WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO OCTOBER 1995
Find out what all happened May to October 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)

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

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

An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona. (9. October 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)

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

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

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

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

The Million Man March occurs in Washington, D.C. (16. October 1995)

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

Former Prime Minister of Italy Bettino Craxi is convicted in absentia of corruption. (27. October 1995)

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

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)

Marco Campos, died in an accident in a International Formula 3000 race at the Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours circuit, making him the only driver ever killed in the International Formula 3000 series. (15. October 1995)

During the Croatian War of Independence, Serb forces fire cluster bombs at Zagreb, killing 7 and wounding over 175 civilians. (2. May 1995)

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