WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO SEPTEMBER 1995
Find out what all happened April to September 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)

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

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)

"Rugby World Cup final": South Africa defeats New Zealand, Nelson Mandela presents Francois Pienaar with the Webb-Ellis trophy in an iconic post-apartheid moment. (24. June 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)

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

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. (28. September 1995)

In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel (she drops out less than a week later). (15. August 1995)

Croatian forces launch Operation Flash during the Croatian War of Independence. (1. May 1995)

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

Body Worlds opens in Tokyo, Japan (14. September 1995)

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

NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces. (30. August 1995)

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

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

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

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

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

An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board are killed. (22. September 1995)