1995 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1995?
- January 22, 1995 – 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.
- January 25, 1995 – 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.
- 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.
- February 3, 1995 – Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
- 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 16, 1995 – Mississippi formally ratified the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment is officially ratified in 1865.
- April 19, 1995 – 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.
- May 23, 1995 – The first version of the Java programming language is released.
- June 7, 1995 – The long range Boeing 777 enters service with United Airlines.
- June 8, 1995 – Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
- June 13, 1995 – French president Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.
- June 29, 1995 – The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.
- August 4, 1995 – Operation Storm begins in Croatia.
- October 6, 1995 – 51 Pegasi is discovered to be the first major star apart from the Sun to have a planet (and extrasolar planet) orbiting around it.
- October 9, 1995 – An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.
- October 16, 1995 – The Million Man March occurs in Washington, D.C.
- November 4, 1995 – Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an extremist Orthodox Israeli.
- November 30, 1995 – Official end of Operation Desert Storm.
- December 21, 1995 – The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control.
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