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
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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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The service tra ...
and
Prodigy offered access to the
World Wide Web
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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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Events ...
** The
World Trade Organization (WTO) is established to replace the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
**
Austria
Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...
,
Finland
Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, ...
and
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...
join the
European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational union, supranational political union, political and economic union of Member state of the European Union, member states that are Geography of the European Union, located primarily in Europe. The u ...
.
*
January 9
Events Pre-1600
* 681 – Twelfth Council of Toledo: King Erwig of the Visigoths initiates a council in which he implements diverse measures against the Jews in Spain.
* 1038 – An earthquake in Dingxiang, China kills an estimate ...
–
Valeri Polyakov completes 366 days in space while aboard then ''
Mir'' space station, breaking a duration record.
*
January 10
Events Pre-1600
*49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war.
* 9 – The Western Han dynasty ends when Wang Mang claims that the divine Mandate of Heaven called for the end of the dynasty and th ...
–
15 – The
World Youth Day 1995 festival is held in
Manila, Philippines, culminating in 5 million people gathering for John Paul II's concluding mass in
Quirino Grandstand.
*
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 peopl ...
– The 6.9
Great Hanshin earthquake strikes the southern
Hyōgo Prefecture of Japan with a maximum
Shindo of 7, leaving 5,502–6,434 people dead, and 251,301–310,000 displaced.
*
January 25
Events Pre-1600
* 41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman emperor by the Senate.
* 750 – In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to the overthrow of the dyn ...
–
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 th ...
–
Mexican peso crisis: U.S. President
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician and lawyer who was the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, ...
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, Holy Roman Emperor, Otto I and Pope Pope John XII, John XII co-sign the ''Diploma Ottonianum'', recognizing John as ruler of Rome.
*1258 – Siege of Baghdad (1258), Siege of Baghdad: Hulegu Kh ...
– Twenty-one
Bosnian Serb commanders are charged with
genocide
Genocide is violence that targets individuals because of their membership of a group and aims at the destruction of a people. Raphael Lemkin, who first coined the term, defined genocide as "the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group" by ...
and
crimes against humanity in the
United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is the Earth, global intergovernmental organization established by the signing of the Charter of the United Nations, UN Charter on 26 June 1945 with the stated purpose of maintaining international peace and internationa ...
'
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 tr ...
, a tribunal on
human rights
Human rights are universally recognized Morality, moral principles or Social norm, norms that establish standards of human behavior and are often protected by both Municipal law, national and international laws. These rights are considered ...
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.
*
February 25 – 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.
* 320 – Chandragupta ...
– 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.
The exchange is owned by Japan Exchange Group (JPX), a holding company that it also lists (), and operated by Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc., a wholly owned sub ...
.
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 Diocleti ...
**
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
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a European Kazakhstan, small portion in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the Kazakhstan–Russia border, north and west, China to th ...
.
*
March 20 – Members of the doomsday cult
Aum Shinrikyo
, better known by their former name , is a Japanese new religions, Japanese new religious movement and doomsday cult founded by Shoko Asahara in 1987. It carried out the deadly Tokyo subway sarin attack in 1995 and was found to have been respo ...
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 26 – The
Schengen Agreement, easing cross-border travel, goes into effect in several European countries.
*
March 31
**
Murder of Selena:
Tejano singer
Selena Quintanilla-Pérez is shot and killed by her fan club president
Yolanda Saldívar at a
Days Inn in
Corpus Christi, Texas.
**
TAROM Flight 371 from
Bucharest
Bucharest ( , ; ) is the capital and largest city of Romania. The metropolis stands on the River Dâmbovița (river), Dâmbovița in south-eastern Romania. Its population is officially estimated at 1.76 million residents within a greater Buc ...
to
Brussels
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crashes shortly after takeoff killing all 60 people on board.
April

*
April 7 –
First Chechen War
The First Chechen War, also referred to as the First Russo-Chechen War, was a struggle for independence waged by the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria against the invading Russia, Russian Federation from 1994 to 1996. After a mutually agreed on treaty ...
:
Samashki massacre – Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of at least 250 civilians in
Samashki,
Chechnya.
*
April 19 –
Oklahoma City bombing
The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, United States, on April 19, 1995. The bombing remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history. Perpetr ...
: 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
The Internet (or internet) is the Global network, 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 ...
a wholly privatized system.
May
*
May 7 –
Jacques Chirac 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 ...
