1995 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1995?
- January 1, 1995 – The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves.
- 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.
- March 2, 1995 – Researchers at Fermilab announce the discovery of the top quark.
- April 30, 1995 – U.S. President Bill Clinton became the first President to visit Northern Ireland.
- May 13, 1995 – A 33 years old British mother Alison Hargreaves, became the first woman to conquer Everest without oxygen or the help of sherpas.
- June 5, 1995 – The Bose-Einstein condensate is first created.
- June 13, 1995 – French president Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.
- July 5, 1995 – Armenia adopts its constitution, four years after their independence from the Soviet Union.
- August 30, 1995 – NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
- September 29, 1995 – The United States Navy disbands Fighter Squadron 84 (VF-84), nicknamed the “Jolly Rogers”.
- October 26, 1995 – Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Mossad agents assassinate Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shikaki in his hotel in Malta.
- October 27, 1995 – Latvia applies for membership in the European Union.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- December 19, 1995 – The United States Government restores federal recognition to the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Indian tribe.
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