1995
1995 (MCMXCV ) was a common year starting on Sunday in the Gregorian calendar , the 995th year of the 2nd millennium , the 95th year of the 20th century , and the 6th year of the 1990s decade
Events
January 17: Houses destroyed in the Great Hanshin Earthquake
April 19: Overview of Oklahoma City bombing destruction
January 1 – Austria , Finland and Sweden joined 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 happened in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines . Policemen led by watch commander Aida Fariscal and investigators found a bomb factory and a laptop computer and disks that contain plans for Project Bojinka , a mass-terrorist attack. The mastermind, Ramzi Yousef , was arrested one month later
January 9 – Valeri Polyakov completed 366 days in space while aboard the Mir space station breaking a duration record.
January 16 – An avalanche hit the village of Sudavik in Iceland 's West Fjords, killing 14 people.
January 17 – A magnitude 7.3 earthquake called "the Great Hanshin earthquake " happened near Kōbe , Japan , causing great property damage and killing 6,433 people
January 24 – The prosecution delivered its opening statement in the O. J. Simpson murder trial .
January 30 – John Howard became leader of the Liberal Party of Australia .
January 31 – United States President Bill Clinton used emergency powers to extend a $20 billion loan to help Mexico avoid financial collapse.
February 21 – Steve Fossett landed in Leader, Saskatchewan , having set a record for a solo balloon flight across the Pacific Ocean .
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March 20 – Tokyo subway sarin attack : 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 returned to Earth after 438 days in space.
March 26 — Eazy-E , an American rapper, died of AIDS .
March 31 – Selena , an American singer, was murdered by Yolanda Saldivar .
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 , killed 101 people, mainly teenage boys.
May 16 – Japanese police raided the headquarters of the Aum Shinrikyo cult near Mt. Fuji, arresting its leader, Shoko Asahara .
May 17 – Jacques Chirac became President of France .
May 28 – A magnitude 7.6 earthquake hits Neftegorsk, Russia , killing at least 2000 people.
June 13 – Jacques Chirac announced the continuation of nuclear tests in French Polynesia .
June 16 – Salt Lake City announced as the host city of the 2002 Winter Olympics .
June 29 – The roof collapsed at the Sampoong shopping centre in Seoul , South Korea .
July 11 – Srebrenica massacre : Bosniak Serbs killed more than 8,000 people-most men and boys, in Europe 's worst post-World War II massacre.
July 18 – The Soufriere Hills volcano began erupting on the Caribbean island of Montserrat .
July 21 – The People's Liberation Army fired missiles into waters north of Taiwan .
August 6 – The 50th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing is commemorated.
August 24 – Microsoft released Windows 95 .
August 29 – President of the Republic of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze survived an assassination attempt.
September 4 – eBay was founded.
September 27 – Bob Denard 's mercenaries captured President Said Mohammad Djohor of the Comoros .
October – The stoner rock icon Kyuss announced 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 3 – O.J. Simpson was found not guilty of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman .
October 17 – At the age of 120 years, 238 days, Jeanne Calment was confirmed as the oldest human on record.
October 26 – An avalanche hit the village of Flateyri in Iceland 's West Fjords.
October 28 – The Baku metro fire killed 289 people.
October 30 – Voters in Quebec narrowly rejected independence from Canada in a referendum.
November 4 – Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin was shot dead by Yigal Amir at a peace rally in Tel Aviv .
November 10 – Nigerian human rights activists, including the writer Ken Saro-Wiwa were executed.
November 21 – Dayton Peace Agreement , the end of the civil war in Bosnia and Croatia .
November 30 – Javier Solana became NATO Secretary-General.
December 20 – American Airlines Flight 965 crashed in Colombia , killing 159 people.
December 30 – The UK 's coldest temperature was recorded at Altnaharra in the Highlands of Scotland at -27.2 degrees Celsius.
December 31 – After 10 years, Bill Watterson , ended his legendary Calvin and Hobbes comic strip.
Puzzle Bobble was created, a video game popular worldwide.
