Calendar year
1995 (MCMXCV ) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar , the 1995th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 995th year of the 2nd millennium , the 95th year of the 20th century , and the 6th year of the 1990s decade.
Calendar year
1995 was designated as:
United Nations Year for Tolerance
World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War
This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government no longer providing public funding, marking the beginning of the Information Age .[ 1] [ 2] America Online and Prodigy offered access to the World Wide Web system for the first time this year, releasing browsers that made it easily accessible to the general public.[ 3]
Events
January
January 1
January 9 – Valeri Polyakov completes 366 days in space while aboard then Mir space station, breaking a duration record.[ 4]
January 10 –15 – The World Youth Day 1995 festival is held in Manila, Philippines , culminating in 5 million people gathering for John Paul II's concluding mass in Quirino Grandstand .
January 17 – The 6.9 Great Hanshin earthquake strikes the southern Hyōgo Prefecture of Japan with a maximum Shindo of 7, leaving 5,502–6,434 people dead, and 251,301–310,000 displaced.
January 25 – 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 31 – Mexican peso crisis : U.S. President Bill Clinton invokes emergency powers to extend a $20 billion loan to help Mexico avert financial collapse.
February
March
April
April 19 : A car bomb explodes outside a Federal building in Oklahoma City , killing 168
May
May 7 – Jacques Chirac is elected president of France.
May 10 – The Vaal Reefs mining disaster at Vaal Reefs gold mine in Orkney, South Africa . A runaway locomotive falls into a lift shaft onto an ascending cage and causes it to plunge 1,500 feet (460 m) to the bottom of the 6,900 feet (2,100 m) deep shaft, killing 104.[ 7] [ 8]
May 11 – More than 170 countries agree to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.
May 13 – The 6.6 Mw Western Macedonia earthquake strikes northwestern Greece with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe ), injuring 25 and causing $450 million in damage.
May 14 – The Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the 11th reincarnation of the Panchen Lama , but 3 days later the boy is detained by Chinese authorities and not seen again.[ 9]
May 16 – Following the Tokyo subway sarin attack two months earlier, Japanese police besiege the headquarters of Aum Shinrikyo near Mount Fuji and arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara . Further police operations result in over two hundred arrests and thirteen members of the cult, including Asahara, are sentenced to death.
May 24 – AFC Ajax wins the UEFA Champions League at the Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna by defeating A.C. Milan 1–0.
May 28 – The 7.0 Mw Neftegorsk earthquake strikes northern Sakhalin Island in Russia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent ), leaving 1,967 people dead and 750 injured.
June
July
Exhumed grave of victims of the July Srebrenica massacre .
The Taiwan Strait
August
August – The International Rugby Football Board declares that rugby union players may be professional.[ 10] [ 11]
August 4 – Croatian forces, with the cooperation of the ARBiH , launch Operation Storm against rebel forces of the Republic of Serbian Krajina , which subsequently ceases to exist as a political entity.
August 7 – The Chilean government declares a state of emergency in the southern half of the country in response to an event of intense cold, wind, rain and snowfall known as the White Earthquake .[ 12]
August 14 – Nepali Prime Minister Man Mohan Adhikari along with seven other high-ranking officials survives a helicopter crash.[ 13]
August 29 – Eduard Shevardnadze , the Georgian head of state , survives an assassination attempt in Tbilisi .
August 30 – Operation Deliberate Force , the NATO bombing campaign against Bosnian Serb artillery positions, begins in Bosnia and Herzegovina , continuing into September. At the same time, ARBiH forces begin an offensive against the Bosnian Serb Army around Sarajevo, central Bosnia and Bosnian Krajina .
September
October
October 3 – Murder trial of O. J. Simpson : Former American football star O. J. Simpson is found not guilty of double murder in a criminal trial for the deaths of former wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman .
October 5 – Tansu Çiller of DYP forms the new government of Turkey (51st government ), a minority government which lasts for less than a month.
October 6 – Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz announce the discovery of 51 Pegasi b , the first confirmed extrasolar planet orbiting an ordinary main-sequence star.
October 9 – 1995 Palo Verde, Arizona, derailment An Amtrak Sunset Limited train derails through sabotage at a trestle near Palo Verde, Arizona, United States, resulting in one death.[ 14]
October 16 – The Million Man March is held in Washington, D.C. The event was conceived by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan .
October 24 – A total solar eclipse is visible from Iran, India, Thailand and Southeast Asia.[ 15]
October 26 – An avalanche hits the village Flateyri in Iceland , killing 20 people, the second of two deadly avalanches to occur in Iceland during this calendar year.
October 28 – A fire in Baku Metro , Azerbaijan , kills 289 passengers, becoming the world's worst subway disaster.
October 30
November
November – The Indian government officially renames the city of Bombay, restoring the name Mumbai .
November 1
November 2 – The Supreme Court of Argentina orders the extradition of ex-S.S. captain Erich Priebke .
November 4 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated at a peace rally in Tel Aviv.
November 7 – Typhoon Angela leaves the Philippines and Vietnam devastated, with 882 deaths and US$ 315 million in damage. The typhoon is the strongest to strike the Philippines in 25 years, with wind speeds of 130 mph (210 km/h) and gusts of 180 mph (290 km/h).
November 12 – The Millbrook Commonwealth Action Programme , a programme to implement the Harare Declaration , is announced by the Commonwealth Heads of Government .
November 16 – A United Nations tribunal charges Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić with genocide during the Bosnian War .
November 20 – A car bomb explosion outside the Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad , Pakistan destroys the façade of the building, killing at least 13 people and wounding dozens more.[ 16]
November 21 – The Dayton Agreement to end the Bosnian War is reached at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio , United States (signed December 14 ).
November 22 – The 7.3 Mw Gulf of Aqaba earthquake shakes the Sinai Peninsula and Saudi Arabia region with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe ), killing eight and injuring 30, and generating a non-destructive tsunami.
November 28 – Twenty-seven nations sign the Barcelona Treaty, creating the Union for the Mediterranean .
November 30 – Operation Desert Storm officially ends.
December
December 3 – Strikes paralyze France's public sector.
December 6 – The United States Food and Drug Administration approves Saquinavir , the first protease inhibitor to treat HIV/AIDS . Within 2 years of its approval, annual deaths from AIDS in the United States fall from over 50,000 to approximately 18,000.[ 17]
December 7 – NASA's Galileo Probe enters Jupiter 's atmosphere.
December 8 – Five-year-old Gyaincain Norbu is enthroned as the 11th reincarnation of the Panchen Lama at Tashilhunpo Monastery .
December 14 – The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris, officially ending the Bosnian War .
December 16 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi scuba divers, under the direction of the United Nations Special Commission , dredge the Tigris near Baghdad . The divers find over 200 prohibited Russian-made missile instruments and components.
December 20
December 23 – Dabwali fire accident : The Rajiv Marriage Palace catches fire in Haryana , India, killing 442 persons.[ 18]
December 30 – The lowest ever United Kingdom temperature of −27.2 °C (−17.0 °F) is recorded at Altnaharra in the Scottish Highlands . This equals the record set at Braemar , Aberdeenshire in 1895 and 1982 .
Date unknown
World population
World population
1995
1990
2000
World
5,674,380,000
5,263,593,000
410,787,000
6,070,581,000
396,201,000
Africa
707,462,000
622,443,000
85,019,000
795,671,000
88,209,000
Asia
3,430,052,000
3,167,807,000
262,245,000
3,679,737,000
249,685,000
Europe
725,405,000
721,582,000
5,823,000
730,986,000
5,581,000
Latin America & Caribbean
481,099,000
441,525,000
39,574,000
520,229,000
39,130,000
Northern America
299,438,000
283,549,000
15,889,000
315,915,000
16,477,000
Oceania
28,924,000
26,687,000
2,237,000
31,043,000
2,119,000
Births
January
Poppy
Jisoo
Nicola Peltz
Danielle Campbell
January 1
January 3 – Jisoo , South Korean singer, actress, and model
January 4 – María Isabel , Spanish singer
January 6 – Michaela DePrince , Sierra Leonean-American ballet dancer[ 21]
January 9 – Nicola Peltz , American actress
January 12
January 16 – Takumi Minamino , Japanese footballer
January 19
January 20
January 21 – Marine Johannès , French basketball player[ 25]
January 24 – Callan McAuliffe , Australian actor
