WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO JULY 1995
Find out what all happened April to July 1995

Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168. (19. April 1995)

In the Bosnian War, under the command of General Ratko Mladić, Serbia begins its attack on the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, and kills more than 8000 Bosniaks, in what then- UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali called "the worst crime on European soil since the Second World War". (6. July 1995)

More than 170 countries extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions. (11. May 1995)

A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded. (25. July 1995)

Comet Hale–Bopp is discovered; it will become visible to the naked eye nearly a year later. (23. July 1995)

In Culpeper, Virginia, the actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition. (27. May 1995)

The Russian town of Neftegorsk is hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake that kills at least 2,000 people, half of the total population. (28. May 1995)

The first version of the Java programming language is released. (23. May 1995)

The Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.. (27. July 1995)

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

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

The Bose–Einstein condensate is first created. (5. June 1995)

Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup. (26. June 1995)

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

United States Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady's F-16 is shot down over Bosnia while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone. (2. June 1995)

U.S. President Bill Clinton becomes the first President to visit Northern Ireland. (30. April 1995)

A Cubana de Aviación Antonov An-24 crashes into the Caribbean off southeast Cuba killing 44 people. (11. July 1995)

33-year-old British mother Alison Hargreaves became the first woman to conquer Everest without oxygen or the help of sherpas. (13. May 1995)

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

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

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