Births
Dua Lipa
Deaths
January
Eugene Wigner
Siad Barre
Nancy Kelly
Murray Rothbard
Souphanouvong
Miguel Torga
Adolf Butenandt
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
January 1 – Eugene Wigner , Hungarian physicist (b. 1902 )
January 2 – Siad Barre , President of Somalia (b. 1919 )
January 2 – Nancy Kelly , American actress (b. 1921 )
January 6 – Joe Slovo , ANC activist and South African minister of Housing (b. 1926 )
January 6 – Agustín Gaínza , Spanish footballer (b. 1922 )
January 7 – Murray Rothbard , American economist (b. 1926 )
January 8 – Carlos Monzón , Argentine boxer (b. 1942 )
January 9 – Gisela Mauermayer , German discus thrower (b. 1913 )
January 9 – Peter Cook , English comedian and writer (b. 1937 )
January 9 – Souphanouvong , President of Laos (b. 1909 )
January 17 – Miguel Torga , Portuguese writer (b. 1907 )
January 18 – Adolf Butenandt , German physicist (b. 1903 )
January 20 – Mehdi Bazargan , Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1907 )
January 21 - Alex Groza , American basketball player (b. 1926 )
January 22 – Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy , mother of John F. Kennedy (b. 1890 )
January 26 - Vic Buckingham , English football manager and footballer (b. 1915 )
January 28 - Ferruccio Tagliavini , Italian tenor and actor (b. 1913 )
January 29 - Dickie Burnell , British rower (b. 1917 )
January 30 – Gerald Durrell , British naturalist (b. 1925 )
January 31 – George Abbott , American writer, director and producer (b. 1887 )
February
Fred Perry
Donald Pleasence
Patricia Highsmith
U Nu
February 1 - Richey James Edwards , Welsh singer and musician (b. 1967 )
February 2 – Fred Perry , British tennis player (b. 1909 )
February 2 – Donald Pleasence , British actor (b. 1919 )
February 4 – Patricia Highsmith , American author (b. 1921 )
February 5 – Doug McClure , American actor (b. 1935 )
February 6 – James Merrill , American poet (b. 1926 )
February 9 – J. William Fulbright , American senator and congressman (b. 1905 )
February 9 – David Wayne , American actor (b. 1914 )
February 13 – Alberto Burri , Italian artist (born 1915 )
February 14 – U Nu , Burmese politician (b. 1907 )
February 19 – John Howard , American actor (b. 1913 )
February 21 - István Bárány , Hungarian swimmer (b. 1907 )
February 22 – Ed Flanders , American actor (b. 1934 )
February 23 – Melvin Franklin , American singer (b. 1942 )
February 24 – Hideko Maehata , Japanese swimmer (b. 1914 )
March
Big John Studd
Eazy-E
Selena
March 1 – Vladislav Listyev , Russian journalist (b. 1956 )
March 3 – Howard Hunter , American Mormon leader (b. 1907 )
March 4 - Eden Ahbez , American songwriter (b. 1908 )
March 5 – Vivian Stanshall , British writer, artist and broadcaster (b. 1943 )
March 9 – Scott Amedure , American murder victim (b. 1963 )
March 13 – Odette Hallowes , French intelligence officer (b. 1912 )
March 14 – William Alfred Fowler , American physicist (b. 1911 )
March 17 - Rick Aviles , American actor (b. 1952 )
March 17 - Sunnyland Slim , American blues musician (b. 1907 )
March 17 – Ronald Kray , British gangster (b. 1933 )
March 20 – Big John Studd , American professional wrestler and actor (b. 1948 )
March 20 – Werner Liebrich , German footballer (b. 1927 )
March 26 – Eazy-E (Eric Wright), American rapper and record producer, N.W.A. (b. 1963 )
March 27 - René Allio , French film director (b. 1924 )
March 31 – Selena , Mexican-American singer-songwriter (b. 1971 )
April
Hannes Alfvén
Morarji Desai
Burl Ives
Arturo Frondizi
Milovan Đilas
Ginger Rogers
Willem Frederik Hermans
April 1 - Francisco Moncion , Dominican dancer (b. 1918 )
April 2 – Hannes Alfvén , Swedish physicist (b. 1915 )
April 2 - Julius Hemphill , American jazz saxophonist (b. 1938 )
April 4 – Kenny Everett , British comedian (b. 1944 )
April 4 – Priscilla Lane , American actress (b. 1915 )
April 6 - Ioannis Alevras , Greek politician (b. 1912 )
April 6 - V. J. Sukselainen , former Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1906 )
April 10 – Morarji Desai , former Prime Minister of India (b. 1896 )
