1995
1995 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). It has a Golden number of 1, and was the first year of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995-2005): http://www.unesco.org/culture/indigenous/
Events
January
February
March
- March 1 - Attack Submarine USS-Seahorse (now ex-Seahorse (SSN-669))) starts to be deactivated
- March 1 - Polish Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak resigns from parliament and is replaced by ex-communist Jozef Oleksy
- March 1 - Daniel Sleator announces his intentions to commercialize the Internet Chess Server (ICS) himself, renames it the Internet Chess Club, or ICC, and charges a yearly membership fee of $49 to howls of protest
- March 1 - R.E.M. drummer Bill Berry leaves the stage during a Switzerland concert after suffering a brain aneurysm, which requires immediate surgery
- March 1 - Muntinlupa City, Philippines officially becomes a city
- March 2 - In Moscow, Russian anti-corruption journalist Vladislav Listyev is killed by a gunman
- March 2 - Nick Leeson is arrested for his role in the collapse of Barings Bank
- March 3 - In Somalia, the United Nations peacekeeping mission ends
- March 14 - Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American to ride to space on-board a Russian launch vehicle
- March 20 - Terrorist incident: Members of the Aum Supreme Truth release sarin gas in the Tokyo on five separate subway trains killing 12 and injuring around 5,500; see: Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway
- March 22 - Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns after setting a record for 438 days in space. Also, the Schengen treaty comes into force
- March 24 - For the first time in twenty years, no British soldiers patrol the streets of Belfast, Northern Ireland
April-May
June
July-August
- Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq threatens to end all cooperation with UNSCOM and IAEA, if sanctions against the country are not lifted by Thursday, August 31, 1995
- July 1 - Iraq disarmament crisis: In response to UNSCOM's evidence, Iraq admits for first time the existence of an offensive biological weapons program, but denies weaponization.
- July 8 - Volcanic eruption begins in the island of Montserrat
- July 11 - Bosnian Serbs march into Srebrenica and force UN Dutch peacekeepers to leave. A massacre follows
- July 17 - The Nasdaq stock index closes above the 1,000 mark for the first time.
- July 21-July 26 - Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The People's Liberation Army fires missiles into the waters north of Taiwan.
- July 27 - In Washington, DC, the Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated
- July 28 - Network Solutions announces a new policy to help companies protect their trademarks on the Internet.
- Iraq disarmament crisis: Following the defection of his son-in-law, Hussein Kamil al Majid, minister of industry and military industrialisation, Saddam Hussein makes new revelations about the full extent of Iraq's biological and nuclear weapons programs. Iraq also withdraws its last UN declaration of prohibited biological weapons and turns over a large amount of new documents on its WMD programs.
- August 4 ? Croatians launch Operation Storm against Serbian forces in Krajina and force them to withdraw to Bosnia
- August 5 ? Croat forces take Knin and continue to advance
- August 7 ? UN-brokered ceasefire in Krajina
- August 14 - Avalanche buries Alison Hargreaves, the first woman to climb Mt. Everest without oxygen - reported dead August 18
- August 30 - NATO bombing campaign against Serb artillery positions begins in Bosnia - continues into October
September-October
November
- November 1 ? Participants of the Yugoslavian war begin negotiations in Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, USA
- November 2 - Supreme Court of Argentina orders extradition of Erich Priebke, ex-SS captain
- November 3 - At Arlington National Cemetery, US President Bill Clinton dedicates a memorial to the victims of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing
- November 4 - After attending a peace rally in Tel Aviv's Kings Square, Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is mortally wounded by a right-wing Israeli gunman. (He later died on the operating table at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv)
- November 10 - Iraq disarmament crisis: With help from Israel and Jordan, UN inspector Ritter intercepts 240 Russian gyroscopes and accelerometers on their way to Iraq from Russia
- November 10 - 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 - A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the United States Congress forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums and run most government offices with skeleton staff
- November 16 - UN tribunal charges Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic with genocide
- November 17 - Public Radio International's radio program This American Life broadcasts its first episode, "New Beginnings"
- November 20 - The European Union and Israel enter into a comprehensive "Treaty of Association" negotiated and signed by Javier Solana and Shimon Peres. The signing occurs in Brussels, November 20, 1995.
- November 21 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 5,000 (5,023.55) for the first time
- November 22 - Rosemary West is sentenced for life of killing 10 women and girls, including her daughter and stepdaughter
- November 22 - Eilat, Israel, Egypt, and much of the North African Mediterranean is struck by the strongest earthquake in Israel's history - 7.2 mw. Curiously, within a week there is attempted historical revisionism downwards to 6.2 with Gulf of Aqaba architects and engineers holding the bag for alleged 'shoddy construction'. A 6.2 mw earthquake is only 1/100th the magnitude of a 7.2 quake.
- November 27 - Javier Solana opens Barcelona Conference. Its reported advance aims are battling religious fundamentalism, worldwide; creating a free trade zone in the Mediterranean by the year 2010; and reducing the USA's presence in the Mediterranean. USA is granted 'observer status only.'
- November 28 - Barcelona Treaty signed by 27 attending nations
- November 28 - US President Bill Clinton signs a highway bill that ends the federal 55 mph speed limit.
- November 30 - Javier Solana is unanimously picked as surprise dark horse candidate to be new head of NATO. Fifty two USA congress members send telegram to White House objecting because of Solana's previous alleged pro-Castro policies in his position as Spanish foreign minister.
December
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- The Ebola virus kills 244 Africans in Kikwit, Zaire in Central Africa.
Deaths
January-April
- January 9 - Peter Cook, comedian, satirist and writer
- January 22 - Rose Kennedy, matriarch of the Kennedy family
- January 31 - George Abbott, writer, director, producer
- January 30 - Gerald Durrell naturalist, zookeeper, author and television presenter
- February 2 - Donald Pleasence, actor
- February 4 - Patricia Highsmith, author
- February 12 - Robert Bolt, writer (born 1924)
- February 21 - Calder Willingham, writer
- March 5 - Vivian Stanshall, comedian, writer, artist, broadcaster, musician, performer, frontman for Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.
- March 13 - Leon Day, baseballer
- March 13 - Odette Sansom, SOE agent, WW II heroine
- March 27 - Maurizio Gucci
- April 14 - Burl Ives singer (b. 1909)
- April 23 - Howard Cosell, sportscaster
- April 25 - Ginger Rogers, actress, dancer
May-December
- May 15 - Eric Porter, actor
- May 18 - Elisha Cook Jr., actor
- May 18 - Alexander Godunov, ballet dancer, actor
- May 18 - Elizabeth Montgomery, actress
- May 26 - Friz Freleng, animator
- June 20 - Emil Cioran, Romanian-born French philosopher and essayist
- June 30 - Georgi Beregovoi, cosmonaut
- July 4 - Eva Gabor, actress
- August 3 - Edward Whittemore, American writer and CIA agent
- August 7 - Brigid Brophy, British writer
- August 9 - Jerry Garcia, musician and lead guitarist of The Grateful Dead
- August 13 - Mickey Mantle, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1931)
- August 19 - Pierre Schaeffer, composer and pioneer of musique concrète
- November 4 - Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli Prime Minister
- November 21 - Noel Jones, British diplomat
- December 2 - Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist
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