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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 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 ...
was entirely privatized, with the United States government no longer providing public funding, marking the beginning of the
Information Age The Information Age is a historical period that began in the mid-20th century. It is characterized by a rapid shift from traditional industries, as established during the Industrial Revolution, to an economy centered on information technology ...
.
America Online AOL (formerly a company known as AOL Inc. and originally known as America Online) is an American web portal and online service provider based in New York City, and a brand marketed by Yahoo! Inc. (2017–present), Yahoo! Inc. The service tra ...
and Prodigy offered access to the
World Wide Web The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is an information system that enables Content (media), content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly ways meant to appeal to users beyond Information technology, IT specialists and hobbyis ...
system for the first time this year, releasing browsers that made it easily accessible to the general public.


Events


January

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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 ...
** The
World Trade Organization The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an intergovernmental organization headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland that regulates and facilitates international trade. Governments use the organization to establish, revise, and enforce the rules that g ...
(WTO) is established to replace the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is a legal agreement between many countries, whose overall purpose was to promote international trade by reducing or eliminating trade barriers such as tariffs or quotas. According to its p ...
(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 ''Mir'' (, ; ) was a space station operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, first by the Soviet Union and later by the Russia, Russian Federation. ''Mir'' was the first modular space station and was assembled in orbit from 1986 to ...
'' 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 Manila, officially the City of Manila, is the capital and second-most populous city of the Philippines after Quezon City, with a population of 1,846,513 people in 2020. Located on the eastern shore of Manila Bay on the island of Luzon, it is ...
, 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 The Great Hanshin Earthquake (, ) occurred on January 17, 1995, at 05:46:53 JST in the southern part of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, including the region of Hanshin. It measured 6.9 on the moment magnitude scale and had a maximum intensity of 7 o ...
strikes the southern
Hyōgo Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Hyōgo Prefecture has a population of 5,469,762 () and a geographic area of . Hyōgo Prefecture borders Kyoto Prefecture to the east, Osaka Prefecture to th ...
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 The Norwegian rocket incident, also known as the Black Brant scare, occurred on January 25, 1995, when a team of Norwegian and American scientists launched a Black Brant XII four-stage sounding rocket from the Andøya Rocket Range off the nor ...
: 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 The Mexican peso crisis was a currency crisis sparked by the Mexican government's sudden devaluation of the peso against the U.S. dollar in December 1994, which became one of the first international financial crises ignited by capital flight. ...
: 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

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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 The Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sr-Cyrl, Срби Босне и Херцеговине, Srbi Bosne i Hercegovine), often referred to as Bosnian Serbs ( sr-cyrl, босански Срби, bosanski Srbi) or Herzegovinian Serbs ( sr-cyrl, � ...
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 Crimes against humanity are certain serious crimes committed as part of a large-scale attack against civilians. Unlike war crimes, crimes against humanity can be committed during both peace and war and against a state's own nationals as well as ...
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 James Stephen Fossett (April 22, 1944 – September 3, 2007) was an American businessman and a record-setting aviator, sailor, and adventurer. He was the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon and in a fixed-wing aircraf ...
lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada, becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a
balloon A balloon is a flexible membrane bag that can be inflated with a gas, such as helium, hydrogen, nitrous oxide, oxygen, or air. For special purposes, balloons can be filled with smoke, liquid water, granular media (e.g. sand, flour or rice), ...
. *
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. * ...
– 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 Barings Bank was a British merchant bank based in London. It was one of England's oldest merchant banks after Berenberg Bank, Barings' close collaborator and German representative. It was founded in 1762 by Francis Baring, a British-born member ...
, collapses after securities broker
Nick Leeson Nicholas William Leeson (born 25 February 1967) is an English former derivatives trader whose fraudulent, unauthorised and speculative trades resulted in the 1995 collapse of Barings Bank, the United Kingdom's oldest existing merchant bank ...
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

