1995 (MCMXCV ) was a common year starting on Sunday in the Gregorian calendar , the 995th year of the 2nd millennium , the 95th year of the 20th century , and the 6th year of the 1990s decade
Events
January 17: Houses destroyed in the Great Hanshin Earthquake April 19: Overview of Oklahoma City bombing destruction January 1 – Austria , Finland and Sweden joined the EU .
January 2 – Former President of Somalia , Siyad Barre died. He had been ousted in 1991 .
January 6 to January 7 – A chemical fire happened in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines . Policemen led by watch commander Aida Fariscal and investigators found a bomb factory and a laptop computer and disks that contain plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack. The mastermind, Ramzi Yousef, was arrested one month later
January 9 – Valeri Polyakov completed 366 days in space while aboard the Mir space station breaking a duration record.
January 16 – An avalanche hit the village of Sudavik in Iceland 's West Fjords, killing 14 people.
January 17 – A magnitude 7.3 earthquake called "the Great Hanshin earthquake " happened near Kōbe , Japan , causing great property damage and killing 6,433 people
January 24 – The prosecution delivered its opening statement in the O. J. Simpson murder trial.
January 30 – John Howard became leader of the Liberal Party of Australia .
January 31 – United States President Bill Clinton used emergency powers to extend a $20 billion loan to help Mexico avoid financial collapse.
February 21 – Steve Fossett landed in Leader, Saskatchewan , having set a record for a solo balloon flight across the Pacific Ocean .
march 10 m&m is born March 20 – Tokyo subway sarin attack : Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas on five subway trains in Tokyo , killing 12 people and injuring 5,510.
March 22 – Valeri Polyakov returned to Earth after 438 days in space.
March 26 — Eazy-E , an American rapper, died of AIDS .
March 31 – Selena , an American singer, was murdered by Yolanda Saldivar .
April 19 – Oklahoma City bombing : Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols set off a bomb outside the Alfred P. Murrah building, killing 168 people.
April 28 – A gas explosion on the subway construction site in Daegu , South Korea , killed 101 people, mainly teenage boys.
May 16 – Japanese police raided the headquarters of the Aum Shinrikyo cult near Mt. Fuji, arresting its leader, Shoko Asahara .
May 17 – Jacques Chirac became President of France .
May 28 – A magnitude 7.6 earthquake hits Neftegorsk, Russia , killing at least 2000 people.
June 13 – Jacques Chirac announced the continuation of nuclear tests in French Polynesia .
June 16 – Salt Lake City announced as the host city of the 2002 Winter Olympics .
June 29 – The roof collapsed at the Sampoong shopping centre in Seoul , South Korea .
July 11 – Srebrenica massacre : Bosniak Serbs killed more than 8,000 people-most men and boys, in Europe 's worst post-World War II massacre.
July 18 – The Soufriere Hills volcano began erupting on the Caribbean island of Montserrat .
July 21 – The People's Liberation Army fired missiles into waters north of Taiwan .
August 6 – The 50th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing is commemorated.
August 24 – Microsoft released Windows 95 .
August 29 – President of the Republic of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze survived an assassination attempt.
September 4 – eBay was founded.
September 27 – Bob Denard 's mercenaries captured President Said Mohammad Djohor of the Comoros .
October – The stoner rock icon Kyuss announced they would take an indefinite hiatus. The group did not completely disband until 2 years later.
October 1 – Ten people are convicted of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing .
October 3 – The britpop band Oasis released their breakthrough album (What's the Story) Morning Glory? .
October 3 – O.J. Simpson was found not guilty of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman .
October 17 – At the age of 120 years, 238 days, Jeanne Calment was confirmed as the oldest human on record.
October 26 – An avalanche hit the village of Flateyri in Iceland 's West Fjords.
October 28 – The Baku metro fire killed 289 people.
October 30 – Voters in Quebec narrowly rejected independence from Canada in a referendum.
November 4 – Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin was shot dead by Yigal Amir at a peace rally in Tel Aviv .
November 10 – Nigerian human rights activists, including the writer Ken Saro-Wiwa were executed.
November 21 – Dayton Peace Agreement, the end of the civil war in Bosnia and Croatia .
November 30 – Javier Solana became NATO Secretary-General.
December 20 – American Airlines Flight 965 crashed in Colombia , killing 159 people.
December 30 – The UK 's coldest temperature was recorded at Altnaharra in the Highlands of Scotland at -27.2 degrees Celsius.
December 31 – After 10 years, Bill Watterson , ended his legendary Calvin and Hobbes comic strip.
Puzzle Bobble was created, a video game popular worldwide.
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