WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO DECEMBER 1995
Find out what all happened August to December 1995

Sri Lankan Civil War: The Sri Lankan government announces the conquest of the Tamil stronghold of Jaffna. (5. December 1995)

The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control. (21. December 1995)

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

Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery. (22. November 1995)

André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of Canada. He is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife locks the door. (5. November 1995)

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

Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted for the bombing. Michael Fortier pleads guilty in a plea-bargain for his testimony. (10. August 1995)

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

U.S. President Bill Clinton visits Northern Ireland and speaks in favour of the "Northern Ireland peace process" to a huge rally at Belfast City Hall. He calls terrorists "yesterday's men". (30. November 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)

The United States Government restores federal recognition to the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Indian tribe. (19. December 1995)

A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums and to run most government offices with skeleton staffs. (14. November 1995)

Official end of Operation Desert Storm. (30. November 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)

Operation Storm begins in Croatia. (4. August 1995)

In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop), are hanged by government forces. (10. November 1995)

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

The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto. (19. September 1995)

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

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