1995

year

1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1995th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 995th year of the 2nd millennium, the 95th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1990s decade.

Millennium:2nd millennium
Centuries:19th century20th century21st century
Decades: 1960s  1970s  1980s  – 1990s –  2000s  2010s  2020s
Years:1992 1993 199419951996 1997 1998

Events

January 17: Houses destroyed in the Great Hanshin Earthquake
April 19: Overview of Oklahoma City bombing destruction

March 20Tokyo 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.

Births

Dua Lipa

Deaths

January

Eugene Wigner
Siad Barre
Nancy Kelly
Murray Rothbard
Souphanouvong
Miguel Torga
Adolf Butenandt
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

February

Fred Perry
Donald Pleasence
Patricia Highsmith
U Nu

March

Big John Studd
Eazy-E
Selena

April

Hannes Alfvén
Morarji Desai
Burl Ives
Arturo Frondizi
Milovan Đilas
Ginger Rogers
Willem Frederik Hermans

May

Mikhail Botvinnik
Mia Martini
Christian B. Anfinsen
Elizabeth Montgomery
Les Aspin
Harold Wilson
Margaret Chase Smith

June

Juan Carlos Onganía
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
Rory Gallagher
Emil Cioran
Jonas Salk
Warren E. Burger
Ernest Walton
Lana Turner

July

Eva Gabor
Takeo Fukuda
Juan Manuel Fangio

August

Ida Lupino
Jerry Garcia
Mickey Mantle
Hugo Pratt
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Sterling Morrison

September

Eileen Chang
Gunnar Nordahl
Orville Redenbacher
Madalyn Murray O'Hair

October

Olga Taussky-Todd
Alec Douglas-Home
Kukrit Pramoj
Viveca Lindfors

November

Yitzhak Rabin
Ernest Gellner
Corneliu Coposu
Leila Mourad

December

Nobel Prizes

Movies released

Video games

Hit songs

New books

Other websites

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