1995 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1995?
- January 1, 1995 – The Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe becomes the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
- January 22, 1995 – Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Beit Lid massacre – In central Israel, near Netanya, two suicide bombers from the Gaza Strip blow themselves up at a military transit point killing 19 Israelis.
- January 30, 1995 – Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
- January 31, 1995 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Pig in Chinese astrology.
- February 17, 1995 – The Cenepa War between Peru and Ecuador ends on a cease-fire brokered by the UN.
- February 26, 1995 – The United Kingdom’s oldest investment banking institute, Barings Bank, collapses after a securities broker, Nick Leeson, loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange using futures contracts.
- March 1, 1995 – Prime Minister of Poland Waldemar Pawlak resigns from parliament and is replaced by ex-communist Józef Oleksy.
- March 14, 1995 – Space Exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on-board a Russian launch vehicle.
- March 22, 1995 – Cosmonaut Valeriy Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space.
- April 7, 1995 – First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
- May 18, 1995 – Shawn Nelson, 35, goes on a tank rampage in San Diego.
- July 23, 1995 – Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered; it will become visible to the naked eye nearly a year later.
- September 29, 1995 – The United States Navy disbands Fighter Squadron 84 (VF-84), nicknamed the “Jolly Rogers”.
- 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 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 22, 1995 – Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.
- December 5, 1995 – The Sri Lankan government announces the conquest of Tamil stronghold of Jaffna.
- December 20, 1995 – American Airlines Flight 965, a Boeing 757, crashes into a mountain 50 km north of Cali, Colombia killing 160.
- December 21, 1995 – The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control.
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