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1995 |
| January 1st |
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Austria, Finland and Sweden entered the European Union. |
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| January 1st |
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Mass murderer Fred West arrested with his wife Rose West, accused
of mass murder after bodies were discovered at their house,
hanged himself in Winson Green Prison, Birmingham, England. |
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January
6th - 7th |
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A chemical fire occured in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines.
Policemen found a bomb factory and a laptop computer with discs
that contained plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack.
The mastermind, Ramzi Yousef, was arrested one month later. |
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| January 9th |
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Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov completed 366 days in space while
on board the Mir space station breaking a duration record. Although
the record would be broken by cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov, 437.7
days, which he began on January 8th 1994, and ended March 22nd
1995. |
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| January 17th |
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"The Great Hanshin earthquake" occured near Kobe,
in Japan. The 7.2 earthquake killed 5,370 people and injured
27,000 others. The quake caused extensive property damage destroying
45,000 homes. |
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| January 22nd |
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American
philanthropist Rose Elizabeth Kennedy died. She became the matriarch
to the Kennedy family that would shape American and world politics
of the 20th century. She was married to Joseph P. Kennedy and
had nine children, that included President John Kennedy, Robert
Kennedy and Ted Kennedy. |
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| January 24th |
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In California, USA, the prosecution delivered its opening statement
in the O. J. Simpson murder trial. |
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| January 25th |
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A rocket launched from Andøya, Norway was mistaken by
the Russian defence system as an in-coming nuclear attack. The
Russian missile command was went into launch mode prior to the
mistake being realised, and a major nuclear disaster was avoided. |
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| February
2nd |
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English
tennis player Fred Perry died. Perry was a three-time Wimbledon
champion (1934, 1935, 1936), and the last Englishman to win
the Wimbledon Mens Singles Championship in 1936. |
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| February
9th |
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NASA's Dr. Bernard A. Harris, Jr. made history as the first
African American astronaut to walk in space. The EVA was on
the Space Shuttle 'Discovery' mission STS-63 which launched
on February 3rd to rendezvous with Mir space station. |
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| February
13th |
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United
Nations tribunal on human rights violation in the Balkans charged
21 Bosnian Serb commanders with genocide and crimes against
humanity. |
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| February
21st |
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Steve Fossett landed in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada and became
the first person to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon. |
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| February
26th |
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Britain's
oldest investment banking firm, Barings Bank collapsed after
a securities broker Nick Leeson lost $1.4 billion by speculating
on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. |
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| March 2nd |
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Nick Leeson was arrested for his role in the collapse of Barings
Bank. |
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| March 3rd |
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In Somalia, the United Nations peacekeeping mission ended. |
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| March
14th |
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Astronaut Norman Thagard became the first American to ride to
space on board a Russian launch vehicle. |
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| March 20th |
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Members of the Japanese Aum Shinrikyo religious cult released
sarin gas on five separate trains in Tokyo. The terrorist gas
attack Killed 12 people and injured hundreds more. |
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| March
22nd |
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Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returned to Earth from the orbiting
Mir space station, after setting a record for 437.7 days in
space. |
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| March 24th |
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In
Northern Ireland, British soldiers ended the patrol of the streets
of Belfast. It was the first time since the beginning of the
'troubles' in 1969 that the streets of Belfast were empty of
British soldiers. |
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| April 19th |
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A
bomb destroyed the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City,
O.K., USA, causing death and mass destruction. 168 people were
killed, including 8 Federal Marshals and 19 children. Timothy
McVeigh and one of his accomplices, Terry Nichols detonated
the bomb. |
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| April 24th |
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In the United States, the 'Unabomber' unleashed another bomb
and killed lobbyist Gilbert Murray in Sacramento, California. |
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| May 7th |
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In France, Jacques Chirac was elected the new President of France. |
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| May 14th |
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The Dalai Lama proclaimed a 6-year-old boy, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima,
as the eleventh reincarnation of the Panchen Lama. |
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| May 16th |
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Japanese police besieged the headquarters of the religious cult
Aum Shinrikyo near Mount Fuji and arrest the cult leader Shoko
Asahara. |
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| May 16th |
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Jacques Chirac assumed the presidency of France. |
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| May 23rd |
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In Oklahoma City, the ruins of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal
Building, bombed on April 19th, were made safe with controlled
explosions.
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| May 27th |
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In
Charlottesville, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve was paralyzed
from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding
competition. The accident ended his career. Reeve was well known
as 'Superman'. |
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| May 28th |
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A 7.6 earthquake devastated Neftegorsk in Russia. The disaster
killed 2000 people of the towns 6000 population. |
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| June
2nd |
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The
hearing for the former Nazi SS captain Erich Priebke's extradition
from Argentina to Italy. Priebke had been living in Argentina
for the last 50 years after escaping from a British p.o.w. camp
in Italy in 1946. |
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| June
6th |
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U.S.
astronaut Norman Thagard broke NASA's space endurance record
of 14 days, one hour and 16 minutes, on board the Russian space
station Mir. |
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| June 13th |
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French president Jacques Chirac announced the resumption of
French nuclear tests in French Polynesia. |
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| June 15th |
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In
the United States, during the O.J. Simpson trial, TV audiences
watched as Simpson put on a pair of gloves that were found at
the murder scene soaked with blood. The gloves appeared not
to fit. |
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| June 20th |
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Oil multinational Shell reversed their decision to international
pressure and abandoned plans to sink the Brent Spar oil rig
at sea. |
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| June 22nd |
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Japanese
police rescued 365 hostages from a hijacked Nippon Airlines
747 at Hakodae airport. The hijacker was armed with a knife
and demanded release of religious cult leader Shoko Asahara.
