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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1960s 1970s 1980s – 1990s – 2000s 2010s 2020s
Years:	1992 1993 1994 – 1995 – 1996 1997 1998

1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.

Events
Births
Deaths
Nobel Prizes
Movies released
Video Games
Hit songs
New books
Images for kids
See also

Events

January 17: Houses destroyed in the Great Hanshin Earthquake

April 19: Overview of Oklahoma City bombing destruction

January 1 – Austria, Finland and Sweden join the EU.
January 2 – Former President of Somalia, Siyad Barre died. He had been ousted in 1991.
January 6 to January 7 – A chemical fire occurs in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines. Policemen led by watch commander Aida Fariscal and investigators find a bomb factory and a laptop computer and disks that contain plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack. The mastermind, Ramzi Yousef, is arrested one month later
January 9 – Valeri Polyakov completes 366 days in space while aboard the Mir space station breaking a duration record.
January 16 – An avalanche hits the village of Sudavik in Iceland's West Fjords, killing 14 people.
January 17 – A magnitude 7.3 earthquake called "the Great Hanshin earthquake" occurs near Kōbe, Japan, causing great property damage and killing 6,433 people
January 30 – John Howard becomes leader of the Liberal Party of Australia.
January 31 – United States President Bill Clinton invokes emergency powers to extend a $20 billion loan to help Mexico avert financial collapse.
February 21 – Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, having set a record for a solo balloon flight across the Pacific Ocean.
March 20 – Sarin gas attack on Tokyo subway: Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas on five subway trains in Tokyo, killing 12 people and injuring 5,510.
March 22 – Valeri Polyakov returns to Earth after 438 days in space.
April 19 – Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols set off a bomb outside the Alfred P. Murrah building, killing 168 people.
April 28 – A gas explosion on the subway construction site in Daegu, South Korea, kills 101 people, mainly teenage boys.
May 16 – Japanese police raid the headquarters of the Aum Shinrikyo cult near Mt. Fuji, arresting its leader, Shoko Asahara.
May 17 – Jacques Chirac becomes President of France.
May 28 – A magnitude 7.6 earthquake hits Neftegorsk, Russia, killing at least 2000 people.
June 13 – Jacques Chirac announces the continuation of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.
June 16 – Salt Lake City is announced as the host city of the 2002 Winter Olympics.
June 29 – The roof collapses at the Sampoong shopping centre in Seoul, South Korea.
July 11 – Srebrenica massacre: Bosniak Serbs kill a large number of men and boys, in Europe's worst post-World War II massacre.
July 18 – The Soufriere Hills volcano begins erupting on the Caribbean island of Montserrat.
July 21 – The People's Liberation Army fires missiles into waters north of Taiwan.
August 6 – The 50th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing is commemorated.
August 24 – Microsoft releases Windows 95.
August 29 – President of the Republic of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze survives an assassination attempt.
September 4 – eBay is founded.
September 27 – Bob Denard's mercenaries capture President Said Mohammad Djohor of the Comoros.
October – The stoner rock icon Kyuss announces they would take an indefinite hiatus. The group did not completely disband until 2 years later.
October 1 – Ten people are convicted of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
October 3 – The britpop band Oasis released their breakthrough album (What's the Story) Morning Glory?.
October 17 – At the age of 120 years, 238 days, Jeanne Calment is confirmed as the oldest human on record.
October 26 – An avalanche hits the village of Flateyri in Iceland's West Fjords.
October 28 – The Baku metro fire kills 289 people.
October 30 – Voters in Quebec narrowly reject independence from Canada in a referendum.
November 4 – Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin is shot dead by Yigal Amir at a peace rally in Tel Aviv.
November 10 – Nigerian human rights activists, including the writer Ken Saro-Wiwa are executed.
November 30 – Javier Solana becomes NATO Secretary-General.
December 20 – American Airlines Flight 965 crashes in Colombia, killing 159 people.
December 30 – The UK's coldest temperature is recorded at Altnaharra in the Highlands of Scotland at -27.2 degrees Celsius.
December 31 – After 10 years, Bill Watterson, puts an end to his legendary Calvin and Hobbes comic strip.
Puzzle Bobble is created, a video game popular worldwide.

