WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO OCTOBER 1995
Find out what all happened March to October 1995

The long-range Boeing 777 entered service with United Airlines. (7. June 1995)

The Skye Bridge is opened. (16. October 1995)

289 people are killed and 265 injured in Baku Metro fire, the deadliest subway disaster. (28. October 1995)

Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time. (29. June 1995)

Shawn Nelson, 35, steals a tank from a National Guard Armory in San Diego, destroying cars and other property and is shot to death by police after immobilizing the tank. (18. May 1995)

Nagerkovil school bombing, is carried out by Sri Lankan Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil school children. (22. September 1995)

The Srebrenica massacre is carried out. (11. July 1995)

The downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia. (8. June 1995)

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Mossad agents assassinate Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shikaki in his hotel in Malta. (26. October 1995)

A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students. (25. October 1995)

First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya. (7. April 1995)

Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The People's Liberation Army begins firing missiles into the waters north of Taiwan. (21. July 1995)

Prime Minister of Poland Waldemar Pawlak resigns from parliament and is replaced by ex-communist Józef Oleksy. (1. March 1995)

Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of Comoros in a coup. (28. September 1995)

O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. (3. October 1995)

Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865. (16. March 1995)

Yolanda Saldívar is found guilty of first degree murder in the shooting death of popular Latin singer Selena. Three days later, Saldívar was sentenced to life in prison, eligible for parole in 2025 (23. October 1995)

The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937. (29. June 1995)

Latvia applies for membership in the European Union. (27. October 1995)

Armenia adopts its constitution, four years after its independence from the Soviet Union. (5. July 1995)

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