April 14 – Burl Ives , American singer and actor (b. 1909 )
April 18 – Arturo Frondizi , former President of Argentina (b. 1908 )
April 20 – Milovan Đilas , Yugoslav politician and philosopher (b. 1911 )
April 23 – Howard Cosell , American sportscaster (b. 1918 )
April 23 – John C. Stennis , American politician (b. 1909 )
April 25 – Andrea Fortunato , Italian footballer (b. 1971 )
April 25 – Ginger Rogers , American actress and singer (b. 1911 )
April 25 - Art Fleming , American game show host (b. 1925 )
April 27 – Willem Frederik Hermans , Dutch writer (b. 1921 )
April 29 - Angier Biddle Duke , American diplomat (b. 1915 )
April 30 – Maung Maung Kha , Prime Minister of Burma (b. 1920 )
May
Mikhail Botvinnik
Mia Martini
Christian B. Anfinsen
Elizabeth Montgomery
Les Aspin
Harold Wilson
Margaret Chase Smith
May 4 – Louis Krasner , Ukrainian-American violinist (b. 1903 )
May 5 – Mikhail Botvinnik , Russian chess player (b. 1911 )
May 6 – Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança , Portuguese writer and journalist (b. 1907 )
May 7 – Ray McKinley , American jazz musician (b. 1910 )
May 8 – Teresa Teng , Taiwanese singer (b. 1953 )
May 11 - David Avidan , Israeli poet (b. 1934 )
May 12 - Arthur Lubin , American film director (b. 1898 )
May 12 - Adolfo Pedernera , Argentinian footballer (b. 1918 )
May 12 - Mia Martini , Italian singer and songwriter (b. 1947 )
May 14 – Christian B. Anfinsen , American chemist (b. 1916 )
May 18 - Elisha Cook Jr. , American actor (b. 1903 )
May 18 - Elizabeth Montgomery , American actress (b. 1933 )
May 18 – Alexander Godunov , Russian ballet dancer and actor (b. 1949 )
May 21 – Annie M. G. Schmidt , Dutch writer (b. 1911 )
May 21 - Les Aspin , former United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1938 )
May 24 – Harold Wilson , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916 )
May 25 - Krešimir Ćosić , Croatian basketball player (b. 1948 )
May 28 - Daniela Rocca , Italian actress (b. 1937 )
May 29 – Margaret Chase Smith , American politician (b. 1897 )
June
Juan Carlos Onganía
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
Rory Gallagher
Emil Cioran
Jonas Salk
Warren E. Burger
Ernest Walton
Lana Turner
June 7 – Hsuan Hua , Chinese Buddhist (b. 1918 )
June 8 – Juan Carlos Onganía , 35th President of Argentina (b. 1914 )
June 12 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli , Italian pianist (b. 1920 )
June 14 – Rory Gallagher , Irish blues and rock guitarist (b. 1948 )
June 20 – Emil Cioran , Romanian philosopher and essayist (b. 1911 )
June 22 – Yves Congar , French theologian (b. 1904 )
June 23 – Anatoly Tarasov , Russian ice hockey coach (b. 1918 )
June 23 - Jonas Salk , American biologist and physician (b. 1914 )
June 25 – Warren E. Burger , Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1907 )
June 25 – Ernest Walton , Irish physicist (b. 1905 )
June 29 – Lana Turner , American actress (b. 1921 )
June 29 – Sicco Mansholt , Dutch politician (b. 1911 )
June 30 – Georgy Beregovoy , Russian cosmonaut (b. 1921 )
June 30 - Phyllis Hyman , American singer and actress (b. 1949 )
July
Eva Gabor
Takeo Fukuda
Juan Manuel Fangio
July 1 - Wolfman Jack , American DJ and actor (b. 1938 )
July 1 - Bruce Mitchell , South African cricketer (b. 1909 )
July 4 – Eva Gabor , Hungarian actress (b. 1919 )
July 4 - Bob Ross , American painter (b. 1942 )
July 5 - Bernice Ackerman , American meteorologist (b. 1925 )
July 5 – Takeo Fukuda , Japanese politician (b. 1905 )
July 6 – Aziz Nesin , Turkish writer (b. 1915 )
July 8 - Aleksander Arulaid , Estonian chess player (b. 1924 )
July 8 – Jean-Paul Harroy , Belgian colonial civil servant (b. 1909 )
July 10 – Văn Cao , Vietnamese composer (b. 1923 )
July 10 – Hugh Dundas , British pilot (b. 1920 )
July 15 – Khalid Bakdash , Syrian politician (b. 1912 )
July 16 – Mordechai Gur , Israeli Politician (b. 1930 )
July 16 - Patsy Ruth Miller , American actress (b. 1904 )
July 16 - Stephen Spender , British poet (b. 1909 )
July 17 – Juan Manuel Fangio , Argentine racing driver (b. 1911 )
July 17 - Harry Guardino , American actor (b. 1925 )