– The
Vaal Reefs mining disaster at
Vaal Reefs gold mine in
Orkney, South Africa. 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 Pre-1600
* 330 – Constantine the Great dedicates the much-expanded and rebuilt city of Byzantium, changing its name to New Rome and declaring it the new capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.
*868 – A copy of the Diamond Sūtr ...
– More than 170 countries agree to extend the
Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.
*
May 13 – The 6.6
Western Macedonia earthquake strikes northwestern
Greece
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to th ...
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, but 3 days later the boy is detained by Chinese authorities and not seen again.
*
May 16 – Following the
Tokyo subway sarin attack two months earlier, Japanese police besiege the headquarters of
Aum Shinrikyo
, better known by their former name , is a Japanese new religions, Japanese new religious movement and doomsday cult founded by Shoko Asahara in 1987. It carried out the deadly Tokyo subway sarin attack in 1995 and was found to have been respo ...
near
Mount Fuji
is an active stratovolcano located on the Japanese island of Honshu, with a summit elevation of . It is the highest mountain in Japan, the second-highest volcano on any Asian island (after Mount Kerinci on the Indonesian island of Sumatra), a ...
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
Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax (), also known as AFC Ajax, Ajax Amsterdam, or commonly Ajax, is a Dutch professional Association football, football Football team, club based in Amsterdam, that plays in the , the top tier in Dutch football. ...
wins the
UEFA Champions League
The UEFA Champions League (UCL) is an annual club association football competition organised by the UEFA, Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) that is contested by List of top-division football clubs in UEFA countries, top-divisio ...
at the
Ernst Happel Stadium in
Vienna
Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. ...
by defeating
A.C. Milan 1–0.
*
May 25 –
June 24 – The
1995 Rugby World Cup takes place in South Africa and is won by
the host nation after beating
New Zealand
New Zealand () is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and List of islands of New Zealand, over 600 smaller islands. It is the List of isla ...
in
the final; this was the Springboks tournament debut after
World Rugby lifted their ban following the end of apartheid.
*
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
** A United States Air Force
F-16 piloted by Captain
Scott O'Grady is shot down over
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina, sometimes known as Bosnia-Herzegovina and informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeast Europe. Situated on the Balkans, Balkan Peninsula, it borders Serbia to the east, Montenegro to the southeast, and Croatia to th ...
while patrolling the
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO ; , OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental organization, intergovernmental Transnationalism, transnational military alliance of 32 Member states of NATO, member s ...
no-fly zone. O'Grady is rescued by
U.S. Marines six days later.
**
Waffen-SS
The (; ) was the military branch, combat branch of the Nazi Party's paramilitary ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) organisation. Its formations included men from Nazi Germany, along with Waffen-SS foreign volunteers and conscripts, volunteers and conscr ...
Hauptsturmführer Erich Priebke is
extradited from
Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourt ...
to
Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ...
.
*
June 6
Events Pre-1600
* 913 – Constantine VII, the eight-year-old illegitimate son of Leo VI the Wise, becomes nominal ruler of the Byzantine Empire under the regency of a seven-man council headed by Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos, appointe ...
** U.S. astronaut
Norman Thagard breaks
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the federal government of the United States, US federal government responsible for the United States ...
'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 ...
– French President
Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in
French Polynesia
French Polynesia ( ; ; ) is an overseas collectivity of France and its sole #Governance, overseas country. It comprises 121 geographically dispersed islands and atolls stretching over more than in the Pacific Ocean, South Pacific Ocean. The t ...
.
*
June 16 – The IOC selects
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City, often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. It is the county seat of Salt Lake County, the most populous county in the state. The city is the core of the Salt Lake Ci ...
to host the
2002 Winter Olympics.
*
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: Roman Republic, Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus, Luciu ...
– Japanese police rescue 365 hostages from a hijacked
All Nippon Airways
(ANA) is a Japanese airline headquartered in Minato, Tokyo. ANA operates services to both domestic and international destinations and is Japan's largest airline, ahead of its main rival flag carrier Japan Airlines. the airline has approximate ...
Flight 857 (
Boeing 747-200) at Hakodate airport. The hijacker was armed with a knife and demanded the release of
Shoko Asahara.
*
June 29
** English yachtswoman
Lisa Clayton completes her 10-month solo
circumnavigation from the Northern Hemisphere.
** ''
STS-71'':
Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'' docks with the Russian ''Mir''
space station
A space station (or orbital station) is a spacecraft which remains orbital spaceflight, in orbit and human spaceflight, hosts humans for extended periods of time. It therefore is an artificial satellite featuring space habitat (facility), habitat ...
for the first time.
