1995

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1960s 1970s 1980s – 1990s – 2000s 2010s 2020s
Years:	1992 1993 1994 – 1995 – 1996 1997 1998

1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.

[change] Events

January 17: Houses destroyed in the Great Hanshin Earthquake

April 19: Overview of Oklahoma City bombing destruction

January 1 – Austria, Finland and Sweden join 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 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 one 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 of Sudavik in Iceland's West Fjords, killing 14 people.
January 17 – A magnitude 7.3 earthquake called "the Great Hanshin earthquake" occurs near Kōbe, Japan, causing great property damage and killing 6,433 people
January 24 – The prosecution delivers its opening statement in the O. J. Simpson murder trial.
January 30 – John Howard becomes leader of the Liberal Party of Australia.
January 31 – United States President Bill Clinton invokes emergency powers to extend a $20 billion loan to help Mexico avert financial collapse.
February 21 – Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, having set a record for a solo balloon flight across the Pacific Ocean.
March 20 – Sarin gas attack on Tokyo subway: 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 returns to Earth after 438 days in space.
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, kills 101 people, mainly teenage boys.
May 16 – Japanese police raid the headquarters of the Aum Shinrikyo cult near Mt. Fuji, arresting its leader, Shoko Asahara.
May 17 – Jacques Chirac becomes President of France.
May 28 – A magnitude 7.6 earthquake hits Neftegorsk, Russia, killing at least 2000 people.
June 13 – Jacques Chirac announces the continuation of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.
June 16 – Salt Lake City is announced as the host city of the 2002 Winter Olympics.
June 29 – The roof collapses at the Sampoong shopping centre in Seoul, South Korea.
July 11 – Srebrenica massacre: Bosniak Serbs kill a large number of men and boys, in Europe's worst post-World War II massacre.
July 18 – The Soufriere Hills volcano begins erupting on the Caribbean island of Montserrat.
July 21 – The People's Liberation Army fires missiles into waters north of Taiwan.
August 6 – The 50th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing is commemorated.
August 24 – Microsoft releases Windows 95.
August 29 – President of the Republic of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze survives an assassination attempt.
September 4 – eBay is founded.
September 27 – Bob Denard's mercenaries capture President Said Mohammad Djohor of the Comoros.
October – The stoner rock icon Kyuss announces 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 is 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 is confirmed as the oldest human on record.
October 26 – An avalanche hits the village of Flateyri in Iceland's West Fjords.
October 28 – The Baku metro fire kills 289 people.
October 30 – Voters in Quebec narrowly reject independence from Canada in a referendum.
November 4 – Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin is shot dead by Yigal Amir at a peace rally in Tel Aviv.
November 10 – Nigerian human rights activists, including the author Ken Saro-Wiwa are executed.
November 30 – Javier Solana becomes NATO Secretary-General.
December 20 – American Airlines Flight 965 crashes in Colombia, killing 159 people.
December 30 – The UK's coldest temperature is recorded at Altnaharra in the Highlands of Scotland at -27.2 degrees Celsius.
December 31 – After 10 years, Bill Watterson, puts an end to his legendary Calvin and Hobbes comic strip.
Puzzle Bobble is created, a video game popular worldwide.