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Year '1995' ('MCMXCV') was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar).
The year 1995 was the first year of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995-2005).^[1]

Contents

Events

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Undated

Ongoing

Fictional

World population

Births

January - June

July - December

Unconfirmed

Deaths

January-March

April-June

July-September

October-December

Nobel prizes

Templeton Prize

Right Livelihood Award

See also

Notes

External links

Table of contents

Events

January

★ January 1 - Austria, Finland and Sweden enter the European Union.

★ January 1 - The World Trade Organization is established to replace GATT.

★ January 1 - The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves.

★ January 4 - The 104th Congress convenes, the first controlled by Republicans in both houses since 1953.

★ January 6-January 7 - A chemical fire occurs in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines. Policemen led by watch commander Aida Fariscal and investigators find a bomb factory and a laptop computer and disks that contain plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack. The mastermind, Ramzi Yousef, is arrested 1 month later.

★ January 9 - Valeri Polyakov completes 366 days in space while aboard the Mir space station, breaking a duration record.

★ January 16 - An avalanche hits the village Súðavík in Iceland, killing 14 people.

★ January 17 - A magnitude 7.3 earthquake called the "Great Hanshin earthquake" occurs near Kobe, Japan, causing great property damage and killing 6,434 people.

★ January 25 - The 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 25 - Eric Cantona of Manchester United, after being red carded, kicks a Crystal Palace fan in the head and is suspended until October.

★ January 29 - The San Francisco 49ers become the first NFL franchise to win 5 Super Bowls, as they defeat the San Diego Chargers 49-26 in Super Bowl XXIX at Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, Florida.

★ January 29 - Tatachilla Lutheran College officially opens at McLaren Vale, South Australia.

★ January 31 - U.S. President Bill Clinton invokes emergency powers to extend a $20 billion loan to help Mexico avert financial collapse.

February

★ February 9 - ''STS-63'': Dr. Bernard A. Harris, Jr. and Michael Foale become the first African American and Briton, respectively, to walk in space.

★ February 13 - A United Nations tribunal on human rights violations in the Balkans charges 21 Bosnian Serb commanders with genocide and crimes against humanity.

★ February 15 - Hacking: Kevin Mitnick is arrested by the FBI and charged with breaking into some of the United States' most "secure" computers systems.

★ February 15 - Taiwan's deadliest fire at a karaoke restaurant in Taichung kills 64.

★ February 15 - Dublin - Republic of Ireland vs England soccer match in Lansdowne Road abandoned due to violence and rioting.

★ February 17 - Colin Ferguson is convicted of 6 counts of murder for the December 1993 Long Island Rail Road shootings and later receives a 200+ year sentence.

★ February 21 - Serkadji prison mutiny in Algeria: Four guards and 96 prisoners are killed in a day and a half.

★ February 21 - Ibrahim Ali, a 17-year-old Comorian living in France, is murdered by 3 far right National Front activists.

★ February 21 - Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada, becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.

★ February 23 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 30.28 to close at 4,003.33 -- The Dow's first ever close above 4,000.

★ February 26 - 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.

★ February 27 - In Denver, Colorado, the old Stapleton Airport closes; it is replaced by a new Denver International Airport, the largest airport in the United States.

★ February 28 - Members of the group Patriot's Council are convicted in Minnesota of manufacturing ricin.

March

★ March 1 - Polish Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak resigns from Parliament and is replaced by ex-communist Jozef Oleksy.

★ March 1 - Muntinlupa City, Philippines officially becomes a city.

★ March 1 - In Moscow, Russian anti-corruption journalist Vladislav Listyev is killed by a gunman.

★ March 1 - Yahoo! is founded in Santa Clara, California.

★ March 2 - Nick Leeson is arrested for his role in the collapse of Barings Bank.

★ March 3 - In Somalia, the United Nations peacekeeping mission ends.

★ March 6 - Adrianus Jacobs, chairman of Internationale Nederlanden Groep NV, announces that his company will buy bankrupt Barings PLC Bank for a nominal price.

★ March 6 - On an episode of ''The Jenny Jones Show'' ("Same-Sex Crushes"), Scott Amedure reveals a crush on his heterosexual friend Jonathan Schmitz. Schmitz kills Amedure several days after the show.

★ March 13 - David Daliberti and William Barloon, 2 Americans working for a military contractor in Kuwait, are arrested after straying into Iraq.

★ 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.

★ March 18 - Basketball superstar Michael Jordan announces he's returning to basketball with his former team, the Chicago Bulls, and the next day returns to the basketball court facing the Indiana Pacers wearing jersey number 45, as opposed to his famed number 23.

★ March 20 - Members of the Aum Shinrikyo religious cult release sarin gas on 5 separate railway trains in Tokyo, killing 12 and injuring hundreds.

★ March 22 - Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns after setting a record for 438 days in outer space.

★ March 24 - For the first time in 26 years, no British soldiers patrol the streets of Belfast, Northern Ireland.

★ March 26 - The Schengen Agreement easing cross-border travel goes into effect in several European countries.

★ March 30 - A police officer tries to assassinate Takaji Kunimatsu, chief of the National Police Agency of Japan.

★ March 31 - In Corpus Christi, Texas, Latin superstar Selena Quintanilla Perez is shot and killed by Yolanda Saldivar, the president of her own fan club.

April

★ April 2 - An explosion in Gaza kills 8, including a Hamas leader.

★ April 5 - The U.S. House of Representatives votes 246-188 to cut taxes for individuals and corporations.

★ April 7 - House Republicans celebrate passage of most of the Contract with America.

★ April 19 - Oklahoma City bombing: 168 people, including 8 Federal Marshals an