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This year in history
In the year 1995

	January 1st	The World Trade Organization came into effect. It is an international organization which lays down the rules for global trade.
	January 15th	The first episode of the science fiction television series, Star Trek: Voyager, was aired. It run for seven years and was the only series of the Star Trek franchise to host a female captain.
	January 17th	A strong earthquake, measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale, hit Kobe, Japan, resulting in extensive property damage and the death of more than 6,300 people.
	February 2nd	British actor, Donald Pleasence, died at the age of 75.
	February 26th	The Barings Bank investment banking firm collapsed after one of its brokers, Nick Leeson, lost $1.4 billion by speculating on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange. Barrings was the United Kingdom's oldest investment banking firm.
	March 16th	The US state of Mississippi formally ratified the Thirteenth Amendment of the US constitution, thus becoming the last US state to officially abolish slavery.
	March 22nd	Russian cosmonaut, Valeri Polyakov, returns to the earth after staying 438 days in the Mir space station.
	March 26th	The treaty of Schengen came into effect. Under the terms of the treaty the signing countries have common immigration policies. The only countries of the European Union that didn't sign the treaty were the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. However the treaty was also signed by no EU members, Iceland, Norway, and Switzerland.
	April 19th	The 'Alfred P. Murrah' federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, was bombed, resulting in the death of 168 people. The perpetrator Timothy James McVeigh was tried and executed in what has been the worst case of domestic terrorism the USA has ever seen.
	April 30th	US president, Bill Clinton, became the first ever US president to visit Northern Ireland.
	May 17th	Jacques Chirac became President of France. He had previously served 18 years as the mayor of Paris.
	May 23th	The Java programming language was officially announced by Sun Microsystems.
	May 27th	Actor Christopher Reeve was paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition in Charlottesville, Virginia.
	May 28th	A 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit the Russian town of Neftegorsk killing over 2,000 people.
	June 15th	American physicist, John Vincent Atanasoff, died at the age of 91. He is considered the inventor of the first automatic electronic digital computer.
	June 23th	American doctor, Jonas Salk, died at the age of 80. He is most known as having been the medical researcher who developed the first vaccine against polio.
	June 29th	A department store building collapsed in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea. 501 people were killed and almost 1000 injured in the disaster.
	June 29th	American actress, Lana Turner, died at the age of 73. She was one of the great movie diva's of the 1940's and 1950's.
	June 29th	The space shuttle Atlantis docked with the Russian space station Mir, marking the first time spacecraft from the two countries docked together in the history of space exploration.
	July 9th	The legendary band, The Grateful Dead, performed their last concert at Soldier Field, Chicago.
	July 11th	Serbian armed forces captured the Bosnian town of Srebrenica. More than eight thousand people were massacred by the Serbian troops.
	July 11th	A Cubana de Aviacion passenger airplane crashed into the sea, southeast of Cuba. 44 people died in the crash.
	July 14th	The MP3 audio file format was named thus. It stands for MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3.
	July 15th	The online store Amazon.com sold its first item.
	July 18th	The Soufriere Hills volcano, on the Caribbean island of Montserrat, erupted. The eruption forced most of the island's population to flee. To this day it is one of the most closely monitored volcano's in the world.
	August 13th	American baseball player, Mickey Mantle, died at the age of 63. He is widely considered as one of the greatest baseball players of all time who still hold several World Series records. He died from liver cancer and the effects of years of alcohol abuse.
	August 24th	The Windows 95 computer operating system was released by Microsoft.
	September 9th	Sony's gaming console, the PlayStation, was released in the United States.
	September 21st	The Hindu milk miracle occurred when statues of the Hindu god Ganesh were reported to be drinking milk when placed near their mouths. This 'miracle' was reported in Hindu temples all over the world.
	October 3rd	The trial of former American football superstar, O. J. Simpson, ended with a verdict of not guilty on the chanrge of murder. He had been charged with the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in 1994, in one of the most publicized murder cases in the history of the United States.
	October 15th	Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, gained 99.96% of the popular vote in Iraq's presidential elections.
	October 16th	In Washington DC, the "Million Man March" was organized. It was an African American march of protest and unity organized by the Nation of Islam. The march received allot of criticism mostly due to the accusations that the members and leaders of the Nation of Islam have been accused of being racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic and sexist.
	October 30th	A referendum for the independence of Quebec, Canada, is narrowly voted down. The vote was 50.6% against and 49.4% for.
	November 4th	Israel's prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, was assassinated by an right-wing Israeli.
	December 20th	An American Airlines passenger flight crashed north of Cali, Colombia, resulting in the death of all 160 onboard.
	December 21st	Israeli troops withdrew from the city of Bethlehem, after 27 years.
	December 23th	A fire in Dabwali, India, killed 540 people, including 170 children, during a school celebration.
	December 25th	American actor and singer, Dean Martin, died at the age of 78. He was one of the most celebrated entertainers of 20th century America.

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