1995 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1995?
- January 6, 1995 – A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines, leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack.
- January 17, 1995 – The Great Hanshin earthquake: A magnitude 7.3 earthquake hits near Kobe, Japan, causing extensive property damage and killing 6,434 people.
- January 31, 1995 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Pig in Chinese astrology.
- February 21, 1995 – Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
- March 1, 1995 – Yahoo! is incorporated.
- March 14, 1995 – Space Exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on-board a Russian launch vehicle.
- March 25, 1995 – WikiWikiWeb, the world’s first wiki, and part of the Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham.
- April 7, 1995 – First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
- June 13, 1995 – French president Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.
- June 26, 1995 – Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup.
- August 30, 1995 – NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
- September 6, 1995 – Cal Ripken Jr of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that stood for 56 years.
- September 22, 1995 – 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.
- September 29, 1995 – The United States Navy disbands Fighter Squadron 84 (VF-84), nicknamed the “Jolly Rogers”.
- October 25, 1995 – A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students.
- October 27, 1995 – Former Prime Minister of Italy Bettino Craxi is convicted in absentia of corruption.
- October 28, 1995 – 289 people are killed and 265 injured in Baku Metro fire, the deadliest subway disaster.
- November 4, 1995 – Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an extremist Orthodox Israeli.
- November 6, 1995 – The Rova of Antananarivo, home of the sovereigns of Madagascar from the 16th to 19th centuries, is destroyed by fire.
- November 10, 1995 – 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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