**
Sampoong Department Store collapse in the Seocho-gu district of
Seoul
Seoul, officially Seoul Special Metropolitan City, is the capital city, capital and largest city of South Korea. The broader Seoul Metropolitan Area, encompassing Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon, emerged as the world's List of cities b ...
, South Korea, kills 502 and injures 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, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to Iraq–Saudi Arabia border, the south, Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq border, the east, the Persian Gulf and ...
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
Saddam Hussein (28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 until Saddam Hussein statue destruction, his overthrow in 2003 during the 2003 invasion of Ira ...
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 Advice (constitutional law), advises the Monarchy of the United Kingdom, sovereign on the exercise of much of the Royal prerogative ...
John Major
Sir John Major (born 29 March 1943) is a British retired politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party (UK), Leader of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997. Following his defeat to Ton ...
is
re-elected as leader of the
Conservative Party, ending an internal challenge to his position.
*
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
Aung San Suu Kyi (born 19 June 1945) is a Burmese politician, diplomat, author, and political activist. She was awarded the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. She served as State Counsellor of Myanmar and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Myanmar), Ministe ...
is freed from house arrest.
** 42 CFR 84 is enacted, the
NIOSH air filtration ratings update, and the
N95 respirator
An N95 respirator is a disposable Respirator#Filtering facepiece, filtering facepiece respirator or reusable elastomeric respirator filter that meets the U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) N95 standard of air fi ...
becomes a standard.
*
July 11
**
Srebrenica massacre: Units of the
Army of Republika Srpska,
under the command of
General
A general officer is an Officer (armed forces), officer of high rank in the army, armies, and in some nations' air force, air and space forces, marines or naval infantry.
In some usages, the term "general officer" refers to a rank above colone ...
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
The Vietnam War (1 November 1955 – 30 April 1975) was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam) and South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) and their allies. North Vietnam w ...
.
** A
Cubana de Aviación Antonov An-24 crashes into the
Caribbean
The Caribbean ( , ; ; ; ) is a region in the middle of the Americas centered around the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, mostly overlapping with the West Indies. Bordered by North America to the north, Central America ...
off southeast
Cuba
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba (largest island), Isla de la Juventud, and List of islands of Cuba, 4,195 islands, islets and cays surrounding the main island. It is located where the ...
killing 44 people.

*
July 21–
26 –
Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The Chinese
People's Liberation Army
The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the military of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the People's Republic of China (PRC). It consists of four Military branch, services—People's Liberation Army Ground Force, Ground Force, People's ...
fires missiles into the waters north of
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', lies between the East China Sea, East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocea ...
.
August
* August – The
International Rugby Football Board declares that
rugby union
Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ...
players may be professional.
*
August 4 –
Croatia
Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herze ...
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 – The Chilean government declares a
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 – Nepali Prime Minister
Man Mohan Adhikari along with seven other high-ranking officials survives a helicopter crash.
*
August 29 –
Eduard Shevardnadze
Eduard Ambrosis dze Shevardnadze ( ka, ედუარდ ამბროსის ძე შევარდნაძე; 25 January 1928 – 7 July 2014) was a Soviet and Georgian politician and diplomat who governed Georgia (country), Georgi ...
, the
Georgian head of state
A head of state is the public persona of a sovereign state.#Foakes, Foakes, pp. 110–11 " he head of statebeing an embodiment of the State itself or representative of its international persona." The name given to the office of head of sta ...
, survives an assassination attempt in
Tbilisi.
*
August 30 –
Operation Deliberate Force, the
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO ; , OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental organization, intergovernmental Transnationalism, transnational military alliance of 32 Member states of NATO, member s ...
bombing campaign against Bosnian Serb artillery positions, begins in
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina, sometimes known as Bosnia-Herzegovina and informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeast Europe. Situated on the Balkans, Balkan Peninsula, it borders Serbia to the east, Montenegro to the southeast, and Croatia to th ...
, 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
Jacob-Magnus (Jacob) Söderman (born 19 March 1938 in Helsinki
Helsinki () is the Capital city, capital and most populous List of cities and towns in Finland, city in Finland. It is on the shore of the Gulf of Finland and is the seat of southe ...
, who takes up office this month.
*
September 4
Events Pre-1600
* 476 – Romulus Augustulus is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself "King of Italy", thus Fall of the Western Roman Empire, ending the Western Roman Empire.
