| 1995-10-30
Quebec sovereignists narrowly lose a referendum for a mandate to negotiate independence from Canada (vote is 50.6% to 49.4%).
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| 1995-12-19
The United States Government restores federal recognition to the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Indian tribe.
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| 1995-09-28
Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of Comoros in a coup.
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| 1995-07-25
A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded.
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| 1995-12-21
The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control.
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| 1995-02-17
Colin Ferguson is convicted of six counts of murder for the December 1993 Long Island Rail Road shootings and later receives a 200+ year sentence.
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| 1995-06-29
The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.
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| 1995-07-18
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.
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| 1995-01-01
The Kingdom of Sweden and the republics of Austria and Finland are admitted into the European Union.
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| 1995-01-06
A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines, leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack.
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| 1995-03-20
A sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway kills 12 and wounds 1,300 persons.
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| 1995-10-16
The Million Man March occurs in Washington, D.C.
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| 1995-08-24
Computer software developer Microsoft releases their Windows 95 operating system.
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| 1995-06-02
United States Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady's F-16 is shot down over Bosnia while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone.
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| 1995-03-22
Cosmonaut Valeriy Polyakov returns after setting a record for 438 days in space.
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| 1995-10-27
Latvia applies for membership in the European Union.
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| 1995-02-26
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.
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| 1995-08-05
The city of Knin, a significant Serb stronghold, is captured by Croatian forces during Operation Storm. The date is celebrated as the Victory Day (Croatia).
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| 1995-02-28
Denver International Airport officially opens in Denver, Colorado to replace Stapleton International Airport
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| 1995-05-27
In Culpeper, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition.
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| 1995-03-01
Prime Minister of Poland Waldemar Pawlak resigns from parliament and is replaced by ex-communist Józef Oleksy.
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| 1995-09-27
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.
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| 1995-03-25
WikiWikiWeb, the world's first wiki, and part of the Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham.
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| 1995-09-06
Cal Ripken Jr of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that stood for 56 years.
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| 1995-01-17
The Great Hanshin earthquake: A magnitude 7.3 earthquake hits near Kobe, Japan, causing extensive property damage and killing 6,434 people.
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| 1995-01-01
The World Trade Organization goes into effect.
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| 1995-05-01
Croatian forces launch Operation Flash during the Croatian War of Independence.
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| 1995-06-13
French president Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.
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| 1995-08-15
In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel (she drops out less than a week later).
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| 1995-09-22
Nagerkovil school bombing, is carried out by Sri Lankan Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil school children.
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| 1995-01-25
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.
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| 1995-11-10
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.
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| 1995-05-23
The first version of the Java programming language is released.
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| 1995-01-31
President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy.
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| 1995-08-04
Operation Storm begins in Croatia.
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| 1995-07-11
Full diplomatic relations are established between the United States and Vietnam.
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| 1995-11-13
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.
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| 1995-03-14
Space Exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on-board a Russian launch vehicle.
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| 1995-10-25
A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students.
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| 1995-10-03
O J Simpson acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
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| 1995-02-21
Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
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| 1995-11-22
Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.
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| 1995-10-09
An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.
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| 1995-03-16
Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865.
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| 1995-02-07
Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, is arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan.
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| 1995-09-22
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.
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| 1995-07-23
Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered; it will become visible to the naked eye nearly a year later.
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| 1995-07-09
The Navaly church bombing is carried out by the Sri Lankan Air Force killing 125 Tamil civilian refugees.
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| 1995-09-14
Body Worlds opens in Tokyo, Japan
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| 1995-06-08
Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
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| 1995-02-22
The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
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| 1995-08-10
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.
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| 1995-02-17
The Cenepa War between Peru and Ecuador ends on a cease-fire brokered by the UN.
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| 1995-05-23
Oklahoma City bombing: In Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the remains of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building are imploded.
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| 1995-07-11
A Cubana de Aviacion Antonov An-24 crashes into the Caribbean off southeast Cuba killing 44 people.