July 18 – Fabio Casartelli , Italian professional cyclist (b. 1970 )
July 18 – Srinagarindra , Queen Mother of Thailand (b. 1900 )
July 19 – T. N. Balakrishna , Indian actor (b. 1913 )
July 20 - Ernest Mandel , Belgian conomist (b. 1923 )
July 22 - Tami Ben Ami , Israeli model (b. 1955 )
July 22 - Percy Humphrey , American musician (b. 1905 )
July 24 – Marjorie Cameron , American writer, painter, actress and occultist (b. 1922 )
July 25 – Charlie Rich , American singer (b. 1932 )
July 26 - Laurindo Almeida , Brazilian guitarist (b. 1917 )
July 27 – Miklos Rozsa , Hungarian composer (b. 1907 )
July 29 – Canray Fontenot , American musician (b. 1922 )
July 29 – Kurt Gudewill , German musicologist (b. 1911 )
July 31 - Genevieve Tobin , American actress (b. 1899 )
August
Ida Lupino
Jerry Garcia
Mickey Mantle
Hugo Pratt
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Sterling Morrison
August 1 – Loudi Nijhoff , Dutch actress (b. 1900 )
August 1 - Julián Berrendero , Spanish racing cyclist (b. 1912 )
August 3 – Ida Lupino , British actress (b. 1914 )
August 4 – Dick Bartell , American baseball player (b. 1907 )
August 5 – Menachem Avidom , Israeli composer (b. 1908 )
August 6 - Agha Hasan Abedi , Pakistani banker (b. 1922 )
August 9 – Jerry Garcia , American musician, The Grateful Dead (b. 1942 )
August 10 – Leo Apostel , Belgian philosopher (b. 1925 )
August 10 – Josseline Gaël , French actress (b. 1917 )
August 10 - Gijs van Aardenne , Dutch politician (b. 1930 )
August 11 - Phil Harris , American actor (b. 1904 )
August 12 – Bobby Burns , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1905 )
August 13 – Jan Křesadlo , Czech psychologist (b. 1926 )
August 13 - Amina al-Said , Egyptian journalist (b. 1914 )
August 13 – Mickey Mantle , American baseball player (b. 1931 )
August 15 - John Cameron Swayze , American news commentator (b. 1906 )
August 17 - Wild Bill Davis , American jazz pianist (b. 1918 )
August 19 - Silvio Amadio , Italian movie director (b. 1926 )
August 19 – Danny Arnold , American author (b. 1925 )
August 20 – Hugo Pratt , Italian author and illustrator (b. 1927 )
August 21 – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar , Indian astrophysicist (b. 1910 )
August 22 – José Antonio Girón , Spanish politician (b. 1911 )
August 24 – Alfred Eisenstaedt , German-American photographer (b. 1898 )
August 25 – Mike Ragan , American actor (b. 1918 )
August 25 – Johannes Antonsson , Swedish farmer (b. 1921 )
August 28 – Michael Ende , German writer (b. 1929 )
August 29 – Harry Broadhurst , British Royal Air Force (b. 1905 )
August 29 – John Gilmore , American saxophonist (b. 1931 )
August 30 – Pattie Menzies , Wife of Robert Menzies (b. 1899 )
August 30 – Sterling Morrison , American musician (b. 1942 )
September
Eileen Chang
Gunnar Nordahl
Orville Redenbacher
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
September 1 - Benay Venuta , American actress (b. 1910 )
September 2 – Václav Neumann , Czech conductor (b. 1920 )
September 3 - Enrique Solares , Guatemalan composer (b. 1910 )
September 4 - Edmond Jouhaud , French general (b. 1905 )
September 7 - Al Papai , American baseball player (b. 1917 )
September 8 – Eileen Chang , Chinese writer (b. 1920 )
September 8 - Olga Ivinskaya , Soviet author (b. 1912 )
September 8 - Halldis Moren Vesaas , Norwegian writer (b. 1907 )
September 10 – Charles Denner , French actor (b. 1926 )
September 12 – Jeremy Brett , English actor (b. 1933 )
September 12 – Yasutomo Nagai , Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1965 )
September 13 - Francesco Messina , Italian sculptor (b. 1900 )
September 13 - Antonio Zamorano , Chilean priest (b. 1908 )
September 14 - Eiji Okada , Japanese actor (b. 1920 )
September 14 – Maurice K. Goddard , American state government official (b. 1912 )
September 15 – Gunnar Nordahl , Swedish footballer (b. 1921 )
September 18 - George S. Howard , American conductor (b. 1902 )
September 19 – Orville Redenbacher , American botanist and businessman (b. 1907 )
September 20 - Emmy Albus , German athletics (b. 1911 )
September 21 – Rudy Perpich , American politician (b. 1928 )