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| June
29th |
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NASA's
Space Shuttle 'Atlantis' mission STS-71completed the first docking
between a NASA Space Shuttle and the Russian Mir space station.
'Atlantis' STS-71 launched on June 27th. |
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| June 30th |
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Soviet
cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy died aged 74. Beregovoy served
as the pilot on the Soyuz 3 mission on the 26th - 30th
October 1968. |
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| July 4th |
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The British Prime Minister, John Major, won his leadership battle
to remain leader of the Conservative Party. |
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| July
4th |
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NASA's
Space Shuttle 'Atlantis' mission STS-71 undocked with the Russian
Mir space station. The time 'Atlantis' was docked with Mir was
4 days, 22 hours, 9 minutes, 26 seconds. |
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| July
7th |
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NASA's
Space Shuttle 'Atlantis' mission STS-71 returned to Earth after
recovering of US astronaut Norman E. Thagard and the delivery
of two cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyev and Nikolai Budarin to Mir. |
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| July 11th |
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Bosnian
Serbs marched into Srebrenica while UN Dutch peacekeepers leave.
Large numbers of Bosniak men and boys were killed in the Srebrenica
massacre. |
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| July 23rd |
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The
comet Hale-Bopp was discovered by two independent observers,
Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp of the United States. |
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| August 4th |
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Croatians launched 'Operation Storm' against the Serbian forces
in Krajina and forced them to withdraw to Bosnia. |
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| August 5th |
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In the Balkans, Croatian forces took Knin and continued to advance. |
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| August 6th |
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Hundreds in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Washington, and Tokyo marked
the 50th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb. |
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| August 7th |
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The Croatian 'Operation Storm' ended, UN-brokered ceasefire,
remaining Serbian forces started to surrender. |
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| August 28th |
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Markale
Market Massacre 2 : A 120 mm mortar shell exploded in the Markale
market in Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia. The attack killed 37
people and wounded many others. Like the first attack on February
5th 1994, both sides accused each other for the attack. |
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August 30th
-
September 14th |
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NATO
bombing campaign against Serb artillery positions began. NATO
launched air strikes against Bosnian Serb forces in former Yugoslavia. |
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| September
6th |
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In
the United States, in the murder trial of O. J. Simpson, in
California, with the jury absent, LA police detective Mark Fuhrman
invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. |
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| September
6th |
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NATO air strikes continued after repeated attempts at finding
a solution with the Bosnian Serbs fail. |
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| September
26th |
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The trial against former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti
began. Andreotti was accused of Mafia dealings and connections. |
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| October 1st |
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With regard to the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, 10 people
were found guilty for the killing and destruction. |
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| October 3rd |
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O.
J. Simpson was found not guilty of the double murder for the
deaths of former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
Later he would be found liable in a second civil trial in 1997. |
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| October 12th |
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Black
motorist Johnny Gammage died of asphxyation after being stopped
by police in the nearly all-white Pittsburgh suburb of Brentwood,
USA. |
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| October 16th |
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Civil
Rights demonstration in Washington D.C., USA. Nation of Islam
leader Louis Farrakan spoke at the 'Million Man March', where
400,000 black males were in attendance. |
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| October 30th |
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In Canada, Quebec separatists narrowly lost a referendum for
a mandate to negotiate independence from Canada. |
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| November
1st |
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Participants
of the Balkans War (Yugoslav Civil war) began negotiations at
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton Ohio, USA. It was
the first stage of what will be known as the Dayton Peace Accord,
which will be signed in Paris on December 14th to end the war.
|
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| November
2nd |
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The Supreme Court of Argentina finally ordered the extradition
of Erich Priebke, ex-SS captain, after delays and several hearings. |
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| November
3rd |
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At
Arlington National Cemetery, US President Bill Clinton dedicated
a memorial to the victims of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing.
The plane was destroyed by a terrorist bomb over Scotland and
showered the town of Lockerbie in Decemeber 1988. 207 innocent
people were killed on the plane and on the ground in Lockerbie. |
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| November
4th |
|
Israeli
prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was mortally wounded after he attended
a peace rally in Tel Aviv's Kings of Israel Square. Rabin was
attacked by a right-wing Israeli gunman. Rabin died on the operating
table at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv. |
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| November
10th |
|
UN inspector Ritter with help from Israel and Jordan, intercepted
240 Russian gyroscopes and accelerometers on their way to Iraq
from Russia. The equipment considered to be for Iraq missile
development. |
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| November
16th |
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UN tribunal charged Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic with genocide
during the Bosnian War. |
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| November
21st |
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The
peace conference chaired by American negotiator Richard Holbrooke
at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton Ohio, USA, ended
an agreement reached for Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the end
of the Balkans War. Negotiations had started on November 1st. |
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| November
22nd |
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In England Rosemary West was sentenced for life for the killing
of 10 women and girls, including her daughter and stepdaughter.
She stood alone for the horrors of Cromwell Street due to her
husband Fred West hanging himself on New Years Day 1995 in Winson
Green Prison awaiting trial. |
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| December
14th |
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The
Dayton Peace Accord was signed in Paris, France. The event signalled
the end of the Balkans War that had had raged for three years.
The peace conference was held between 1st-21st November at Wright-Patterson
Air Force Base in Dayton Ohio, USA. |
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| December
15th |
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The European Court of Justice ruled that all EU football players
have the right to a free transfer (Bosman ruling) between European
Union member states at the end of their contracts. |
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| December
16th |
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Under
the direction of UNSCOM, Iraqi scuba divers dredge the Tigris
River near Baghdad. The divers found over 200 prohibited Russian
made missile instruments and components. |
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CNN
(Cable News Network) was bought by Times Warner Inc. The 24
hour news channel, based in Atlanta, Georgia, was founded by
Ted Turner in 1980. |
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