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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 Julio María Sanguinetti Coirolo (; born 6 January 1936) often known by his initials JMS, is a Uruguayan former lawyer, journalist and politician of the Colorado Party (Uruguay), Colorado Party (PC) who served as the President of Uruguay as the ...
is sworn in as
President of Uruguay The president of Uruguay (), officially known as the president of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (), is the head of state and head of government of Uruguay. The president presides over the Cabinet of Uruguay, Council of Ministers, directing ...
for his second term. ** Polish Prime Minister
Waldemar Pawlak Waldemar Pawlak (born 5 September 1959) is a Polish politician. He has twice served as Prime Minister of Poland, briefly in 1992 and again from 1993 to 1995. From November 2007 to November 2012 he served as Deputy Prime Minister and the Mini ...
resigns from Parliament and is replaced by ex-communist
Józef Oleksy Józef Oleksy (; 22 June 1946 – 9 January 2015) was a Polish left-wing politician who served as Prime Minister of Poland from 7 March 1995 to 7 February 1996, when he resigned due to espionage allegations. He was chairman of the Democratic Le ...
. *
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 The 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 o ...
, the
United Nations peacekeeping Peacekeeping by the United Nations is a role of the United Nations's Department of Peace Operations and an "instrument developed by the organization as a way to help countries torn by conflict to create the conditions for lasting peace". It is ...
mission in Somalia, ends. *
March 14 Events Pre-1600 * 1074 – Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland. * 1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the H ...
– Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American to ride into space aboard a Russian launch vehicle (the ''
Soyuz TM-21 Soyuz TM-21 was a crewed Soyuz (spacecraft), Soyuz spaceflight to ''Mir''. The mission launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, atop a Soyuz-U2 carrier rocket, at 06:11:34 UTC on 14 March 1995. The flight marked the first time thirteen human ...
''), lifting off from the
Baikonur Cosmodrome The Baikonur Cosmodrome is a spaceport operated by Russia within Kazakhstan. Located in the Kazakh city of Baikonur, it is the largest operational space launch facility in terms of area. All Russian Human spaceflight, crewed spaceflights are l ...
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 Events Pre-1600 *1206 – Michael IV of Constantinople, Michael IV Autoreianos is appointed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. *1600 – The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden: five Swedish n ...
– 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 The was a Chemical terrorism, chemical domestic terrorism, domestic terrorist attack perpetrated on 20 March 1995, in Tokyo, Japan, by members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult. In five coordinated attacks, the perpetrators released sarin on three line ...
, 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 – Æthel ...
– Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns after setting a record for 438 days in outer space. *
March 26 Events Pre-1600 * 590 – Emperor Maurice proclaims his son Theodosius as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire. * 624 – First Eid al-Fitr celebration. * 1021 – The death of the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, kept secret ...
– The
Schengen Agreement The Schengen Agreement ( , ) is a treaty which led to the creation of Europe's Schengen Area, in which internal border checks have largely been abolished. It was signed on 14 June 1985, near the town of Schengen, Luxembourg, by five of the t ...
, 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 ...
**
Murder of Selena On the morning of March 31, 1995, the American singer Selena Quintanilla-Pérez was fatally shot and wounded at the Days Inn in Corpus Christi, Texas. Although paramedics tried to revive Selena, she was pronounced dead of hypovolemic shock a ...
:
Tejano Tejanos ( , ) are descendants of Texas Creoles and Mestizos who settled in Texas before its admission as an American state. The term is also sometimes applied to Texans of Mexican descent. Etymology The word ''Tejano'', with a ''J'' instead ...
singer Selena Quintanilla-Pérez is shot and killed by her fan club president Yolanda Saldívar at a
Days Inn Days Inn is a hotel chain headquartered in the United States. It was founded in 1970 by Cecil B. Day, who opened the first location in Tybee Island, Georgia. The brand is now a part of the Wyndham Hotels and Resorts, headquartered in Parsippany ...
in
Corpus Christi, Texas Corpus Christi ( ; ) is a Gulf Coast of the United States, coastal city in the South Texas region of the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat and largest city of Nueces County, Texas, Nueces County with portions extending into Aransas County, T ...
. ** 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 Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) is a Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium#Regions, region of Belgium comprising #Municipalit ...
crashes shortly after takeoff killing all 60 people on board.


April

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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 Em ...
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 Chechnya, officially the Chechen Republic, is a Republics of Russia, republic of Russia. It is situated in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe, between the Caspian Sea and Black Sea. The republic forms a part of the North Caucasian Federa ...
. *
April 19 Events Pre-1600 *AD 65 – The freedman Milichus betrays Pisonian conspiracy, Piso's plot to kill the Roman emperor, Emperor Nero and all of the List of conspiracies (political), conspirators are arrested. * 531 – Battle of Callini ...
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 Timothy James McVeigh (April 23, 1968 – June 11, 2001) was an American domestic terrorist who masterminded and perpetrated the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995. The bombing itself killed 167 people (including 19 children), injured ...
. *
April 30 Events Pre-1600 * 311 – The Diocletianic Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire ends. * 1315 – Enguerrand de Marigny is hanged at the instigation of Charles, Count of Valois. *1492 – Spain gives Christopher Columbus ...
– The United States government stops funding the
NSFNET The National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET) was a program of coordinated, evolving projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) from 1985 to 1995 to promote advanced research and education networking in the United States. The ...
, 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