* 626 – Li Shimin, Posthumous name, posthumously known as ...
–
15 – The
Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing with over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance.
*
September 19 – ''
The Washington Post
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'' and ''
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of ...
'' 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 Mohamed Djohar of the
Comoros; the local army does not resist.
October
*
October 3 –
Murder trial of O. J. Simpson: Former American football star
O. J. Simpson is found not guilty of double murder in a criminal trial for the deaths of former wife
Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend
Ronald Goldman.
*
October 5 –
Tansu Çiller of
DYP forms the new government of
Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...
(
51st government), a minority government which lasts for less than a month.
*
October 6 –
Michel Mayor and
Didier Queloz announce the discovery of
51 Pegasi b
51 Pegasi b, officially named Dimidium (), is an extrasolar planet approximately away in the constellation of Pegasus. It was the first exoplanet to be discovered orbiting a main-sequence star, the Sun-like 51 Pegasi, and marked a breakthr ...
, the first confirmed
extrasolar planet orbiting an ordinary
main-sequence star.
*
October 9 –
1995 Palo Verde, Arizona, derailment An Amtrak
Sunset Limited train derails through sabotage at a trestle near Palo Verde, Arizona, United States, resulting in one death.
*
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 26 – An
avalanche
An avalanche is a rapid flow of snow down a Grade (slope), slope, such as a hill or mountain. Avalanches can be triggered spontaneously, by factors such as increased precipitation or snowpack weakening, or by external means such as humans, othe ...
hits the village
Flateyri in
Iceland
Iceland is a Nordic countries, Nordic island country between the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe. It is culturally and politically linked with Europe and is the regi ...
, killing 20 people, the second of two deadly avalanches to occur in Iceland during this calendar year.
*
October 28 – A
fire in Baku Metro,
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a Boundaries between the continents, transcontinental and landlocked country at the boundary of West Asia and Eastern Europe. It is a part of the South Caucasus region and is bounded by ...
, kills 289 passengers, becoming the world's worst subway disaster.
*
October 30
**
Quebec
Quebec is Canada's List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, ...
independentists narrowly lose a 1995 Quebec referendum, referendum for a mandate to negotiate independence from Canada.
**
Tansu Çiller of
DYP forms the new government (52nd government of Turkey, 52nd government) of
Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...
.
November
* November – The Indian government officially renames the city of Bombay, restoring the name Mumbai.
* November 1
** The last signal is received from
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the federal government of the United States, US federal government responsible for the United States ...
'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 is the strongest 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
Genocide is violence that targets individuals because of their membership of a group and aims at the destruction of a people. Raphael Lemkin, who first coined the term, defined genocide as "the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group" by ...
during the Bosnian War.
* November 20 – A car bomb explosion outside the Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan destroys the façade of the building, killing at least 13 people and wounding dozens more.
* November 21 – The Dayton Agreement to end the Bosnian War is reached at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, United States (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.
* 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 approves 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 fall 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 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
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO ; , OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental organization, intergovernmental Transnationalism, transnational military alliance of 32 Member states of NATO, member s ...
begins peacekeeping in Bosnia.
* December 23 – Dabwali fire accident: The Rajiv Marriage Palace catches fire in Haryana, India, killing 442 persons.
* 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.
Date unknown
* Sudden oak death, the tree disease caused by the plant pathogen ''Phytophthora ramorum'', is first observed, in California, United States.
* The first SampTA conference for mathematicians, engineers and applied scientists is held in Riga, Latvia.
World population
Births
January

*
January 1
January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in the Gregorian Calendar; 364 days remain 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. __TOC__
Events ...
** Sardar Azmoun, Iranian footballer
** Poppy (entertainer), Poppy, American musician and model
* January 3 – Jisoo, South Korean singer, actress, and model
* January 4 – María Isabel, Spanish singer
* January 6 – Michaela DePrince, Sierra Leonean-American ballet dancer (d. 2024)
*
January 9
Events Pre-1600
* 681 – Twelfth Council of Toledo: King Erwig of the Visigoths initiates a council in which he implements diverse measures against the Jews in Spain.
* 1038 – An earthquake in Dingxiang, China kills an estimate ...
– Nicola Peltz, American actress
* January 12
** Allisha Gray, American basketball player
** Alessio Romagnoli, Italian footballer
** Maverick Viñales, Spanish motorcycle racer
* 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 21 – Marine Johannès, French basketball player
* January 24 – Callan McAuliffe, Australian actor
*
January 25
Events Pre-1600
* 41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman emperor by the Senate.
