1995

Clockwise from top or bottom:

• Typhoon Angela caused 936 deaths in the Philippines in late October to early November;
• The murder of Selena Quintanilla, a renowned Tejano singer, who was fatally shot by her fan club president, Yolanda Saldívar, in a motel room in Corpus Christi, Texas on March 31;
• The assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was fatally shot at a peace rally in Tel Aviv on November 4, impacting Israeli-Palestinian relations;
• The trial of O.J. Simpson from January 24 to October 3, one of the most publicized criminal cases in American history, in which the former football player and actor was accused and later acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman;
• The launch of Windows 95 on July 14, a major advancement in personal computing, introducing the Start menu and a more user-friendly graphical interface;
• The Sampoong Department Store collapse in Seoul, South Korea on June 29, one of the deadliest structural failures in modern history, causing the deaths of over 500 people;
• The Srebrenica massacre in July, in which more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were killed by Bosnian Serb forces during the Bosnian War, constituting the worst mass killing in Europe since World War II;
• The release of Toy Story in November, the first feature-length film entirely created using computer-generated imagery, marking a significant milestone in the animation industry;
• The crash of American Airlines Flight 965 on December 20, which occurred near Cali, Colombia, due to a navigational error, resulting in the deaths of 159 people;
• The aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, a domestic terrorist attack carried out by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, resulting in the deaths of 168 people and injuries to hundreds;
• The Great Hanshin earthquake striking Kobe, Japan on January 17, killing 5,000-6,000 people;
• The first exoplanet, 51 Pegasi b, is discovered;
• A Chechen fighter near the burned-out ruins of the Presidential Palace in Grozny during the First Chechen War.

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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.

1995 was designated as:

• United Nations Year for Tolerance
• World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War

This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government no longer providing public funding, marking the beginning of the Information Age.^[1][2] America Online and Prodigy offered access to the World Wide Web system for the first time this year, releasing browsers that made it easily accessible to the general public.^[3]