December 23 - Alberto Quijano Guerrero , Colombian author (b. 1919 )
September 25 - Dorothy Dickson , American actress (b. 1893 )
September 25 – Annie Elizabeth Delany , American physician and writer (born 1891 )
September 26 - Lenny Hambro , American jazz musician (b. 1923 )
September 29 - Seger Ellis , American musician (b. 1904 )
September 29 – Madalyn Murray O'Hair , American activist (b. 1919 )
October
Olga Taussky-Todd
Alec Douglas-Home
Kukrit Pramoj
Viveca Lindfors
October 1 - Margaret Gorman , American Model (b. 1905 )
October 2 – John Ayers , American football player (b. 1953 )
October 4 - Fabio Albarelli , Italian sailor (b. 1943 )
October 7 – Olga Taussky-Todd , Austrian-American mathematician (b. 1906 )
October 9 – Sagramor de Scuvero Brandão , Brazilian actress, radio personality and councillor (b. 1921 )
October 9 – Alec Douglas-Home , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1903 )
October 9 – Kukrit Pramoj , Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1911 )
October 14 – Edith Mary Pargeter , English author (b. 1913 )
October 19 – Don Cherry , American jazz trumpeter (b. 1936 )
October 21 - Maxene Andrews , American singer (b. 1916 )
October 22 – Kingsley Amis , British writer (b. 1922 )
October 22 - Mary Wickes , American actress (b. 1910 )
October 23 – Bert Bandstra , American politician (b. 1922 )
October 25 – Viveca Lindfors , Swedish actress (b. 1920 )
October 25 - Bobby Riggs , American tennis player (b. 1918 )
October 26 – Gorni Kramer , Italian bandleader and songwriter (b. 1913 )
October 29 - Jean Heather , American actress (b. 1921 )
October 29 – Terry Southern , American screenwriter (b. 1924 )
October 30 – Louis Abolafia , American politician (b. 1941 )
October 31 – Rosalind Cash , American actress (b. 1938 )
November
Yitzhak Rabin
Ernest Gellner
Corneliu Coposu
Leila Mourad
November 2 - June Brewster , American actress (b. 1913 )
November 2 – Gabriel Urgebadze , Georgian monk (b. 1929 )
November 2 - Álvaro Gómez Hurtado , Colombian politician (b. 1919 )
November 2 – Bill Blair , American racing driver (b. 1911 )
November 3 - Bojan Adamič , Slovenian composer (b. 1912 )
November 4 – Gilles Deleuze , French philosopher (b. 1925 )
November 4 – Yitzhak Rabin , Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1922 )
November 5 – Ernest Gellner , British-Czech philosopher (b. 1925 )
November 6 - Aneta Corsaut , American actress (b. 1933 )
November 7 – Ann Dunham , mother of Barack Obama (b. 1942 )
November 7 - Slappy White , American comedian (b. 1921 )
November 8 – Country Dick Montana , American musician (b. 1955 )
November 9 – Morley Baer , American Photographer (b. 1916 )
November 10 – Ken Saro-Wiwa , Nigerian writer and activist (b. 1941 )
November 11 – Corneliu Coposu , Romanian politician (b. 1914 )
November 20 – Sergei Grinkov , Russian ice skater (b. 1967 )
November 21 – Leila Mourad , Egyptian singer (b. 1918 )
November 21 – Peter Grant , English music manager (b. 1935 )
November 23 – Louis Malle , French film director (b. 1932 )
November 29 - Adolfo Orrù , Italian engraver (b. 1909 )
December
December 2 – Mária Telkes , Hungarian-American biophysicist (b. 1900 )
December 2 - Roxie Roker , American actress (b. 1929 )
December 4 - Leonidas Berry , American physician (b. 1902 )
December 6 – Luis Regueiro , Spanish footballer (b. 1908 )
December 11 - Miko Tripalo , Croatian Politician (b. 1926 )
December 12 – David Marshall , Singaporean politician (b. 1908 )
December 13 - Marti Barris , American actress (b. 1937 )
December 18 – Konrad Zuse , German engineer (b. 1910 )
December 20 - Madge Sinclair , Jamaica actress (b. 1938 )
December 22 – Butterfly McQueen , American actress (b. 1911 )
December 22 – James Meade , British economist (b. 1907 )
December 25 – Emmanuel Levinas , French philosopher (b. 1906 )
December 25 – Dean Martin , American singer (b. 1917 )
December 27 – Al Barlick , American umpire (b. 1915 )
December 29 – Lita Grey , American actress (b. 1908 )
December 30 – Heiner Müller , German poet (b. 1929 )
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