1995 - What happened in 1995 ?

January 1995

Friday 06:

A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack.

Thursday 12:

Malcolm X's daughter, Qubilah Shabazz, is arrested for conspiring to kill Louis Farrakhan.

Sunday 15:

Caretaker, the first episode of airs, with Captain Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) at the helm.

Sunday 22:

Israeli-Palestinian conflict: In central Israel, two suicide bombers from the Gaza Strip blow themselves-up at a military transit point killing 19 Israelis.

Tuesday 31:

President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy.

February 1995

Wednesday 01:

Manic Street Preachers lyricist Richey James Edwards goes missing from the Embassy Hotel in London, UK.

Wednesday 15:

Hacking: Kevin Mitnick is arrested by the FBI and charged with breaking into some of the United States' most "secure" computer systems.

Friday 17:

The Cenepa War between Peru and Ecuador ends on a cease-fire brokered by the UN.

Thursday 23:

The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 30.28 to close at 4,003.33, closing above 4,000 for the first time.

Sunday 26:

March 1995

Thursday 02:

Yahoo! is incorporated, establishing the Internet Portal as a model.

Saturday 04:

The World Summit on Social Development begins in Copenhagen.

Tuesday 14:

Manned space mission: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on-board a Russian launch vehicle.

Sunday 26:

The Schengen Treaty goes into effect.

Friday 31:

Popular Tex-Mex singer Selena Quintanilla is murdered by her assistant Yolanda Saldivar in a Corpus Christi, Texas motel after a heated discussion where the latter was accused of ripping off the artist's fan club.

April 1995

Wednesday 19:

Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168.

Monday 24:

The last Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1 rolls off the assembly line.

May 1995

Sunday 14:

Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama proclaims six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the eleventh reincarnation of the Panchen Lama.

Wednesday 17:

After 18 years as the mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac takes office as President of France.

Thursday 18:

Alain Juppé becomes Prime Minister of France.

Saturday 27:

In Charlottesville, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition.

Sunday 28:

The Russian town of Neftegorsk is hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake that kills at least 2,000 people, 2/3 of total population.

June 1995

Friday 02:

United States Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady's F-16 is shot down over Bosnia while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone.

Thursday 08:

Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.

Friday 16:

1995 - The APOD was born

Saturday 24:

In the final of the Rugby Union World Cup held at Ellis Park in Johannesburg, a drop goal in extra time by Joel Stransky lifts South Africa to a 15-12 win over New Zealand.

Tuesday 27:

Jodi Huisentruit, an anchorwoman in Mason City, Iowa disappears, presumably abducted.

July 1995

Tuesday 11:

A Cubana de Aviacion Antonov AN-24 crashes into the Caribbean off southeast Cuba killing 44 people.

Saturday 15:

Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought by Douglas Hofstadter becomes the first item sold on Amazon.com

Tuesday 18:

On the Caribbean island of Montserrat, the Soufriere Hills volcano erupts. Over the course of several years, it devastates the island, destroying the capital and forcing most of the population to flee.

Thursday 27:

In Washington, DC, the Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated.

Friday 28:

Network Solutions announces a new policy to help companies protect their trademarks on the Internet.

August 1995

Monday 07:

Operation Storm is officialy declared over in Croatia, resulting in total Croat victory over rebel Serb forces.

Thursday 10:

Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted for the bombing. Michael Fortier pleads guilty in a plea-bargain agreement for his testimony.

Friday 11:

Three people are killed when a TTC train hits the back of a stationary train near Toronto's Dupont Station.

Monday 28:

A mortar shell kills 38 people in Sarajevo, Bosnia.

Tuesday 29:

NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.

September 1995

Monday 04:

The Fourth World Conference on Women opens in Beijing with over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance.

Saturday 09:

The Sony Playstation is released in the United States

Tuesday 19:

The Washington Post and the New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto.

Wednesday 27:

The Government of the United States unveils the first of its redesigned bank notes with the $100 bill featuring a larger portrait of Benjamin Franklin slightly off-center.

Thursday 28:

Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of Comoros in a coup.

October 1995

Tuesday 03:

O. J. Simpson found not guilty of murder.

Friday 06:

51 Pegasi, in the constellation of Pegasus, 47.9 light-years away from Earth, was discovered to be the first major star apart from the Sun to have a planet (and extrasolar planet) orbiting around it.

Monday 16:

The Million Man March occurs in Washington, DC.

Wednesday 25:

A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students.

Monday 30:

Quebec sovereignists narrowly lose a referendum for a mandate to negotiate independence from Canada (vote was 50.6% to 49.4%).

November 1995

Friday 03:

At Arlington National Cemetery, U.S. President Bill Clinton dedicates a memorial to the victims of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing.

Saturday 04:

After attending a peace rally in Tel Aviv's Kings Square, Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is mortally wounded by an extreme right-wing Israeli assassin. He dies of his wounds later that night in a Tel Aviv Hospital.

Friday 10:

In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop) are hanged by government forces.

Tuesday 14:

A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums, and run most government offices with skeleton staffs.

Tuesday 28:

US President Bill Clinton signs a highway bill that ends the federal 55 mph speed limit.

December 1995

Thursday 14:

The Dayton Agreement was signed in Paris to end the Yugoslav wars.

Friday 15:

The European Communities Court of Justice passes the Bosman ruling

Thursday 28:

CompuServe sets a precedent by blocking access to sex-oriented newsgroups after being pressured by German prosecutors.

Saturday 30:

The lowest ever UK temperature of -27.2°C was recorded at Altnaharra in the Scottish Highlands. This equalled the record set at Braemar, Aberdeenshire on February 11, 1895 and January 10, 1982.

Sunday 31:

The publication of the last new Calvin and Hobbes cartoon strip.