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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 im ...
Jacques Chirac Jacques René Chirac (, ; ; 29 November 193226 September 2019) was a French politician who served as President of France from 1995 to 2007. He was previously Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976 and 1986 to 1988, as well as Mayor of Pari ...
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 The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT, is an international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperatio ...
indefinitely and without conditions. *
May 13 Events Pre-1600 * 1344 – A Latin Christian fleet defeats a Turkish fleet in the battle of Pallene during the Smyrniote crusades. *1373 – Julian of Norwich has visions of Jesus while suffering from a life-threatening illness, v ...
– 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 Events Pre-1600 * 1027 – Robert II of France Robert II ( 972 – 20 July 1031), called the Pious () or the Wise (), was List of French monarchs, King of the Franks from 996 to 1031, the second from the Capetian dynasty. Crowned Juni ...
– The Tenzin Gyatso, 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 The was a Chemical terrorism, chemical domestic terrorism, domestic terrorist attack perpetrated on 20 March 1995, in Tokyo, Japan, by members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult. In five coordinated attacks, the perpetrators released sarin on three line ...
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 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 25 – June 24 – The 1995 Rugby World Cup takes place in South Africa and is won by South Africa national rugby union team, the host nation after beating New Zealand national rugby union team, New Zealand in 1995 Rugby World Cup final, the final; this was the Springboks tournament debut after World Rugby lifted their ban following the end of apartheid. * May 28 – The 7.0 1995 Neftegorsk earthquake, 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 Fighting Falcon, 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 United States Marine Corps, 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 ''Mir'' (, ; ) was a space station operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, first by the Soviet Union and later by the Russia, Russian Federation. ''Mir'' was the first modular space station and was assembled in orbit from 1986 to ...
''. ** 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 Jacques René Chirac (, ; ; 29 November 193226 September 2019) was a French politician who served as President of France from 1995 to 2007. He was previously Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976 and 1986 to 1988, as well as Mayor of Pari ...
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 29 ** English yachtswoman Lisa Clayton completes her 10-month solo circumnavigation from the Northern Hemisphere. ** ''STS-71'': Space Shuttle Atlantis, Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'' docks with the Russian ''Mir'' space station for the first time. ** Sampoong Department Store collapse in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, 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 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 1995 Conservative Party leadership election, re-elected as leader of the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party, ending an internal challenge to his position. * July 9 – Sri Lankan civil war, Sri Lankan Civil War: 125 civilians are Navaly church bombing, 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. ** 42 CFR 84 is enacted, the NIOSH air filtration ratings update, and the N95 respirator becomes a standard. * July 11 ** Srebrenica massacre: Units of the Army of Republika Srpska, command responsibility, under the command of General officer, General Ratko Mladić, enter Srebrenica with little resistance from Dutch peacekeeping, peacekeepers of the United Nations Protection Force, going on to kill thousands of Bosniaks, 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–July 26, 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 Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 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, the Georgia (country), Georgian head of state, survives an assassination attempt in Tbilisi. * August 30 – Operation Deliberate Force, 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 this month. * September 4–September 15, 15 – The Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing with over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance. * September 19 – ''The Washington Post'' and ''The New York Times'' publish the ''Industrial Society and Its Future, Unabomber Manifesto'' * September 26 – The trial against former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, who is accused of Sicilian Mafia, Mafia connections, begins. * September 27–September 28, 28 – Bob Denard's mercenary, mercenaries capture List of heads of state of the Comoros, 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 True Path Party (Turkey), DYP forms the new government of Turkey (51st government of Turkey, 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, the first confirmed extrasolar planet orbiting an ordinary main sequence, 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 Solar eclipse of October 24, 1995, total solar eclipse is visible from Iran, India, Thailand and Southeast Asia. * October 26 – An avalanche hits the village Flateyri in Iceland, killing 20 people, the second of two deadly avalanches to occur in Iceland during this 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 (52nd government of Turkey, 52nd 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 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 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

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** 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 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 Em ...
– 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 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 im ...
– 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 Events Pre-1600 * 1027 – Robert II of France Robert II ( 972 – 20 July 1031), called the Pious () or the Wise (), was List of French monarchs, King of the Franks from 996 to 1031, the second from the Capetian dynasty. Crowned Juni ...
– 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 – 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 ** 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
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