Births

July 9 – Georgie Henley, English actress
November 16 – Noah Gray-Cabey, American actor and pianist

Deaths

January - March

Fred Perry 1909-1995

January 1 – Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist (born 1902)
January 2 – Siad Barre, President of Somalia (born 1919)
January 9 – Nouhak Phoumsavanh, Laotian politician (born 1909)
January 18 – Adolf Butenandt, German physicist (born 1903)
January 22 – Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, mother of John F. Kennedy (born 1890)
January 30 – Gerald Durrell, British naturalist (born 1925)
January 31 – George Abbott, American writer, director and producer (born 1887)
February 2 – Fred Perry, British tennis player (born 1909)
February 2 – Donald Pleasence, British actor (born 1919)
February 14 – U Nu, Burmese politician (born 1907)
February 22 – Ed Flanders, American actor (born 1934)
March 1 – Vladislav Listyev, Russian journalist (born 1956)
March 3 – Howard Hunter, American Mormon leader (born 1907)
March 5 – Vivian Stanshall, British writer, artist and broadcaster (born 1943)
March 14 – William Alfred Fowler, American physicist (born 1911)
March 17 – Ronald Kray, British gangster (born 1933)
March 26 – Eazy-E, American rapper and record producer, N.W.A. (born 1963)
March 31 – Selena, Mexican-American singer-songwriter (born 1971)

April - June

Lana Turner 1921-1995

April 4 – Kenny Everett, British comedian (born 1944)
April 10 – Morarji Desai, former Prime Minister of India (born 1896)
April 18 – Arturo Frondizi, former President of Argentina (born 1908)
April 25 – Ginger Rogers, American actress and singer (born 1911)
April 25 – Andrea Fortunato, Italian footballer (born 1971)
May 5 – Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player (born 1911)
May 14 – Christian B. Anfinsen, American chemist (born 1916)
May 18 – Alexander Godunov, Russian ballet dancer and actor (born 1949)
May 24 – Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1916)
June 23 – Jonas Salk, American medical researcher (born 1914)
June 25 – Warren E. Burger, Chief Justice of the United States (born 1907)
June 29 – Lana Turner, American actress (born 1921)
June 30 – Georgi Beregovoi, Russian cosmonaut (born 1921)

July - September

Gunnar Nordahl 1921-1995

July 4 – Eva Gabor, Hungarian actress (born 1919)
July 5 – Takeo Fukuda, Japanese politician (born 1905)
July 17 – Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine racing driver (born 1911)
July 25 – Charlie Rich, American singer (born 1932)
July 27 – Miklos Rozsa, Hungarian composer (born 1907)
August 3 – Ida Lupino, British actress (born 1914)
August 9 – Jerry Garcia, American musician, The Grateful Dead (born 1942)
August 21 – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian astrophysicist (born 1910)
August 24 – Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-American photographer (born 1898)
August 28 – Michael Ende, German writer (born 1929)
September 15 – Gunnar Nordahl, Swedish footballer (born 1921)
September 25 – Annie Elizabeth Delany, American physician and writer (born 1891)

October - December

Alec Douglas-Home 1903-1995

Yitzhak Rabin 1922-1995

October 9 – Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1903)
October 22 – Kingsley Amis, British writer (born 1922)
October 25 – Viveca Lindfors, Swedish actress (born 1920)
October 26 – Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter (born 1913)
October 29 – Terry Southern, American screenwriter (born 1924)
November 4 – Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel (born 1922)
November 4 – Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (born 1925)
November 7 – Ann Dunham, mother of Barack Obama (born 1942)
November 10 – Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian writer and activist (born 1941)
November 20 – Sergei Grinkov, Russian ice skater (born 1967)
December 18 – Konrad Zuse, German engineer (born 1910)
December 22 – Butterfly McQueen, American actress (born 1911)
December 22 – James Meade, British economist (born 1907)
December 25 – Dean Martin, American singer and actor (born 1917)
December 30 – Heiner Mueller, German poet and playwright (born 1929)

