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List of 1995 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1995

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Date	Event
January 1, 1995	The World Trade Organization comes into being.
January 1, 1995	The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves.
January 1, 1995	Austria, Finland and Sweden join the EU.
January 6, 1995	A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines, leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack.
January 16, 1995	An avalanche hits the Icelandic village Súðavík, destroying 25 homes and burying 26 people, 14 of whom died.
January 17, 1995	The 6.9 Mw  Great Hanshin earthquake shakes the southern Hyōgo Prefecture with a maximum Shindo of VII, leaving 5,502–6,434 people dead, and 251,301–310,000 displaced.
January 19, 1995	After being struck by lightning the crew of Bristow Helicopters Flight 56C are forced to ditch. All 18 aboard are later rescued.
January 22, 1995	Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Beit Lid suicide bombing: In central Israel, near Netanya, two Gazans blow themselves up at a military transit point, killing 19 Israeli soldiers.
January 25, 1995	The Norwegian rocket incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile.
January 30, 1995	Hydroxycarbamide becomes the first approved preventive treatment for sickle cell disease.
February 3, 1995	Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
February 7, 1995	Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, is arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan.
February 17, 1995	The Cenepa War between Peru and Ecuador ends on a ceasefire brokered by the UN.
February 21, 1995	Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
February 22, 1995	The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
February 26, 1995	The UK's oldest investment banking institute, Barings Bank, collapses after a rogue securities broker Nick Leeson loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange using futures contracts.
February 28, 1995	Former Australian Liberal party leader John Hewson resigns from the Australian parliament almost two years after losing the 1993 Australian federal election.
March 2, 1995	Researchers at Fermilab announce the discovery of the top quark.
March 14, 1995	Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle.
March 16, 1995	Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery.
March 20, 1995	The Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo carries out a sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, killing 13 and wounding over 6,200 people.
March 22, 1995	Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space.
March 25, 1995	WikiWikiWeb, the world's first wiki, and part of the Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham.
March 31, 1995	Selena is murdered by her fan club president Yolanda Saldívar at a Days Inn in Corpus Christi, Texas.
March 31, 1995	TAROM Flight 371, an Airbus A310-300, crashes near Balotesti, Romania, killing all 60 people on board.
April 7, 1995	First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
April 19, 1995	Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, USA, is bombed, killing 168 people including 19 children under the age of six.
May 2, 1995	During the Croatian War of Independence, the Army of the Republic of Serb Krajina fires cluster bombs at Zagreb, killing seven and wounding over 175 civilians.
May 13, 1995	Alison Hargreaves, a 33-year-old British mother, becomes the first woman to conquer Everest without oxygen or the help of sherpas.
May 17, 1995	Shawn Nelson steals an M60 tank from the California Army National Guard Armory in San Diego and proceeds to go on a rampage.
May 23, 1995	The first version of the Java programming language is released.
May 24, 1995	While attempting to return to Leeds Bradford Airport in the United Kingdom, Knight Air Flight 816 crashes in Harewood, North Yorkshire, killing all 12 people on board.
May 28, 1995	The 7.0 Mw  Neftegorsk earthquake shakes the former Russian settlement of Neftegorsk with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Total damage was $64.1–300 million, with 1,989 deaths and 750 injured. The settlement was not rebuilt.
June 5, 1995	The Bose–Einstein condensate is first created.
June 8, 1995	Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
June 9, 1995	Ansett New Zealand Flight 703 crashes into the Tararua Range during approach to Palmerston North Airport on the North Island of New Zealand, killing four.
June 24, 1995	Rugby World Cup: South Africa defeats New Zealand and Nelson Mandela presents Francois Pienaar with the Webb Ellis Cup in an iconic post-apartheid moment.
June 26, 1995	Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup d'état.
June 29, 1995	Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.
June 29, 1995	The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho District of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.
July 5, 1995	Armenia adopts its constitution, four years after its independence from the Soviet Union.
July 6, 1995	In the Bosnian War, under the command of General Ratko Mladić, Serbia begins its attack on the Bosnian town of Srebrenica.
July 9, 1995	The Navaly church bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force killing 125 Tamil civilian refugees.
July 11, 1995	Yugoslav Wars: Srebrenica massacre begins; lasts until 22 July.
July 12, 1995	Chinese seismologists successfully predict the 1995 Myanmar–China earthquake, reducing the number of casualties to 11.
July 18, 1995	On the Caribbean island of Montserrat, the Soufrière Hills volcano erupts. Over the course of several years, it devastates the island, destroying the capital, forcing most of the population to flee.
July 21, 1995	Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The People's Liberation Army begins firing missiles into the waters north of Taiwan.
July 23, 1995	Comet Hale–Bopp is discovered; it becomes visible to the naked eye on Earth nearly a year later.
July 25, 1995	A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded.
July 27, 1995	The Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
August 4, 1995	Operation Storm begins in Croatia.
August 5, 1995	Yugoslav Wars: The city of Knin, Croatia, a significant Serb stronghold, is liberated by Croatian forces during Operation Storm. The date is celebrated in Croatia as Victory Day.