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| 1995-08-30
NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
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| 1995-07-11
Over 8000 Bosnian men and children (all Bosniaks) are killed by Serbian troops commanded by Ratko Mladic in Potočari near Srebrenica Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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| 1995-06-29
Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.)
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| 1995-06-26
Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup.
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| 1995-11-05
André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of Canada. He is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife locks the door.
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| 1995-09-29
The United States Navy disbands Fighter Squadron 84 (VF-84), nicknamed the "Jolly Rogers".
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| 1995-11-04
Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an extremist Orthodox Israeli.
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| 1995-01-22
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.
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| 1995-10-27
Former Prime Minister of Italy Bettino Craxi is convicted in absentia of corruption.
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| 1995-01-01
The Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe becomes the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
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| 1995-06-05
The Bose-Einstein condensate is first created.
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| 1995-10-28
289 people are killed and 265 injured in Baku Metro fire, the deadliest subway disaster.
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| 1995-10-26
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Mossad agents assassinate Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shikaki in his hotel in Malta.
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| 1995-08-01
The first Victoria's Secret Fashion Show is held at the Plaza Hotel in New York City.
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| 1995-03-26
The Schengen Treaty comes into effect.
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| 1995-12-14
Yugoslav Wars: The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris by leaders of various governments.
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| 1995-05-11
In New York City more than 170 countries decide to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.
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| 1995-02-09
Space Shuttle astronauts Bernard A. Harris, Jr. and Michael Foale become the first African American and first Briton, respectively, to perform spacewalks.
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| 1995-06-08
The first release of the PHP programming language is released by Rasmus Lerdorf.
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| 1995-05-02
During the Croatian War of Independence, Serb forces fire cluster bombs at Zagreb, killing 7 and wounding over 175 civilians.
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| 1995-07-21
Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The People's Liberation Army begins firing missiles into the waters north of Taiwan.
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| 1995-10-16
The Skye Bridge is opened.
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| 1995-04-19
Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168. That same day convicted murderer Richard Wayne Snell, who had ties to one of the bombers, Timothy McVeigh, is executed in Arkansas.
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| 1995-05-28
The Russian town of Neftegorsk is hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake that kills at least 2,000 people, half of the total population.
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| 1995-11-30
Official end of Operation Desert Storm.
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| 1995-11-14
A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums and to run most government offices with skeleton staffs.
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| 1995-11-21
The Dayton Peace 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. The agreement is formally ratified in Paris, on December 14 that same year.
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| 1995-12-20
The Democratic Social Movement is founded in Greece.
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| 1995-03-01
Yahoo! was incorporated.
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| 1995-09-04
The Fourth World Conference on Women opens in Beijing with over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance.
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| 1995-12-05
The Sri Lankan government announces the conquest of Tamil stronghold of Jaffna.
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| 1995-01-01
The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves.
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| 1995-07-27
The Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C..
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| 1995-11-02
Former South African defence minister General Magnus Malan and 10 other former senior military officers are arrested and charged with murdering 13 black people in 1987, (all the accused are later acquitted).
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| 1995-06-07
The long range Boeing 777 enters service with United Airlines.
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| 1995-01-30
Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
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| 1995-03-26
Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven's Gate cult suicides.
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| 1995-12-07
The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.
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| 1995-10-06
51 Pegasi is discovered to be the first major star apart from the Sun to have a planet (and extrasolar planet) orbiting around it.
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| 1995-09-19
The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto.
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| 1995-12-20
American Airlines Flight 965, a Boeing 757, crashes into a mountain 50 km north of Cali, Colombia killing 160.
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| 1995-04-30
U.S. President Bill Clinton became the first President to visit Northern Ireland.
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| 1995-07-05
Armenia adopts its constitution, four years after their independence from the Soviet Union
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| 1995-12-20
NATO begins peacekeeping in Bosnia.
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