January 25 – Laura Nunnink , Dutch field hockey player[ 26]
January 30
January 31 – Nina Sublatti , Georgian singer and model
February
Adnan Januzaj
Joshua Kimmich
Megan Thee Stallion
February 1 – Oliver Heldens , Dutch DJ and electronic music producer
February 3 – Tao Tsuchiya , Japanese actress[ 27]
February 4 – Pione Sisto , South Sudanese-Danish footballer
February 5 – Adnan Januzaj , Belgian footballer
February 6
February 8 – Joshua Kimmich , German footballer
February 9 – Mario Pašalić , Croatian footballer
February 10 – Naby Keïta , Guinean footballer
February 11
February 15 – Megan Thee Stallion , American rapper and YouTube personality
February 16 – Denzel Curry , American rapper
February 17 – Madison Keys , American tennis player
February 18 – Mikhail Kolyada , Russian figure skater
February 23
February 27 – Sergej Milinković-Savić , Serbian footballer
February 28 – Lauren Carlini , American volleyball player[ 30]
March
Cierra Ramirez
March 2 – Mats Møller Dæhli , Norwegian footballer
March 7 – Haley Lu Richardson , American actress
March 8 – Keita Baldé , Senegalese footballer
March 9 – Ángel Correa , Argentine footballer[ 31]
March 10 – Zach LaVine , American basketball player
March 13 – Mikaela Shiffrin , American skier
March 15 – Jabari Parker , American basketball player[ 32]
March 17 – Claressa Shields , American boxer[ 33]
March 19
March 23 – Ester Ledecká , Czech winter athlete
March 27 – Zaur Uguev , Russian freestyle wrestler
April
Logan Paul
Gigi Hadid
April 1 – Logan Paul , American actor and YouTube personality
April 3 – Adrien Rabiot , French footballer
April 5 – Zofia Wichłacz , Polish actress[ 34]
April 7 – Tiril Sjåstad Christiansen , Norwegian freestyle skier[ 35]
April 15 – Chiaka Ogbogu , American volleyball player[ 36]
April 17 – Wheein , South Korean singer and songwriter
April 18 – Divock Origi , Belgian footballer
April 21
April 23 – Gigi Hadid , American fashion model
April 24 – Kehlani , American singer
April 26
April 28 – Melanie Martinez , American singer
Melanie Martinez
May
Missy Franklin
Rose Lavelle
Shira Haas
May 1 – Jake Cannavale , American musician and actor
May 2 – Yook Sung-jae , South Korean singer and actor
May 3 – Zach Sobiech , American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 2013 )[ 39]
May 4 – Kiiara , American singer and songwriter
May 6 – Marko Pjaca , Croatian footballer
May 7 – Fred Kerley , American sprinter[ 40]
May 9
May 10
May 11
May 12 – Kenton Duty , American actor, singer, and dancer
May 14 – Kelly Gale , Swedish model
May 15 – Ksenia Sitnik , Belarusian singer
May 25 – José Luis Gayà , Spanish footballer
May 29 – Nicolas Pépé , Ivorian footballer
May 30 – Lukáš Rohan , Czech canoeist[ 44]
June
Troye Sivan
July
Post Malone
Ada Hegerberg
Jordyn Wieber
Luke Shaw
Lil Uzi Vert
August
Dua Lipa
Andreas Wellinger
August 2
August 4
August 5 – Pierre-Emile Højbjerg , Danish footballer
August 9 – Hwang Min-hyun , South Korean singer-songwriter and actor
August 12 – Andy Cruz , Cuban boxer[ 58]
August 13 – Presnel Kimpembe , French footballer
August 15 – Chief Keef , American rapper
August 16 – James Young , American basketball player[ 59]
August 17 – Gracie Gold , American figure skater
August 22 – Dua Lipa , English singer
August 23 – Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig , Danish cyclist[ 60]
August 24 – Lady Amelia Windsor , member of the British royal family
August 26
August 27 – Sergey Sirotkin , Russian racing driver
August 28 – Andreas Wellinger , German ski jumper
September
Patrick Mahomes
October
Jimin
November
Kendall Jenner
Katherine McNamara
November 1 – Nour El Sherbini , Egyptian squash player
November 2 – Hanna Öberg , Swedish biathlete[ 70]
November 3 – Kelly Catlin , American racing cyclist (d. 2019 )
November 8 – Xan de Waard , Dutch field hockey player[ 71]
November 15 – Karl-Anthony Towns , Dominican-American basketball player
November 17 – Elise Mertens , Belgian tennis player
November 18 – Ihsan Maulana Mustofa , Indonesian badminton player
November 19
November 20
November 22 – Katherine McNamara , American actress
November 28 – Tin Jedvaj , Croatian footballer
November 29 – Laura Marano , American actress and singer
December
Timothée Chalamet
V
Gabby Douglas
Unknown date
Deaths
Nobel Prizes
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