan to help Mexico avert financial collapse.

February

* February 13 – Twenty-one Bosnian Serb commanders are charged with genocide and crimes against humanity in the United Nations' International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, a tribunal on human rights violations during the Wars in the Balkans.
* February 21 – Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada, becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
* February 25 – The Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) (Organización del Tratado de Cooperación Amazónica TCA is formed.
* 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.

March

* March 1
** Julio María Sanguinetti is sworn in as President of Uruguay for his second term.
** Polish Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak resigns from Parliament and is replaced by ex-communist Józef Oleksy.
* March 3 – United Nations Operation in Somalia II, the United Nations peacekeeping 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 in Kazakhstan.
* 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 – Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns after setting a record for 438 days in outer space.
* 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
** TAROM Flight 371 from Bucharest to Brussels 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 – First Chechen War – Samashki massacre: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of at least 250 civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
* April 19 – Oklahoma City bombing: 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.
* April 30 – The United States government stops funding the NSFNET, making the Internet a wholly privatized system.

May

* May 7 – Jacques Chirac is elected president of France.
* May 10 – At Vaal Reefs gold mine in Orkney, 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 – More than 170 countries agree to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.
Sega launches the Saturn game console in North America four months before its initial scheduled date.
* May 13 – The 6.6 Western Macedonia earthquake strikes northwestern Greece with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (''Severe''), injuring 25 and causing $450 million in damage.
* May 14 – The Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the 11th reincarnation of the Panchen Lama.
* May 16 – Following the Tokyo subway sarin attack two months earlier, Japanese police besiege the headquarters of Aum Shinrikyo near Mount Fuji 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 at the Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna by defeating A.C. Milan 1–0.
* May 28 – The 7.0 Neftegorsk earthquake strikes northern Sakhalin 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 piloted by Captain Scott O'Grady is shot down over Bosnia and Herzegovina while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone. O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines six days later.
** Waffen-SS Hauptsturmführer Erich Priebke is extradited from Argentina to Italy.
* June 6
** U.S. astronaut Norman Thagard breaks NASA'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 – French President Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.
* June 16 – The IOC selects Salt Lake City to host the 2002 Winter Olympics.
* June 22 – Japanese police rescue 365 hostages from a hijacked All Nippon Airways 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.
* June 29
** Lisa Clayton completes her 10-month solo circumnavigation from the Northern Hemisphere.
** ''STS-71'': Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'' docks with the Russian Mir space station for the first time.
** The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, 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 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. 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 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 John Major is re-elected as leader of the Conservative Party.
* July 9 – 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 is freed from house arrest.
* July 11
** Srebrenica massacre: Units of the Army of Republika Srpska, under the command of General Ratko Mladić, enter Srebrenica with little resistance from Dutch peacekeepers of the United Nations Protection Force, going on to kill thousands of Bosniak men and boys and rape many women.
** President Clinton announces the restoration of United States–Vietnam relations twenty years after the Vietnam War.
** A Cubana de Aviación Antonov An-24 crashes into the Caribbean off southeast Cuba killing 44 people.

* July 21– 26 – Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The Chinese People's Liberation Army fires missiles into the waters north of Taiwan.

August

* August – The International Rugby Football Board declares that rugby union players may be professional.
* August 4 – Croatian 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 – The Chilean government declares state of emergency 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 - The Nepali Prime Minister Man Mohan Adhikari along with seven other high-ranking officials survives Helicopter crash.
* August 16 – Bermudans reject independence in a referendum.
* August 29 – Eduard Shevardnadze, the Georgian head of state, survives an assassination attempt in Tbilisi.
* August 30 – The NATO bombing campaign against Bosnian Serb artillery positions begins in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 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, Jacob Söderman, who takes up office in September 1995.
* September 3– eBay 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 enters the North American video game market with the release of the PlayStation.
* September 19 – ''The Washington Post'' and ''The New York Times'' publish the Unabomber manifesto
* September 26 – The trial against former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, who is accused of Mafia 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 is found not guilty of double murder for the deaths of former wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
* October 5 – Tansu Çiller of True Path Party (Turkey), DYP forms the new government of Turkey (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 orbiting an ordinary main sequence, main-sequence star.
* October 16 – The Million Man March is held in Washington, D.C. The event was conceived by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
* October 24 – A total solar eclipse is visible from Iran, India, Thailand, and Southeast Asia.
* October 25 – 1995 Fox River Grove bus–train collision, A 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. It was the second of two deadly avalanches that occurred in Iceland during the calendar year.
* October 28 – A 1995 Baku Metro fire, fire in Baku Metro, Azerbaijan, kills 289 passengers, becoming the world's worst subway disaster.
* October 30
** Quebec independentists narrowly lose a 1995 Quebec referendum, referendum for a mandate to negotiate independence from Canada.
** Tansu Çiller of True Path Party (Turkey), DYP forms the new government of Turkey.

November

* November – The Indian government officially renames the city of Bombay, restoring the name Mumbai.
* November 1
** The last signal is received from NASA's ''Pioneer 11'' spacecraft.
** Participants in the Yugoslav Wars begin negotiations at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.
* November 2 – The Supreme Court of Argentina orders the extradition of ex-S.S. captain Erich Priebke.
* November 4 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated at a peace rally in Tel Aviv.
* November 7 – Typhoon Angela leaves the Philippines and Vietnam devastated, with 882 deaths and United States dollar, 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 and Ratko Mladić with genocide during the Bosnian War.
* November 19 – A car bomb explosion outside the Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, destroyed the face of the building, killed at least 13 people and wounded dozens more.
* November 21 – The Dayton Agreement to end the Bosnian War is reached at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio (signed December 14).
* November 22
** The 7.3 1995 Gulf of Aqaba earthquake, 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.
* November 30 – Operation Desert Storm officially ends.

December

*December 3 – 1995 strikes in France, Strikes paralyze France's public sector.
* December 6 – The United States Food and Drug Administration approved Saquinavir, the first Protease inhibitor (pharmacology), protease inhibitor to treat HIV/AIDS. 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 (spacecraft)#Galileo entry probe, Galileo Probe'' enters Jupiter's atmosphere.
* December 8 – Five-year-old Gyaincain Norbu is enthroned as the 11th reincarnation of the Panchen Lama at Tashilhunpo Monastery.
* December 9 – 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.
* 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, killing 160 of the 164 on board.
** NATO begins peacekeeping in Bosnia.
* December 30 – The lowest ever United Kingdom temperature of is recorded at Altnaharra in the Scottish Highlands. This equals the record set at Braemar, Aberdeenshire in 1895#January–March, 1895 and 1982#January, 1982.

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* Sudden oak death, the tree disease caused by the plant pathogen ''Phytophthora ramorum'', is first observed, in California.
* The existence of the Top Quark is announced by the international scientific community.
* The first SampTA conference for mathematicians, engineers, and applied scientists is held in Riga, Latvia.

World population

Births

January

* January 1
** 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 – 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 – 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