What happened in December 1995?
December 20: American Airlines Flight 965 goes off course while travelling from Florida to Cali, Colombia. The Boeing 757 crashes into a mountain near Buga, killing 160 of the 164 people on board. December 31: The last of Bill Watterson's original comic strip Calvin and Hobbes is published.
April 19 – Oklahoma City bombing: 168 people, including eight federal Marshals and 19 children, are killed at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and 680 are wounded by a bomb set off by Timothy McVeigh. April 30 – The United States government stops funding the NSFNET, making the Internet a wholly privatized system.
- MJ Returned To The NBA. Image: Wikimedia Commons. ...
- DVDs Were Invented. ...
- Toy Story Premiered In New York. ...
- Bill Clinton Was Still President. ...
- Playboy Became Legal Again. ...
- PlayStation Hit The US. ...
- The Internet Took Off. ...
- O.J.
1995 – The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control.
1995 – The United States Government restores federal recognition to the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Native American tribe.
- January 1 – The History Channel is launched.
- January 4 – The 104th United States Congress, the first controlled by Republicans in both houses since 1953 to 1955, convenes.
- January 11 – Robert Rubin is sworn in as the new Secretary of Treasury, succeeding Lloyd Bentsen.
- January 24 – State of the Union Address.
- AltaVista. The definitive search engine until Google came along.
- Internet Explorer. Originally an extra-cost add-on; only bundled with Windows later.
- Iomega Zip. At 100MB of capacity, it was a floppy killer par excellence.
- Java and JavaScript. ...
- Mac Clones. ...
- Microsoft Bob. ...
- PalmPilot. ...
- RealAudio.
ER, Seinfeld, and Friends were the most popular TV shows
It's no surprise to find out Seinfeld (in its seventh season) and Friends (in its sophom*ore year) were two of the most watched shows in 1995—may they forever live on in syndication.
| Rank | Name | Average Billing |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jim Carrey | 1.4 |
| 2 | Tom Hanks | 1.0 |
| 3 | Sylvester Stallone | 2.8 |
| 4 | Wesley Snipes | 4.0 |
The Purulia arms drop happened on 17 December 1995 when unauthorised arms were dropped from an Antonov An-26 aircraft in Purulia district in the Indian state of West Bengal. The chief accused "Kim Davy" (real name Niels Holck, alias Niels Christian Nielsen) has been vocal about his involvement in the arms drop.
What happened on December 14 1995?
1995 – Yugoslav Wars: The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris by the leaders of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1995 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lanka's government announces the conquest of the Tamil stronghold of Jaffna.
Triple murders
On 6 December 1995, drug dealers Tony Tucker (38), Patrick Tate (37) and Craig Rolfe (26) were shot dead in a Range Rover on a small farm track in Rettendon. The bodies of the three men were found the following morning by farmer Peter Theobald and his friend Ken Jiggins.
On the evening of December 20, 1995, at approximately 2142 Eastern Standard Time (equivalent to Cali, Colombia local time), American Airlines Flight 965 crashed into high terrain during approach to Alfonso Bonilla Aragon International Airport, Cali, Colombia.
1995 – An avalanche hits the Icelandic village SúðavÃk, destroying 25 homes and burying 26 people, 14 of whom died.
Sporting Highlights for 1995
Steffi Graf won three of the four tennis grand slam tournaments. Basketballer Michael Jordan was the Top Earner for 1995. Major events for this year include the Rugby World Cup, won by South Africa. Miguel Indurain of Spain won the 82nd Tour de France, which was his fifth straight tour win.
1995 – André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of Canada. He is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife locks the door. 1996 – Pakistani President Farooq Leghari dismisses the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and dissolves the National Assembly.
On the evening of October 5th, 1995, a series of tornadoes struck east-central Maryland as the remnants of Hurricane Opal moved through the Mid-Atlantic region.
1995 - Microsoft introduces Windows 95, which gains immediate popularity and makes Windows the standard operating system for most PCs. Windows 98 is even more successful three years later. 1995 - The Java programming language is developed by Sun Microsystems (now Oracle).
1995: Windows 95 and IE 1.0
While a new Windows 10 user or Mac OS user might not know how to use Windows 3.1 on sight, every modern desktop computing user would know how to use Windows 95. Windows 95 was the first version of Windows to include IE, which would become the dominant browser for more than a decade.
What is the number 1 song in 1995?
"Gangsta's Paradise" by Coolio (pictured) was the number one song on the Year-End chart after spending 12 weeks in the top-two of the Hot 100, three of which were spent at number one.
| Rank | Release | Theaters |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Batman Forever | 2,893 |
| 2 | Apollo 13 | 2,347 |
| 3 | Pocahontas | 2,757 |
| 4 | Casper | 2,757 |
Birth and fertility rates – Births in the United States declined in 1995 for the fifth consecutive year, to 3,899,589, 1 percent lower than 1994 and 6 percent lower than in 1990. The 1995 birth rate (14.8 births per 1,000 population) was down 3 percent from 1994 and 11 percent from 1990.
- Winner. Tom Hanks. Forrest Gump.
- John Travolta. Pulp Fiction.
- Morgan Freeman. The Shawshank Redemption.
- Nigel Hawthorne. The Madness of King George.
- Paul Newman. Nobody's Fool.
While Hanks' family religious history was Catholic and Mormon, one journalist characterized Hanks' teenage self as being a "Bible-toting evangelical" for several years.