* 750 – In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to the overthrow of the dyn ...
– Laura Nunnink, Dutch field hockey player
* 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 th ...
– Nina Sublatti, Georgian singer and model
February
* February 1 – Oliver Heldens, Dutch DJ and electronic music producer
* February 3 – Tao Tsuchiya, Japanese actress
* 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
** Yang Zhaoxuan, Chinese tennis player
* February 15 – Megan Thee Stallion, American rapper and YouTube personality
* February 16 – Denzel Curry, American rapper
* February 17 – Madison Keys, American tennis player
* February 18 – Mikhail Kolyada, Russian figure skater
* February 23
** Valarie Allman, American discus thrower
** Andrew Wiggins, Canadian basketball player
* February 27 – Sergej Milinković-Savić, Serbian footballer
* February 28 – Lauren Carlini, American volleyball player
March
* March 2 – Mats Møller Dæhli, Norwegian footballer
* March 7 – Haley Lu Richardson, American actress
* March 8 – Keita Baldé, Senegalese footballer
* March 9 – Ángel Correa, Argentine footballer
* March 10 – Zach LaVine, American basketball player
* March 13 – Mikaela Shiffrin, American skier
* March 15 – Jabari Parker, American basketball player
* March 17 – Claressa Shields, American boxer
* March 19
** Héctor Bellerín, Spanish footballer
** Julia Montes, Filipina actress
* March 23
**Ester Ledecká, Czech winter athlete
**Victoria Pedretti, American actress
* March 27 – Zaur Uguev, Russian freestyle wrestler
April
* April 1 – Logan Paul, American actor and YouTube personality
* April 3 – Adrien Rabiot, French footballer
* April 5 – Zofia Wichłacz, Polish actress
*
April 7 – Tiril Sjåstad Christiansen, Norwegian freestyle skier
* April 15 – Chiaka Ogbogu, American volleyball player
* April 17 – Wheein, South Korean singer and songwriter
* April 18 – Divock Origi, Belgian footballer
* April 21
** María José Granatto, Argentine field hockey player
** Jonathan Hilbert, German racewalker
* April 23 – Gigi Hadid, American fashion model
* April 24 – Kehlani, American singer
* April 26 – Daniel Padilla, Filipino actor
* April 28 – Melanie Martinez, American singer
May

* May 1 – Jake Cannavale, American musician and actor
* May 2 – Yook Sung-jae, South Korean singer and actor
* May 3 – Zach Sobiech, American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 2013)
* May 4 – Kiiara, American singer and songwriter
* May 6 – Marko Pjaca, Croatian footballer
*
May 7 – Fred Kerley, American sprinter
* May 9
** Timothé Luwawu-Cabarrot, French basketball player
** Beth Mead, English 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 ...
** Missy Franklin, American swimmer
** Gabriella Papadakis, French ice dancer
*
May 11
Events Pre-1600
* 330 – Constantine the Great dedicates the much-expanded and rebuilt city of Byzantium, changing its name to New Rome and declaring it the new capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.
*868 – A copy of the Diamond Sūtr ...
** 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 25 – José Luis Gayà, Spanish footballer
* May 29 – Nicolas Pépé, Ivorian footballer
* May 30 – Lukáš Rohan, Czech canoeist
June
*
June 2 – Evelyn Mawuli, Japanese basketball player
* June 5 – Troye Sivan, South African-born Australian singer, YouTube personality
*
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 ...
– Petra Vlhová, Slovak alpine skier
* June 15
** Manika Batra, Indian table tennis player
** Emmanuel Korir, Kenyan middle-distance runner
*
June 16 – Joseph Schooling, Singaporean swimmer
* June 21
** 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: Roman Republic, Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus, Luciu ...