August 7, 1995	The Chilean government declares state of emergency in the southern half of the country in response to an event of intense, cold, wind, rain and snowfall known as the White Earthquake.
August 10, 1995	Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted for the bombing. Michael Fortier pleads guilty in a plea-bargain for his testimony.
August 15, 1995	In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel (she drops out less than a week later).
August 15, 1995	Tomiichi Murayama, Prime Minister of Japan, releases the Murayama Statement, which formally expresses remorse for Japanese war crimes committed during World War II.
August 20, 1995	The Firozabad rail disaster kills 358 people in Firozabad, India.
August 21, 1995	Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 529, an Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia, attempts to divert to West Georgia Regional Airport after the left engine fails, but the aircraft crashes in Carroll County near Carrollton, Georgia, killing nine of the 29 people on board.
August 24, 1995	Microsoft Windows 95 was released to the public in North America.
August 30, 1995	Bosnian War: NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
September 6, 1995	Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that had stood for 56 years.
September 15, 1995	Malaysia Airlines Flight 2133 crashes at Tawau Airport in Malaysia, killing 34.
September 19, 1995	The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber manifesto.
September 22, 1995	An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board are killed.
September 22, 1995	The Nagerkovil school bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil schoolchildren.
September 28, 1995	Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of the Comoros in a coup.
September 28, 1995	Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
October 3, 1995	O. J. Simpson murder case: O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
October 6, 1995	The first planet orbiting another sun, 51 Pegasi b, is discovered.
October 9, 1995	An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.
October 16, 1995	The Million Man March takes place in Washington, D.C. About 837,000 attend.
October 16, 1995	The Skye Bridge in Scotland is opened.
October 23, 1995	Yolanda Saldívar is found guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of popular Latin singer Selena.
October 25, 1995	A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students.
October 26, 1995	Mossad agents assassinate Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shaqaqi in his hotel in Malta.
October 26, 1995	An avalanche hits the Icelandic village of Flateyri, destroying 29 homes and burying 45 people, and killing 20.
October 27, 1995	Former Prime Minister of Italy Bettino Craxi is convicted in absentia of corruption.
October 28, 1995	The Baku Metro fire sees 289 people killed and 270 injured.
October 30, 1995	Quebec citizens narrowly vote (50.58% to 49.42%) in favour of remaining a province of Canada in their second referendum on national sovereignty.
November 4, 1995	Israel-Palestinian conflict: Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an extremist Israeli.
November 5, 1995	André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of Canada. He is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife locks the door.
November 6, 1995	Cleveland Browns relocation controversy: Art Modell announces that he signed a deal that would relocate the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore.
November 10, 1995	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.
November 12, 1995	Erdut Agreement regarding the peaceful resolution to the Croatian War of Independence is reached.
November 13, 1995	Mozambique becomes the first state to join the Commonwealth of Nations without having been part of the former British Empire.
November 13, 1995	A truck-bomb explodes outside of a US-operated Saudi Arabian National Guard training center in Riyadh, killing five Americans and two Indians. A group called the Islamic Movement for Change claims responsibility.
November 13, 1995	Nigeria Airways Flight 357 crashes at Kaduna International Airport in Kaduna, Nigeria, killing 11 people and injuring 66.
November 14, 1995	A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums and to run most government offices with skeleton staffs.
November 21, 1995	The Dayton Agreement is initialed at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio, ending three and a half years of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
November 22, 1995	Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.
November 22, 1995	The 7.3 Mw  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 30, 1995	Official end of Operation Desert Storm.
November 30, 1995	U.S. President Bill Clinton visits Northern Ireland and speaks in favor of the "Northern Ireland peace process" to a huge rally at Belfast City Hall; he calls IRA fighters "yesterday's men".
December 3, 1995	Cameroon Airlines Flight 3701 crashes on approach to Douala International Airport in Douala, Cameroon, killing 71 of the 76 people on board.
December 5, 1995	Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lanka's government announces the conquest of the Tamil stronghold of Jaffna.
December 5, 1995	Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 56 crashes near Nakhchivan International Airport in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan, killing 52 people.
December 7, 1995	The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.
December 7, 1995	Khabarovsk United Air Group Flight 3949 crashes into the Bo-Dzhausa Mountain, killing 98.
December 7, 1995	An Air Saint Martin (now Air Caraïbes) Beechcraft 1900 crashes near the Haitian commune of Belle Anse, killing 20.
December 10, 1995	The Israeli army withdraws from Nablus pursuant to the terms of Oslo Accord.
December 13, 1995	Banat Air Flight 166 crashes in Sommacampagna near Verona Villafranca Airport in Verona, Italy, killing 49.
December 14, 1995	Yugoslav Wars: The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris by the leaders of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
December 18, 1995	A Lockheed L-188 Electra crashes in Jamba, Cuando Cubango, Angola, killing 141 people.
December 19, 1995	The United States Government restores federal recognition to the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Native American tribe.
December 20, 1995	NATO begins peacekeeping in Bosnia.
December 20, 1995	American Airlines Flight 965, a Boeing 757, crashes into a mountain 50 km north of Cali, Colombia, killing 159 of the 163 people on board.
December 21, 1995	The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control.