Nobel Prizes

Physics: Martin L. Prel, Frederick Reines
Chemistry: Paul J. Crutzen, Mario J. Molina, F. Sherwood Rowland
Medicine: Edward B. Lewis, Christiane Nuesslein-Volhard, Eric F. Wieschaus
Literature: Seamus Heaney
Economics: Robert Lucas, Jr.
Nobel Peace Prize: Joseph Rotblat

Movies released

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Apollo 13
Babe
Batman Forever
Casino
Casper
Die Hard With a Vengeance
GoldenEye
Gumby: The Movie
Jumanji
Major Payne
Mallrats
Pocahontas
Se7en
Toy Story

Video Games

Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (August 15) (first copy 1989)

Hit songs

"Alright" – Supergrass
"California Love" – Dr. Dre
"Fantasy" – Mariah Carey
"Hey Man, Nice Shot" Filter
"I'll Be There For You" – Rembrandts
"Waterfalls" – TLC
"Wonderwall" – Oasis
"You Oughta Know" – Alanis Morissette
"All Over You" – Live
"As I Lay Me Down" – Sophie B. Hawkins
"Baby" – Brandy
"Beautiful Life" – Ace of Base
"Besame Mucho" – Dalida (remix)
"Breakfast At Tiffany's" – Deep Blue Something
"Buddy Holly" – Weezer
"Carnival" – Natalie Merchant
"Connection" – Elastica
"Don't Take It Personal" – Monica
"Good" – Better Than Ezra
"Hand In My Pocket" – Alanis Morissette
"Hook" – Blues Traveler
"It's Midnight Cinderella" – Garth Brooks
"J.A.R." – Green Day
"Jusqu'au boût du rêve" – Dalida (remix)
"Laissez-moi danser" – Dalida (remix)
"Misery" – Soul Asylum
"Missing" – Everything But The Girl
"One Of Us" – Joan Osborne
"Only Wanna Be With You" – Hootie & the Blowfish
"Rock And Roll Is Dead" – Lenny Kravitz
"Roll To Me" – Del Amitri
"Run-Around" – Blues Traveler
"She's Every Woman" – Garth Brooks
"Stutter" – Elastica
"Take A Bow" – Madonna
"Today" – The Smashing Pumpkins
"Tomorrow" – Silverchair
"When I Come Around" – Green Day
"You Are Not Alone" – Michael Jackson
"You Gotta Be" – Des'ree
"You'll See" – Madonna

New books

The Apocalypse Watch – Robert Ludlum
Blood Sport – James B. Stewart
The Diamond Age, or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer – Neal Stephenson
The First Man (Le premier homme) – Albert Camus
Five Days In Paris – Danielle Steel
GoldenEye – John Gardner
The Horse Whisperer – Nicholas Evans
Independence Day – Richard Ford
The Information – Martin Amis
The Island of the Day Before – Umberto Eco
Landscape and Memory – Simon Schama
The Lost World – Michael Crichton
Man Ray, 1890-1976 – Man Ray, Andre Breton
Maskerade – Terry Pratchett
Microserfs – Douglas Coupland
Miracle in Seville – James A. Michener
Morning, Noon, & Night – Sidney Sheldon
Northern Lights (published in the US as The Golden Compass) – Philip Pullman
Our Game – John le Carré
Puerto Vallarta Squeeze – Robert James Waller
The Rainmaker – John Grisham
Rose Madder – Stephen King
Silent Night – Mary Higgins Clark
The Tortilla Curtain – T.C. Boyle