** Aleksandr Maltsev (synchronised swimmer), Aleksandr Maltsev, Russian artistic (synchronized) swimmer
** Sara Kolak, Croatian javelin thrower
* June 23 – Danna Paola, Mexican singer and actress
* June 28
** Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters, South African model and beauty pageant titleholder
** Adama Traoré (footballer, born 28 June 1995), Adama Traoré, Malian footballer
* June 30
** Marina Ruy Barbosa, Brazilian actress
** Kristoffer Olsson, Swedish footballer
** Maria Shurochkina, Russian synchronised swimmer
July

* July 2 – Ryan Murphy (swimmer), Ryan Murphy, American competitive swimmer
*
July 4
** Álex Berenguer, Spanish footballer
** Vanessa Herzog, Austrian speed skater
** Post Malone, American rapper
* July 5
** Hyuk (singer), Hyuk, South Korean singer and actor
** Phataimas Muenwong, Thai badminton player
*
July 10
** Trayvon Bromell, American sprinter
** Ada Hegerberg, Norwegian footballer
** Lu Shanglei, Chinese chess grandmaster
* July 12 – Luke Shaw, English footballer
* July 14
** Serge Gnabry, German footballer
** Kim In-hyeok, South Korean volleyball player
* July 19
** Manuel Akanji, Swiss footballer
** 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 25
** Sebastian Fakt, Swedish ice hockey player
** Maria Sakkari, Greek tennis player
* July 30 – Hirving Lozano, Mexican footballer
* July 31 – Lil Uzi Vert, American rapper
August
* August 2
** Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo, Indonesian badminton player
** Kristaps Porziņģis, Latvian basketball player
*
August 4
** Bruna Marquezine, Brazilian actress
** Jessica Sanchez, American singer
** İrem Yaman, Turkish taekwando practitioner
* August 5
** Pierre-Emile Højbjerg, Danish footballer
** Aisha Toussaint, Seychellois-Scottish actress and TV presenter
* August 9 – Hwang Min-hyun, South Korean singer-songwriter and actor
* August 12 – Andy Cruz, Cuban boxer
* 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 – Dua Lipa, English singer
* August 23 – Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig, Danish cyclist
* August 24 – Lady Amelia Windsor, member of the British royal family
* August 26
** Gracie Dzienny, American actress
** Solomon Thomas, American football player
* August 27 – Sergey Sirotkin (racing driver), Sergey Sirotkin, Russian racing driver
* August 28 – Andreas Wellinger, German ski jumper
September
* September 1
** Munir El Haddadi, Spanish footballer
** Nathan MacKinnon, Canadian hockey player
* September 2 – Josine Koning, Dutch field hockey player
* September 3 – Niklas Süle, German footballer
* September 6 – Bertrand Traoré, Burkinabé footballer
* September 8 – Julian Weigl, German footballer
* September 12
** Steven Gardiner, Bahamian sprinter
** Ryan Potter, American actor
* September 15 – Awer Mabil, Australian association footballer
* 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, Kenyan athlete (d. 2021)
*
September 27 – Yoshihito Nishioka, Japanese tennis player
October

* October 1 – Agostina Alonso, Argentine field hockey player
* October 3 - Ayo Edebiri, actress and comedian
* October 4 – Mikolas Josef, Czech singer and music producer
*
October 6 – Justine Wong-Orantes, American volleyball player
* October 7 – Slađana Mirković, Serbian volleyball player
*
October 9 – Kenny Tete, Dutch footballer
* October 21 – Yulimar Rojas, Venezuelan triple jumper
* October 25 – Jock Landale, Australian basketball player
November
* November 1 – Nour El Sherbini, Egyptian squash player
* November 2 – Hanna Öberg, Swedish biathlete
* November 3 – Kelly Catlin, American racing cyclist (d. 2019)
* November 8 – Xan de Waard, Dutch field hockey player
* 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
** Asuka Teramoto, Japanese artistic gymnast
** Melinda Ademi, Kosovan singer
* November 20
** Timothy Cheruiyot, Kenyan athlete
** Kateryna Reznik, Ukrainian synchronised swimmer
* November 22 – Katherine McNamara, American actress
* November 28 – Tin Jedvaj, Croatian footballer
* November 29 – Laura Marano, American actress and singer
December

* December 4 – Dina Asher-Smith, British sprinter
* December 5
** Anthony Martial, French footballer
** Kaetlyn Osmond, Canadian figure skater
* December 6 – A Boogie wit da Hoodie, American rapper and singer
* December 9
** McKayla Maroney, American gymnast
** Kelly Oubre Jr., American basketball player
* December 14 – Yulia Belokobylskaya, Russian gymnast
* December 18 – Guerschon Yabusele, French basketball player
* December 18 – Lim Na-young, South Korean singer
* December 24 – Anett Kontaveit, Estonian tennis player
* 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 30 – Fabiana Bytyqi, Czech boxer
* December 31 – Gabby Douglas, American gymnast
Unknown date
* Samantha Kelly, American voice actress
Deaths
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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